The Alpha Mu Chapter was as diverse and outstanding group as ever and had many campus leaders among its membership. For three years in a row during the 1960’s, and Alpha Mu sister was chosen as Greek Women of the Year at Michigan. (Marjorie Randon Hershey – 1966, Mary Zimmerman – 1967, Marianne Tipmore Cannon-Doress – 1968).
The years of the late 1960’s and 1970’s were difficult ones on University campuses. There was much anti-Vietnam War sentiment, and demonstrations were common. Sorority rush became more difficult, as students were no longer interested in membership organizations that saw as “tradition” or “establishment.” In reference to low registrations for campus formal rush at the University of Michigan, a letter sent to Sigma Kappa National council by a Sigma Kappa Traveling Secretary (comparable to today’s chapter consultant), and dated January 31, 1971, stated that “…only about 185 girls signed up.” National Policy at the time dictated that the chapter could not take boarders into the chapter property. Without borders for extra income, the chapter was not able to survive and was closed at the end of the 1972 academic year. The chapter house at 626 Oxford Road was sold for private off-campus housing, and was later sold to Delta Gamma Sorority, and is their present sorority house on campus. A total of 527 women had been initiated into the Alpha Mu Chapter at the time of its closing in 1972.