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Originally posted by lauradav
Alpha Phi is also a Fraternity.
My favorite Phi facts are that in 1886 we became the first women's fraternity in America to build and occupy its own chapter house and that in 1902 we called the inter-sorority meeting that resulted in the formation of the association now known as the National Panhellenic Conference.
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While it's true that Alpha Phi did send several representatives to the first meeting of what is now the NPC, I have always been taught that the invitation was sent by Kappa Kappa Gamma. Click
here to learn more about the founding of the NPC...Of course it's got a Kappa slant, but it's still really interesting.
NPC's first national president was a Kappa.
Kappa was also the first women's fraternity to publish a magazine, The Key, and the first to share a cooperative sorority house with Kappa Alpha Theta at the University of Pittsburgh.
And I reach deep into my fountain of useless knowledge and come up with the following:
All Greek women's organizations founded prior to the founding of Delta Delta Delta are properly referred to as fraternities. The term "sorority" did not come into use until 1888.