Question

sueali · #1 10-14-2003, 06:07 PM

Sorry to crash your board. I have a question and if you can't answer I understand. I understand that ADPi was originally a literary society. My question is when did your ritual develop, did the literary society have a ritual or did that come when your org decided to take on greek letters. I'm not asking for specifics just when your ritual developed. Delta Gamma started off as a similar group and they explain on their website how their ritual has evolved I was just wondering about yours. If you can help me better understand that would be great thanks.

WLFEO · #2 10-14-2003, 06:14 PM

Hi, sueali! Alpha Delta Pi has been a secret society from our beginning in 1851. We were not started as a literary society. Since we started out as a secret society, our founders had ritual right from the beginning.

Have a great day!

sueali · #3 10-14-2003, 06:22 PM

Thank You so much for responding I don't know where I got the literary society idea from it must have been some one on my campus. Thank You so much for helping me.

WLFEO · #4 10-14-2003, 06:32 PM

You are so welcome! Maybe the ADPi chapter on your campus started as a local literary society and then decided to colonize with Alpha Delta Pi or something like that.

ASUADPi · #5 10-14-2003, 11:17 PM

It might have also been from an article published a few years ago in Jane magazine. They had one of their reporters go undercover for sorority rush at UCLA and she actually recieved a bid to Kappa Kappa Gamma. Anyways she states in the first or second paragraph that the first sorority was founded in 1851 as a literary society. Since that is obviously us I knew that but I knew the literary society information was incorrect.

Brianna

adpishan · #6 10-16-2003, 12:37 PM

Hey sueali and everyone else!

The Epsilon Rho chapter started as Phi Delta Chi (a group of girls who did a lot of stuff on campus, not a literary society). The local Alpha Delta Pi Alumnae notice our leadership qualities and wanted us to become ADPi.

Blue Violets · #7 10-16-2003, 11:01 PM

I think I know where this 'literary' idea came from.

As you all know (& I checked, this is public info available http://www.alphadeltapi.org/wsb/inde...=UIEXT_IPP_507 here on our website) Alpha Delta Pi used to be known as The Adelphean Society.

Well there is/was a literary society called "The Adelphian Society" (note the spelling difference) in Pennsylvania around the turn of the century--in NO way related to ADPi of course!

Probably there is some confusion about that.