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D61117-2
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- 1951-09-21 (Creation)
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Fourteen new pledges to the Pi Beta Phi sorority pose for a group portrait at the home of Mrs. Addison Forrester in September, 1951. The Pi Phi Mothers Club sponsored a reception honoring the new members. Pi Beta Phi was the first national sorority at the College of Puget Sound; it absorbed local sorority Kappa Sigma Theta in September, 1948. The C.P.S. chapter was the 94th in the nation and born the title of Washington Gamma. Pi Beta Phi was one of the oldest national women's social sororities and actively participated in a settlement school in Tennessee. Photograph commissioned by Pi Phi Mothers Club. (Tamanawas, 1950, p. 168)
Pi Beta Phi (Tacoma); Group portraits--1950-1960; Women--Tacoma--1950-1960; Pi Phi Mothers Club (Tacoma); Students--Tacoma--1950-1960;