Sue Glenn Richey was born in 1936 and raised in Lakewood, WA. She was a member of WSC’s Pi Beta Phi sorority from 1954 to 1958, graduating with an Education degree. She passed away in 2017 after 38 years as a school teacher.
The national Pi Beta Phi sorority dates to 1867, while the Washington State University chapter originated on October 3, 1908 as Phi Alpha Epsilon. They affiliated with the national organization (as the Beta Washington chapter) on July 6, 1912.
The collection consists of just 14 black and white photographs of the Washington State University (then Washington State College) chapter of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, collected by Sue Glenn Richey during 1954-1958, while she was a member of that sorority. The photographs are split fairly evenly between professionally photographed group images, and more informal personal photos.
The photographs are arranged chronologically, with each folder containing all photographs from a given calendar year. One undated photographed is after the others, followed in turn by a single page of biographical information.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
Sue Glenn Richey Pi Beta Phi Photographs, 1954-1958
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The photographs in this collection were donated to the Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) by Kristin Tucker (niece of Sue Glenn Richey) of Olympia, WA, on October 12th, 2017. They were retained as UPC17-03.
The materials were processed in January, 2018 by University Archivist Mark O’English.
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