Edith MacConnel Hickok

Edith MacConnel Hickok was born in 1883[1] in Harford, Pennsylvania.

She entered Syracuse University as a freshman in 1903. There, she was one of the founding members of the sorority Alpha Gamma Delta.[2] She suffered an ice injury in April 1904 that required her to spend the founding year in the hospital. She and Georgia Dickover wrote the "Initiation Song" in the fall.[3]

She was also the mother of the first Alpha Gam baby.

See also

  • Sorority

References

  1. ^ "United States Census, 1910". FamilySearch. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Our Founders". Alpha Gamma Delta. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Founders – Alpha Gamma Delta". Alpha Gamma Delta. Retrieved 2018-09-13.


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