 Alpha
Phi: A Trailblazing Organization
- Alpha Phi is the third largest women's sorority with 150 chapters/colonies
in
the US and Canada.
- Alpha Phi was founded in 1872 by 10 of the first 20 women
to enter
Syracuse University.
- Alpha Phi is the fourth oldest national women's sorority.
- Alpha Phi is one of only three international sororities.
- Three of the original 10 became members of Phi Beta Kappa.
- Three of our founders were listed in Who's Who of America:
Clara Bradley Burdette, Martha Foote Crow, and Rena Michaels
Atchison..
- Alpha Phi is pronounced Alpha "fee" (long "e")
not "fie," because "Alpha" is
a vowel and "Phi" is pronounced "fee" when
it follows a vowel.
- Alpha Phi's Creed was written in 1912 by Annette Hall Hitchcock.
- Alpha Phi's official pin was adopted in 1908.
- Alpha Phi's official crest was adopted in 1922.
- Alpha Phi's password was changed from German to Greek at the
1922 Convention.
- Alpha Phi's original colors were blue and gold. In 1879,
the colors were changed to the more distinctive silver and bordeaux.
Blue and gold were the colors of the Fraternity Delta Upsilon,
and the change was made in order to truly set our colors apart
from any other Greek organization's.
- The Alpha Phi Foundation was established in 1957.
- Alpha Phi chapters are named in alphabetical order as they
are incorporated with the exception of the Eta chapter at Boston
University. This chapter should have been Gamma -- or the third
chapter -- but was incorporated as the Eta chapter because it
had seven founding members and Eta is the seventh letter of
the Greek alphabet.
- Alpha Phi is called the first inter-sorority conference of
the original nine sororities. This resulted in the creation
of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), which still exists
today.
- Alpha Phi is a true "international" sorority. It
has maintained the longest continuous presence in Canada of
any sorority. The Xi chapter was established at the University
of Toronto in 1906.
- Alpha Phi has over 175 active alumnae chapters.
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