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Alpha
Gamma Delta was the first chapter to adopt philanthropy…Summer
Camp for Underprivileged Youths, 1919 |
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Alpha
Gamma Delta was the first chapter to create an Executive Council
Structure…1923 |
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Alpha
Gamma Delta was the first chapter to set a minimum GPA…1947 |
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Alpha
Gamma Delta was the first chapter to initiate a non-Caucasian member…Diane
Lam, Delta Zeta Chapter, University of British Colombia, 1953 |
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Alpha
Gamma Delta was the first chapter to colonize in Hawaii … Delta
Sigma Chapter, University of Hawaii at Manao, 1992 |
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Alpha
Gamma Delta has the widest span of chapters…from Nova Scotia
to Hawaii |
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In
the very early years of its operation, each Alpha Gamma Delta alumnae
and undergraduate chapter was required to raise $25 and donate one
outfit of clothing per year for an underprivileged child |
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In
the earliest years of Alpha Gamma Delta, when sisters wanted to
announce their engagement, her fiancée would send the house
a five pound box of candy! |
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Founder
Grace Mosher Harter is a descendant from the British Royal family,
the Mayflower, and the Robertson clan, which is descended from the
Scottish Malcolm III who is forever remembered as the man that defeated
Macbeth |
