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(U.S.) Memorial Day Office Closing
Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity, Theta Foundation, and Fraternity Housing Corporation (FHC) offices will be closed Friday, May 26, and Monday, May 29, in recognition of the (U.S.) Memorial Day holiday.
Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity, Theta Foundation, and Fraternity Housing Corporation (FHC) offices will be closed Friday, May 26, and Monday, May 29, in recognition of the (U.S.) Memorial Day holiday.
07/27/2016
These past few weeks, I have been lucky enough to work with a scrapbook thought to be assembled around 1970 for Theta’s centennial. What’s inside, though, is much older! Entitled “Kappa Alpha Theta-The Early Years,” the scrapbook has letters from Bettie Locke, Hannah Fitch, and other early members of Theta.
And now I get to work with it leading up to our sesquicentennial! After scanning every page, I got to transcribe the handwritten parts. As I read through the letters, I tried not to drool over the letters and photos and the fact that some of the letters had been touched by Bettie Locke herself!
The document that I loved the most was not a letter, but an 1875 Theta Constitution. Handwritten on notebook paper (some things in college don’t change!), the constitution has rules for expansion, bylaws, and regulatory procedures for all existing and subsequent Theta chapters. One passage though, stood out to me because its meaning was so familiar: