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Founder Clara Sittser Williams recalls the early days of Alpha Phi and her thoughts on each of the other founders.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: Oct 19th, 1897
Founders Clara Sittser (left) and Rena Michaels (right) pose together.
Collection: Archive Collection
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Collection: HQ Artwork Collection
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This list features the names of the ten Alpha Phi founders as well as two early Alpha Chapter members.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: 1870 - 1879
Eleanor Avery Griffiths' Alpha Chapter notebook features the lyrics to several Alpha Phi songs. The notebook also includes drawings of sorority crests, lists of active collegiate chapters, and lists of Alpha Chapter members.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: 1890 - 1899
Alpha Phi Historian Betty Loveland Heinze requests information from Bluff City Cemetery about the burial site of Founder Rena Michaels Atchison and her husband Wilbur Fisk Atchison.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: Sep 5th, 1975
Alpha Phi Historian Betty Loveland Heinze provides information to the Northwestern University Archivist about the burial sites of Founders and former Deans of Students Rena Michaels Atchison and Martha Foote Crow. A reply to this letter is also part of the collection.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: Jan 25th, 1975
Alpha Phi Historian Betty Loveland Heinze requests information about the burial site of Founder Rena Michaels Atchison.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: Oct 26th, 1974
This page contains the first page of a short history of the founding of Alpha Phi and early meetings and first meeting rooms. It continues on the next page.
Collection: Epsilon Chi Chapter Scrapbook Collection
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This page contains biographical sketches and a photograph of Founders Clara Sittser and Rena Michaels.
Collection: Epsilon Chi Chapter Scrapbook Collection
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This article discusses the original Alpha Chapter house at 207 University Place - the first sorority chapter house in the country - and its likely demolition by Syracuse University. The majority of the article details the construction of the house in 1887. The article includes a current photograph of the outside of the house and a historical photograph of the parlor.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: Jan 7th, 1962
Alpha Phi Founders Louise Shepard Hancock, Clara Bradley Wheeler Baker Burdette, Clara Sittser Williams, Ida Gilbert Houghton, and Martha Foote Crow pose at the 1914 Convention. The only living Founder absent from this photograph was Rena Michaels Atchison.
Collection: HQ Artwork Collection
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This list features the Alpha Phi pledge and brief biographies of the Fraternity's 10 Founders.
Collection: Archive Collection
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This script, created for Founders' Day, uses a scrapbook to describe each of the Fraternity's 10 Founders. This is an enclosure to a letter in the collection.
Collection: Archive Collection
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This information sheet includes a list of Alpha Phi's 10 Founders and a suggested prayer to open a Founders' Day program.
Collection: Archive Collection
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This script, created for Founders' Day, uses the 10 Founders as characters as they describe themselves and the founding of Alpha Phi.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: Apr 1986
Collection: Publications
Date: Jan 1947
Founder Elizabeth Hubbell Shults recalls the founding of the Michaelanean Society and lists who she considers to be charter members of Alpha Chapter.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: Nov 24th, 1898
Vice President of Alumnae Martha Watkins Mast gave this speech at the graveside of Founder Kate Hogoboom Gilbert in honor of Alpha Phi's centennial.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: Oct 1972
Beta Chapter alumna Henrietta M. Coone provides information about Alpha Phi to Florence Hays, who is interested in opening a chapter at DePauw University.
Collection: Archive Collection
Date: Apr 1887