The "Original Ten" of Alpha Phi are listed below. Alpha Phi was founded at Syracuse University in 1872.
[list=1][*]Clara Bradley Wheeler Baker Burdette[*]Hattie Florence Chidester Lukens[*]Martha Emily Foote Crow[*]Ida Arabella Gilbert DeLamanter Houghton[*]Jane Sara Higham[*]Kate Elizabeth Hogoboom Gilbert[*]Elizabeth Grace Hubbell Shults[*]Rena A. Michaels Atchison [*]Louise Viola Shepard Hancock[*]Clara Sittser Williams [/list=1]
In her "Old Girl and Days of '72," written for Alpha Phi's 40th reunion, Clara Burdette wrote: "We thought it would be a fine idea socially to form a circle of sympathetic friends whom we would know personally. We had as our aim the mutual improvement of each other, ever trying to do our best in college work, always keeping a high ideal before us. Never under any circumstances were we to speak disparagingly of a sister. We were to be ever loyal to one another, in joys or sorrows, success or failure, and ever extend a helping hand to our sisters who needed our aid; truly we planned to be a 'Union hand in hand.' "
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