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Originally posted by anomalistic
I heard that in the 50's or so, Greek Goddess names were used for sorority names, instead of letters which are used now. Is this true, and can anyone point me in the direction of somewhere that actually tells me this, officially? I've done searching on google with no luck . . .
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Welcome to Greekchat.
My guess is that your search has been without luck because Greek letter names have been the rule (although not without exception) since Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1776.
There have been some exceptions, of course. Alpha Delta Pi started out as the Adelphian Society, Phi Mu began as the Philomathean Society and Pi Beta Phi was founded as I.C. Sorosis, for example. All such groups now use Greek letter names, however; Alpha Delta Pi was the last of these three groups to make that change in 1905.
Then there are those groups that don't use Greek letter names at all, like Acacia, FarmHouse and Triangle (all fraternities). As the name of my own Fraternity suggests, we were once simply The Sinfonia Fraternity.
But as for sororities named after Greek goddesses, I only know of one: Ceres, an agriculture-based fraternity for women founded in 1985.
There well may be some local sororities named after Greek (or other goddesses), but I am not aware of any.