Figured I'd throw up a picture of our founders, too......

the portrait we usually use for rush and such is a compilation of 3 seperate portraits... I don't think there's an existing photo of the three women together.


Mary DuPont Lines
http://www.phimu.org/Facts/images/founders_lines2.jpg

Mary Myrick Daniel
http://www.phimu.org/Facts/images/founders_daniel2.jpg

Martha Hardaway Redding
http://www.phimu.org/Facts/images/founders_martha2.jpg

Theta Nu Xi
 

Theta Nu Xi was founded April 11,1997 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill by 7 strong women.

The Founding Monarchs:
Founding Monarch Geeta Kapur
Founding Monarch Natalie Barker
Founding Monarch Virgina Long
Founding Monarch Melissa Jo Murchison-Blake
Founding Monarch Brenda Eribo
Founding Monarch Katherine Stanley
Founding Monarch Janelle Poe

For more info chech out our web site.. www.thetanuxi.org

Zeta Sigma Chi Founding Mothers
 

In 1990, eight determined women at Northern Illinois University came together to form a bond like no other. They had an idea for an organization that would unify women of different cultures, ethnicities, religions and backgrounds. This organization would also focus on the pursuit of higher education and achieving academic success. These strong women wanted to not only teach others at their school about their ideals, but they wanted to share their dreams and experiences with others as well. On March 3, 1991, Zeta Sigma Chi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. was formed by our Founders:


"Mommy Chi's"

Maribel Campa
Zandra Cortez
Sandra de la Roca
Veronica Escobar
Sandra Gomes
Jacqueline Herrera
Laura Murillo
Julie Sanders

Alpha Sigma Alpha was also founded at that school!!! :)

Alpha Sigma Tau was founded on November 4, 1899 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI. We have eight (8) founders.

They are:
Harriet Marx
Helene Rice
Adriance Rice
Eva O'Keefe
May Gephart,
Mayene Tracy
Mable Chase
Ruth Dutcher

If you want to find out more about AST's history, go to http://www.alphasigmatau.org/

Theta Chi has two, plus a friend who helped (he was a Chi Psi).

Why is that the fraternities have like at most 5 or 6 and the sororities usually have 12??

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. was founded January 9, 1914 on the campus of Howard University in Washington D.C. by three noble and honorable founders:

A. Langston Taylor
Leonard Francis Morse
Charles I. Brown

kdr had 10
 

Kappa Delta Rho had ten founding members

let's see if I remember their names...


Benjamin Edwin Farr
Gino Arturo Rati
Gideon Russel Norton
Chester Monroe Walch
Roy Dyer Woods
George Edwin Kimbal
Irving Thurston Coates
John Beacher
Pierce Wordsworth Darraw
and....
ummm I forget the name of the last one, but it begins with a T.

Kappa Sigma in America was founded one chilly evening in the fall of 1869, as five students attending the University of Virginia in Charlottesville gathered in William Grigsby McCormick's room at 46 East Lawn and planted the seed of Brotherhood. For many weeks the bonds of friendship had drawn these five together; now the need became clear for a formal structure to contain their feelings. Thus, not only did the Founders formalize their friendship, but they also created a fraternity steeped in the traditions of the past and dedicated to the Pursuit of Learning. The new brothers recorded their bond in a Constitution and in an Oath which set forth the ideals and principles to all Kappa Sigmas today.

The Five Founders:
George Miles Arnold
John Covert Boyd
William Grigsby McCormick
Frank Courtney Nicodemus
Edmund Law Rogers

Regarded as perhaps one of the most important men in Kappa Sigma's history, Steven Alonzo Jackson is the reason a struggling local fraternity became the strong National organization it is today. Jackson was also the architect of the Ritual, writer of the Constitution, and the first Grand Master.

Brother Francis Barksdale recalled Steven Alonzo Jackson with these words:
"Gentle as a woman, firm as a rock - a perfect bundle of nervous energy. His love of the Fraternity knew no bounds, and his enthusiasm was so contagious that it influenced everybody who came within his reach. His one ambition was to make Kappa Sigma the leading college fraternity of the world, and to that end he thought and worked by day and night, until the end of his busy life."

Manet Mansuraque Est.

3 Founders
 

James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles & James McIlvaine Riley.

January 1st, 1869.

http://ohiousigeps.org/images/founder.gif

Founding Fathers of Sigma Phi Epsilon:

Carter Ashton Jenkens
Benjamin Donald Gaw
William Hugh Carter
William Andrew Wallace
Thomas Temple Wright
William Lazell Phillips
Lucian Baum Cox
Richard Spurgeon Owens
Edgar Lee Allen
Robert Alfred McFarland
Frank Webb Kerfoot
Thomas Vaden McCaul

Okay here goes:

Frederick Norton Freeman and Arthur Chase were cousins. They had been planning a fraternity for about a year. 1855 their friend Egbert Phelps transfered to union college and joined Chi Psi. Phelps and Freeman were both members of a secret society called The Regulators. Most of the Regulators equipment and records fell into the hands of Theta Chi. Freeman wrote the ritual. Phelps kept in contact with them and suggested the name based on a greek motto, and desinged the badge. (Although that last point is up for debate). Yeah. Those guys rocked.

Wasn't ZTA founded there too?

I know that Sigma Sigma Sigma and ASA were both founded as sororites for teachers... there was a third one but for the life of me I can't remember it... It might have been ZTA but I'm not really sure...

While I'm not for certain that Alpha Sigma Tau limited it's membership to teachers only from the beginning, we were a member of the Association for Education Sororities and not Panhellenic (when NPC was first formed). Therefore, women could hold membership in an AES group and a NPC group at the same time. ( I remember learning that TriSigma and ASA were AES sororities as well, but I'm not positive on ZTA.)

And EagleChick has already posted our founders!!:)