THE FOUNDERS OF PHI SIGMA SIGMA
                                                                   Lillian Gordon Alpern
                                                                    Ethel Gordon Kraus
                                                                Josephine Ellison Breakstone
                                                                    Shirley Cohen Laufer
                                                                           Fay Chertkoff
                                                                   Claire Wunder McArdle
                                                                     Estelle Melnick Cole
                                                                     Rose Sher Seidman
                                                                     Jeanette Lipka Furst
                                                                     Gwen Zaliels Snyder

Josephine Ellison Breakstone: Josephine was a school teacher in New York City. She married and lived in New York until the time of her death.

Estelle Melnick Cole: Estelle worked as a hospital volunteer in New York while taking courses in languages and the arts. She used this to serve as an interpreter for her husband while they travelled extensively around the world. They retired to later Harrison, New York.

Fay Chertkoff: Fay worked as a teacher throughout her full life. She wrote most of the Fraternity's rituals. She served as a national officer for many years, including as the first Grand Archon.

Gwen Zaliels Snyder: Gwen graduated from Hunter College (of course) and taught school before marrying and having one daughter. Later, she became a textile designer and branched into interior designing for private homes.

Ethel Gordon Kraus: Ethel married and had two children, one of them later became a member of Phi Sigma Sigma. Her hobbies included bridge, theatre, and gardening. She remained a member of the Godmother's League and the Hattie Bondy Scholarship Fund until she died in 1984 in New York City.

Rose Sher Seidman: Rose married and had two sons. Neither were Phi Sigs. She taught school from 1915 to 1917 and thenreturned to teaching in 1940 for ten more years. She sponsored extracurricular activities to included social dance and puppetry.  Originally, she wanted to be an actress or a dancer but the profession was not highly regarded. She travelled extensively throughout Europe, Iceland, the Caribbean, and the United States. She died in 1987 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Jeanette Lipka Furst: Jeanette graduated from public high school at age 11 and entered college at age 15 to become the youngest member of Phi Sigma Sigma. She graduated from Hunter College in three years at the age of 18. She taught the fifth grade after graduation and later earned her doctorate in audio-visual education and communications.

Lillian Gordon Alpern: Lillian Gordon Alpern was born in New York City, the youngest child in a family of six. She followed in her only sister's footsteps and attended Hunter College. While a junior in college, she met and fell in love with Charles Alpern, whom she left school to marry. Lillian was the first Founder to pass away in 1945.

Shirly Cohen Laufer:            Claire Wunder McArdle:
 

Unfortunately there is little information about, Shirley Cohen Laufer, and Claire Wunder McArdle.

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