Alpha Gamma Delta started as a dorm room discussion of college friendships between two sisters and grew into an international sisterhood of thousands of friends on and off college campuses. The two sisters, Marguerite and Estelle Shepard, talked of the need for a new women’s fraternity on the Syracuse University campus. The fraternity was officially founded Monday, May 30, 1904 by eleven founders: Marguerite Shepard, Estelle Shepard Beswick, Jennie Titus Smith Morris, Georgia Dickover, Ethel Brown Distin, Edith MacConnell Hickok, Flora Knight Mayer, Mary Louise Snider, Grace Mosher Harter, Georgia Otis Chipman, Emily Helen Butterfield.

Upsilon Chapter at the University of Oklahoma was founded in 1919.

 

 

Purpose

The Alpha Gamma Delta Purpose, with its illuminated border, is a gift from Founder Emily Butterfield. It remains unchanged from the day it was written. The Purpose, contemporary and constant, is an open statement of goals and a constant reminder of what we, as individual members of Alpha Gamma Delta, strive to achieve throughout our lives.

 

 

Vision

Inspire the Woman. Impact the World.

 

 

Mission

Alpha Gamma Delta is an international fraternity for women that exists to provide opportunities for personal development through the spirit of sisterhood.

We support lifelong learning as a means to gain understanding and wisdom.

We promote the value of fraternal membership and commitment to higher education.

We help prepare members to contribute to the world’s work.

We advocate lifetime involvement in Alpha Gamma Delta.

 

 

Flowers

A red and buff rose with green asparagus plumosa fern

 

 

 

 

Jewel

Pearl

 

 

 

 

Colors

Red, Buff and Green

 

 

 

 

Mascot

Squirrel