When Did Panhellenic Sororities First Convene?

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First Meeting of the National Panhellenic Conference on April 16 and 17, 1891, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority Invited Representatives from Six Other Sororities...

When Did Panhellenic Sororities First Convene?

First Meeting of the National Panhellenic Conference
On April 16 and 17, 1891, the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority invited representatives from six other sororities to gather in Boston. There, the sisters discussed recruitment methods and many of them became fast friends.

What year did Panhellenic sororities first convene?

Although the two new organizations could not attend, the others came together in Chicago on May 24, 1902, and the world's first interfraternal association — the Inter-Sorority Conference (ISC) (later, the National Panhellenic Conference) — was born.

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