What is your fraternity or Sorority's must interesting fact?

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Originally posted by UMgirl

About the first minority woman initiated...
Diana Lam- Alpha Gamma Delta- UBC -initiated in 1952
Barbara Delany- Sigma Kappa- Cornell(?)- initiated in 1954
I know Lam was initiated first, cuz this topic has been brought up before and its was 2 years before Delany, but I cant remember whether the years are 1952:1954, or 1954:1956? I believe the first one is correct.
Thank you so much for the information! Also, just to help out, according to
this webpage, Diana Lam's initiation year was 1953, and I did a search on the threads...Barbara Delaney was 1956 (1 or 2 posts said "1957"....go figure)

As far as the Syracuse III go...I dunno, I dont think anyone can really tell you why AGD is officially a fraternity and not a sorority. It might be just because even though the word sorority was around, it was just more common to be known as a women's fraternity. It just states in our new member book that , "unlike other groups that were founded as local groups or literary societies, AGD was founded to become a national women's fraternity."

Thanks so much for your thoughtful posts! That makes a lot of sense actually!
I just found this tidbit as well, from an old, old thread, posted by localsororities:
Actually, the word "sorority" was coined specifically for the Gamma Phi Betas by Professor Frank Smalley of Syracuse U in 1882. Before that time, all the new women's groups were called "women's fraternities" or "societies," making Gamma Phi Beta the first "sorority." ..
and also an old post by SoCalGirl:
Okay this is what GPhiB's website says:
"Eight years after their first meeting, two members of the Alpha chapter went to the University of Michigan to charter the Beta chapter. Upon their return to Syracuse, Professor Frank Smalley commented, "I presume that you young women are now members of a sorority." Thus, Gamma Phi Beta became the first women’s fraternity to be called a sorority."
(So I guess it wasn't Professor Coddington, after all! )

I think I have solved the Sigma Kappa / Gamma Phi Beta mystery!!!
This is what I surmised happened.......
Sigma Kappa founded on November 9, 1874
(perhaps it was called Sigma Kappa Society or just Sigma Kappa)
Gamma Phi Beta founded on November 11, 1874
(perhaps it was called Gamma Phi Beta Society or just Gamma Phi Beta)
So, it cannot be argued that Sigma Kappa, is indeed the OLDER group. However, Professor Frank Smalley invents the word SORORITY not until 1882 in Syracuse (where Gamma Phi Beta is, so they would have had "access" to the word first).
What must have happened is that Gamma Phi Beta adopted the word first , calling themselves "Gamma Phi Beta Sorority", since they were right there in Syracuse...Frank Smalley would have said the word to them directly. Then Sigma Kappa must have adopted the word themselves after, calling themselves "Sigma Kappa Sorority". Therefore, Gamma Phi Beta kind of beat Sigma Kappa to the word "Sorority" first, so in that line of thinking, Gamma Phi Beta is the first "sorority", even though Sigma Kappa is technically the older of the 2 groups! Ai yi yi! So confusing!