# of Founders?

[Hootie]

Chi Omega's Beloved Founders

Dr. Charles Richardson occupies a unique place in Fraternity history, a founder of a women's fraternity. As a founder of Chi Omega, he drafted our first ritual and constitution, chose the names of our officers and developed the Eleusinian mysteries as the basis of our esoteric symbolism. In his many writings, Dr. Richardson often said that founding Chi Omega was his most precious accomplishment and the one in which he had the most pride and satisfaction. ~ taken directly from Chi Omega's National Webpage (www.chiomega.com)

Hootie

[HeavenslilAngel]

Alpha Sigma Alpha has 5 founders:

Virginia Lee Boyd Noell
Juliette Jefferson Hundley Gilliam
Calva Hamlet Watson Whooton
Louise Burks Cox Carper
Mary Williamson Hundley.

[Thetagurl]

Theta has four...
Betty Locke Hamilton #1 Founder (We Love You)
Alice Allan Brant
Hannah Fitch Shaw
Betty Tipton Lindsey

[Betarulz!]

At nine o'clock in the evening of the eighth day of the eight month in the year 1839, eight earnest young men, all students at Miami University held the first meeting of Beta Theta Pi, in the Hall of the Union Literary Society, an upper room in the old college hall (known as Old Main). The eight founders in the order in which their names appeared in the minutes were:

John Reily Knox 1839
Samuel Taylor Marshall 1840
David Linton 1839
James George Smith 1840
Charles Henry Hardin 1841
John Holt Duncan 1840
Michael Clarkson Ryan 1839
Thomas Boston Gordon 1840

"of ever honored memory"

[TriDeltaGal]

TriDelta's founding sisters are:

Sarah Ida Shaw
Eleanor Dorcas Pond
Isabel Morgan Breed
Florence Isabelle Steward

Founded at Boston University, Thanksgiving Eve, 1888!

[SATX*APhi]

Our ten founding sisters were ten of the first twenty women to attend Syracuse University.



Clara Bradley Burdette

Elizabeth Hubbell Shults

Florence Chidester Lukens

Kate Hogoboom Gilbert

Louise Shepard Hancock

Ida Gilbert Houghton

Martha Foote Crow

Jane Sara Higham

Rena Michaels Atchinson

Clara Sittser Williams

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Hmm...It appears Phi Mu has the fewest.

[Sweetums]

Delta Gamma had three founding members.

[gamma_girl52]

Gamma Sig doesn't list all of the ladies involved in the formation of the sorority. Instead, we recognize all the schools they were from.

Those Eight Founding Schools are:

Drexel Institute of Technology
New York University
Brooklyn College
Queens College
Boston College
University of Houston
Los Angeles City College
Miami University of Ohio

Gamma Sig also recognizes those three women at Drexel who coordinated the entire formation by bringing all the schools together~our "Golden Gammas":

Barbara Ferraro
Marvyn Glover
Margaret "Peg" Zimmerman

This is an interesting fact for my APO brothers: The national officers of Alpha Phi Omega attended our sorority's first few conventions. Also, our "Golden Gamma" Marvyn was married to an Alpha Phi Omega brother for over 40 years!

In Service...

[hannahgirl]

Delta Gamma was founded in December of 1873 at the Lewis School for Girls in Oxford, Mississippi. Our three founding members are:

Eva Webb Dodd
Mary Comfort Leonard
Anna Boyd Ellington

Our founders then met a Phi Delta Theta from Indiana named George Banta and he helped with the expansion of Delta Gamma in the North. He is DeeGees only male initiate.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Alpha Xi Delta has 10 founders

Cora Bollinger Block
Alice Bartlett Bruner
Almira Lowrey Cheney
Frances Elizabeth Cheney
Betha Cook Evans
Eliza Drake Curtis Everton
Julia Maude Foster
Lucie W. Gilmer
Hariett Luella McCullum
Lewie Stong Tayler

They ranged in age from 16 to 25. One was already a widow. Of the 6 founders who married, 5 married Sigma Nus.

[AOX81]

Alpha Theta Chi had 11 Founding Members and an Advisor

Christina Gausas-Advisor

Jennifer Bobb-Petramale
Jennifer Davis
Kathryn "Kitty" DiNicola
Anastasia "Tessie" Giannouris
Jill James-Nemer
Michelle Jun
Angie Klock
Nancy Kwon
Holly Manssur-Gilmour
Anna Stergiopoulos
Deanna Vietti-Kline

[shadokat]

Delta Phi Epsilon has five founders:

Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman
Ida Bienstock Landau
Minna Goldsmith Mahler
Eva Effron Robin
Sylvia Steireman Cohn

We call them the DIMES

[Peaches-n-Cream]

You beat me to it! When I was in college, two of our founding sisters were still alive since we were founded in 1917.

[MooseGirl]

Phi Sigma Sigma was founded Nov 26, 1913 by 10 women of Hunter College, NY.

Lillian Gordon Alpern
Josephine Ellison Breakstone
Fay Chertkoff
Estelle Melnick Cole
Jeannette Lipka Furst
Ethel Gordon Kraus
Shirley Cohen Laufer
Claire Wunder Mcardle
Rose Sher Seidman
Gwen Zaliels Snyder