User:Corsulian/List of firsts in the North American fraternity and sorority system
This is a list of firsts in the North American fraternity and sorority system.
Category/Type firsts[edit]
- Phi Beta Kappa - The first Greek letter collegiate student society
- Kappa Alpha Society - The first men's social fraternity
- Alpha Delta Pi - The first student society that would become a Greek letter women's social fraternity
- Chi Theta Delta[a] - The first Greek letter women's fraternity, founded 1856[1]
- Omega Eta Tau - The first secondary school student organization that would become a Greek letter men's fraternity
Scope firsts[edit]
- Sigma Phi - The first men's social fraternity to expand to multiple campuses
Geographic firsts[edit]
- Zeta Psi - The first men's social fraternity to have both an east coast and a west coast chapter; the first men's social fraternity to charter a Canadian chapter
- Sigma Phi Epsilon - The first men's social fraternity to charter a chapter in all fifty US states
- Kappa Sigma - The first southern men's social fraternity to establish a chapter in the north (1880)
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon - The first men's social fraternity established in the south (1856)
- Sigma Lambda Beta - The first men's social Latino fraternity to have both an east coast and a west coast chapter (1992), following the Latino Greek lettered boom that started in 1975
Cultural firsts[edit]
- Alpha Phi Alpha - The first men's fraternity established for African-Americans
- Alpha Kappa Alpha - The first women's fraternity established for African-Americans
- Phi Iota Alpha - The first men's fraternity established for Latinos
- Lambda Theta Alpha - The first women's fraternity established for Latinas
- Phi Sigma Nu - The first men's fraternity established for Native Americans
- Alpha Pi Omega - The first women's fraternity established for Native Americans
Nominal firsts[edit]
- Gamma Phi Beta - The first organization to label itself a "sorority"
Notes[edit]
a. ^ Chi Theta Delta later became part of Theta Delta Chi[1].
References[edit]
- ^ a b Martin, Ida Shaw (1919), The Sorority Handbook (6th ed.), Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing, p. 13, retrieved 2008-06-17