"Remember that whatever I have done worth remembering, I know that the founding of our society was one of them." 

-Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our story begins in 1851 at Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia, where six incredible women changed the world. 

Led by Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, our founders formed The Adelphean Society for “the mental, moral, social, and domestic improvement of its members.” With her, five brave women forged an organization that would change the course of history and eventually lead to the birth of the sorority. These women were: Ella Pierce Turner, Octavia Andrew Rush, Elizabeth Williams Mitchell, Sophronia Woodruff Dews, and Mary Evans Glass. Above are the pictures of all the founders, with the exception of Elizabeth Williams Mitchell, whose portrait was recentlly repainted from memory. The Adelphean Society, later renamed Alpha Delta Pi, was the first secret society for college women. 

The principles of scholarship, leadership, sisterhood, and service guide over 235,000 women in more than 154 active collegiate chapters and over 150 alumnae associations of Alpha Delta Pi.

 

Below is our creed, which our chapter strives diligently to uphold ourselves to each and every day.