How old were your founders?
 

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Alpha Delta Pi has 6 founders. We were founded in 1851. All of them were around the ages of 15 or 16. Most of them started college when they were 13. So we have very young founders who started such an amazing organization. As well as being the FIRST ever sorority started. Smart girls for that age.

It is so amazing to think that a 16 year old started the first ever sorority in the world. They paved the way for all sororities after.

We had seven founders. They were all 18 or 19 years old, but that's just a guess. They were all freshmen or sophomores, of that much I am sure.

Henry Arthur Callis - 19
Charles Henry Chapman - 30
Eugene Kinckle Jones - 22
George Biddle Kelley - 22
Nathaniel Allison Murray - 22
Robert Harold Ogle - 20
Vertner Woodson Tandy - 21

Off hand, I know that Soror Ethel Hedgeman Lyle was around 23 and Soror Lavinia Norman was around 27.

*hijack

furtively looking left and right, before placing a call to abaici's dean... :p

*end hijack*

Lemme 'lone.

But honestly, I'm not even going to pretend to remember the ages of all 16. I know the average age was 25.

We had 4 founders, they ranged in ages from 19-22 when we were founded.

wow, and i thought certain things were considered esoteric information.

"Certain" things are, like our initiation ceremony. We were founded by students at Syracuse University, so it's pretty obvious what their ages were. :p

i understand, i'm sure folks can have a general area....but you know...during "creative educational learning sessions," we were explicitly told that certain things never left the hearts of Iotas.

Two of our founders were sophomores, the other five were juniors, so I suspect they were all 19-20 years old.

Why would their ages be considered esoteric :confused: If anything I would think the ages would be helpful in understanding their frame of mind while creating the organization.

Cosign.

Also, when considering the time period in which our organizations were founded and the ages of most Af-Am college students during that point in time...I don't see the point of secrecy. Also, the general ages of Iota founders is often stated...and frankly something I admire about them.

well, the ages of the founders can be guess at...but i guess i'm one to keep all information of my frat in my frat.

yeah, i know it's out there. but the actual ages is something that i guess i won't speak on.

Even more uniquely, many of these men were what are now referred to as "Non-Traditional Students" and were 3-5 years older than the average college student. Gregory, Willis, and Brown were all service veterans, and Brown, Hicks, and Briscoe were married with small children. Of this group of 12, several were also working full-time jobs and all were full-time students.

From your national website... so why is it that they can say it but you won't? :rolleyes:

Plenty of other people in this thread didn't state the exact ages and didn't make a big ol' fuss about it. I hardly think that whether someone was 27 or 28 pertains to ariesrising's original intentions in the thread. But the above information is quite interesting! Why would you not want to share it?

didn't i say it was out there? as i said, i learned a little lot more than that. what's the problem? what's the eyeroll for?



ETA:

OW OW to the founders....

i don't want to share it because i don't think it's appropriate. if you do, that's fine. i didn't make a stink about it, i just asked it was esoteric. if it's not for you guys, more power to you. no criticism from me.

LOL. Ya' really did.

But, I know what you are saying. There are history-related facts about each org that although it may be "out there", people are not trying to put it in a newsletter and broadcast it to the world. Also, I think that there is another reason why people are not into giving the exact ages of their founders. I think THAT reason is esoteric in nature.

Mary Dupont Lines was 16
Martha Bibb Hardaway Redding was 15
Mary Myrick Daniels was 15 :)

Honestly I can't imagine most 15 and 16 year olds today that I know (few exceptions) having the foresight to start something so lasting.

Delta Gamma: I'm guessing that they were maybe 15-16, as DG was founded at a finishing school called The Lewis School.

Delta Zeta's Six Founders

Alfa Lloyd Hayes - 22 (her 22nd birthday, October 24, is our Founders' Day)
Mary Collins Galbraith - 22
Anna Keen Davis - 18
Julia Bishop Coleman - 21
Mabelle Minton Hageman - 21
Anne Simmons Friedline - 23


Don't even ask me to divulge their bra sizes because that's a secret :)

They were about 17 and 18 in 1917. Three of them were still alive when I pledged.

Sigma Kappa was founded at Colby College on November 9, 1874
We are 130 years old!
These wonderful ladies are our 5 founders:

Mary Low Carver - early 20's
* First woman to become a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
* Would have been class valedictorian but women were not allowed to hold that position
* Deaf but very few knew that fact

Elizabeth Gorham Hoag - 17
* Unfortunately, had TB & died shortly after the first initiation at the age of 18.
* Brilliant mind & designed the emblem

Ida Fuller Pierce - 20
* Followed her brother to Colby College which he promptly left declaring that he would not go to school with her.

Louise Helen Coburn - 18
* Second lady to attain Phi Beta Kapp

Frances Mann Hall - early 20's
* First Sigma Kappa to be married

Please forgive a correction.....

Two members of the Lambda chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta were the first women to be be selected for membership and initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. This occurred at the University of Vermont in 1875.

(eta) Those Thetas were Lida Mason Hodge and Ellan Hamilton Woodruff. They were both seniors and ranked in the top four members of their class.

From the Phi Beta Kappa website: Alpha of Vermont, at the University of Vermont, admitted the first women members in 1875.

All 3 Sigma Nu founders were in their early 20's. They were each veterans and had faught in the Civil War (on the side of the Confederacy).

LMAO! :)

Is that something you learn during new member education or is it an initiation revelation?

(trying to picture ritual undergarments that DZ's wear)

Alpha Xi Delta's 10 founders ranged in age from 16 to 26. One, Eliza Drake Curtis Everton, was what today would be considered a "non-traditional" student. She was 26 and and a widow.

Kappa's six founders were between 14-22.

I agree, not many high schoolers would have the mindset that these women and men had at that age in creating their organizations. But also, many current 16 to 22-year-olds aren't being taught Classic Greek and Latin. I don't know what these schools are coming to nowadays! ;)

Founders
 

Zeta Psi Fraternity was started June 1st, 1847 in New York, NY at New York University by John Moon Skillman, William Henry Dayton, and John Bradt Yates Sommers. Their ages were 14,18,18.
Matt Lofgren
Zeta Psi Fraternity
Alpha Mu Chapter @ Dalhousie University

The founders of Phi Sigma Kappa ranged in age from 17-24, and the eldest, Henry Hague, was actually an Englishman.