All the national panhellenic groups please
 

Can someone please tell me ALL the 26 nationally recognized panhellenic organizations?

Is there any school that has all 26 on campus?

The twenty-six member organizations of the National Panhellenic Conference are listed below with their entrance date into NPC. Chairmanship rotation within NPC is based upon the date of entrance into the Conference.

Alpha Phi - 1902 ;)
Pi Beta Phi - 1902
Kappa Alpha Theta - 1902
Kappa Kappa Gamma - 1902
Delta Gamma - 1902
Gamma Phi Beta - 1902
Alpha Chi Omega - 1903
Delta Delta Delta - 1902
Alpha Xi Delta - 1904
Chi Omega - 1903
Sigma Kappa - 1905
Alpha Omicron Pi - 1905
Zeta Tau Alpha - 1909
Alpha Gamma Delta - 1909
Alpha Delta Pi - 1909
Delta Zeta - 1910
Phi Mu - 1911
Kappa Delta - 1912
Sigma Sigma Sigma - 1951
Alpha Sigma Tau - 1951
Alpha Sigma Alpha - 1951
Alpha Epsilon Phi - 1951
Theta Phi Alpha - 1951
Phi Sigma Sigma - 1951
Delta Phi Epsilon - 1951
Sigma Delta Tau - 1951

For the list, plus URLs to each group see...
http://www.npcwomen.org/memorg.htm

For a great history of NPC, see...
http://www.npcwomen.org/history.htm

Jen

The closest that any campus comes to having all NPC groups is Penn State with 21 of the 26.

Here is a list of the 26 groups. If you want links to their web pages, visit http://panhellenic.tripod.com/FAQ.html or http://www.npcwomen.org/memorg.htm

The twenty-six member organizations of the National Panhellenic Conference are listed below with their entrance date into NPC. Chairmanship rotation within NPC is based upon the date of entrance into the Conference.

Pi Beta Phi - 1902
Kappa Alpha Theta - 1902
Kappa Kappa Gamma - 1902
Alpha Phi - 1902
Delta Gamma - 1902
Gamma Phi Beta - 1902
Alpha Chi Omega - 1903
Delta Delta Delta - 1902
Alpha Xi Delta - 1904
Chi Omega - 1903
Sigma Kappa - 1905
Alpha Omicron Pi - 1905
Zeta Tau Alpha - 1909
Alpha Gamma Delta - 1909
Alpha Delta Pi - 1909
Delta Zeta - 1910
Phi Mu - 1911
Kappa Delta - 1912
Sigma Sigma Sigma - 1951
Alpha Sigma Tau - 1951
Alpha Sigma Alpha - 1951
Alpha Epsilon Phi - 1951
Theta Phi Alpha - 1951
Phi Sigma Sigma - 1951
Delta Phi Epsilon - 1951
Sigma Delta Tau - 1951

According to the PSU website (see http://www.greeks.psu.edu/ ), the following NPC sororities are at Penn State...

Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Sigma Tau
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Phi Mu
Sigma Delta Tau
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Zeta Tau Alpha

Jen

FYI: There is also an inactiave chapter of Theta Phi Alpha at Penn State :)

I am a Penn State alum, from not too long ago at all...and I have never heard of AST on our campus...this is surprising.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has 19/26 NPCs
 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has 19, so they're doing pretty good too!

I believe one of the branch campuses of PSU has AST, but they aren't at the main campus with the rest of them.

Behrend campus
 

AST is at Penn State - Behrend (I think Theta Phi Alpha is there also). Why they are listed on Penn State Main's web directory I have no clue. :rolleyes:

Re: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has 19/26 NPCs
 

We used to have 20, but Zetas left in 98 or 99, the school year before I went through recruitment. We are therefore missing

Theta Phi Alpha
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Sigma Tau
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Delta Phi Epsilon (also used to be here)
Zeta Tau Alpha

Unfortunately, it does not look like there will be any new NPC groups on campus any time soon.

Re: Re: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has 19/26 NPCs
 

ASA used to be there too, they left around 1990.

DeltaBetaBaby - why don't you think there will be any new groups soon? Because of numbers or because they can't get a house?

In order for a NPC group to come back, I believe it requires a unanimous vote of all current NPC groups. As of right now, there are a few groups struggling, and so they must get those problems worked out first. There are some serious problems with the system, and recruitment this year was disasterous.

Is there a list of all the extinct and absorbed NPC groups? I'm looking for a full history.

ABOSRBED BY NPC
Sigma Phi Beta (to Phi Omega Pi, 1933)

Lambda Omega (to Theta Upsilon, 1933)

Alpha Delta Theta (to Phi Mu, 1939)

Beta Phi Alpha (to Delta Zeta, 1941)

Phi Omega Pi, chapters going to [COLOR="Red"]Alpha Omicron Pi[/COLOR], Alpha Gamma Delta, Sigma Kappa, Kappa Alpha Theta; rest to Delta Zeta in 1948.

