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Old 10-28-2003, 12:18 PM
bruinaphi bruinaphi is offline
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Re: Unusual: Founded by "three elderly gentlemen"

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Originally posted by hoosier
were started by college-age people - in most cases after some other GLO didn't take them.
Not all groups were started b/c some other GLO didn't take their founding members. Alpha Phi was started by 10 of the first female students to be admited to Syracuse University. They were looking for the solidarity of a group of women so they conceived the idea of a secret society similar to the fraternities that the men had formed on campus.

I don't think that what those men did was all that different. When they were collegiates they longed for a group that would accept them and established a trust so that future generations would find what they were looking for so long ago.

Last edited by bruinaphi; 07-19-2004 at 08:39 PM.
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