Gamma Phi Beta wazs founded November 11, 1874 at Syracuse University. Our Alpha chapter is still active there.

We were one of the original 7 NPC sororities.

AND we were the first women's organization to be called a sorority!!!

website with greek history
 

Kappa Alpha Theta "THE FIRST GREEK LETTER FRATERNITY FOR WOMEN" was founded in 1870 at Asberry college, now Depaul University in Indiana. My chapter is the centenial chapter or the 100 chapter founded in 1970.

Other women organizations were founded before us but they didn't use greek letters. We were the first and then others such as Phi Mu started using greek letters. The reason we are a Frat and not a sorority is because the word sorority had not been invented yet.

madmax, that's a nice site there, very interesting. Thanks!

Re: Sorority/Fraternity age...
 

Yay!!!!!!!!! :D

Okay, since none of my TriDelta sisters are going to post...

Delta Delta Delta was founded on Thanksgiving Eve in 1888 at Boston University. Yay for Sarah Ida Shaw and Eleanor Dorcus Pond! We were also one of the seven original NPC sororities.

My chapter, Theta Pi, was founded November 14, 1925.

Sorry TriDeltaGal, I swear I was going to post, but you beat me to it!!
So, as you said, it was a lovely Thanksgiving Eve in 1888 when Tri Delta was founded :)
And my chapter, Phi Omicron, was founded in February of 1958!

Sigma Nu
 

My brother has posted our National founding.

My chatper of Sigma Nu, Delta Theta, was founded in 1891, at Lombard college, and went to Knox when Lombard went under in 1931/32.

Our alpha chapter is no longer around, as VMI no longer allows GLO's, but our Headquarters is within walking distance of the school, and has a nice sense of history.

And I'd like to say to all the Wonderful AXD's out there, I know some of your history as well, with my chapter :) Good luck to you all.

M.
Delta Theta chapter of Sigma Nu
Knox College

Sigma Phi Epsilon - 1901

My Chapter - NY Eta - 1979

crazyleggedsigma
 

POI - At my university, Sigma Sigma Sigma is known as Tri-Sig

Delta Sigma Pi celebrated their 95th birthday this year!

Founded on Nov. 7, 1907. :)

Sigma Pi Fraternity was founded February 1897 at Vincennes University in Vincennes, IN.

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia was founded on October 6, 1898, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hail Sinfonia!

Phi Sigma Kappa
 

Phi Sigma Kappa founded March 15, 1873 at Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Phi Sigma Epsilon founded February 20, 1910 at Emporia Teacher's College (Now Emporia State University -Emporia, Kansas)

Phi Sigma Kappa and Phi Sigma Epsilon merged in the largest fraternity merger in history -August 1985

Epsilon Tau Chapter-Ball State University
Founded Locally as Delta Phi Sigma-1926
Chartered as the Tau Chapter of Phi Sigma Epsilon-1948
Joined the ranks of Phi Sigma Kappa-1985:)

I'm a little late, but I haven't seen my Fraternity yet.

Alpha Tau Omega was born on September 11th, 1865, after the Civil War, by three young men at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. The Fraternity celebrates its 138th anniversary in two days!

Tennessee Beta Tau was founded Feb. 28, 1894 at Union University, then named Southwest Baptist University, in Jackson, TN.

If you want to get picky, we should be Tennessee Iota, which was founded Nov. 15, 1867 when Union was located in Murfreesboro, TN. Union University, in Murfreesboro, closed in 1873 and later merged with Southwest Baptist University in 1875. I assume we got a different chapter name because the university was called Southwest Baptist at the time. Oh well, it's still a part of our history.

Jason

1856

I am not sure if it has been posted here before.

Delta Phi Epsilon was founded on March 17, 1917 at NYU Law School. :)

Alpha Sigma Phi was founded at Yale College (now Yale University) on December 6, 1845. It was originally created as a sophomore class literary society (at the time, many fraternities were founded as literary societies). In 1847, the fraternity's publication, The Tomahawk was first publshed. In 1860, Delta chapter at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio was founded as an all-class social fraternity. In 1864, Alpha Sigma Phi was suppressed by the Yale faculty, and for a brief time existed under the name Delta Beta Xi until it was finally shut down in 1872, leaving Delta at Marietta the only Alpha Sig chapter.

In 1907, members of the Yale Masonic Club contacted Delta Chapter and re-established Alpha at Yale. Since then over 60 chapters of the fraternity have been established nationwide.

Kappa's founders wore their badges in their hair, too!

Our oldest active chapter is the Delta chapter at University of Texas ~ Austin, founded in 1905.

My chapter, Eta Psi, just celebrated 5 years of sisterhood May 2, 2003 (we were a local who went through the colonization process with ADPi as the other local sororities on our campus went national at the same time).

Kinda sad that my chapter's no longer the baby....but so excited about Eta Omega at Centre College in Kentucky! :)

I'm a dork...
 

I love reading the histories of the different fraternities and sororities.

Theta Nu Xi was founded April 11,1997 at the University of Carolina-Chapel Hill.

