Chapter H, a local P.E.O. chapter, has placed a permanent P.E.O. Star Memorial markers on 68 gravesites of its 106 past active members at Prairie Home Cemetery.
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Having turned 81 in September during the lethal COVID-19 pandemic, and facing the challenges of aging and losing loved ones more frequently, Iâm reluctant to glance at the âIn Memoriamâ lists from University City High School, Washington University and its law school, and from my beloved college fraternity, Pi Lambda Phi, where I made lifelong friends.Â
In recent days my fraternity, which flourished at Washington U. from 1921-1971, suffered the loss of Brother Rafer Lewis Johnson, who broke the color-line at UCLA by becoming the first African American to join a social fraternity in the universityâs history. For Pi Lam nationally Johnsonâs membership in our Upsilon Chapter was a great source of pride. While our Missouri Pi Chapter at Washington U. was mostly Jewish, when Pi Lam was founded in 1895 at Yale University it became the first non-sectarian college fraternity in the United States.