Only the NPC is DPhiE. As far as I know, the foreign service org doesn't use DPhiE as a nickname. I was surprised a few years ago when I did an internet search for Delta Phi Epsilon and found their website.

How does your IHQ feel about another group using the letters?

I was just helping her out - I knew there were some co-ed chapters and my Google-fu is strong. :D

I never asked so I can't answer your question. It is highly unlikely that the Delta Phi Epsilon founders at Georgetown were aware of the Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority at NYU. I like to think of the same letters as a case of great minds thinking alike.

It's never an inappropriate time to bring up my hotness. :)

Your modesty is also hot!;)

At Otterbein , we have Pi Kappa Phi (country club) and of course there is the national Pi Kappa Phi. There was at one time a dispute over the name, but I'm not sure how it was resolved. The two don't share anything similar at all. They use country club (club for short) more than Pi Kappa Phi.

But also, Sigma Delta Phi (sphinx) was founded as Delta Sigma Phi, same as the national fraternity. At one point and time the national offered them the chance to affiliate, but the brothers decided against it and continued on their way. Sphinx has gone through many changes, their history is one of the more "colorful" on campus.

ETA: Sphinx history http://www.sigmadeltaphi.org/history/history.html

Pi Kappa Phi (Club) website
http://www.occountryclub.com/site/index.php

(which they've redone recently, and I must say it looks pretty awesome.)

Alpha Phi Omega
 

At the time of Alpha Phi Omega's founding, there were about 3 or 4 local groups elsewhere in the country called Alpha Phi Omega. I know an exception was made for them when we applied for our trademarks. All of them have since either gone inactive or become a colony of a National Greek or gone inactive.

Easiest way to find some of these is to look at a 1967 or before Baird's Manual.

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Here is a good one - there is/was a 100 year old local sorority at Moravian College in PA (which became a chapter of ZTA in the past 10 years or so) which is called Alpha Epsilon Pi. They were formed around 1899. Well, they lasted and lasted for almost 100 years. AEPi fraternity was formed in 1913. Neither knew of each other's existence until much later.

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My aunt is a member of Phi Delta Kappa Sorority Inc.

I asked her about the name thing being that they both are related to education (one can get EXTREMELY confused), and she said her organization is a sorority where as the other is a fraternity (one major difference). She also said her org is national and the fraternity is international. She finally said what is offered with her sorority is different than what is offered in the fraternity (but she got kinda spacey on the details...I wonder why :confused: ;) :confused: )

There's at least one other org that uses Omega Phi Alpha - a local fraternity at the University of the Pacific. According to their website, they are in the process of affiliating with DU, but are still going to keep Omega Phi Alpha as part of their chapter name. They've been Omega Phi Alpha since 1921.

The first Omega Phi Alpha service sorority chapter was started in 1953, and the org was founded as Omega Phi Alpha National Service Sorority in 1967.

Sigma Lambda Gamma Nat'l Sorority and a local Sigma Lambda Gamma at a school in Canada - though there is an unfriendly association between the two. I will not post any of the less than nice details here. It would be off-topic. :D

Is the local a fraternity or sorority?