Alpha Phi International Women's Fraternity (, also known as APhi) is an international

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with 172 active chapters and over 250,000 initiated members. Founded at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York on September 18, 1872, it is the fourth Greek-letter organization founded for women, and the first women's fraternity founded in the northeast. Alpha Phi is a member of the National Panhellenic Conference, the governing council of 26 women's fraternities. Alpha Phi's international headquarters are located in

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History

At the time of the founding there were only 666 women attending Syracuse; ten of them eventually formed Alpha Phi to create an organization "on the principles of the promotion of growth in character; unity of feeling, sisterly affection, and social communion among the members." Although the actual founding date is , Alpha Phi has been celebrating their Founders Day on October 10 since 1902, since many colleges and universities were not open for classes in mid-September at that time. Alpha Phi considers itself a women's fraternity because its founding date predates the invention of the word "sorority". The main archive URL i
The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage

Founders

Alpha Phi's founding members were: he Ivy Leaf, Introduction to Alpha Phi: An Official Publication of Alpha Phi Fraternity, Inc./ref> * Martha Emily Foote Crow – Martha "Mattie" Foote Crow (1854 – January 1, 1924) was an educator and writer. Born in

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,KM. "Martha Foote Crow Papers: an inventory of her papers at Syracuse University". Syracuse University, May 1990. http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/print/crow_mf_prt.htm. she played an important role in the development of higher education for women in the

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.Rossiter, Margaret W. "Doctorates for American Women, 1868–1907." ''History of Education Quarterly'' 22, no. 2 (Summer): 159-183. * Rena A. Michaels Atchison – She served as a professor at several universities. She then served as Dean of Women's College, Northwestern University from 1886 to 1891. * Clara Bradley Baker Wheeler Burdette * Jane Sara Higham * Clara Sittser Williams * Florence Chidester Lukens * Ida Arabella Gilbert DeLamanter Houghton * Kate Elizabeth Hogoboom Gilbert * Louise Viola Shepard Hancock * Elizabeth Grace Hubbell Shults

Symbols

Like many other women's fraternities, Alpha Phi recognizes multiple types of symbols, with the

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Leaf as their primary symbol. The fraternity's official colors are

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. The colors were originally blue and gold; however, these colors were similar to those of Delta Upsilon Fraternity so they were changed. The official flowers are the

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. Alpha Phi lists its ideals as "Sisterhood, Generosity, Innovation, and Character." Alpha Phi's public motto is "union hand in hand".

Badge

The Alpha Phi badge is the Greek letter Alpha () resting on the Greek letter Phi (), engraved with the Greek acronym () . It can be customized in silver or gold and may be adorned with only white jewels - pearls or diamonds. Prior to the adoption of the current badge in 1906, "each member f Alpha Phiwent to the jeweler of her choice to have her pin designed." The Alpha Phi badge is worn by initiated members, as there is a separate badge for new members before their initiation. Other forms of badges: * Honor Badge – These pins are worn by international officers, and presidents of college chapters while they are serving their terms as president. * New member Badge – "In 1898 the Fraternity adopted a special badge to honor her newest members. The badge they selected is in the shape of an ivy leaf, set in silver pewter. An ever-growing vine, the ivy symbolizes the growth of the Alpha Phi sisterhood." * Fifty-Year Pin – "The first fifty-year pins, silver circles with red stones, were presented at the 42nd Convention in 1958 to several alumnae who had given significant service to the fraternity for 50 years or more. These pins are replicas of the pins presented to the six living founders at the Fraternity's Fiftieth Anniversary Convention in 1922."

Philanthropy

In 1956, Alpha Phi became one of the first women's fraternities to establish a Foundation. Alpha Phi officially adopted Cardiac Care as its philanthropic priority in 1946, which then became the Foundation's focus, along with awarding academic scholarships, upon its founding in 1956. The Foundation supports Alpha Phi's leadership training and programming, awards need-based and merit-based scholarships, invests in the advancement of women's heart health, and preserves Alpha Phi's rich and expansive heritage. The Foundation most notable program is its Women's Heart Health Program and Heart to Heart to Grant, an $100,000 grant awarded to medical professionals to better understand heart disease in women—specifically its symptoms, treatment, and prevention. Since its establishment in 1993, the Heart to Heart Grant has invested over $1.4 million in women's heart health initiatives. Collegiate chapters, alumnae chapters and individual members can nominate a local heart project for the Heart to Heart Grant. Self-nominations are also accepted. The recipient is selected by a team of medical professionals and the Foundation Board of Directors. Starting in the early 2000s, many collegiate chapters of Alpha Phi host a philanthropy event known as Red Dress Gala, which often includes a silent auction, guest speakers, and a full dinner for sisters, alumnae, and family. Traditionally, the collegiate members wear red dresses and pins to represent their support for Women's Heart Health. Individual Alpha Phi chapters are encouraged to develop a relationship with a local cardiac care project in their community as well as to promote awareness of women's heart disease. In 2021, Alpha Phi Foundation announced their $38 million comprehensive endowment campaign
Leading With Heart
the largest known campaign of its kind in the National Panhellenic Conference space. Past recipients of the Heart to Heart Grant *1993 – Program in Women's Cardiovascular Health –

