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Kelly the internet geek swoops in to save the day!! :)

Alpha Gamma Delta "wins" the Widest Span Between Chapters contest, but Sigma Sigma Sigma comes in a close second. Check it out:

ALPHA GAMMA DELTA

Distance between Honolulu, Hawaii, United States and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, as the crow flies:

5403 miles (8695 km) (4695 nautical miles)


SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA

Distance between Anchorage, Alaska, United States and Mannheim, Germany, as the crow flies:

4707 miles (7576 km) (4091 nautical miles)


Now I hope you all will sleep well tonight. ;)

.....Kelly :)

Thank you, Kelly the internet snoop! ;)

stonewall jackson
Robert E Lee
jefferson davis
Dr. O. L. Smith, who was president of Weslyan college in 1854

Delta Gamma
 

DG Facts

:D

D Phi E is the only NPC sorority founded at a professional school, NYU Law School. :)

Well, I am gonna throw out some school stuff instead:

U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the largest Greek system in the world, by number (not percent) of students participating. Also the largest number of female students in sororities, though Cornell has us slightly beat on the male side.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the first international fraternity to be established in the deep South, having been founded at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, on March 9, 1856.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the first fraternity to have an international headquarters and the first to build its own headquarters, known as the Levere Memorial Temple. The Temple is the only fraternity headquarters to have a chapel.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the first fraternity to establish a leadership school. Started in 1935, the Leadership School has more than 34,000 graduates.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon has the greatest number of initiates of any Greek-letter organization with more than 260,000 men.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the first fraternity to offer a toll-free hazing hotline available for all members, pledges, and parents.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the first social fraternity to donate money to the World War II Memorial Campaign, with more than $100,000 being raised from its members. It was the largest donation from a student group.

Unfortunate facts:

Delta SIgma Phi was the first to eliminate an "initiation week"

We also were the first nationally dry house

Also the first to eliminate a lil sis program

Gamma Phi Beta was the first organization to be called a "sorority." The word sorority was coined for us! :)

Four now national greek letter organizations were founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio:

Beta Theta Pi - 1839
Phi Delta Theta - 1848
Sigma Chi - 1855
Delta Zeta - 1902

And all four Alpha chapters have been around since their founding and are still going strong!

Sigma
 

Our philanthropy the Robbie Page Memorial helped find a cure/vaccine for polio. RPM funded the research on polio to find a cure.

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More about Phi Sigma Sigma
 

From Phi Sigma Sigma's National Website.

On November 26, 1913, Phi Sigma Sigma was born, unobtrusively, without the thought of expansion. It was the first nonsectarian sorority; the only one that was open to diverse membership from inception and the only one with a ritual that was not based in scripture.

Phi Sigma Sigma became a true national sorority when Zeta Chapter was installed in 1921 at the University of California at Los Angeles. Phi Sigma Sigma was also UCLA’s first national sorority.
(now if we could just recolonize that chapter it would be great)

The National Make a Difference Day Award was presented to Phi Sigma Sigma in 1999, in recognition of our commitment to volunteer service and community involvement.

Just out of curiosity, are there any schools that have ALL the social sororities & fraternities?

LAMBDA CHI ALPHA ,

Largest Fraternity Merger: Theta Kappa Nu with Lambda Chi Alpha, 1939.

Great North American Food Drive: Largest food drive, even out doing the US Postal Service!! :cool:

No - I believe Penn State is the closest to having all the NPC's and there are 65+ NIC fraternities - I can't imagine any school having them. There are schools that have all of the Divine Nine though.