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The Oregon Daily Journal - Sun, Nov. 29, 1908
The Eugene Guard - Sat - Dec. 19, 1908
The original was located where the 7-11 is, now, next to The Glenwood.
From Patti Luse:
If I remember correctly, we outgrew that house, on 13th. Then Carolyn Benson Unander, a gamma phi beta from Portland and a member of the Benson hotel family, bought the property on Hilyard at the millrace and donated it to Gamma Phi in about 1924. She also bought the next lot back on the millrace. Gamma Phi corporation bought that one on 1021 Hilyard from her about 10 years later. The house was built and finished in 1926.
East Oregonian Mon. Sep. 27, 1909
The Eugene Guard - Thu -Nov. 5, 1925
The House
Then & Now
NU CHAPTER (OREGON)
Nu Chapter was installed at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, on December 18, 1908.
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Tau Pi, a local group organized in 1904, petitioned Gamma Phi Beta three years after it was installed. The group was inspected by Marion Dean (Boston, 1901), Alma Delaney (University of Washington, 1903), Edith Prosch (University of Washington, 1904), Ruth Guppy (Michigan, 1894) and Gertrude Ross (Wisconsin-Madison, 1892). Their report was enthusiastic and a large group of collegians and Tau Pi alumnae were initiated by Edith Prosch, Alice Benson (California-Berkeley, 1902),Theresa Preston McCarthy (University of Washington, 1908) and Caroline Benson Unander (Stanford, 1905). Gamma Phi Beta was the first sorority on campus.
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