The Oldest Fraternity/Sorority

[g41965]

Delta Upsilon was founded on November 4,1834 on the campus of Williams College by 30 men ten each from the Jr., Soph. and Freshman classes.
DU was founded in opposition to the Sigma Phi and Kappa Alpha Societies that had appeared at Williams in 1832 and 1833.

[Tom Earp]

Funny, while in the scheme of things, LXA 1909 at Boston University by Warren C Cole is a Youngster.

Funny in respect to the Original Union Triad who mostly are still very small in Chapter size and The Miami Triad who have caught up to others such as LXA in size.

Miami Triad was more progressive than Union Triad.

Growth is still the life blood of any and all GLOs.

[ZTA1806]

Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity was formally founded on October 15, 1898, at the Virginia State Female Normal School (now known as Longwood University), in Farmville, Virginia (one of the "Farmville Four").

Our 9 Founders were Alice Maud Jones Horner, Frances Yancey Smith, Alice Bland Coleman, Ethel Coleman Van Name, Ruby Bland Leigh Orgain, Mary Campbell Jones Batte, Helen May Crawford, Della Lewis Hundley, and Alice Grey Welsh.

And thanks to Grace Eclan (a loyal sister), ZTA is the only female fraternity chartered by the legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia (the act was passed March 15, 1902).

"Deeds Survive the Doers"

[bekibug]

Alpha Xi Delta Fraternity was founded on April 17, 1893, at Lombard College (now Knox) in Galesbug, Illinois. I believe we were officially incorporated as a national fraternity in Illinois April 17, 1901, but I'd have to check our charter and see.

Our ten founders were:
Cora Bollinger Block
Alice Bartlett Bruner
Almira Lowry Cheney
Frances Elizabeth Cheney
Bertha Cook Evans
Eliza Drake Curtis Everton
Julia Maude Foster
Lucy W. Gilmer
Harriet Luella McCollum
Lewie Strong Taylor

Alpha Xi was the 10th women's organization to join the National Panhellenic Conference (in 1902), and our first NPC chair wrote the Panhellenic Creed, still recited today.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by ZTA1806
Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity was formally founded on October 15, 1898, at the Virginia State Female Normal School (now known as Longwood College), in Farmville, Virginia (one of the "Farmville Four").

Sorry, I'm picky about this because our advisors were picky about it...it's now Longwood University!

Alpha Sigma Alpha
Nov. 15, 1901
Longwood University

[Draculapkt1906]

HOO RAH!!!
PHI TAU...Thanks AlphaFrog

[AlphaFrog]

[hijack]

I have the cutest paddle I made for my Phi Tau (real) dad

It was:

ALPHA
...H....K
..SIGMA
.........P
...T....P
...ALPHA
...U

(Sorry about the periods, it won't hold it's spacing without them)
Natural Wood paddle with the wood letters and wood ASA/FKT letters
[/hijack]

[Maharet]

Alpha Phi was formed in 1872 - October 10
Syracuse University
10 founding sisters
Our open motto "Union hand in hand"

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Delta Delta Delta Fraternity

Thanksgiving Eve, 1888

Boston University

Four Founders-
Sarah Ida Shaw
Elenor Dorcas Pond
Isabel Morgan Breed
Florance Isabelle Stewart

[Alpha Sig Scott]

Originally posted by hoosier
Best Founder:

Horace Spangler Weiser

of Alpha Sigma Phi.

His nickname was Bud, and the King of Beers is named for him.

Mr. ASPhi, Ralph ________, told me that.

I met Mr Alpha Sigma Phi, Ralph Burns at a national leadership confrence in 1987. As I recall he was holding a Bud Light in his hand.

[Susan_Renee]

Phi Mu was established on January 4, 1852 at Wesleyan College in Macon, GA. It was originally called the Philomathean Society.
Our 3 founders were:
Mary Ann DuPont Lines
Mary Elizabeth Myrick Daniel
Martha Bibb Hardaway Redding
On March 4, 1852, the name was changed to Phi Mu Fraternity (This is what we observe as Founder's Day).

[abaici]

Alpha Kappa Alpha is the oldest Greek-letter organization established in America by Black college women. AKA was founded on January 15th, 1908 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC.

We honor sixteen visionary women as the founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha:

Ethel Hedgeman-Lyle
Beulah Elizabeth Burke
Lillie Burke
Majorie Hill
Margaret Flagg Holmes
Ethel Jones Mowbray
Alice P. Murray
Lavinia Norman
Norma Elizabeth Boyd
Anna Easter Brown
Sarah Meriweather-Nutter
Joanna Mary Berry-Shields
Lucy Diggs Slowe
Carrie Snowden
Marie Woolfolk-Taylor
Harriet Josephine Terry

[PsiU_EN]

Psi Upsilon founded November 24, 1833

The 7 founding founders

Robert Barnard '37, Samuel Goodale '36, Sterling G. Hadley '36, George Washington Tuttle '36, Edward Martindale, Merwin Henry Stewart '37, and Charles Washington Harvey '37

[Tom Earp]

OOOOH, Very Interesting, LXA-Tri Delta = Boston U!

A few years difference in age, but still all in all just the same! YEA!

[EPTriSigma]

Sigma Sigma Sigma was founded April 20, 1898 at the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville Virgina. The State Female Normal School (Longwood University) serves as the birthplace of four other national sororities (the Farmville Four).

The eight founders of Sigma Sigma Sigma: Margaret Batten, Louise Davis, Martha Trent Featherston, Isabella Merrick, Sallie Michie, Lelia Scott, Elizabeth Watkins, and Lucy Wright

The Epsilon Rho chapter of Sigma Sigma Sigma, at Minnesota State, recieved it's charter on May 5, 1990.