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The Alpha Epsilon Delta California Alpha Chapter records, 1936-1993, consist of legal documents (constitution and by-laws), membership lists, correspondence, report, and conference proceedings created and collected by the fraternity. The records document the the history of Kappa Zeta, founding of the chapter at USC, the reestablishment of the chapter in the early 1950s, the planning of activities undertaken by the chapter, and the finances of the chapter. The USC Alpha Chapter of Alpha...
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Alpha Kappa Delta is the International Sociology Honor Society founded in 1920 at the University of Southern California by sociology professor Dr. Emory S. Bogardus. He gathered a group of fourteen faculty and graduate students for the purpose of discussing research methods and findings, and to discuss research projects pertaining to sociology. The following year, Bogardus contacted a group of universities around the country, inviting them to form similar organizations. By 1924, three...
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USC's English Honorary Society, Epsilon Phi, was organized in 1929 in response to a need on the part of the English department faculty and students for a society to promote mutual interest and appreciation in literature. The society remained very active during the 1930s, bringing many noted people to the University for lectures. However, the society was inactive during the first half of the 1940s due to World War II, and re-activated in 1947 with an ongoing agenda of panel...
This group of records consists of two large three-ring notebooks of materials related to the Fraternity Housing Association (including the founding documentation) and the housing contracts between various fraternity and sorority buildings at USC and the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. The records appear to have been kept by the then secretary/ treasurer of the Fraternity Housing Association, Gerald (Jerry) Papazian.
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Lucile Hage was a student of the University of Southern California, class of 1924. The small scrapbook contains many small photographs of family members (presumably hers), including a young girl (possibly Lucile as a child). In addition to the photographs, the scrapbook holds correspondence and greeting cards plus memorabilia from Hage's USC days-- Delta Gamma notices, dance cards, news clippings, etc. A California Teachers Association card indicates that Hage was teaching in...
This collection consists of the papers and photographs of Pearl McCroskey, Phi Beta sorority member, alumna and secretary of the College of Music at the University of Southern California.
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Majority of material found within 1890s-1950s
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Peggy Sheffield Parks was an alumnus of the University of Southern California and an accomplished pianist. This small collection documents her activities as a student at USC between 1948 and 1953 through photographs, handwritten notes, and newspaper clippings. Many of the activities include sorority functions, football games, and other social functions. There are also two El Rodeo yearbooks, 1950 and 1951. One of the yearbooks contains a program for a music recital starring Sheffield...