Among the students in the fall term of 1901 at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, VA, were five women who had become very good friends. Attractive, vivacious and intelligent, each woman had been extended invitations to membership from the school’s existing sororities. However, if they each had accepted those invitations, it would mean that our Founders would not be sorority sisters.
If the school could have three sororities, then why not four?
Barb Struble
Our Founder’s were remarkable women. It takes courage and strength to begin something new, especially at a time when it was more difficult for women to accomplish this task. I can relate to these women because being a female engineer in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s was also a challenge. Women comprised 30% of the population at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and Alpha Sigma Alpha was my support system.