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Alpha Delta Phi

www.alphadeltaphi.org

Society: http://www.adps.org

Alpha Delta Phi () is the fourth oldest continuous Greek-letter fraternity in the United States and Canada and was founded in 1832 by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Today the name refers to both the all-male fraternity and the Alpha Delta Phi Society, which separated from the fraternity in 1992 and permits co-educated chapters. The Fraternity and the Society are both derived from Eells's vision for a "literary society," with each chapter upholding its literary tradition.

From its early days, Alpha Delta Phi sought students of a decided literary orientation. In the founder's own words, the literary pursuit of the fraternity must "be built on a more comprehensive scale than other societies, ... providing for every variety of taste and talent and embracing every department of literature and science... It must be national and universal in its adaptations, so as not merely to cultivate a taste for literature or furnish the mind with knowledge, but with a true philosophical spirit looking to the entire man, so as to develop his whole being -- moral, social and intellectual." Today, the literary tradition is continued on the international level in the form of annual literary competitions sponsored by the Samuel Eells Literary and Educational Foundation, which awards cash prizes in each of five categories.

Alpha Delta Phi was a charter member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference (formerly known as the National Interfraternity Conference) (NIC), and a Brother of Alpha Delta Phi, Hamilton W. Mabie (Williams College, class of 1867), was the first President of the NIC.

Alpha Delta Phi was the first fraternity to establish a chapter west of the Allegheny mountains when it formed a chapter at Miami University in 1833. This chapter inspired the formation of three national fraternities at Miami in the 19th Century.

For Yale University's campus, Alpha Delta Phi ranked first among all of the university's fraternities. It was brothers of Alpha Delta Phi that were mostly tapped to join the university's top-ranked senior society Skull and Bones. Issues with the number of Alpha Delta Phi's tapped for Skull and Bones also led to the creation of Yale's second-ranked senior society Scroll and Key.

(Source: The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, http://www.alphadeltaphi.org/, retrieved 2007-06-26 )

Contents

1 Fraternity

1.1 Chapters

2 The Society

2.1 Chapters

3 Notable alumni

4 See also

5 References

6 External links

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Fraternity

The Fraternity is a retronym used now to distinguish the all-male Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity from the co-ed Alpha Delta Phi Society. In general parlance, the Fraternity refers to itself simply as "Alpha Delta Phi", since the Society is required to add "Society" to the end to distinguish itself.

Chapters

As of February, 2010, the Fraternity has 25 chapters and 3 affiliates, the oldest chapter existing at Hamilton College and the most recent affiliate in Bloomington, IN.

Hamilton Chapter, Hamilton College - Clinton, NY (1832-active)

Miami Chapter, Miami University - Oxford, OH (1833-1873, 1951-2003, 2006-active)

Yale Chapter, Yale University - New Haven, CT (1836-1873, 1888-1935, 1990-active)

Peninsular Chapter, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI - (1846-active)

Rochester Chapter, University of Rochester - Rochester, NY - (1850-active)

Kenyon Chapter, Kenyon College - Gambier, OH (1858-active)

Union Chapter, Union College - Schenectady, NY - (1859-active)

Cornell Chapter, Cornell University - Ithaca, NY - (1869-active)

Phi Kappa Chapter, Trinity College - Hartford, CT - (1877-active)

Johns Hopkins Chapter, Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD - (1889-1969, 1982-active)

Minnesota Chapter, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN - (1892-1996, 2000-active)

Toronto Chapter, University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario - (1893-active)

Chicago Chapter, University of Chicago - Chicago, IL - (1896-active)

Memorial Chapter, McGill University - Montreal, Quebec - (1897-active)

Wisconsin Chapter, University of Wisconsinadison - Madison, WI - (1902-active)

California Chapter, University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA - (1908-active)

Illinois Chapter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Champaign, IL - (1911-active)

Washington Chapter, University of Washington - Seattle, WA - (1921-1999, 2008-active)

British Columbia Chapter, University of British Columbia - Vancouver, BC - (1926-active)

Lambda Phi Chapter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA - (1976-active)

Massachusetts Chapter, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA - (1981-active)

Adelpho Chapter, Chapman University - Orange, CA (1956-active)