Theta Upsilon (to Delta Zeta, 1962)

Beta Sigma Omicron (majority of chapters to Zeta Tau Alpha, 1964)

EXTINCT W/O ABSORPTION
Iota Alpha Pi (left NPC mid-1960s, disbanded 1971)


FORMER MEMBERS OF ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATION SORORITIES THAT WERE ABSORBED BY NPC GROUPS
Delta Sigma Epsilon (to Delta Zeta, 1956)

Pi Kappa Sigma (to Sigma Kappa, 1959)

Theta Sigma Upsilon (majority to Alpha Gamma Delta, 1959)

Phi Omega Pi then went to Delta Zeta, right?

Alpha Phi absorbed 3 of Beta Sigma Omicron's chapters at Baldwin-Wallace (became our Delta Upsilon chapter which is still active), Indiana University of Pennsylvania (became our Delta Phi chapter which is dormant), and Louisiana State University (became our Delta Tau chapter which is being recolonized currently and will be reinstalled soon).

Here's what my 1990 Baird's says about Phi Omega Pi

The chapters at Iowa State Teachers College, Newark State Normal, and Montclair Teachers College were placed on the inactive list by order of the Panhellenic Congress (sic) when Phi Omega Pi joined it. In the period following, chapters were taken over by Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Sigma Kappa, and Kappa Alpha Theta. The group disbanded in 1946. Through an NPC committee, Delta Zeta was asked to consider the alumnae and a few chapters which remained. The society was officially absorbed by Delta Zeta on August 10, 1946.

I'm pretty sure our Auburn Chapter is the old Phi Omega Pi chapter.

From Wikipedia: Delta Sigma was a collegiate sorority operating in New England from 1895 to 1908. Its three chapters were absorbed by Alpha Omicron Pi.

At the end of the spring semester in 1895, six female students at Tufts University drew up plans for Alpha Delta Sigma. In October of the same year, the constitution and bylaws were drafted. Initiations were held on November 14 and December 9 (Start, p. 231). The badge was a "square pin of blue enamel displaying the letters". The official colors were blue and gold (Baird's 1898). This chapter became the Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma.
Alpha Delta Sigma existed as a separate group from Delta Sigma, Alpha chapter. Baird's (1905) maintained a separate entry for ADS, with membership at 33. Delta Sigma, with Alpha, Beta, and Gamma chapters, are listed among the national sororities. Seventy seven women were members of the Alpha chapter (Baird's 1905, p. 314).
Female students at Brown University created Delta Sigma in 1896. Martha Mitchell described the sorority as "formed as a local organization in 1896, and merged in 1901 with another local society, Alpha Delta Sigma at Tufts" (Encyclopedia Brunoniana). Baird's(1905)described this merger as "the outcome of ΑΔΣ (local at Tufts) and ΔΣ at Brown". Thus, Brown's Delta Sigma is now the Beta chapter.
The Maine chapter began as Phi Gamma in 1896. It joined Delta Sigma as the Gamma chapter in 1903. Five years later, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma were absorbed by Alpha Omicron Pi (Fernald, p. 24). Delta Sigma ceased to exist as a separate entity.


The official colors were pale green and white.
The flower was the violet (Phi Delta Theta, 1907).
The badge was "a square of black enamel with concave sides outlined in gold, and displaying the letters 'ΔΣ' in gold. This square is encircled by a jeweled golden circle" (Baird's 1905).

My thread called NPC Recruitment and Chapter Listing in the recruitment forum includes all chapters of former NPC groups, and who absorbed them.

Syracuse University has had chapters of 25 of the 26 current NPC members. For a time their GLO website said they had all 26 at one point or another, but that is not true. Sigma Sigma Sigma has never chartered a chapter at Syracuse.

With DPhiE's colony this spring, Indiana now has 22 of the 26 NPC sororities.

Missing:
Alpha Sigma Tau
Phi Sigma Sigma
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Sigma Sigma

(There were also 22 sororities when I was there in the 90s. Sigma Kappa and Sigma Sigma Sigma both closed down in 1994, along with Alpha Sigma Alpha, which has since returned. Theta Phi Alpha and Delta Phi Epsilon weren't there at the time)

The only NPC groups that never had a chapter at IU are Alpha Sigma Tau and possibly Phi Sigma Sigma. (IU has a Greek walkway with stones listing every fraternity/sorority that has ever had a chapter at IUB. There is a stone for Phi Sigma Sigma with an establishment date of 1969, but I've never seen an IU chapter on a list of Phi Sigma Sigma chapters. Perhaps this was a colony that never fully chartered?)

