Alpha Phi's absorption history?
 

Does anyone know if Alpha Phi ever absorbed any national sororities (e.g. like how Delta Zeta absorbed ΒΦΑ, ΠΩΦ, ΔΣΕ, and ΘΥ)?

Conversely, was Alpha Phi ever under consideration for being absorbed?

While we're at it, any other random tidbits about Alpha Phi history you'd like to share?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

I'll pm you!

Well you should just PM me too, because who's to say I don't wanna know your info? :P

Do you guys just talk openly about your history on a public forum where ay randum person (like myself) can get the info?

What the fuck? (sorry ladies) Obviously no, because they're all Pming each other. I've got zero patience for trolls or troublemakers today, so shut up or get out.

Thanks 33girl!

Wow. thanks. But the question was asked in open forum. No need to be rude.

YOU were the rude one.

Hmm, if you guys don't mind sharing with a nonmember, this is something I would be interested in.

The user TxAPhi posted this in the NPC's that didn't make it thread on page 3:

From A Centennial History of Alpha Phi Fraternity:

The first man walked in space in 1965. He stepped from a Soviet spaceship. Soon thereafter an American repeated the feat. Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 executed the first manned space rendezvous. The Watts riot in Los Angeles occurred in August, forerunner of future civil disorders. A massive power failure blacked out most of the northeastern United States and Canada on the night of November 9-10.

Beta Sigma Omicron, a member of NPC, became inactive in 1964, and Alpha Phi pledged three of her chapters. One of these was at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. There were sixteen NPC groups on campus. Twenty-three collegians and forty alumnae of the Beta Sigma Omicron chapter were initiated in May 1965 by the Omega (Texas) chapter and became Delta Tau chapter of Alpha Phi. The group had been on campus since 1929 and had many loyal alumnae.

On November 20, 1964, thirty-two collegians and forty-seven alumnae of the Beta Sigma Omicron chapter at Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, were initiated into Delta Upsilon chapter of Alpha Phi. Five other NPC groups were on campus. Beta Omega (Kent State) initiated; Beta Omicron (Bowling Green State) conducted the model meeting; Beta Kappa (Denison) also contributed to the weekend.

Nine NPC groups were on the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania at Indiana, when thirty-eight collegians and seven alumnae of the former Beta Sigma Omicron chapter were initiated into Delta Phi chapter of Alpha Phi on January 30, 1965. Because this was rush week, the newly initiated group held a rush party the Sunday following initiation.


Note: Delta Phi has been inactive since 1988. Delta Tau has been inactive since 1980. Delta Upsilon chapter at Baldwin Wallace is doing very well. The alumnae of Delta Tau are also still very active.

Why would general org history be kept private? (just saying...)

I would think this part would be private info for any sorority that should only be shared by members. Even if it was 100 years ago.

Speaking as a member of an org that had some tumultuous are-we-gonna-make-it times in her beginning, it's amazing what will still get thrown in your face almost a century later.

Thanks, 33girl! :D

I'd like to know, too!

OMG long time no see! So glad you are on here again! :)

I know. It feels like old home week. :) Glad to be back!

Dear Mr Self Appointed Guru:

If you had an ounce of reading comprehension, you would have figured out that I am NOT an Alpha Phi. (Not that they aren't awesome. ;) )

"Being approached" is one thing. Actually considering it is another. I might "be approached" by a gross dude in a bar, but that doesn't mean I want to have anything to do with him.

If there is something that members of a group don't want to share on a thread, be respectful and do the same. If you have any questions about whether something is or is not public information, contact the moderator of the Alpha Phi forum.

33girl, reading comprehension aside, your central role in this thread can make it seem like you're an Alpha Phi.

Not any more than pshhx1 or Vito.

And I don't think I'd refer to my own sisters as "they."

And A Phi was founded far more than a century ago.

If he's such a flipping guru he should have been able to figure that out.

Then again, I thought what he had in his siggy was private info but I guess I'm wrong or MysticCat would have gone medieval on him.

You were kind of being a moderator (I always forget that you're a moderator). I can see how someone could think you're an Alpha Phi based on how you were warding off evil spirits and stuff in this thread. :)

For the sake of clarification, there has never been any talk of Alpha Phi merging with another GLO (as in Alpha Phi being absorbed). I'm not sure why Chrysoloras made it sound as if there has been.