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– nominated by the Cleveland East Alumnae chapter *1994 – Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cardiovascular Division – nominated by th
Zeta Phi Chapter

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*1995 –

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, formerly the Deaconess Hospital, Institute for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease – nominated by the Zeta Phi Chapter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *1997 – Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation's "Women's Heart Night Out" – nominated by the Albuquerque Alumnae Chapter *1998 –

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's Sibley Heart Center – nominated by the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter and Theta Pi Chapter,

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*1999 –

California Pacific Medical Center Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) is a general medical/surgical and teaching hospital in San Francisco, California. It was created by a merger of some of the city's longest established hospitals and currently operates three a ...

/Transitional Cardiac Care Unit – nominated by the San Francisco Alumnae Chapter *2000 –

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Women's Health Program – nominated by the Cincinnati Alumnae Chapter *2001 – Allen Memorial Hospital – nominated by the Epsilon Theta Chapter,

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*2002 and 2003 – Mercy Medical Center of Northern Iowa – nominated by Kaitlin Maguire
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*2006 – American Heart Association of San Diego, CA *2007 –

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(and) American Heart Association of San Diego, CA *2008 – Events of the Heart of New York, NY *2009 – Women's Heart Program at the

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*2010 –

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Foundation (and) Greater Boston Division of the American Heart Association *2011 – St. Luke's Hospital Foundation in Kansas City, MO *2012 –

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Division of Cardiology *2013 – Texas Heart Institute in Houston, TX *2014 –

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Foundation *2015 – Geisinger Health System *2016 –

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Foundation *2017 – Texas Heart Institute in Houston, TX *2018 –

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*2019 –

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Health *2020 –

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*2021 –

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*2022 – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Note: Texas Heart Institute has been awarded the grant twice, in 2013 and 2017.

Local chapter or member misconduct

In 2013, Miss America 2015 Kira Kazantsev was terminated from the ''Theta Mu chapter'' at Hofstra University for abusive hazing. At the time, Kazantsev was serving the chapter as head of recruitment. In 2015, the ''Beta Mu chapter'' at the

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took down a recruitment video that was heavily criticized for its lack of diversity and the provocative way in which collegiate women were portrayed. In October 2016, the ''Iota Delta chapter'' at the

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charter was revoked for at least four years. On bid day, the sorority was accused of endangering the health and safety of new members and violating the university's alcohol policy. In January 2018, Harley Barber, a member of the ''Beta Mu chapter'' at the

was terminated from the sorority and expelled from the college after posting videos on social media in which she repeatedly used the n-word and other profanities to make degrading comments about African Americans. The incident gained media coverage across the country, University President Stuart R. Bell, the University Panhellenic Association, and Linda Kahangi, executive director of Alpha Phi International Fraternity released statements. In January 2018, three members of the ''Iota Iota chapter'' at the

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were removed from the organization due to what was deemed a racist social media post. The incident prompted criticism from national and international news sources and the university's

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received petitions to remove the chapter from campus. In September 2018, a document by a former recruitment chair of the

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Alpha Phi chapter surfaced with descriptions of how the chapter's membership selection process was based on selecting for certain physical appearances and assigned numbers to these women based on the judgment of the recruitment chairs and representatives from their international headquarters. The exposé described that Alpha Phi supervisors ordered her to give the PNMs an "External Prescore" based on pictures from their social media profiles. Throughout the recruitment process, active members in the sorority were also ranked on superficial qualities and matched with "stronger" or "weaker" PNMs. In January 2019, the Alpha Phi chapter at Old Dominion University was accused of racist behavior within the members of the sorority. School officials are investigating the allegations and the chapter cannot currently hold functions of any kind at this time.

