Kentucky Alpha
Learn more about Pi Beta Phi's Kansas Beta Chapter at Kansas State University, including chapter information, recruitment details and member experiences.
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Our Roots
A local group of women, Tri Xi, was formed in 1921 and officially became the Kentucky Alpha Chapter in 1925 after installation by Grand President Amy Burnham Onken, Illinois Epsilon. The Initiation Ceremony took place at the home of Ontario Alpha Emma Woerner, and the installation banquet took place in the Red Room of the Seelbach Hotel.Collegiate Chapter Leadership
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Emma Arguello
Vice President Finance/Housing
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Rheagan Braden
Chapter President
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Alivia Calderon
Director New Member Experience
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Mia Caron
Director Member Conduct
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Vivienne Dean
Director Housing
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Cassidy Demling
Panhellenic Delegate
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Zoie Doctor
Director Service and Philanthropy
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Lauren Donahue
Vice President Risk Management
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Marlaney Evans
Director Lifelong Membership
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Marlaney Evans
Director Fraternity Heritage
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Chealsea Gachagua
Director Academics
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Lauren Gronda
Director Member Finances
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MaKyhia Hilson
Member Conduct Committee Member
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MaKyhia Hilson
Vice President Inclusion
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Elizabeth Jackson
Director Leadership
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Adysen Kinsey
Director Community Inclusion
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Sophia Pratte
Director Recruitment Events
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Lillian Roberts
Vice President Community Relations
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Janie Rowland
Member Conduct Committee Member
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Ava Schemer
Director Social Events
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Catherine Schilder
Vice President Recruitment
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Evelyn Shedleski
Member Conduct Committee Member
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Priya Shlimon
Director Policy and Prevention Education
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Ruth Waller
Vice President Operations
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Regan Workman
Director PR/Marketing
Notable Chapter Alumnae
Sue Grafton
Author
Sue Grafton
Author
Sue Grafton was one of the most widely read mystery writers of her generation, best known for the Alphabet series—a sequence of detective novels beginning with “A Is for Alibi” in 1982 and running through “Y Is for Yesterday,” published in 2017. Before finding major success as a mystery author, she wrote screenplays for television movies. Her novels have sold more than ten million copies and were translated in 26 languages. The Alphabet series books spent an aggregate of nearly 400 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.
The protagonist of the Alphabet series was private investigator Kinsey Millhone, set in the fictional California city of Santa Teresa. At a time when women in crime fiction were largely relegated to powerless victim or femme fatale roles, Sue helped reshape the genre by putting a capable, yet complicated, self-reliant woman at the helm of her work. She received numerous literary awards throughout her career, including the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America in 2009, and the Crime Writers’ Association in Britain gave her its highest honor, the Diamond Dagger, for lifetime achievement in 2008.
Sue was initiated in 1958.
