Our Roots

The Des Moines, Iowa, Alumnae Club was organized and established in 1894 by Iowa Lambdas Anna Ross Clark and Lizzie Case-Howe and Iowa Gama Mary Broadhead-Wallace. It was chartered on December 1, 1912. It held monthly meetings at the home of one of its members and was mainly a social club, with some work for the Settlement School. The club issued and sold a neat seal—a diminutive Pi Beta Phi coat-of-arms for the benefit of the Settlement School.