Interesting FACTS That Some May Not Know About Your Organization

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

Several of the founders of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., were NOT traditional undergraduates. Charles Henry Chapman was a 30-year old agriculture student, while Eugene Kinckle Jones (22 at the founding) already had a Bachelor's from Virginia Union.

Alpha Phi Alpha is also the only NIC fraternity to be founded at an Ivy League school.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Alpha Phi Alpha is also the only NIC fraternity to be founded at an Ivy League school.

I think you mean NPHC, which is true. But we are also part of NIC.

[adpiucf]

ADPi's original mascot was a unicorn, not a lion.

Our organization's original name was the Adelphean Society. When the Adelpheans' joined the NPC, they changed the name to Alpha Delta Phi. A few years later, the Phi became a Pi to avoid confusion with a men's fraternity of the same name.

[KyleMcGuire1983]

Sigma Nu was the first fraternity founded specifically on the principle of being a non-hazing brotherhood.

[polarpi]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

ADPi's original mascot was a unicorn, not a lion.

And to further this (which I just found on our website during the past few days)...

1911 The unicorn was adopted as a symbol replacing the dragon which had been on the original Coat-of-Arms.

Pretty cool!

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I think you mean NPHC, which is true. But we are also part of NIC.

Oh, no, I meant NIC. I figure most people know that the NPHC groups (with the exception of Alpha, Kappa and SGRho, right?) were founded at Howard. I actually suspect it might be the only major GLO founded at an Ivy, which is pretty special.

[AGDem]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Oh, no, I meant NIC. I figure most people know that the NPHC groups (with the exception of Alpha, Kappa and SGRho, right?) were founded at Howard. I actually suspect it might be the only major GLO founded at an Ivy, which is pretty special.

Actually, Alpha Sigma Phi and DKE were both founded at Yale, and I'm sure there are a few others.

[SalukiPhiSig]

Originally Posted by AGDem

Actually, Alpha Sigma Phi and DKE were both founded at Yale, and I'm sure there are a few others.

Pi Lambda Phi was also founded at Yale. Delta Chi was founded at Cornell and Chi Phi was founded at Princeton.

There might be more, but those are the others that I know of.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Oh, no, I meant NIC. I figure most people know that the NPHC groups (with the exception of Alpha, Kappa and SGRho, right?) were founded at Howard. I actually suspect it might be the only major GLO founded at an Ivy, which is pretty special.

NICs founded at an Ivy

Columbia
Delta Psi (1847)
Zeta Beta Tau (1898) - Formed at several New York City universities including Columbia
Tau Epsilon Phi (1910)

Cornell
Delta Chi (1890)
Alpha Phi Alpha (1906)

Pennsylvania
Phi Kappa Sigma (1850)

Princeton
Chi Phi (1824)

Yale
Delta Kappa Epsilon (1844)
Alpha Sigma Phi (1845)
Pi Lambda Phi (1895)

NPCs founded at an Ivy

Barnard College at Columbia
Alpha Omicron Pi (1897)
Alpha Epsilon Phi (1909)

Cornell
Sigma Delta Tau (1917)

[summer_gphib]

On to my organization, does anyone remember that the original Doublemint chewing gum twins were both Pi Phi's from the University of Kentucky Chapter?

I thought Joan and Jayne Boyd were the original Doublemint twins, from the fifties? I was also thinking they were Gamma Phis.... someone correct me, because I could eaisly be wrong.

[SWTXBelle]

Sis - I think you are right - I'll have to double check. It may be both Gamma Phi and Pi Phi claim Doublemint Twins - but - who was first???

[tld221]

Originally Posted by nwu43

hmm.. not that much to say yet since we're kinda young org

i guess one interesting thing that people may not know is that our greek letters represent the kanji (in the middle) and chinese characters



Those characters "man, center, king" put together mean "leaders among men". and coincidentally that is also our motto

that's interesting! the one Lambda i know has that as a tattoo on his arm. i am surprised that your founders chose Epsilon over Xi, as it looks more like the "king" symbol.

Originally Posted by ladygreek

The vast majority of our members are in education, too, as were all but 2-3 of our Founders. And Howard started as a Teacher's College. That is because back then that was almost the only field that women could go into. My guess is the same could be said of AKA and ZPhiB, but I'll let them confirm that.

The Omegas are considered Delta's brothers, because they helped us fill out the necessary paperwork for the school and then one of them ran across the campus to file our application for us before the deadline.

Delta's colors are crimson and cream, because of two reasons. The Kappas called one of their fraters who then worked in administration at Howard and asked him to pull strings for us to get Founded on the campus. The other reason is if you separate the colors that make up pink, you get red and white.

well if you separate the colors that make up green, you get blue and yellow...

[sageofages]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Sis - I think you are right - I'll have to double check. It may be both Gamma Phi and Pi Phi claim Doublemint Twins - but - who was first???

From Wikipedia:

The original "Doublemint Twins" were Jayne and Joan Boyd of Hammond, Indiana, who appeared in advertisements for Doublemint until Joan became pregnant in 1963. The company however continued sporadically to promote the campaign; later "Doublemint Twins" included Patricia and Cyb Barnstable, Cynthia and Brittany Daniel, Tia and Tamera Mowry, Heidi and Alissa Kramer, and Jean (née Barbara) and Elizabeth Sagal (daughters of TV director Boris Sagal and sisters of Married... with Children's Katey Sagal). Wrigley began running Doublemint Twin commercials again in 2005 with a new set of twins, Natalie Garza & Nicole Garza dressed in old-fashioned clothes

[DEVODUDE]

ZBT was founded at Columbia University in 1898 as the first secret society for Jewish men. It operated as the universal organization under a "city" charter from New York City from 1898 to 1903. In April of 1903 it was voted by the membership to change the organization to the First Greek-Letter Fraternity for Jewish men. ZBT was also the first Jewish fraternity to establish a Canadian Chapter in 1910 and the first Jewish Fraternity to receive full recognition by the NIC in 1912.

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ZBT: "Inspiring today's college men to become leaders of tomorrow."

[tld221]

Originally Posted by TSteven

NICs founded at an Ivy

Columbia
Delta Psi (1847)
Zeta Beta Tau (1898)
Tau Epsilon Phi (1910)

Cornell
Delta Chi (1890)
Alpha Phi Alpha (1906)

Pennsylvania
Phi Kappa Sigma (1850)

Princeton
Chi Phi (1824)

Yale
Delta Kappa Epsilon (1844)
Alpha Sigma Phi (1845)
Pi Lambda Phi (1895)

NPCs founded at an Ivy

Barnard College at Columbia
Alpha Omicron Pi (1897)
Alpha Epsilon Phi (1909)

Cornell
Sigma Delta Tau (1917)

Originally Posted by DEVODUDE

ZBT was founded at Columbia University in 1898 as the first secret society for Jewish men. It operated as the universal organization under a "city" charter from New York City from 1898 to 1903. In April of 1903 it was voted by the membership to change the organization to the First Greek-Letter Fraternity for Jewish men. ZBT was also the first Jewish fraternity to establish a Canadian Chapter in 1910 and the first Jewish Fraternity to receive full recognition by the NIC in 1912.

so i suppose an edit is in order?