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Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, Columbus, Ohio, Published 1975 and 1977. Hardcover, two volumes bound in one, 224 and 232 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, portraits, and chapter-location maps, with a fold-out chronology chart in volume two.
In Good condition, no dust jacket. Blue paper over boards, gilt Art Nouveau panel design to front cover and spine; mild surface and shelf wear, heavier shelf wear with some color loss to rear cover. Paper over the spine split along the front hinge for about six inches and neatly re-glued, the slit still visible; binding sound and tight. Pages mildly toned but unmarked. Complete with the fold-out Chronology of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity 1870-1976 in volume two.The most comprehensive published history of Kappa Kappa Gamma, founded at Monmouth College, Illinois, in 1870 and among the oldest women's fraternities in America. Issued as two special numbers of The Key (the fraternity's magazine, published continuously since 1882 and styled the first college women's magazine) and here bound together in the hardcover keepsake form: Volume I gathers the individual histories of every chapter from 1870 to 1975, with founding members, dates, photographs, and maps of chapter locations; Volume II traces the fraternity's organizational development from 1870 to 1976 and includes a large fold-out chronology chart. Undertaken as the first complete chapter-by-chapter history of the fraternity and the fullest since the Burton-Roth history of 1932, it is a standard reference for members, alumnae, and researchers of the American sorority movement and a detailed genealogical record of the fraternity's chapters.Contents: Volume I, Chapter Histories 1870-1975; Volume II, Fraternity Development 1870-1976 (with fold-out chronology chart).