history
by: MM
Recent talk on here about sorority history got me reading more about some of them. Came across a list showing each one listed from oldest to newest and where they were founded. Thought I'd share in case anyone else likes this kind of stuff too. Some of the southern versus northern roots definitely are reflected in the personalities of some sororitys now:
Alpha Delta Phi Wesleyan Female College 1851
Phi Mu Wesleyan Female College 1852
Pi Beta Phi Monmouth College 1867
Kappa Alpha Theta DePauw University 1870
Kappa Kappa Gamma Monmouth College 1870
Delta Gamma Lewis School 1873
Sigma Kappa Colby College 1874
Gamma Phi Beta Syracuse University 1874
Alpha Chi Omega DePauw University 1885
Delta Delta Delta Boston University 1888
Chi Omega University of Arkansas 1895
Alpha Omicron Pi Barnard College 1897
Kappa Delta Longwood College 1897
Zeta Tau Alpha Longwood College 1898
Delta Zeta Miami University 1902
Alpha Epsilon Phi Barnard College 1909
Delta Phi Epsilon New York University 1917
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by: Yes
Yes, it specifies "first secret society for college women", so I guess before sororities were even considered sororities?
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by: OP
Good catch on that typo, I just cut and pasted that list and didn't notice it said phi.
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The first womens fraternity was Theta, everything before that was a secret society for women. And then the first time the word sorority was used was for Gphi. So this will get confusing during recruitment because you'll hear that ADPi was the first secret society for women, Theta was the first womens fraternity, and GPhi was the first sorority.
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by: FFF
If a PNM is being told a sorority is the first, and they are not standing in a blue and white house on the corner, then they are being told a claim based on pure semantics. Every sorority has a rich history, but there is only one that is truly first and they are at the top of this sorority list.
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by: Confusing
Going through rush I never could understand how all these houses were claiming to be first lol
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Yes, to break it down Adpi was first in existence, theta was first to name themselves a women's frat, then gphi was first to name themselves a sorority
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by: Actually...
:)
Actually it's:
ADPi first in existence (started as a women's secret society)
Pi Phi first women's fraternity and first to expand
Theta first women's fraternity founded with Greek letters
GPhi first to use the term sorority, but some of the oldest sororitys still offically call themselves a fraternity...does that mean the oldest ones are not sororities? No, they are considered sororities in the modern sense
Kinda funny all the ways folks try to call themselves oldest. And while the history and evolution of women's organizations is very interesting, the meaning of oldest seems pretty definite.
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by: adpi
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by: To first a UF
First 5 were...
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Delta Delta Delta
Kappa Delta
Chi Omega
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by: History
Listing of chapters and the year they arrived (or re-colonized):
Alpha Delta Pi - Gamma Iota 1948
Alpha Omicron Pi - Gamma Omicron 1948
Delta Delta Delta - Alpha Psi 1948
Chi Omega - Eta Delta 1948
Kappa Delta - Beta Pi 1948
Alpha Epsilon Phi - Alpha Tau 1948
Alpha Chi Omega - Gamma Iota 1949
Delta Gamma - Gamma Theta 1949
Zeta Tau Alpha - Gamma Iota 1949
Sigma Kappa - Beta Tau 1949-?/1985
Phi Mu - Alpha Nu 1949-1987/1994
Delta Phi Epsilon - Delta Kappa 1955-?/1969
Kappa Alpha Theta - Delta Theta 1962
Pi Beta Phi - Florida Delta 1969-1977/1985
Kappa Kappa Gamma - Epsilon Phi 1978
Delta Zeta - Pi Alpha 2003
Gamma Phi Beta - Eta Psi 2015
(Alpha Phi will have a colony Fall 2017)
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by: Aephi?
I've seen dates saying aephi was also in '48 but some UF sites say there were only 5 founding houses? Did they come part way through the year or something?
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by: Same
by: 5
by: UF's first frats
by: One more?
by: Pretty sure
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Chi Phi - 1824
Delta Upsilon - 1834
Beta Theta Pi - 1839
Phi Gamma Delta - 1848
Phi Delta Theta - 1848
Sigma Chi - 1855
Sigma Alpha Epsilon - 1856
Theta Chi - 1856
Delta Tau Delta - 1858
Alpha Tau Omega - 1865
Kappa Alpha Order - 1865
Pi Kappa Alpha - 1868
Kappa Sigma - 1869
Sigma Nu - 1869
Phi Sigma Kappa - 1873
Delta Chi -1890
Pi Lambda Phi - 1895
Tau Kappa Epsilon - 1899
Sigma Phi Epsilon - 1901
Alpha Gamma Rho - 1904
Pi Kappa Phi - 1904
Phi Kappa Tau - 1906
Lambda Chi Alpha - 1909
Tau Epsilon Phi - 1910
Alpha Epsilon Pi - 1913
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