Fraternity Executive Secretaries

Frances McDonald Past President Interview, June 1974

Past President Frances Priddy McDonald, University of Missouri, speaks to Gloria Hoffman Snyder, University of Texas, about her recollections of presiding over conventions as president and attending conventions as a child with her mother Bessie Leach Priddy, Adrian College, her memories of early Tri Delta leaders like her mother, Amy Olgen Parmelee, Northwestern University, and R. Louise Fitch, Knox College, and the 1921 Tri Delta Europe Tour. She reflects fondly on her memories of some of the Tri Deltas she served with in leadership, including Ernestine Block Grigsby, University of Colorado Boulder, Florence Spear Grant, University of Minnesota, Gretchen Borland Davies, University of Washington, Dorothy Gaines Roeske, University of Illinois at Urbana, Mary E. Baker, University of Cincinnati, Kathleen Davis Nye, University of Iowa, and Ruth McDowell Kinnard, University of Alabama. Frances also shares her thoughts on the importance of strong chapter leadership and alumnae-collegian relations for chapter development and the importance of Tri Delta friendship, and recalls her experience serving as editor of The Trident.

Collection: Tri Delta Audiovisual Collection

Frances Overton Portrait Photograph

Frances Lewis Overton, Baker University, served as executive secretary from 1960-1961.

Collection: Tri Delta Archive Collection

Gaines, Driver, and Phillips in Archives Work Room Photograph

Jean Hunt Gaines, University of California, Los Angeles, Angela Hackett Driver, University of California, Berkeley, and Linda Diane Phillips, University of California, Los Angeles, review documents in the Tri Delta Archives work room at the Executive Office.

Collection: Tri Delta Archive Collection

Ginny J. to Board Memo, March 18, 1974

Virginia Gould Jones, Pennsylvania State University, writes to the Tri Delta Executive Board with information about the employee benefit plan.

Collection: Tri Delta Archive Collection

Introducing Our Official Family

Collection: Tri Delta Publications

Kathleen Nye Past President Interview, June 23, 1982

Kathleen Davis Nye, University of Iowa, speaks to Margaret Paddock Haller, Cornell University, about her Tri Delta career, beginning with her time as traveling secretary from 1943-1945, including a time she traveled on a troop train during World War II, then later serving as fraternity chairman of academic standards, district president of Indiana, and fraternity collegiate vice president before becoming president from 1968-1972. She discusses the expansion of career opportunities for women, shares her recollections of serving under President Susan White Perry, Vanderbilt University, and the decision to close Alpha Upsilon Chapter at Colby College, as well as the Executive Board's reaction to the recruitment of the first African American member by Delta Upsilon Chapter at Ohio Wesleyan University. Kathleen also speaks fondly of the Tri Deltas who served with her on Executive Board during her presidency, discusses the challenges of recruitment, membership selection, and discrimination in the 1960s, recounts the move of the Tri Delta Executive Office to Arlington, Texas, and recalls the 1970 Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Collection: Tri Delta Audiovisual Collection

Kathleen Nye to Tri Delta Sister Letter, November 1971

Fraternity President Kathleen Davis Nye, University of Iowa, writes to Tri Delta members to announce the move to the Parkway Plaza Executive Office and the appointment of Louise Diamond Smith, University of Texas, as Executive Secretary.

Collection: Tri Delta Archive Collection

Lou Smith Adopts Sorority Newspaper Clipping, June 19, 1972

Sharon Myles Cobler describes the opening of the Parkway Plaza Executive Office and the work of Executive Secretary Louise Diamond Smith, University of Texas.

Collection: Tri Delta Archive Collection

Lou Smith Adopts Sorority Newspaper Clipping, June 19, 1972

Sharon Myles Cobler describes the opening of the Parkway Plaza Executive Office in Arlington, Texas, and the work of Executive Secretary Louise Diamond Smith, University of Texas.