Women’s Chorus

 The 1980 Aggieland yearbook featured the Women’s Chorus. While on the surface this might appear to be niche, this is significant as it points to the organizations founded by women on campus. Women received unrestricted admittance in 1969, but outside the first sorority chapters, and athletics there were not many organizations that women could be part. The Texas A&M All-Male Glee Club, presently known as the Texas A&M Singing Cadets, founded in 1893 remained the only choir on campus until 1971 when the New Tradition Singers (now known as Century Singers) formed. While the choir remained opened to women not until 1979 did their become an all-women’s choir created by Patricia Fleitas. This choir not only permitted women to be part of a treble choir but become a space where sisterhood could form. The founding members’ legacy lives on as the chorus remains active to date and continues to encourage growth and development of women.