First Sorority... - Page 2

UTSigKap · #1 05-01-2002, 02:21 PM

Hey Girls! I busted out my new member education notebook novel thing and this is what it says in there on this sorority mystery: Sigma Kappa was the first Greek letter organization recognized by the National Panhellenic Council to be called a sorority. I think a lot of the sorities/fraternities switched over after we came in. Or maybe we were just called that first who knows, but I think it's cool and Nationals seems to think we're first so I guess we kinda are in our own little special way!

Sigma Love,
Melissa

hotredchevy20 · #2 07-09-2007, 07:06 PM

I don't know about the first to coin the term sorority. However, I do know that Pi Beta Phi was founded in 1967 and is considered to have been the first to join the NPC also the first to have more than one chapter.
Peace, Love, and Pi Phi- Leah

#3 07-09-2007, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by hotredchevy20

I don't know about the first to coin the term sorority. However, I do know that Pi Beta Phi was founded in 1967 and is considered to have been the first to join the NPC also the first to have more than one chapter.
Peace, Love, and Pi Phi- Leah

1967? Um, no.

Welcome to GreekChat. There are lots of threads here with nifty NPC trivia that might be of interest to you.

SigKapCoug · #4 07-09-2007, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by OTW

1967? Um, no.

Welcome to GreekChat. There are lots of threads here with nifty NPC trivia that might be of interest to you.

Hahahahahahahhaaha.

Off topic, but this thread was started by one of my chapter sisters... even funnier, we're in the same family! I actually met her for the first time this past spring at alumni weekend.

FuzzieAlum · #5 07-09-2007, 08:04 PM

How could there be a first organization to join the NPC? By definition it is an association of organizations, so one org wouldn't be much of an association. And if two sororities got together and said "let's form some thing," then one wouldn't have primacy.

Although if you wanted to credit one organization with starting the NPC, it would have to be Kappa Kappa Gamma, since they issued the invitations to a joint conference in 1891. Or you could give credit to Alpha Phi, which in 1902 called a conference on rushing methods, out of which actually grew the NPC.

SWTXBelle · #6 07-13-2007, 11:10 PM

. . . but I must point out that Gamma Phi Beta Sorority was one of the founders of the NPC in 1902 - and Sigma Kappa did not join until 1905. So, as one of the founders of the NPC, Gamma Phi Beta beats Sigma Kappa in terms of being "recognized" by 3 years! (check out www.npcwomen.org for the dates!)