On March 30, 1912, Alpha Phi installed Rho chapter at Ohio State University. The new chapter was the result of three years of work by dedicated members of a local fraternity, “Lambda Alpha,” which had formed in November 1909. With the help of several Alpha Phi alumnae who resided in Columbus—Bertha Mansfield Freeman (Eta-Boston), Myra Hewitt Banta (Iota-Wisconsin), and Stella Boothe (Lambda-UC Berkeley), whose “advice and aid which we appreciate at its highest value”—the group sought to petition for a charter, and in the interim rented their own house, eventually becoming the first women’s fraternity at Ohio State University to do so. President Jessie Thompson Balderston performed the initiation of the new members at their own chapter house. Afterwards, the “entire party was conveyed from the Chapter House to the hotel in automobiles and when all were assembled were escorted to a beautifully prepared banquet” at the Virginia Hotel. “We are told that perfect patience will have its reward,” Jessie noted after the happy installation had been completed, “and such was surely the case with Rho chapter.”
134 E. 15th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio
• Jean Creamer Hodges – Foundation Board
• Doris Humphreys Priode – International Executive Board
• Joyce Chaplen Gorman – 1972 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Elizabeth Jones Hollenbeck - 1976 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Jean Ann Wolfe Weaver - 1976 Ursa Major Award Winner
• Sharon Hock Emley – 1978 Michaelanean Award Winner, 1984 Ursa Major Award Winner
• Ann Libben Padgett – 1976 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Diane Kanuth Beasley – 1980 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Joan Mylander Gehle - 1982 Ursa Major Award Winner
• Shelley Surloff Hilton – 1982 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Mary Ann Falls Schnoor - 1986 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Janet McGinn Sondles - 1986 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Carolyn Mills Jensen – 1988 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Christine Alspach Nixon – 1988 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Nancy Campbell Crusey - 1992 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Sue Toops Studebaker - 1992 Ursa Major Award Winner
• Carol Guyton Goodell - 1994 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Mary Ellen Goff Trunick - 2000 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Diane McConnell Girgash – 2004 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Denise Mika-Biga – 2004 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Lisa Gonzales Vible – 2006 Michaelanean Award Winner
• Clare Truesdell Anderson – 2016 Ursa Major Award Winner
Mar 30th, 1912
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