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Patricia A. "Barney" Geller '75, May 19 1972

Perhaps the first woman in the country to be elected president of an undergraduate fraternity, Patricia A. "Barney" Geller '75 was elected to the post as Psi Upsilon in 1972, confusing the national organization, which had evidently assumed that "Barney" was male.

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