We just recently celebrated our 6th year as an organization.

My chapter Xi Delta was just recently founded

We have those same funky pictures of early ADPis with the Diamond in their hair! I've also seen older pins worn like Phi Beta Kappa keys, or on stick pins.

152 years and counting...!

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

It is the oldest existing intercollegiate GLO established by African Americans.

Check this out....
 

Alpha Sigma Tau was founded November 4th, 1899 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. They also announced the sorority to the school at chapel one day. However, check out this info:

The name Alpha Sigma Tau was chosen and purple and gold were chosen for the colors. Thus it was Alpha Sigma Tau, the third oldest educational sorority, was organized. A dozen or more very enthusiastic girls were present at this meeting.

The next meeting was a little party at the home of Mrs. Depew on Forest Avenue where Helene and Adriance Rice, Eva O'Keefe and Harriet Mark roomed. The part was indeed gay and festive with decorations of gold and purple. Even the cake was golden with purple icing. Here it was decided that the next day should witness the introduction of a newly born sorority to the world at large and to the student body in particular. Accordingly the members attended chapel en masse, everyone wearing the chosen colors. Imagine their surprise and chagrin when the members of the Zeta Phi informed them that Alpha Sigma Tau had appropriated their colors. The group then chose emerald green and gold.

WHOOPS!!!! I much prefer emerald and gold, though!

Alpha Gamma chapter was chartered May 4th, 1946.

QC was founded in 1856.... not the oldest but 147 years is alot of history!

KKG was founded on October 13, 1870... which makes us going on 134 this October. Not bad at all :D

Thought you guys and gals might be interested in this link:

http://www.greekgear.com/yeares.html

It's has a ton of established years for fraternities and sororities.

Phi Kappa Psi
 

Phi Psi was founded on February 19th, 1852 by William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore.

These two gentlemen bonded while helping fellow students recover from a nasty typhoid fever outbreak in the Fall of 1850. This contagious outbreak was so bad that many students left school, and of those that remained, a quarter got sick and died. They risked their lives tending to the needs of their classmates. They eventually decided to found a fraternity based on the "great joy of serving others."

Phi Kappa Psi would be the first fraternity founded neither as a literary society, nor in opposition to another fraternity. These higher ideals caused other fraternities to start calling us the "Noble Fraternity."

Also, we were, by almost half a century, the first fraternity founded that is non-denominational and non-sectarian.

We like to think that in our 152 years, we have helped young men emerge as men of excellence who go onto to better the world. The funeral of T. Woodrow Wilson, a chapter president while in college, featured one flower: the Sweet Pea, Phi Psi's flower during his college years.

Kind of surprised this hasn't already been posted on this thread. And if it has, well, it's worth repeating.

Sigma Chi Fraternity - founded at Miami University June 28th - will celebrate 150 years of tradition and brotherhood June 24-25, 2005 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The 150th Anniversary Celebration

For those of y'all not that good with math, this makes Sigma Chi 149 years young as of this past June.

Sigma Nu Phi was established at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI September 30, 1897. We are the oldest sorority at Easterns campus. And one of the oldest local sororities in the country next to i believe sigma psi and another one, not too sure of the name

Kappa Kappa Psi was founded on the campus of then Oklahoma A & M, now Oklahoma State University, in Stillwater, Oklahoma on September 27, 1919, which makes it 85 years old. The Delta Chi chapter was founded on Feb 12, 1966, and recharted on June 3, 2001.

December 29th, 1898

Sigma Omicron Pi was founded at San Francisco State University in 1930. We're the oldest national Asian-American interest sorority, and we're celebrating our 75th anniversary this year.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Founded March 9th, 1856 at the University of Alabama
Oldest SOUTHERN fraternity.
Only fraternity founded in the antebellum south that is still in existance today.
Epsilon Chapter founded in 1867 @ L.S.U.
First fraternity on campus

So people have said that Kappa was founded in 1870 about fifty times... but what they haven't said is my chapter (Theta!) was founded in 1875!! WE'RE 130... THAT'S OLD! Haha... there was a period where Mizzou banned all secret societies, yet Kappa still continued to meet, so we've been continuously open the whole time, too!!

Tau Delta Sorority, Founded by 10 women in 1915 at Otterbein College as "Tomo Dachi", or Circle of Friends. Became an official sorority in June of 1921. The letters Tau Delta were adapted between 195- 1957.The sorority prospered for many years, but became inactive, as did many over the years. Only to be resurrected in 1988 with our Fabulous Five refounders into the wonderful house she is today.

Kappa Sigma was founded in America on December 10th, 1869 at the University of Virginia. However, our traditonal founding date is 1400 in Bologna Italy. These orgins make Kappa Sigma the oldest Greek Lettered Fraternity in the world.

PIKE
 

The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity was founded on March 1, 1868 @ the University of Virginia. 137 years of brotherhood...

Some of the info on that is wrong.

The Gamma chapter of Beta Theta Pi, located at Washington and Jefferson College, has been in continous existence since 1842, making it the oldest chapter in continous existence of any fraternity. 163 years old.