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Beta Theta Pi Facts and Firsts
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Beta Theta Pi was the first fraternity to:
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Alpha Gamma Delta was the first and remains the only NPC org to have a chapy in Hawaii. Yeah!
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We have 18 chapters in California but I'm not sure if that makes us the biggest org in the state.
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Alpha Phi Alpha...
has the second oldest African-American publication, The Sphinx is the first intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity for Black men has the first Black senator- Edward Brooke has the first Black mayor of New York City- David Dinkins has the first Black mayor of Atlanta- Maynard Jackson (who just passed away, may God bless his soul) has one of the co-founders of the NAACP and the first Black man to get a doctorate from Harvard- W.E.B. DuBois that's all I can think of off the top of my head at 2:17am |
Phi Sigma Sigma was the first sorority to be founded as a non-sectarian organization. :D
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Alpha Phi
Founded Panhellenic Conference (invited all the sororities to have a meeting) Had the first Sorority House First to use Greek Letters First to establish Risk Managment We may have been the first to initate an alumni. I know we iniated one in the early 1900's. |
Phi Mu has:
the first woman to fly solo around the world the first female attorney general of Ohio first woman to hold the rank of Commander in the U.S. Navy first commanding officer of the Naval Medical Clinic first female Lt. Governor of Louisiana first woman director general of the Foreign Service we are also: only women's fraternity to serve as a corporate sponsor of the Children's Miracle Network Phi Mu was proud to be the first NPC group to establish National Philanthropy Day all of this can be found on our website |
Alpha Gam: Fun Facts and Firsts
* Alpha Gamma Delta was the first Women's Fraternity established
with the intention of becoming International * Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to adopt a philanthropy… Summer Camp for Underprivileged Youths, 1919 * Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to create an Executive Council Structure…1923 * Alpha Gamma Delta was one of the first chapters to build central offices…1927 * Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to set a minimum grade point average…1947 * Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to initiate a non-Caucasian member… Diane Lam, Delta Zeta Chapter, University of British Colombia, 1953 * Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to colonize in Hawaii … Delta Sigma Chapter, University of Hawaii at Manao, 1992 * Alpha Gamma Delta has the widest span of chapters… from Alpha Eta in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Delta Sigma in Manao, Hawaii * Alpha Gamma Delta has the most websites from a Greek Organization… including collegiate, alumnae, and junior circle |
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Go to www.canadiangreeks.com to look up the dates, cuz I am lazy and Shala did all the research for you already for this website! :D DG has only ever had "one male initiate" and that was Georga Banta (he is/was a Phi Delta Theta, now deceased) Quote:
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AGD stretches from Hawaii to NY (not sure which chapter is the farthest east, maybe Nova Scotia) Tri Sigma stretchs from California/Alaska to Germany. I don't know which is the farthest stretching. I guess the AGD one. But across the Atlantic is no slouch either. We could file Tri Sigma under the first to have a Non-North American collegiate chapter. |
Kappa Alpha Theta has the oldest founding chapter continually in existence... (Phi Mu, Alpha Delta Pi and Pi Beta Phi's founding/Alpha chapters have all been closed at one point.)
BUT Pi Phi has the oldest continually running NPC chapter, Iowa Alpha. (Drat them ;) ) And yes, Theta is "the first greek-letter fraternity known among women." The letters KAQ were a symbol of the fraternity from the beginning in 1870. :) Alpha Phi is close though. |
I think Phi Mu has three male hononary initiates. I know Stonewall Jackson and President of the Confederacy Davis were two, but I'll have to think about the third...
any Phi Mu got her Phi Manual handy? |
Tri-Sigma
I think (don't hold this to me) that Tri-Sigma may have been the first or one of the first sororities to have a chapter in Alaska.
We also hold as sisters, the creator of The Care Bears (remember them?). And one of our sisters wrote the book "Where the Heart Is" upn which the movie is based. That's all I can think of right now. One man has been allowed to wear our badge. Court |
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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! ;)
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Robert E Lee jefferson davis Dr. O. L. Smith, who was president of Weslyan college in 1854 |
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D Phi E is the only NPC sorority founded at a professional school, NYU Law School. :)
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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. |
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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! :)
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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! |
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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?
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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: |
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Delta Gamma Firsts
The first fraternity to establish an independent philanthropic Foundation on Ohio, 1951. The first and only fraternity to sponsor traveling art exhibits, ART OF THE EYE and ART OF THE EYE II, to benefit Service for Sight. One of the seven original women’s groups that began the National Panhellenic Conference. The first Panhellenic group to build its own facility, the Delta Gamma Executive Offices, located in Columbus, Ohio. The first fraternity to establish lectureships on campuses to promote values and ethics. The first and only Panhellenic group to have its flower registered with the American Rose Society – “Delta Gamma” The first Panhellenic group to add a publications department directed by the editor of its magazine. The first women’s fraternity to employ an archivist at its Executive Offices. The first women’s fraternity to hold training seminars for advisers. The first women’s fraternity to create a health and wellness program by employing a coordinator of resource development at the Executive Offices. The first recipient of the Helen Keller Philanthropic Service Award, given by the American Foundation for the Blind, for assistance to those who are blind and for Sight Conservation. The first women’s fraternity to have an “in-house” printing press to create print handbooks, pamphlets and stationery. The first women’s fraternity to build its own Foundation Center. |
delta chi was the first fraternity to abolish hell week in 1929.
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I'm pretty sure Alpha Phi had the first alumna initiate, Frances E. Willard, who was initiated in 1875.
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Hey.... this question has nothing to do with the subject, but what is the divine nine?!
"There are schools that have all of the Divine Nine though."- 33girl |
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Francis Willard (alpha phi) was also a leader in prohibition and women's suffage.
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The National Director of Triangle Fraternity is a Delta Sig.
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Tri Sigma was the first sorority to create, found and maintain their OWN national philanthropy (The Robbie Page Memorial) instead of adopting another pre existing org.
The one man to wear our badge was James Miller Leake. he was a Kappa Sigma and helped to write our ritual as well as the ritual of another sorority I think?.... So we have a minute connection with a Kappa Sigma, but not Kappa Sigma as an org. |
Alpha Phi teaches us that we were the first organization to use Greek Letters I don't know how that all works out but I'm sure there is a minute difference in how we used them making us the first and making the other one first at something else. Alpha Phi also was the first to have ELC's and publish a booklength history in 1902 and i think that it's cool how we called the first NPC meeting together :). But a cool fact that I recently learned about St. Mary's and I don't know how true it is since I got it off the internet but St. Mary's University is the oldest University in Texas. There is some other school I don't remember the name that is around from before us but they are a COLLEGE. But we were here before UT and A&M which to me is really darn cool :cool:
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