Phi sigma sigma iota alpha chapter founding full#

Phi sigma sigma iota alpha chapter founding full#

Iota joined the National Panhellenic Conference as an associate member in November 1953 and became a full member on November 4, 1957. In 1925 the sorority began creating its own semi-annual bulletin.

In 1924, a Rotation Scholarship Fund was created, allowing money to be loaned to worthy students by the sorority on the expectation of it being repaid.

Early expansion was at other schools in the New York Area, Gamma at the Brooklyn Law School, Delta at NYU Washington Square and Epsilon at the New Jersey Law School The Sorority became international in 1929 with the founding of Kappa chapter at University of Toronto, University of Manitoba had a particularly prosperous chapter. The original organizers grouped themselves as Alpha chapter and the succeeding group became Beta chapter. In 1913, with the new name Iota Alpha Pi, the members began the traditional sorority expansion process. : 309 įrances Zellermayer was a sister to Zeta Beta Tau founder Maurice Zellermayer and later married the brother of her fellow founder Rose Delson. club,, or 'Jay-ay-peez', : 80–82 focused on religious education and settlement house work. On March 3, 1903, on the campus of New York City, Normal College (now Hunter College), seven young women created a new sorority which they called the J.A.P. Iota Alpha Pi was the first national sorority for Jewish women. Iota Alpha Pi ( ΙΑΠ) was an international collegiate sorority operating in the United States and Canada from Ma to July 1971, when it ceased operations.