Alpha Phi International Fraternity
Alpha Phis are members of a lifelong sisterhood, a woman’s fraternity. Our keystone is friendship–warm, simple and sincere. In Alpha Phi there is encouragement, understanding, and opportunities to grow. With members all over the world and collegiate and alumnae chapters throughout the United States and Canada—our sisterhood knows no bounds!
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Founded: September 18, 1872 at Syracuse University
Mission: Alpha Phi International Fraternity is a membership organization dedicated to promoting sisterhood, cultivating leadership, encouraging intellectual curiosity and advocating service. Alpha Phi develops character for a lifetime.
Purpose: "The objectives of our Fraternity are the promotion of growth in character; unity of feeling, sisterly affection, and social communion among our members. In all that we do, we try to obey God’s principles of justice and right. We have banded ourselves together to improve our minds and hearts, and we seek to aid each other through a constant watchcare always given in love. We believe ourselves to be sincere searchers for truth.
We seek the highest ideal of womanhood, and we try to gain this ideal by cultivating not only the power and passion for seeking intellectual development but, also, the spirit of love and charity. And we who are thus united are under a solemn pledge to lend a helping hand to one another."
- Constitution of Alpha Phi International Fraternity, Incorporated, Article II
Today, Alpha Phi continues to provide a "tie which unites, a circle of friends" for women young and old all around the world. From hand to hand and heart to heart, we are all grateful and proud of the legacy left to us by our founders.
Our Founders:
- Clara Bradley Burdette (1876), died 1954
- Forence Chidester Lukens (1875), died 1885
- Martha Foote Crow (1876), died 1924
- Ida Gilbert Houghton (1876), died 1916
- Jane S. Higham (1876), died 1924
- Kate Hogoboom Gilbert (1875), died 1900
- Elizabeth Grace Hubbell Shults (1875), died 1895
- Rena Michaels Atchison (1874), died 1933
- Louise Shepard Hancock (1876), died 1932
- Clara Sittser Williams (1875), died 1925
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