17. Senior Sorority Sister of the Day: It may have taken nearly three-quarters of a century, but 90-year-old Bertie McConnell has finally realized her dream of joining the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at Washburn University. [
TDW]
The Topeka resident nearly became a member in 1941, having attended several Zeta rush parties, but then World War II happened.
McConnell left school shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor to help support the war effort by working at the Sunflower Ammunition Plant near Lawrence. After the war she married her naval aviator boyfriend and never got the chance to resume her studies.
“She told me her one regret in life was that she never became a Zeta,” McConnell’s daughter, Judith McConnell-Farmer, told the Topeka Capital-Journal.
17. Senior Sorority Sister of the Day: It may have taken nearly three-quarters of a century, but 90-year-old Bertie McConnell has finally realized her dream of joining the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at Washburn University. [TDW]
The Topeka resident nearly became a member in 1941, having attended several Zeta rush parties, but then World War II happened.
McConnell left school shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor to help support the war effort by working at the Sunflower Ammunition Plant near Lawrence. After the war she married her naval aviator boyfriend and never got the chance to resume her studies.
“She told me her one regret in life was that she never became a Zeta,” McConnell’s daughter, Judith McConnell-Farmer, told the Topeka Capital-Journal.
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