Edith MacConnel Hickok

Edith MacConnel Hickok was born in Harford, Pennsylvania in the late nineteenth century.

She entered Syracuse University as a freshman in 1903. There, she was one of the founding members of the sorority Alpha Gamma Delta.[1] 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.[2]

She was also the mother of the first Alpha Gam baby.

References

  1. ↑ "Our Founders". Alpha Gamma Delta. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Founders – Alpha Gamma Delta". Alpha Gamma Delta. Retrieved 2018-09-13.

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