2007 UGA Sorority Rec. Article

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by LPIDelta

My info says the decade of DPhiE's founding at UGA is the 1930s... does someone have other information?

Perhaps it was corrected in the online article. It said something along the lines of D phi E had been on campus since the 1950's when I first read it. I'm glad they fixed it. Does anyone have the early Sunday print edition to see?

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by myonlydaughter

While DPhiE was founded as a Jewish sorority and has been at UGA many years as such, it is not majority "Jewish" at many schools.

Actually, DPhiE was not founded as a Jewish sorority.

"On March 17, 1917, five women at New York University Law School took a pledge of sisterhood and loyalty and so founded the Alpha Chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon, one of the first non-sectarian, social sororities and the only one founded at a professional school." Taken from http://dphie.org/general/index.shtml

[LPIDelta]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Actually, DPhiE was not founded as a Jewish sorority.

"On March 17, 1917, five women at New York University Law School took a pledge of sisterhood and loyalty and so founded the Alpha Chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon, one of the first non-sectarian, social sororities and the only one founded at a professional school." Taken from http://dphie.org/general/index.shtml

While this is true, the five founders were Jewish and sorority membership for more than fifty years was almost entirely Jewish, so DPhiE is often considered to be one of the "historically Jewish" sororities.

I'll never forget the first time I heard this though--I was in NewYork and I told someone I was a DPhiE, and she said, "Oh that's the Jewish sorority." I said, "Not at my catholic college!"