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The new chapter house
is dedicated in April
and members move
in in September. The
20,000-square-foot
house cost $350,000
to build and has room
for 66 members.
1922 1923-24 1929 1932 1934 1938 1948 1966 1973
Additions to chapter
house include sleeping
and sun porches.
Chapter house is
paid for and the
mortgage is burned!
Invitation to all Entre
Nous not already Pi Phis
to become initiates of
California Gamma, by
invitation of Grand Council.
California Gamma
acquires the Myrick
home at 667 West
28th Street.
Chapter
purchases 647
West 28th Street
for $18,000
with room for
26 women.
California Gamma
hosts the Pi Phi national
convention at the Hotel
Huntington in Pasadena.
The smoking room is
added to basement.
Third-floor bedrooms
are remodeled and the
shower room installed.
Entre Nous celebrates
its golden anniversary
with a large reunion
in Glendale. Guests of
honor are five of the
original seven founders.
Almost
Thetas?
F
ounded in 1898, with no thought
of becoming a part of a national
organization, the sincere purpose of
its founders soon made Entre Nous an
important factor at USC. Some years
later, it seemed desirable to broaden her
field by affiliation with a strong national
organization. The idea of applying for a
national charter was first discussed in 1905.
The Kappa Alpha Theta alumnae were very
anxious to re-establish their chapter. At the
request of the Theta alumnae club, Entre
Nous joined them in 1907 in petitioning
for a restoration of their charter. Three
years later, another local sorority called
Alpha Rho transferred its application from
Kappa Kappa Gamma to Theta. Following
this, Entre Nous officially withdrew her
petition, as a protest against Theta policy
of entertaining two petitions from the
same university.
Ethel Hogan Copp, 1917
Charter Member, California Gamma
Left: Members of Entre Nous in 1916. Right: The Entre Nous logo.
Left: Pi Beta Phi initiation banquet at the California Club in 1917. Right: Five of the seven Entre
Nous founders attended Entre Nous' 50th anniversary celebration in 1948: Georgia Holman Fisher,
Claire Waltz Foster, Helen Hoose Lillard, Ethel Hardy MacFarland, and Klara Pennell Sayre. The
two other founders, no longer living, were Clara Lipe and Helen Christie Wellington.
See more photos on page 6!
