History

  • International History

     
    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. Five years later on March 17, 1922, Delta Phi Epsilon was formally incorporated under laws

    of the State of New York. On December 5, 1922, stretching out to international boundaries, the first Canadian chapter was installed at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Growth has been steady, but expansion in numbers has never been favored over strengthening within. From this small group making up the first chapter, there are now more than 45,000 members with chapters throughout the United States and Canada. Our chapters, both undergraduate and alumnae, enjoy a distinguished reputation for scholarship, service, and leadership.

    Delta Phi Epsilon has worked to develop a social conscience and a willingness to think in terms of the common good in order to assure for its members continuous development and achievement in the collegiate and fraternity world. With a continuing philosophy of faith in the inherent good judgment of the undergraduate membership, Delta Phi Epsilon has remained steadfast throughout its history, forward to the continued growth of a sisterhood which keeps pace with the ever changing nature of the collegiate world.

    Minna Goldsmith Mahler, Eva Effron Robin, Ida Bienstock Landau, Sylvia Steierman Cohn and Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman, five young law students saw Delta Phi Epsilon as a society to "promote good fellowship among the women students among the various colleges in the country...to create a secret society composed of these women based upon their good moral character, regardless of nationality or creed...to have distinct chapters at various colleges..." with the motto Esse Quam Videri: to be rather than to seem to be.

     


     


  • Local History
     

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    Delta Kappa Pi 

    Advisor: Susan Schiller

    Founding Date: September 23, 1990 

    Approved Date: October 13, 1990

    Colors: Hot Pink and Teal Blue

    Mascot: Flamingo   

    Motto: GIFT... "Growing In Friendship Together"

      

    Heidi Richter was a member of a local Delta Kappa Pi sorority in North Carolina. She started the group here by bringing the constitution, mascot, colors, and letters with her. As a group of 14 founding sisters of DKP, they decided on their own advisor and motto.  The reason this sorority was founded was because th ese women were interested in getting involved with a sorority, but not at the National Panhellenic level.  DKP wanted to be part of an organization and part of the campus community, and with no alternatives that interested them, they decided to form their own group. The women wanted to be a group that could go out, have fun, and work together. Growing In Friendship Together symbolizes why Delta Kappa Pi existed.


     

     

    Delta Phi Epsilon was formed on Central Michigan University's campus because the women of Delta Kappa Pi wanted to participate in Panhellenic Events.  After researching different sororities, Delta Phi Epsilon was chosen because the group's values and beliefs were similar to what the women of DKP believed.  We were founded on December 10, 1995, and we received our  charter on November 17, 1996.