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Ceres International Women's Fraternity is a social women's fraternity focused on Agriculture founded on August 17, 1984 at the International Conclave of
FarmHouse FarmHouse (FH) is a social fraternity founded at the University of Missouri on April 15, 1905. It became a national organization in 1921. Today FarmHouse has 33 active chapters and four associate chapters (formerly colonies) in the United State ...
fraternity.


History

The 1980 Conclave passed a proposal that pilot women's FH clubs be formed on select campuses and conducted an extensive survey of FH chapters and associations, with 65 percent in support of the creation a women's agricultural fraternity. A proposal for the “establishment of an agricultural-related women's sorority formed in the image of FarmHouse” was unanimously approved by delegates at the '84 Conclave. The women involved and a committee of FH men selected the name Ceres Fraternity for the separate women's fraternity. Ceres is the Roman Goddess of agriculture. On, October 12, 1985 chartered its first chapter at Colorado State University. The International Office for FarmHouse provided staffing and programming support until 1994, when Ceres had grown to the point that it could hire a part-time executive director to provide support for its chapters and members.


List of chapters

The chapters of Ceres include the following. Active chapters in bold, inactive chapters in ''italics''. The main archive URL i
The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage
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See also

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List of social fraternities and sororities Social or general fraternities and sororities, in the North American fraternity system, are those that do not promote a particular profession (as professional fraternities are) or discipline (such as service fraternities and sororities). Instea ...


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* {{Authority control Ceres Student organizations established in 1984 International student societies Student societies in the United States 1984 establishments in Colorado Women in agriculture