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| Beta Omicron Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at Tulane University |
Kappa Kappa Gamma is one of the oldest and largest fraternities for women in the
nation. Currently, there are 134 collegiate chapters in both the United States and Canada and more than 300
alumnae associations around the world. Since its founding at Monmouth College on October 13th, 1870,
more than 220,000 members have been initiated into Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Kappa Kappa Gamma was founded in Monmouth, Illinois, by six women looking for
a common place to share their intellectual ideas and values. The key was adopted as the sorority's symbol
when the six founders, Mary Moore Stewart, Anna Elizabeth Willits, Susan Burley Walker, Hannah Jeannette Boyd,
Mary Louise Bennett, and Martha Louisa Stevenson, marched into a chapel at Monmouth wearing golden
keys in their hair. These women drafted a charter and a constitution and thus founded Kappa Kappa Gamma based
on the belief that "in union, there is strength." |
| The Beta Omicron chapter of Tulane University was established in 1904
under the ideals of friendship, scholarship, and leadership. |
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