Julia Waits Farris oral history interview, 1993.

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Julia Waits Farris oral history interview, 1993.

Interview focuses on Farris's experiences as a member of Phi Mu and her career working with Greek societies. She also mentions her family and childhood.

1 sound cassette (40 minutes);Transcript (28 p.)

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)

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Farris, Julia Waits, 1935-

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Farris was born in Greenville, Miss. on 1 January 1935 and grew up one of six children in nearby Leland. Her father was an attorney and her mother a housewife. She followed her father to college at Ole Miss, where she majored in home economics and graduated in 1956. She joined the Phi Mu Sorority and after her graduation served one year as a field secretary for the society. She went to work in the Dean of Women's Office at Ole Miss, where she remained for 10 years before coming to LSU to serve a...

Phi Mu Fraternity

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Early in 1923, several seniors in the College of Engineering at the University of Maryland who had high scholastic rankings met to organize a local honorary engineering fraternity. As a result of this meeting, and with the approval of the president of the university, the honorary engineering fraternity Phi Mu was officially formed at the University of Maryland with the adoption of its constitution on March 27, 1923. The founders as well as the first charter members were: J. H. Harlow, M. J. Bald...

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Office of Greek Affairs.

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University of Mississippi

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

Campbell, Melisse.

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