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Old 12-31-2020, 12:57 PM
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From 1912 until 1921, high school fraternities and sororities were on the radar of GLOS. This is from a synopsis I did for a Pi Phi manual decades ago.

1912 11th NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONGRESS
October 17-19, 1912, at Congress Hotel in Chicago. Cora Allen McElroy, Alpha Phi, presided; Lillian W. Thompson, Gamma Phi Beta, was secretary. Phi Mu and Kappa Delta were admitted to membership.
Ida Shaw Martin, Delta Delta Delta, was elected to serve as historian for the following five years. Prior to the meeting, the Grand Presidents met as a group for the first time. All but two of the Grand Presidents were in attendance. High school fraternities were creating an image problem for the collegiate organizations. John Calvin Hanna, a member of Beta Theta Pi and principal of the Oak Park, Illinois, High School, presented a paper entitled “High School Fraternities, Especially as Related to College Fraternities.” The Congress was impressed with Hanna’s message and agreed to condemn the existence of high school fraternities.

1913 12th NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONGRESS
October 16-18, 1913, at Congress Hotel in Chicago. Lillian Thompson, Gamma Phi Beta, presided; Lois Smith Crann, Alpha Chi Omega, was secretary.
The Congress adopted a uniform scholarship blank and uniform house rules, favored extension of the women’s fraternity system and, again, condemned high school fraternities. The Congress contributed $200 to the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupation, an organization which attempted to place women in professions other than teaching. The editors of fraternity magazines held a separate session before the official NPC meeting and agreed to cooperate. A chairman was elected to act as a clearinghouse for editorial information.


1915 14th NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONGRESS
August 12-14, 1915, at Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, CA. Amy Olgen Parmalee, Delta Delta Delta, presided;
Lena G. Baldwin, Alpha Xi Delta, was secretary; Mary Love Collins, Chi Omega, was treasurer.
A Panhellenic Creed was adopted. It was voted to hold biennial meetings instead of yearly meetings. A study of cooperative buying and catering was authorized. Banta’s Greek Exchange was named the NPC’s official publication and a Panhellenic Editor was appointed. A year was set as the time limit before a student, who had broken her pledge or resigned from one NPC fraternity, could be asked to join another. A ruling was made regarding the ineligibility for membership in an NPC group to women who had belonged to high school fraternities.

The ruling was revoked in 1921 "because of the feeling that the rule had served its purpose in expressing the opposition of NPC to high school sororities and was promoting injustice in a few isolated cases which came within its scope."
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