At UT, the Kappa house is next door to the APhi house and it has a marker on the front, although I can never find the address listed on the register.
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The Alpha Phi house at UT isn't currently listed but one of our chapter's founder's houses is; Omega's founders had their
meetings at her house when they were organizing and petitioning Alpha Phi Intl for membership.
The Goldie Horton-Porter House
Austin Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Person
Architect, builder, or engineer: Rolfe,Walter T., Smith,Robert O.
Architectural Style: Mission/Spanish Revival
Goldie was a prominent mathematician and one of the University of Texas' earliest female professors, a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 50 years. She was born in Athens, Texas; she received a B.A. from The University of Texas in 1908, an M.A. from Smith College in 1910, and a Ph.D. from The University of Texas in 1916.
The first Ph.D. at The University of Texas had been given out only the year before, and Horton was the first woman to receive the Ph.D. from this institution. In 1917 she began to teach analytic geometry and calculus as an instructor, and in 1926 she was promoted to the rank of assistant professor.
In 1944 her biography appeared in American Men of Science; its title is an indication of how unusual it was for a woman to teach mathematics or science at the university level. Goldie Horton Porter taught full-time until 1958, and continued to teach part-time until 1966, when she was given the title of Professor Emeritus of Mathematics.
Befitting her pioneering role as a female university professor, Horton was a member of the American Association of University Women, and a founder of its Texas Chapter.
Milton Brockett Porter had been Goldie Horton's adviser, friend, and colleague for many years and in 1934, after his second wife died, they became husband and wife. Porter (1869-1960) was a distinguished professor of pure mathematics at The University of Texas. Born in Sherman, Texas, he attended Austin College in that town prior to enrolling in The University of Texas, from which he received the bachelor's degree in 1892. He did his graduate work at Harvard University, receiving the M.A. in 1895 and the Ph.D. in 1897. He taught for two years at The University of Texas, then at Yale University from 1899 to 1901. He returned to The University of Texas in 1902 with the title of Professor of Pure Mathematics. With his colleague Hyman J. Ettinger he wrote
The Calculus which was published in 1942.
In the 1944 edition of American Men of Science a committee of leading scientists ranked Porter as the top mathematician in America. As chairman of a committee on graduate education, Porter was instrumental in the founding of the Graduate School at The University of Texas, and aided in the founding of UT's McDonald Observatory.
Their house at 2402 Windsor Road is a National Historic Landmark and is where the newly formed Omega chapter of Alpha Phi held her regular meetings before buying their first house in 1921.
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, but the Kappa house at Illinois was added last year!!
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