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and author of ''The Assertive Woman'' * Susan Bayh (Lambda – UC Berkeley) – Attorney and professional director * Marisol Deluna (Alpha Lambda – Alumna Initiate) – Fashion designer * Deborah Lippmann (Gamma Pi – Arizona State) – Singer and celebrity

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with her own line, the Lippmann Collection * Janet Murguía (Gamma Delta – Kansas) – First female president/CEO of National Council of La Raza * Julee Rosso (Beta Beta – Michigan State) – Founder of The Silver Palate gourmet food shop and Co-author of Silver Palate Cookbook *

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, the original "California Cuisine" restaurant * Beverly Willis (Beta Upsilon – Oregon State) – Architect, artist, author, and activist * Andrea Wong (Zeta Phi – MIT) – American television executive, former president and chief executive officer of

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Entertainment *Remi Bader (Epsilon Nu – Delaware) – TikTok Content Creator and Curve Model * Lana Coffey (Zeta Rho – Bentley University) – Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2017 * Katelynne Cox (Omicron – Missouri) – Musician, model, congressional aide, news anchor * Rosemarie DeWitt (Theta Mu – Hofstra) – Actress, ('' Standoff'', ''

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* Barbara Brooks Wallace (Beta Delta – UCLA) – Award-winning children's author *

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(Omega – Texas) – Author of '' True Women'' News, media, and journalism * Lisa Colagrossi (Beta Iota – West Virginia) – Emmy winning television anchor with WABC-TV in New York * Ann Martin (Sigma – Washington) – Primetime news anchor and co-host of Woman 2 Woman, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles * Nan C. Robertson (Beta – Northwestern) – Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and feature writer for ''

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Politics and government * Elaine Baxter (Beta Alpha – Illinois) – Former Iowa secretary of state and former member of the Iowa House of Representatives * Nancy Brataas (Epsilon – Minnesota) – First woman

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(Xi, Beta Theta) – First woman to lead a political party in

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* Mary H. Murguia (Gamma Delta – Kansas) –

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Amanda Nguyen Amanda N. Nguyen (born 1991) is a social entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and the CEO and founder of Rise, a non-governmental civil rights organization. She was involved in proposing and drafting the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, whi ...

(Iota Tau – Harvard) –

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...

nominee and CEO and founder of

Rise Rise or RISE may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * '' Rise: The Vieneo Province'', an internet-based virtual world * Rise FM, a fictional radio station in the video game ''Grand Theft Auto 3'' * Rise Kujikawa, a vide ...

Dorothy Wright Nelson Dorothy Wright Nelson (born September 30, 1928) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Education and career Born in San Pedro, California, Wright received an Artium Baccalaureus degr ...

(Beta Delta – UCLA) –

* Polly Rosenbaum (Beta Gamma – Colorado) –

Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...

's longest-serving

state legislator A state legislature is a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. Two federations literally use the term "state legislature": * The legislative branches of each of the fifty state governments of the United S ...

* Emily Anne Staples (Epsilon – Minnesota) – Former

member *

Frances Willard Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 an ...

(Alpha Lambda – Alumna Initiate) – American educator,

temperance Temperance may refer to: Moderation *Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed *Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion Culture *Temperance (group), Canadian danc ...

reformer, and women's suffragist * Lynn Woolsey (Sigma – Washington) – Member of the United States House of Representatives * Jodi White (Xi – Toronto) – Canadian politician Sports * Kelly Barnhill (Kappa Eta – Florida) – Award-winning American collegiate and professional softball player, three-time USA women's national softball team member * Susie Berning (Delta Delta – Oklahoma City) – American professional golfer * Julie Clark (Gamma Beta – UC Santa Barbara) – American

airline pilot An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators, because they a ...

and aerobatic performer *

Claire Waters Ferguson Claire Waters Ferguson (born 1936) began skating at a young age and became a judge at age 16, working her way up to the national level and then to the Olympic level. She attended Michigan State University where she was a member of Alpha Phi and gra ...

(Beta Beta – Michigan State) – First woman president of the United States Figure Skating Association * Stacia Hookom (Beta Gamma – Colorado) – First woman on U.S. Snowboarding team, multiple national/world titles/appearances * Edean Anderson Ihlanfeldt (Beta Upsilon – Oregon State) – Golfer, champion of multiple national titles for US and Canada * Jennifer Joines (Iota Gamma – University of the Pacific) – Silver medal-winning American indoor volleyball player in the 2008 Beijing Olympics * Janis Klecker (Epsilon – Minnesota) – American

long-distance Long distance or Long-distance may refer to: *Long-distance calling * Long-distance operator * Long-distance relationship * Long-distance train *Long-distance anchor pylon, see dead-end tower Footpaths * Long-distance trail *European long-d ...

runner, two-time United States national champion in the marathon
*

Marion Roper Marion Dale Roper (September 15, 1910 – February 10, 1991) was an American diver who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an intern ...

(Beta Delta – UCLA) – Bronze medal-winning American diver in the 1932 Summer Olympics Religion *

Ruth Stafford Peale Ruth Stafford Peale (September 10, 1906 – February 6, 2008) was an American writer, editor, and speaker. She was born in Fonda, Iowa, to Canadian parents Methodist clergyman Frank B. Stafford and Loretta A. Stafford. In 1913, the family mo ...

(Alpha – Syracuse) – Religious leader, public speaker and author * Catherine Maples Waynick (Epsilon Zeta – Central Michigan) – One of only eight women to be bishops in the U.S. Episcopal Church

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