Nittany Chapter, Pennsylvania State University - State College, PA - (2002-active)

Nu Epsilon Zeta Chapter, Northeastern University - Boston, MA - (2006-active)

Middlesex Chapter, Brandeis University - Waltham, MA - (2006-active)

Connecticut Affiliate, University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT - (2008-active)

Florida State Affiliate, Florida State University - Tallahassee, FL - (2009-active)

Indiana Affiliate, Indiana University - Bloomington, IN - (2010-active)

(Source: The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, http://www.alphadeltaphi.org/, retrieved 2008-05-28 )

In addition, the Fraternity has a regional alumni organization, the Midwest Association of Alpha Delta Phi, which is more than 125 years old. Alpha Delta Phi also has the third oldest continuous chapter in the North America Fraternity System, which is also the second oldest Alpha chapter at Hamilton College.

The Society

Several Alpha Delta Phi chapters began co-educating in the 1960s, with the California Chapter leading the way (Note: The California Chapter since has rejoined the Fraternity as an all-male organization). Not all chapters approved of this change, and several decades of disputes followed, with some members lobbying for full admission of women, and others wanting to ban women altogether or grant them some form of associate membership. By 1992, the chapters agreed to bifurcate Alpha Delta Phi, creating the Alpha Delta Phi Society alongside the existing Fraternity. As part of the agreement, the Fraternity and the Society are completely separate and independent legal entities with separate governing bodies, and are not separate or parallel divisions of the same organization. The two groups share a license to use the name and intellectual property. The Society espouses "home rule," letting each chapter decide whether or not to co-educate. To date, all of its chapters are co-educated.

Chapters

As of 2010 the Society has four undergraduate chapters, two undergraduate affiliates, and five alumni chapters.

The Society was founded in 1992 by four chapters: Brunonian (at Brown University), Columbia (at Columbia University), Middletown (at Wesleyan University), and Stanford (at Stanford University). The Bowdoin Chapter, which had been required to withdraw from the Fraternity by the administration of Bowdoin College, joined the Society a year later. In 1994, the Society's first new chapter was formed at Middlebury College, becoming Alpha Delta Phi's first chapter to have a coeducational status from its inception.

Bowdoin College later abolished its fraternity system, and in 2000, the Bowdoin Chapter became alumni-only. However, the Bowdoin Chapter remains active and still inducts new members who are not current Bowdoin students. In 2005, Middlebury's undergraduate chapter chose to disassociate itself from the national society, and it became alumni-only as well.

In December 2007, the Society's Board of Governors voted unanimously to establish the Granite Affiliate at the University of New Hampshire.

In January 2010, the Society's Board of Governors voted unanimously to establish the affiliate at Harvard University.

The current undergraduate chapters and affiliates are as follows:

Columbia Chapter, Columbia University - New York, NY (1836-1840, 1881-active)

Brunonian Chapter, Brown University - Providence, RI (1836-1841, 1851-active)

Middletown Chapter, Wesleyan University - Middletown, CT (1856-active)

Stanford Chapter, Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA (1916-active)

Granite Affiliate, University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH (2007-active)

Harvard Affiliate, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA (1837-1865, 1879-1907, 2010-active)

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Alpha Delta Phi members

See also

Alpha Delta, former chapter at Dartmouth College.

References

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External links

Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity

Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity at the Open Directory Project

Alpha Delta Phi Society

Alpha Delta Phi Society at the Open Directory Project

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A - Alpha
B - Bravo
C - Charlie
D - Delta
E - Echo
F - Foxtrot
G - Golf
H - Hotel
I - India
J - Juliet
K - Kilo
L - Lima
M - Mike
N - November
O - Oscar
P - Papa
Q - Quebec
R - Romeo
S - Sierra
T - Tango
U - Uniform
V - Victor
W - Whiskey
X - X-ray
Y - Yankee
Z - Zulu
0 - Zero
1 - Wun (One)
2 - Two
3 - Tree (Three)
4 - Fower (Four)
5 - Fife (Five)
6 - Six
7 - Seven
8 - Ait (Eight)
9 - Niner (Nine)
. - decimal (point)
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