Junior college sororities

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When two-year colleges expanded to four-year curriculums, such as Rider, some of the chapters left their original organizations to join NPC groups. At Rider Sigma Iota Chi became Alpha Xi Delta, Zeta Mu Epsilon became Delta Zeta and Eta Upsilon Gamma became Zeta Tau Alpha. Also interesting, the Iota Alpha Pi chapter (a now defunct NPC group) chartered in 1947 and reverted to local status in 1955 as Iota Sigma Pi, joined Delta Phi Epsilon in 1962.

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Thank you, Oldu! You should seriously rewrite Baird's.

But, let's not forget I still stumped ya with Beta Delta Pi!

And I found the answer to Beta Delta Pi:
A collegiate sorority founded at Bucknell in the late 1800s. The first sorority on campus.

1916- convention. Coat of arms adopted.

There were about 10 chapters of BDPi, with some information available in a Toronto family's history. Must get me to a li-berry!!!

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Here's info on BDPi from College Fraternity Heraldy (Butterfield, 1931):

Sable, on a sinister blend six plates ermine.

Motto: Inter se fideles

This group uses a closed helmet in profile of silver. The design of the coat of arms was taken from the pin and hence the shield shows a notch in the dexter chief. The design was adopted at the 1917 convention.

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