A Kansas woman who was on track to join a sorority before the U.S. entered World War II finally gets to be a pledge.

The Topeka Capital Journal reported that Bertie McConnell attended several Zeta Tau Alpha rush parties when she started at Washburn University in 1941. But everything changed after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

To support the war effort, McConnell left school to work at an ammunition plant near Lawrence. Next, came marriage and motherhood.

Her daughter, Judith McConnell-Farmer, now works at Washburn and says her mother’s big regret was not becoming a Zeta. She shared the story with her classes, and members of the school’s Zeta chapter talked to the sorority’s national council.

McConnell got an invitation to join the sorority Saturday on her 90th birthday.