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Notable Sisters.
Every sister's journey to greatness is unique and meaningful. These journeys became legendary — even beyond our sisterhood.
Alpha 1911
Evelyn R. Marsh
Architect. Marsh was among the first women to lead a major American architecture practice. Her libraries and lecture halls — designed, she insisted, “for the conversations inside them” — still anchor a dozen campuses, including two that house Aurelia Crest chapters.
She credited late-night charter debates with teaching her to defend a design. “My sisters were my first clients,” she once said. “They never let me build anything small.”
Delta 1962
Dorothy “Dot” Alvarez
Pulitzer Prize–Winning Journalist. Alvarez covered city halls, courtrooms, and four national conventions with a notebook, a deadline, and an unshakable sense of fairness. Her investigative series on campus housing earned journalism's highest honor.
She endowed the Alvarez Reporting Grant, which still sends one collegian each summer to cover the national convention — notebook in hand.
Gamma 1989
Dr. Priya Raman
Astronaut, First Woman to Command a Lunar Mission. A flight engineer turned commander, Raman carried a miniature Crest pin on all three of her missions — “so something of my sisters could see the Earthrise too.”
She mentors collegians in STEM through the Foundation's leadership grants and keynotes every other Founders Day Gala.
Beta 1974
Katherine B. Whitfield
University President. Whitfield led two universities and a national higher-education association, championing access for first-generation students. Under her presidency, scholarship aid tripled and graduation rates reached record highs.
Her charge to every pledge class she addresses: “Become the greatest version of yourself — then turn around and lend someone your hand.”
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