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Encyclopedia > Alpha Delta Chi
Alpha Delta Chi

ΑΔΧ

Motto: As in a Mirror
Nickname: ADChi
Image:adxsmallercrest.jpg

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Founded: 1925 at UCLA
Founders:
  • Ruth Uhmstead Ohly
  • Evelyn Kepple Kay
  • Dora Marie Showalter Goertz
  • Dorothea Harvey Shultz
  • Marion Wright Madden
  • Theta Slingerland Dean
  • Alice Slingerland McEachern
  • Willard Crowder Clawson
  • Amy Culp
  • Alma Becker
Official Verse: 2 Corinthians 3:18
Official Colors: Flame and Blue
Official Flower: Gladiolus and Delphinium
Official Mascot: Lamb
Aims and Purposes: Spiritual, Social, and Scholastic Growth

ΑΔΧ - Alpha Delta Chi is a national Christian sorority founded at UCLA in 1925. Its brother fraternity is Alpha Gamma Omega. The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Blue is any of a number of similar colors. ... Species About 260, see text Gladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword), sometimes called the sword lily, is a genus of flowering plants, iris family (Iridaceae). ... Species See text Delphinium is a genus of about 250 species of annual, biennial or perennial flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native throughout the Northern Hemisphere and also on the high mountains of tropical Africa. ... It has been suggested that Lambing be merged into this article or section. ... While the traditional womens fraternity or sorority was founded well before the start of the 20th century, the first ever Christian sorority was founded at UCLA in 1925 by ten women and named Alpha Delta Chi. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... The terms fraternity and sorority (from the Latin words frater and soror, meaning brother and sister respectively) may be used to describe any number of social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Rotary International, or the Shriners. ... ΑΓΩ - Alpha Gamma Omega (aka AGO) is a fraternity that is centered on Jesus Christ and is a Christian fraternity. ...


Alpha Delta Chi History

Alpha Delta Chi (ΑΔΧ) was founded in 1925 at the University of California, Los Angeles by ten women. Their vision was to create a place where Christian women could participate in greek life without compromising their beliefs, build strong friendships, and most of all, they wanted to create a place which would mirror Christ's love to their community. The sorority was originally named Areta, which means virtue. The sorority's purpose is to provide fellowship for Christian college women, to strengthen the spiritual lives of its members, to be a testimony for Christ on each campus. The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university located in the residential area of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... A Christian is a follower of Jesus, whom they regard as a/the Christ. ... While the term fraternity can be used to describe any number of social organizations, including the Lions Club and the Shriners, fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations of higher education students in the United States and Canada but there are fraternities in the whole world (for... This page is about the title or the Divine Person. For the Christian figure, see Jesus. ...


In 1929, Karin Anderson Dyer and Edith Bishop McAulay, two members of the Alpha chapter of Areta, were attending the University of California, Berkeley as graduate students. The two saw a need for the sorority and with the help of the Alpha Chapter, they organized the Beta Chapter on February 4, 1929. The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ...


The first annual convention of Alpha Delta Chi was held in Berkeley, California, on April 6-7, 1939. At this meeting the National Association of Areta and the National Executive and Advisory Board were formed. The original name of the National Fraternity, Areta, was changed to Alpha Delta Chi at the June 1943 National Convention. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ...


ADX currently has 10 active chapters across the nation.


Sorority Verse

"For we all with unveiled face, reflecting as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Corinthians 3:18


List of Chapters


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Alpha Delta Phi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1592 words)
Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ) is a Greek-letter fraternity in the United States and Canada.
Alpha Delta Phi was a charter member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference (formerly known as the National Interfraternity Council) (NIC), and a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Hamilton W. Mabie (Williams College, class of 1867), was the first President of the NIC.
The Fraternity is a retronym used now to distinguish the all-male Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity (aka the Alpha Delta Phi International) from the co-ed Alpha Delta Phi Society.
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