Alpha Phi Bid Day
Kate Sonderegger
Issue date: 9/4/08 Section: News
Hearts were beating fast and stomachs were in knots as the anticipation of who would walk through the door into room 5200 grew. The sisters of Alpha Phi were counting down with the clock as it ticked closer to 1:30 PM because, at that time, they would finally see which girls would become their sisters. Saturday, August 23, 2008 was a day that these girls would not soon forget for this was the day that they received their biggest pledge class in the history of the Iota Epsilon chapter.
Alpha Phi International Fraternity is one of two sororities offered to the girls of Kettering University during A section. It is an organization whose main purpose is to promote sisterhood, cultivate leadership, encourage intellectual curiosity and advocate service. The sisters of Alpha Phi seek not only intellectual development, but also the spirit of love and charity. They are advocates of cardiac care, the number one killer of women in the United States. Alpha Phi is a sisterhood whose goal is to promote the growth of their member's characters. They also are on a mission to create a feeling of unity, produce a feeling of sisterly affection, and construct a line of communication among the sisters. Alpha Phi's firm believers of watchcare which is a term to describe how the sisters of Alpha Phi look after one another and help with personal development.
Alpha Phi was founded on September 30, 1872, at Syracuse University by ten women who decided they needed a support system in order to get through their higher education since at that time women were thought to be only wives, daughters, and mothers. These women were Clara Bradley Wheeler Baker Burdette, Hattie Florence Chidester Lukens, Martha Emily Foote Crow, Ida Arabella Gilbert DeLamanter Houghton, Jane Sara Higham, Kate Elizabeth Hogoboom Gilbert, Elizabeth Grace Hubbell Shults, Rena A. Michaels Atchison, Louise Viola Shepard Hancock, and Clara Sittser Williams. Without their knowing, these ten women started a sisterhood that would surpass the hardships of time and would spread to two countries and amount to 147 chapters.
Alpha Phi International Fraternity is one of two sororities offered to the girls of Kettering University during A section. It is an organization whose main purpose is to promote sisterhood, cultivate leadership, encourage intellectual curiosity and advocate service. The sisters of Alpha Phi seek not only intellectual development, but also the spirit of love and charity. They are advocates of cardiac care, the number one killer of women in the United States. Alpha Phi is a sisterhood whose goal is to promote the growth of their member's characters. They also are on a mission to create a feeling of unity, produce a feeling of sisterly affection, and construct a line of communication among the sisters. Alpha Phi's firm believers of watchcare which is a term to describe how the sisters of Alpha Phi look after one another and help with personal development.
Alpha Phi was founded on September 30, 1872, at Syracuse University by ten women who decided they needed a support system in order to get through their higher education since at that time women were thought to be only wives, daughters, and mothers. These women were Clara Bradley Wheeler Baker Burdette, Hattie Florence Chidester Lukens, Martha Emily Foote Crow, Ida Arabella Gilbert DeLamanter Houghton, Jane Sara Higham, Kate Elizabeth Hogoboom Gilbert, Elizabeth Grace Hubbell Shults, Rena A. Michaels Atchison, Louise Viola Shepard Hancock, and Clara Sittser Williams. Without their knowing, these ten women started a sisterhood that would surpass the hardships of time and would spread to two countries and amount to 147 chapters.
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