[strike]There was an absorption of the local Sigma Phi Sigma as a colony at Indiana by Phi Sigma Sigma. See http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/13700309/ . What happened beyond that, I'm not sure[/strike]

edit: I agree, with the person below who indicated that it was IUP. That's really wierd that it was the same year.

That looks like it was at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Glad Delta Sigma was mentioned. Delta Sigma is an example of a small, non-NPC sorority that had hopes of going national, but instead joined an established NPC organization. In addition to non-NPC Delta Sigma joining NPC Alpha Omicron Pi, there were other tiny non-NPC nationals that went to NPCs chapters:

1) Pi Delta Kappa to Chi Omega (3 chapters, 1910s)

2) Pi Sigma Gamma to Beta Sigma Omicron (UCLA chapter died, the 3 remaining chapters to Beta Sigma Omicron, 1932-ish)

3) Kappa Sigma Tau's 3 chapters died approx 1930; Lake Forest joined Alpha Xi Delta

4) Phi Delta had two chapters go to Beta Phi Alpha and Alpha Delta Pi, the rest died and SUNY Albany stayed local.

5) Sigma Sigma Delta closed all chapters but one, which went to Phi Omega Pi 1938.

6) Two-year "junior" sororities to become absorbed- Alpha Kappa Psi and Phi Mu Gamma had a couple chapters each join Delta Delta Delta 1910s.

Phi Sigma Sigma at Indiana..
 

OK after my first mistake, I verified that Arbutus is the yearbook for Indiana University. I then google searched
"arbutus" "phi sigma" site:e-yearbook.com
and got about 1000 hits including "Phi Sigma Kappa" and "Phi Sigma Iota"
I then google searched
"arbutus" "phi sigma sigma" site:e-yearbook.com
and got one, and *that* was in aWidener University yearbook (with Arbutus as a street name).

Interestingly, we're also the only NPC to never have had a chapter at Penn State (main campus). We don't follow the trends :p

Even more interesting is that about 1/4 of our chapters are in PA, and I'm about 95% sure we have more PA chapters than any other NPC. And if we don't, we're probably in a close 2nd.

From what I understand, we did try to colonize at IU recently, which is surprising to me (based on housing and alumnae base). We'll see if another attempt is made soon.

Yeah, that is weird considering how many PA chapters you all have. Here's to wishing AST luck should they put in a packet at U. Park! Good luck to everyone!

Number of chapters in Pennsylvania:
1. Alpha Sigma Tau (23 active/2 closed) Never at Penn State
2. Delta Zeta (17 active/1 future recolonization/8 closed)
3 (tie) Phi Sigma Sigma (16 active/8 closed) At Penn State 1946-1970
3 (tie) Zeta Tau Alpha (16 active/4 closed)
5. Sigma Sigma Sigma (15 active/4 closed) At Penn State 1954-1969/1989-1992/1994-2014
6. Delta Phi Epsilon (13 active/9 closed) At Penn State 1960-1966
7 (tie) Alpha Sigma Alpha (11 active/1 future recolonization/8 closed)
7 (tie) Alpha Phi (11 active/2 closed)
9 (tie) Alpha Gamma Delta (10 active/4 closed) At Penn State 1947-2000)
9 (tie) Sigma Kappa (10 active/4 closed)
11. Alpha Delta Pi (9 active/1 active colony/3 closed)
12 (tie) Kappa Alpha Theta (9 active/ 2 closed)
12 (tie) Kappa Kappa Gamma (9 active/2 closed)
14. Alpha Xi Delta (8 active/1 planned colony this semester/10 closed)
15 (tie) Delta Gamma (8 active/2 closed)
15 (tie) Alpha Chi Omega (8 active)
17 (tie) Phi Mu (7 active/8 closed)
17 (tie) Theta Phi Alpha (7 active/7 closed) At Penn State 1929-1969
17 (tie) Chi Omega (7 active/6 closed) At Penn State 1926-2014
17 (tie) Kappa Delta (7 active/4 closed)
21. Alpha Omicron Pi (6 active/1 future colony/4 closed)
22 (tie) Pi Beta Phi (6 active/4 closed)
22 (tie) Delta Delta Delta (6 active/3 closed) At Penn State 1947-2009
22 (tie) Gamma Phi Beta (6 active/2 closed)
25. Sigma Delta Tau (4 active/1 closed)
26. Alpha Epsilon Phi (2 active/3 closed) At Penn State 1937-1978

Pennsylvania has so many colleges and universities.

I'm hoping we do! It'd be great to have a chapter there.

Thanks for the list! And according to your NPC chapter listing thread, Pennsylvania has 51 schools with active NPC sorority chapters. Is this the most? I looked at a few other states - Texas, Alabama, California - and none of them have more than PA.

ETA: New York has 48. That's the closest I've found.