Alpha Gamma Delta was the first international sorority and the first to have a national philanthropy.

I always thought that was pretty cool.

marissa

My favorite fact is very simple:

Alpha Delta Pi was the first women's sorority, founded by 6 awesome ladies at the Weslayan Female College in Macon, Georgia!

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ADPi!!!!!

According to what we leared in Pledge Class Pi Beta Phi was the first to have a national phillanthropy. Hmm...

My chapter was orriginally the cheerleaders (UALR Battlecriers) for the school. Kinda odd, huh?

TG

My sorority was founded at NYU Law School. We're the first non-sectarian sorority and only social sorority founded at a professional school. Our five founders were incredible young women in law school in 1917. One of our founders Minna Goldsmith Mahler was the United National Observer for the State of New Jersey, United Nations Speaker Bureau. Another founder was the first female judge in Connecticut.

Our chapter was founded in 1955....Our first house was a million dollar mansion right on the ocean in Long Beach, CA...We aren't too happy that the place burned down many years back....

Zeta Tau Alpha is the third largest sorority or fraternity or whatever *lol*

Nichole

We kicked out our founder. NATIONAL founder. The one who came up with the idea for LXA.

Marissa, the first NPC sorority to go international is Kappa Alpha Theta who came to Canada & set up Sigma chapter at University of Toronto in 1887, (the chapter lasted from 1887-1941), and the first NPC sorority to set up a chapter overseas is Sigma Sigma Sigma, at University of Maryland at their Mannheim, Germany campus.

However, AGD *is* the first and ONLY NPC thus far to set up shop in Hawaii! (yay, OohTeenyWahine!!) ;)

Here are some COOL FACTS about Delta Gamma:
- DG has had one and only one male initiate, George Banta (a Phi Delta Theta)
- DG actually even had a "call"at one point (I read that in our Pledge Manual, Watchwords...it was briefly mentioned and I thought that was kind of interesting!)
- our 3 Founders were essentially teenagers at a Girls School (likely a prep school or so), called The Lewis School, which no longer exists. :(
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You asked so here goes!
You will see that more NPC groups than not, are called "Fraternities", likely because the word "Sorority" did not yet exist when they were founded. Okay...here you have it....

All 26 NPC groups, with their founding dates:
Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity October 15, 1885
Alpha Delta Pi Sorority May 15, 1851
Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority October 24, 1909
Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity May 30, 1904
Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity January 2, 1897
Alpha Phi Fraternity October 10, 1872
Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority November 15, 1901
Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority November 4, 1899
Alpha Xi Delta Fraternity April 17, 1893
Chi Omega Fraternity April 5, 1895
Delta Delta Delta Fraternity November 25, 1888
Delta Gamma Fraternity December 1873
Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority March 17, 1917
Delta Zeta Sorority October 24, 1902
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority November 11, 1874 - note: the "term" sorority was coined for Gamma Phi Beta, as the word "sorority" did not exist prior to GPhiB's founding, so previous groups just used the word "Fraternity" since the word Fraternity comes from the Greek word "phratria", which means people holding a common interest. But then later on, Fraternity came to also mean frater, as in "brotherhood". But for the women, of course we refer to it in the "phratria" sense, not the "frater" sense!
Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity January 27, 1870
Kappa Delta Sorority October 23, 1897
Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity March 1870
Phi Mu Fraternity March 4, 1852
Phi Sigma Sigma Fraternity November 2, 1913
Pi Beta Phi Fraternity April 27, 1867
Sigma Delta Tau Fraternity March 25, 1917 (I think..website is a bit unclear and uses both terms, sorority and fraternity)
Sigma Kappa Sorority November 9, 1874
Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority April 20, 1898
Theta Phi Alpha Fraternity August 30, 1912
Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity October 15, 1898

All dates are from "From Here to Fraternity"...if I did a typo or a mistake, please PM me and I will edit the post! Thanks! :)

Thanks CP!

To add to that, a lot of people don't know that the Hawaii Alumnae Chapter was established here in 1936... the Delta Sigma Chapter wasn't chartered until March 14, 1992!

;) here are some fun fun facts about good ole Delta Gamma!!

Delta Gamma was the first to have a registered flower with the National Rose Association, so if you want a cream rose from a flower shop, you can always ask for the Delta Gamma Cream Rose.

Delta Gamma's have a star in the universe! It's the middle one in Orion's Belt.

Delta Gamma was the first to establish an independant philanthropic Foundation in 1951.
~fun fact relating to that: Ruth Billow (an Eta chapter member) addresses Nationals at Convention in 1936 to adopt Aid to the Blind and Service for Sight as our National Foundation purpose.

Delta Gamma was the first to build its own National facility. Executive Offices is located in Columbus, OH.

A couple from my own chapter (ETA):
*Eta is the oldest existing chapter of Delta Gamma...founded in 1879....we'll be 125 years old in 2004!!
*Eta members recieved $30,000 in scholarships this past year through the Dorothy Garrett Martin Delta Gamma Scholarship that is given to members of Eta Chapter every year in honor of Dorothy Garrett Martin (an Eta alumnae)

Ok i'm done for right now.....thats what happens when I was just recently VP: Member Education
:D

One of the unique characteristics of Sigma Nu is that we were founded at the Virginia Military Institute. One of the many things that came from this was that all of our officers still retain military titles. This is the list of officers in Sigma Nu.

Commander (president)
Lieutenant Commander (VP)
Treasurer
Recorder (secretary)
Marshal
Recruitment Chair
Chaplain

There are a couple more, but that gives you an idea.

LHT
Kevin Taylor
MT 5
University of Central Oklahoma

I read somewhere that Delta Zeta is the only sorority and all the others are fraternities. I'm not sure if this is true but thought I would put my 2 cents in.

Anne Marie

AOII does not have a crest or coat of arms because we are founded on traditionally Greek prinicples and those symbols are traditionally Masonic. Where other Organizations display their crest we display our flower the General Jacqueminot Rose.

well even though i was wrong on a couple of points, it's still pretty interesting to learn all of these interesting facts 'bout other GLO's.

marissa