[20387] in APO-L
Re: 2 Fraternities, All-Male, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Tue Mar 30 10:45:20 1999
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:42:37 -0400
Reply-To: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199903300600.BAA16581@manx.misty.com>
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Riz Shavelle wrote:
> Mark Stratton said:
> > Second, I hear time and again how Frank Reed Horton founded this =
> > Fraternity as all-male. Why would I dispute something which is =
> > factually true? Think of the times, though - how likely would it have =
> > been that he could have created a FRATERNAL organization that included =
> > both men and women? Not likely.
>
> According to a fraternity history document on Lafayette's web page,
> women were not admitted into Lafayette College until 1970. Frank Reed
> Horton founded an organization that was reflective of the population of
> his college...which , at the time of 1925, was all-male.
>
> It would have been impossible for him in 1925 to create a co-ed
> organization at Lafayette.......
Yes, but of the first 10 chapters of Alpha Phi Omega, only 2 or 3 of them
were at schools which did not admit women. (Alpha at Lafayette, Theta at U
of Virginia (no info available on Iota at Park College)
YiLFS
Randy
> in LFS,
> Riz
>
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