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Delta Phi Epsilon
Alpha Kappa Chapter at Fairleigh Dickinson University
On March 17, 1917, five young law students at New York University Law School took a pledge of sisterhood and loyalty, thus founding the Alpha Chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon, the first non-sectarian, social sorority, and the only sorority founded at a professional school. These five women, Minna Goldsmith Mahler, Eva Effron Robin, Ida Bienstock Landau, Sylvia Steierman Cohn, and Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman, saw Delta Phi Epsilon as a society to "promote good fellowship among the women students among various colleges among 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."
Take a look into the past...
DPHIE Facts:
Motto: "Esse Quam Videri" (To Be Rather Than To Seem To Be)
Values: Justice, Sisterhood and Love
Founding Date: March 17, 1917
Colors: Royal Purple and Pure Gold
Symbol: Pearl
Flower: Lovely Purple Iris
Mascot: Unicorn
Philanthropies: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Delta Phi Epsilon Education Foundation, The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
Purpose:
Delta Phi Epsilon was formed "for the purpose of promoting good fellowship among Sorority women to help in acquiring knowledge, appreciate discriminating judgment, and a true feeling of Sisterly love, through the interaction, one upon the another, of sympathetic and friendly natures."
-from the notes of our founders, 1917
