Edith MacConnel Hickok was born in 1883 in
Harford,
Pennsylvania
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.
She entered
Syracuse University
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as a freshman in 1903. There, she was one of the founding members of the sorority
Alpha Gamma Delta. She suffered an ice injury in April 1904 that required her to spend the founding year in the hospital. She and Georgia Dickover wrote the "Initiation Song" in the fall.
She was also the mother of the first Alpha Gam baby.
See also
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Sorority
References
1883 births
20th-century deaths
Year of death missing
Syracuse University alumni
Alpha Gamma Delta
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