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Originally posted by bruinaphi
Not all groups were started b/c some other GLO didn't take their founding members. Alpha Phi was started by 10 of the first female students to be admited to Syracuse University. They were looking for the solidarity of a group of women so they conceived the idea of a secret society similar to the fraternities that the men had formed on campus.
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Good point! Gamma Phi Beta had two founders who turned down "bids" to Alpha Phi and later founded their own organization. There was actually quite a bit of controversy about this back in the day, there's a section on it in our history book. I don't think it's inconceivable that there were some Alpha Gams who turned down membership in APhi or GPhiB to help found AGD, either.