About Alpha Phi 

Phi Facts

  • Alpha Phi is the fourth oldest national women's fraternity.                  

  • Alpha Phi was founded by 10 of the first 20 women to enter Syracuse University in 1872.  Three of those members became members of Phi Beta Kappa and are listed in Who's Who in America.

  • 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 us apart from any other Fraternity's colors.

  • First women's society to use Greek letters as an emblem.

  • Called the inter-sorority conference of the original nine sororities that resulted in forming today's National Panhellenic Council (NPC)

  • Truly an "international" sorority with the longest continual presence in Canada of any sorority.  The Xi chapter was established at the University of Toronto in 1906.

  • First sorority to establish a Foundation.  The Alpha Phi Foundation was established in 1957.

  • Became the first NPC group with a homepage on the World Wide Web in 1995.

  • Currently the fourth largest women's fraternity with 148 chapters and colonies from coast to coast and 175 alumnae chapters.

 

Symbols

  • Ivy leaf 

  • Forget-me-not 

  • Lily-of-the-valley

  • Badge 

 

International History

 

Beta Gamma deuteron Chapter History

The Beta Gamma chapter began when Mrs. Miriam Rieder decided to leave The University of Michigan to teach at the University of Colorado.  At the time, there were eight National Panhellenic Conferences on the C.U. campus, but she felt that there was room for another.  In 1921, she suggested Alpha Phi to one of her students and offered to inquire about the method of petitioning when she returned to Ann Arbor for the summer. Upon her return, The Zeda Club was formed by fourteen girls on the Colorado campus. The girls spent two and a half years adding more members to their group, meeting as many Alpha Phis as possible, and doing what the could to achieve standards that they felt would be acceptable to the present Alpha Phi membership.  (At the time, all the collegiate chapters in the fraternity had to approve any group applying for membership.)  On January 10, 1924, Zeda Club received the long awaited telegram notifying them that their petition had been accepted. Their initiation took place on the weekend of March 27th, with the National President presiding and representatives of four Alpha Phi chapters attending.

 

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