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Originally posted by SoCalGirl
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Sorry KappaStar, see CutiePie's answer for the correct info.
Okay, guys, I amended my post and put up the founding dates so you can verify the fraternity/sorority conundrum!
Does anyone else find it odd that out of the 26 groups in the NPC only 9 are called sorority ? 
yeah, I guess it is a bit strange, but in layman's terms, they're all basically sororities, wouldn't you agree?
I just hope to one day get a clear answer to why Sigma Kappa was never a fraternity but yet still isn't the first sorority even though we are two days older than Gamma Phi Beta!
Yeah, that is a weird situation, yet I always believe that that Professor Coddington coined the phrase "sorority" for Gamma Phi Beta? (see below...I correct myself later!)
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Prof that suggested GPhiB use sorority, the same guy that told Alpha Phi to pronounce Phi like fee?
That's always what I believed.
However...here is a question about the Syracuse Triad..
Alpha Phi Fraternity was founded on October 10, 1872
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority was founded on November 11, 1874
Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity was founded on May 30, 1904.
All 3 groups had contact with Prof. Coddington. So, if AGD came *AFTER* GPhiB (a sorority), why is AGD a
Fraternity and not a
Sorority? How come? How come?
Also, as for non-white women being initiated into NPC orgs, I have always thought that Sigma Kappa initiated the first African American woman (Barbara something was her name) and that Alpha Gamma Delta initiated the first Asian woman, Diana Lam.
Oh, and a few more tidbits:
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi comprise the Monmouth Duo.
Alpha Sigma Alpha, Kappa Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha and Sigma Sigma Sigma comprise the Farmville Four.
As for the founding of the NPC: everything that I have ever read had leaned that Alpha Phi spearheaded the getting together of all the groups. I will search my pledge manual and other books and see if I can come up with the definitive answer!
