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No usage restrictions.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Gamma Lambda Chapter of Phi Mu Fraternity of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40419-z, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the Gamma Lambda Chapter of Phi Mu Fraternity, November 2013 (RT 20131115.1). Received from Phi Mu Chapter Association President Debra Pickrel in December 2014 (RT 20141203.2). Transferred from the Gamma Lambda Chapter of Phi Mu Fraternity, February 2016 (RT 20160212.1). Donated by Debra Pickrel in October 2017 (RT 20171027.1).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Amanda Loeb, December 2013

Encoded by: Amanda Loeb, December 2013

Updated because of addition by Amelia W. Holmes and Laura Brown, February 2015.

Updated because of addition by Jennifer Coggins, Alex Japha and Gergana Abernathy, April 2016.

Updated because of addition by Jennifer Coggins and Laura Smith, November 2017

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• College students--North Carolina--Societies, etc.
• Greek letter societies--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Phi Mu Fraternity. Gamma Lambda Chapter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Student activities--North Carolina--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Societies, etc.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students--History.

The Gamma Lambda Chapter of the Phi Mu Fraternity was colonized at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964. Founded in 1852 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States. Phi Mu's national philanthropy centers on fundraising and support for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Records chiefly consist of administrative documents, national and chapter publications, meeting minutes, photographs, and architectural plans for the chapter house on Henderson Street. Administrative documents concern the purchase of the Henderson Street property in 1965, including Articles of Incorporation for Gamma Lambda House Corporation, April 1964; meeting minutes of the Gamma Lambda House Corporation; deed to the Henderson Street property, 1966; clippings; minutes of the Chapel Hill Phi Mu Alumnae Club meeting, 24 March 1966; program of events for the Henderson Street Ground-Breaking Ceremony, 9 September 1968; and a deed to additional land on Henderson Street, 1977. Publications consist of volumes and clippings from The Aglaia of Phi Mu and The Gamma Lambda Triangle. Records also include a bound scrapbook titled "Phi Mu Pledges '64-'65," containing clippings, invitations, pamphlets, certificates, and black-and-white and color photographs of initiation, rush, the pledge class, and various parties and events; loose photographs depicting the ground breaking ceremony and construction of the Henderson Street house; and eleven architectural drawings of the Henderson Street plot and house. Fiftieth anniversary celebration materials consist of Microsoft Word, PDF, JPEG, and MOV files from the Gamma Lambda Chapter of Phi Mu Fraternity's 50th anniversary celebration in November 2014. Includes planning materials and schedules, photographs, a speech from former Phi Mu national president Adele Williamson (national president when the Gamma Lambda chapter was founded), remarks from the 50th anniversary "Welcome Tea," a schedule and invitation for the weekend's events, promotional materials, a map used in the chapter's Our Journey Home walking tour of sites related to their history, a proclamation by Chapel Hill, N.C., mayor Mark Kleinschmidt that 14 November 2014 be Phi Mu Gamma Lambda Chapter Day, and other materials related to the event.

• Digital items (DI-40419/1-7) available in the Carolina Digital Repository.
• Digital folders (DF-40419/1-14) available in the Carolina Digital Repository.
• Image folder (PF-40419/1-7)
• Oversize paper folder (OPF-40419/1)
• Oversize volume (SV-40419/1)