On May 15, 1851, Alpha Delta Pi was founded as the Adelphean Society at Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia, by six young women. The founders are Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, Ella Pierce Turner, Octavia Andrew Rush, Mary Evans Glass, Sophronia Woodruff Dews, and Elizabeth Williams Mitchell. Fitzgerald, known to generations of Alpha Delta Pis as “Mother Fitzgerald,” was the leader and first president of the Adelpheans.
In 1905, the Society changed its name to Alpha Delta Phi and installed its second chapter at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A year later, a third chapter was founded at Mary Baldwin Seminary, in Staunton, Virginia. Alpha Delta Phi joined the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) in 1909. The installation of the Sigma Chapter at the University of Illinois in 1912 came shortly after the installation, on the same campus, of the Illinois Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, a men’s fraternity founded in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. The Illinois members made their organization aware of this duplication of name and the problems that surfaced because of it. In 1913, the convention body voted to change the name to Alpha Delta Pi.
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Florence M. Rohr was an initiate of the Brenau College chapter.
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June Wuest Becht was an initiate of the University of Missouri chapter.
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Irene Roberta Price was an initiate of the Trinity College (now Duke University) chapter.
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Emma Harper Applegate was an initiate of the Lawrence College (now University) chapter.
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Katherine Van Winkle Palmer, Ph.D. was an initiate of the University of Washington chapter.
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Lois Miles Zucker was an initiate of the University of Illinois chapter.
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Dr. Sara Branham was an initiate of the Wesleyan College chapter.
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Jeanette Barrows was a member of the University of Washington chapter.
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Doris Holmes Blake was an initiate of the Boston University chapter.
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Gladys Gilpatrick was an initiate of the University of Illinois chapter.
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