sorosis

She was a founding member of the professional women's club Sorosis.

She was elected president of Sorosis in 1870 and five times re-elected.

Within one year, Sorosis had 83 members.

Sorosis from Greek means "a multiple fruit formed from many flowers".

The park was formed by an early women's club, the Soroptomist Sisters Sorosis.

The name chosen for the society was I.C. Sorosis.

The name initially chosen for this club was Sorosis, a Greek word meaning "an aggregation, a sweet flavor of many fruits."

Sorosis meant "aggregation".

Six years later, the name was changed from I.C. Sorosis to Pi Beta Phi.

As Sorosis approached its 21st year, Mrs. Croly proposed a conference in New York that brought together delegates from 61 women's clubs.

She was inspired to form the Ossoli Circle after having visited the Sorosis Women's Club in New York City.

A committee to draft a constitution and plan of organization to be ratified the following year was chosen, with Sorosis President Ella Dietz Clymer presiding.

Her mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, was a suffragette and helped found Sorosis, one of the first secular women's organizations in the United States, in 1868.

An 1868 cartoon in Harper's Magazine depicted the women of Sorosis wearing bloomers and smoking cigars, while their husbands huddled in the corner holding crying babies.

Before the Orlando Public Library came into existence, the Sorosis Club of Orlando maintained a circulating library for its members.

The University of Texas at San Antonio houses a collection of records for the San Antonio chapter of Sorosis.

The Lyceum Club's mission to explore all disciplines of the humanities paralleled the mission of the first women's club, Sorosis, based in New York City.

Through the work of the Sorosis Society - a civic and social-minded (pro-suffrage) women's organization - the library became public in 1900, tied to the state charter and school district.

She called the first congresses of women in 1856 and 1869, organized Sorosis in 1869; it was an organization that advocated for greater acceptance and more professional opportunities for women.

In 1889, Lizzie Crozier French represented Ossoli a meeting at the Sorosis Club for the purpose of organizing the General Federation of Women's Clubs.

Pi Beta Phi was founded as a secret organization under the name of I.C. Sorosis on April 28, 1867 at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois.

She was a member of Sorosis, the first American club dedicated to the improvement and advancement of professional women, and an organizer of the National Society of New England Women which she served twice as president.

There Cynthia organized a fair to benefit the Freedman's Aid Society, helped found the Chicago branch of Sorosis and was its editor for a time, and was a member of the Chicago Philosophical Society.

She was former chairman of the executive committee of the Sorosis Club, a life member of the New Jersey Society of the Colonial Dames of America and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Bennett was then a senior at the University of Wichita where she was president of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority (then called the Sorosis Sorority), captain of the rifle team and had held titles in both golf and tennis.