Talk:Epsilon Eta Phi/Archive 1

Archive 1

Beaver (PA)

Naraht found a reference to the Epsilon Eta Phi chapter in Baird's 18th, among the school listings for "Beaver College", in Glenside, PA. Subsequently, Baird's 20th simply notes this chapter at "Beaver (PA)" in the dormant sororities section, but omits it entirely from the cross-reference of its school's listing. Hence, a reader might query whether the chapter was at Penn State Beaver, a school outside of Pittsburgh, near to the Duquesne chapters. But this business-focused school only opened in 1965. Thus Beaver College, in Glenside outside of Philadelphia, is the correct location, even though this school serves multiple disciplines, most notably the medical fields.

Note that Beaver College later changed its name to Arcadia University in 2001.

Now, Baird's normal practice was to include the word "College" in a name, where there was ambiguity. This is similar to how that reference simply uses "Boston" for Boston University, vs. "Boston College" which is spelled out. But in this case, the omission of the word "College" is unexplained, and Penn State Beaver is missing entirely from the 19th edition. It may simply have been missed by the editors. The fact that the dormant chapter is missing in the 19th and 20th edition of Baird's in its school list (section II), may simply have been an inadvertent omission, due to timing. Jax MN (talk) 21:41, 12 March 2022 (UTC)