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ADPi history from the Epsilon Xi Chapter Website:

Founded on May 15, 1851 at Westlyn Female College in Macon, Georgia; Alpha Delta Pi became the first secret society in the world for college women. It began as the Adelphean Society founded by Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald. The six founding members were Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, Ella Pierce Turner, Octavia Andrew Rush, Mary Evans Glass, Sophronia Woodruff Dews, Elizabeth Williams Mitchell. In 1904 the sorority went national, and in 1905 changed its name from The Adelphean Society to Alpha Delta Phi. Trying to avoid confusion with the fraternity Alpha Delta Phi, in 1913 the sorority desided to change its name to Alpha Delta Pi. Then in 1979 Alpha Delta Pi desided to take on The Ronald McDonald House as its national philanthropy. Now there are more than 170,000 initiated members of the sorority worldwide and more than 130 collegiate chapters throughout the United States and Canada.