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144 Collegiate Chapters

Over 200 Alumnae Chapters

Approximately 4,500 Pledges Annually

Over 121,000 Sisters from 1872 to present

Over 74,000 Current Alumnae Sisters

Approximately 12,000 Collegiate Sisters

Approximately 11,000 Canadian Sisters

Approximately 500 "World Travelers"

Over 90 Alumnae Initiates

When Alpha Phi was founded they were called a "Fraternity" because there was no other word.

Ten women at Ida Gilbert's home on September 18, 1872, initiated themselves into Alpha Phi.

In New York, Alpha Phi could not be incorporated under a Greek name. The Chapter applied under the name of the Michaelenean

Society in honor of their President, Rena Michaels.

A professor of Greek at Syracuse advised them to call the organization Alpha "Fee" instead of "Fie" to be grammatically correct as it follows Alpha, a vowel, and is the last letter in the sequence.

Three of our Founders were listed in Who's Who of America: Clara Bradley Burdette, Martha Foote Crow, and Rena Michaels Atchison.

The Alpha Phi Creed was written in 1912 by Annette Hall Hitchcock.

The official Alpha Phi pin was adopted in 1908.

The official Alpha Phi crest was adopted in 1922.

At Convention in 1922 the present Coat-of-Arms was adopted and the password was changed from German to Greek.

The Alpha Phi mascot, "Phi Bear", was announced at the Leadership Seminars in 1973.

In 1902, Alpha Phi called the inter-sorority meeting which resulted in the founding of what is now the National Panhellenic Council.

Alpha Phi's original colors were blue and gold. In 1879, the colors were changed to the more distinct 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.

The Alpha Phi Foundation was established in 1957.

Alpha Phi chapters were named in alphabetical order as they were incorporated, all except Eta chapter at Boston University. They would have been Gamma, or the third, chapter, but were incorporated as Eta chapter because they had 7 founding members.

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