GLOs sharing names
 

I understand if locals share names with each other without knowing about it, but how can you go on for decades doing so, especially when two of them have a similar purpose (education)?

Check this out:

Phi Delta Kappa (Education Society)

Phi Delta Kappa (HB Education Sorority)

Phi Delta Kappa (regional fraternity)

ETA: Of course, there's Kappa Alpha Society and Kappa Alpha Order

I'm sure they know about it, but as far as the ed sororities, one was founded in 1906 and one in 1923. I doubt either will change at this point.

There's also Tau Delta Phi, the NIC fraternity (my dad's an alum) and Tau Delta Phi, the local co-ed honor fraternity at SJSU.

Phi Nu Pi (Kappa Alpha Psi)
 

Kappa Alpha Psi's use of Phi Nu Pi is a clear-cut example.

Phi Nu Pi was a Dental Fraternity. Interestingly, a number of Kappa Alpha Psi members are dentists as well.

I believe there are 2 Gamma Phi Delta's

TE1920, you are correct:)

Gamma Phi Delta Christian Fraternity, Inc
http://www.gphid.org/
Gamma Phi Delta Christian Fraternity, Incorporated was founded on March 21, 1988, on the campus of University of Texas at Austin, and incorporated on March 16, 1994

Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc.
http://www.gammaphideltasorority.com/
Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc. was founded in February, 1943 at the Lewis Business College (Lewis College of Business) Detroit, Michigan by Mrs. Elizabeth Garner, an instructor at the College, assisted by her sister, Mrs. Violet Lewis, owner and President of the College.

There are two Delta Phi Epsilons. My sorority, DPhiE, was founded in 1917 at NYU School of Law, and Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity was founded in 1920 at Georgetown University.

There is a national medical fraternity called Phi Chi.

They were first. We were actually named for our founder's pledge class. She was a TriDelt transfer, but I don't remember where from. Her pledge class was Phi Chi.

There is also a Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Sorority at Georgetown.

it's nationally co-ed

Although I'm pretty sure you're incorrect, can you please direct me to an instance of a coed chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon?

http://dpe.berkeley.edu/

That one! :D

I hate you, lol

I still wouldn't describe the organization as nationally coed, but I defer to your infinite wisdom. :)

It's kind of weird looking at that website and seeing a man wear my letters.

Would it be an inappropriate time now to say that Senusret I is hot and could wear my letters any time? :p

How do DPhiE and DPhiE deal with the same name issue?

Only the NPC is DPhiE. As far as I know, the foreign service org doesn't use DPhiE as a nickname. I was surprised a few years ago when I did an internet search for Delta Phi Epsilon and found their website.

How does your IHQ feel about another group using the letters?

I was just helping her out - I knew there were some co-ed chapters and my Google-fu is strong. :D

I never asked so I can't answer your question. It is highly unlikely that the Delta Phi Epsilon founders at Georgetown were aware of the Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority at NYU. I like to think of the same letters as a case of great minds thinking alike.

It's never an inappropriate time to bring up my hotness. :)

Your modesty is also hot!;)

At Otterbein , we have Pi Kappa Phi (country club) and of course there is the national Pi Kappa Phi. There was at one time a dispute over the name, but I'm not sure how it was resolved. The two don't share anything similar at all. They use country club (club for short) more than Pi Kappa Phi.

But also, Sigma Delta Phi (sphinx) was founded as Delta Sigma Phi, same as the national fraternity. At one point and time the national offered them the chance to affiliate, but the brothers decided against it and continued on their way. Sphinx has gone through many changes, their history is one of the more "colorful" on campus.

ETA: Sphinx history http://www.sigmadeltaphi.org/history/history.html

Pi Kappa Phi (Club) website
http://www.occountryclub.com/site/index.php

(which they've redone recently, and I must say it looks pretty awesome.)

Alpha Phi Omega
 

At the time of Alpha Phi Omega's founding, there were about 3 or 4 local groups elsewhere in the country called Alpha Phi Omega. I know an exception was made for them when we applied for our trademarks. All of them have since either gone inactive or become a colony of a National Greek or gone inactive.

Easiest way to find some of these is to look at a 1967 or before Baird's Manual.

THANKS!

[you beat me to it! ]

Here is a good one - there is/was a 100 year old local sorority at Moravian College in PA (which became a chapter of ZTA in the past 10 years or so) which is called Alpha Epsilon Pi. They were formed around 1899. Well, they lasted and lasted for almost 100 years. AEPi fraternity was formed in 1913. Neither knew of each other's existence until much later.

Denise

My aunt is a member of Phi Delta Kappa Sorority Inc.

I asked her about the name thing being that they both are related to education (one can get EXTREMELY confused), and she said her organization is a sorority where as the other is a fraternity (one major difference). She also said her org is national and the fraternity is international. She finally said what is offered with her sorority is different than what is offered in the fraternity (but she got kinda spacey on the details...I wonder why :confused: ;) :confused: )

There's at least one other org that uses Omega Phi Alpha - a local fraternity at the University of the Pacific. According to their website, they are in the process of affiliating with DU, but are still going to keep Omega Phi Alpha as part of their chapter name. They've been Omega Phi Alpha since 1921.

The first Omega Phi Alpha service sorority chapter was started in 1953, and the org was founded as Omega Phi Alpha National Service Sorority in 1967.

Sigma Lambda Gamma Nat'l Sorority and a local Sigma Lambda Gamma at a school in Canada - though there is an unfriendly association between the two. I will not post any of the less than nice details here. It would be off-topic. :D

Is the local a fraternity or sorority?

I googled them...they are a sorority. They aren't listed in Canadian Greeks though.

taualumna -
since you googled them, i would assume you read a bit on their page and might see why there is a bit of animosity....

I read that..... yeah, um, they suck.

OH MY GOODNESS! Their history is a TRIP! As a sidenote, could someone tell me how Canadian sororities and fraternities handle the grade situation? Is that for real?

Can you sue them? Since they are using the same name and colors...:rolleyes:

Wow ... that is beyond ridiculous! But I think possibly more ridiculous is this Canadian rule about no discrimination based on grades - maybe someone could explain it to me better?

...yep....:rolleyes:

There's no such thing....if there was, then there wouldn't be a Dean's List at most schools....or international GLOs

there isn't any grade thing. problem was some of their founding members couldn't make our gpa requirement, which is lower than what they claim. however, if thats what it takes to make them feel better about it..... as far as the name thing, they also took our five key principles and reworded them as well as taking one of the elements of our shield and "tweaked" it for their purposes. nhq has been working on this for a while, but i don't know what will come of it. when i first found out, though, my chapter sisters and i all felt like roadtripping to canada.......