Arrowsmith, Josephine Howard

Alice Hersey Monning to Eta Sisters Letter, April 11, 1929

Eta Chapter alumna Alice Hersey Monning asks the Chapter's collegiate members to share information about the Chapter's history with new Alpha Phi Historian Margaret D Whitney as she writes a new history of Eta Chapter.

Alpha Phi Fraternity Twenty-Eighth Biennial Convention Banquet Program, June 25, 1926

This program contains the constellation, menu, and toasts from the 1926 Convention at the New Ocean House in Swampscott, Massachusetts.

Alpha Phi Fraternity Seventeenth National Convention Program, 1902

This program contains the menu, toasts, and signatures for the 17th Convention of Alpha Phi Fraternity.

Eta

Although the chapter at Boston University was the third Alpha Phi chapter installed, they chose the name "Eta" - the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet - rather than "Gamma" because there were seven founding members of the chapter. Thus,…

Josephine Howard Arrowsmith Portrait Photograph, c. 1900s

Josephine Arrowsmith and Mary Howard Kaven to Active Chapters Letter, c. 1900s

New York alumnae Josephine Howard Arrowsmith and Mary Howard Kaven support opening a new Alpha Phi chapter at Barnard College.