[20388] in APO-L
Re: 2 Fraternities, All-Male, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU)
Tue Mar 30 12:45:42 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:45:28 -0800
Reply-To: hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU
From: hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
> > > 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)
But you have to consider the times that this occurred. What did women get to
do in 1925? Not much, and co-ed was not going to happen for groups such as
us. It wouldn't have been proper to have women socializing with men. But
Horton's inclusiveness of religion, etc, would have included women if it had
been allowed.
Just my nickle.
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