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THE STARTING OF SIGMA PHI

Stella 9-L-4 FPE

With me, there were now 6 FPE members here in Florida. All of us lived within a 200 mile radius of each other. Yet none of the girls knew everyone, except through correspondence.

I thought it would be wonderful if we formed an FPE chapter, and had get togethers every once in awhile, with our 'GGs'. All the members here are married, most have children and "A" wives. So we all have something in common besides FPE.

A few months ago, just before Father's Day, I arranged a meeting to discuss forming the chapter and obtaining a petition for charter. All were in favor, and the date was set. However, due to various valid reasons, three of the members had to cancel out.

We did want a unanimous vote, so this meeting was called off, with plans to make it in the near future.

On Monday, June 28, the petition for charter arrived. I didn't know how to get everyone together now, as Pauline 9-L-3, was going to leave on her vacation for three months on July 1st. There just wasn't enough time to notify and get everyone together by then.

I remembered the old saying, “If you can't get Mohammed to the mountain, you have to take the mountain to Mohammed." So this is what I decided to do.

Monday afternoon brother took a ride to Miami to visit Pauline and her GG, discussed various aspects of the charter, got her vote on officers, and her signature on the petition.

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