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Greek Life

Alpha Phi Alpha Photographs

Photographs of the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha in the 1960s.

Alpha Xi Delta Photographs

Photographs of the sorority Alpha Xi Delta from 1955-1974.

Alpha Omega (Alpha Xi Delta) Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks, biographical book, plaque, news clippings, rosters, photographs, paddles, and national convention books collected and created by the Alpha Omega Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta from 1936-1971.

Pi Kappa Sigma Minutes

Minutes of the sorority Pi Kappa Sigma at Florida State College for Women in 1927.

Sigma Nu (Zeta Zeta) Chapter Member Initiation Registers

Two chapter member initiation registers from the Zeta Zeta chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity, dated 1950-1988.

Florida State University Vertical Files Collection
The FSU Vertical Files collection contains files on individual Greek life organizations as well as sorority and fraternity houses, Inter-Fraternity Council, Greek Council, Greek Week, and the Panhellenic Association.

Student Organization Collections

Love is Never Wrong Banner, 2007, Pride Student Union Records, 
https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/diginole/FSU_HUA_2013-0607_B30_I022

Alumni Association Flying High Circus Collection

The FSU Flying High Circus was founded in 1947 by Jack Haskin as a way to integrate men and women on the newly co-ed campus. This collection contains programs, photographs, memorabilia, and ephemera dating from 1947 to 2005. See also the Florida State University Flying High Circus Collection.

Black Student Union

Founded in 1968, the Black Student Union is a Student Government Agency that seeks to develop unity among black students and functions as a vehicle of communication in addressing those issues that affect black students in a university setting. These organizational records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, budget information, and scrapbooks covering their activities from 1990 until 2017.

Center for Participant Education Collection

The Center for Participant Education (CPE) was established as a student government agency in 1970 to provide an alternative to the traditional curriculum taught at FSU. This collection documents the group's activities from 1970-2000. It contains administrative records, publications, broadsides, catalogs, financial records, guest files, legal files, and photographs.

Pride Student Union

Founded in 1969, the Pride Student Union is Student Government Agency that champions and empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in Tallahassee. The collection contains administrative records, promotional materials, artwork, banners, newspapers, and journal and magazine clippings produced and collected by the organization from the late 1960s until 2015.

SGA and Student Groups (HUA 2018-011)
This collection contains material documenting the Student Government Association and student organization, including plaques, t-shirts, photo albums, scrapbooks, banners, flyers, photographs, and ballots. For similar material, see SGA and Student Groups (HUA 2018-022).

Student Activities Records

This collection contains material documenting the functions of FSU student groups and organizations.

Student Government Association

The Student Government Association Records document the actions taken by student government and university administrations from 1989-2005. The records describe significant topics that have impacted students, such as accountability in higher education and the participation of student body presidents on the Florida Board of Regents and FSU Board of Trustees.

Tarpon Club Collection

The Tarpon Club began as the Florida State College for Women Life Saving Corps in the early 1920s and later evolved into a synchronized swimming group. When the club disbanded in 1994, it was the Nation's oldest, continuously active, collegiate swim group and the oldest club on FSU campus. These records document the club's administration and activities and include minutes, constitutions, correspondence, financial records, scripts, programs, publicity, choreography notes, photographs, news clippings, video recordings, scrapbooks, and club ephemera.

Women Student Union Records

The Women Student Union Records document the activities of the organization from 1994-2001. The collection contains flyers, press releases,  and promotional materials for Stop Rape Week, Eating Disorders Awareness Week, International Women's Day Festival, and S.A.F.E. week. It also contains zines on these topics as well as two scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, ephemera, and photographs.

Honor Societies

Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Delta Chapter Collection

The Alpha Delta Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, an honor society for educators and education majors, was founded at Florida State College for Women in 1925. This collection contains material dating from 1924 to 2000, including photographs, a history of the organization, and other materials documenting the chapter's activities and its 75th anniversary celebration.

Mortar Board Memorabilia

The Mortar Board was founded at Florida State College for Women in 1925. It joined the National Mortar Board Honor Society in 1931. This collection consists of scrapbooks with profiles of initiated members and news clippings, plaques, and material on the "chapter of distinction" awards. The materials date from 1925-2006. For more scrapbooks, see the Torchbearer Chapter of Mortar Board Materials.

Omicron Delta Kappa Records

Records for the national leadership honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa, from 1950-2007. The collection contains meeting minutes, lists of alumni, correspondence, programs and photographs from tapping and initiation ceremonies, and an initiates register from the founding of the Seminole Circle. The collection also documents the Grads Made Good breakfast during homecoming week.

Phi Alpha Theta Records
Minutes and treasurer's books of the Delta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society. The records date from 1934 to 1980.

Phi Beta Kappa: Alpha of Florida Records
The FSU chapter of Phi Beta Kappa: Alpha of Florida was established in 1935 as the first chapter authorized in the state. The organization is the nation's oldest undergraduate honor organization, recognizing excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. The records date from 1935-2010 and include manuals, bylaws, minutes, induction material, programs, bulletins, correspondence, initiation cards, nomination lists, the Key Reporter, and addresses delivered at different chapters.

Pi Delta Phi Collection

Records of the national French honor society, Pi Delta Phi, at the Florida State College for Women in 1944.

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