Delta Phi Epsilon International Sorority

About Delta Phi Epsilon

HISTORY
"On March 17, 1917, five women at New York University Law School took a pledge of sisterhood and loyalty and so founded the Alpha Chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon, the first non-sectarian, social sorority and the only one founded at a professional school."

"Minna Goldsmith Mahler*, Eva Effron Robin*, Ida Bienstock Landau*, Sylvia Steierman Cohn* and Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman*, five young law students saw Delta Phi Epsilon as a society to "promote good fellowship among the women students among the various colleges in the country...to create a secret society composed of these women based upon their good moral character, regardless of nationality or creed...to have distinct chapters at various colleges..." with the motto Esse Quam Videri: to be rather than to seem to be." (* deceased)

PEARL PROGRAM
Delta Phi Epsilon encourages members to develop personally and as a group by participating in the PEARL program. The PEARL program consists of five categories to encourage enrichment and to help members to uphold the Delta Phi Epsilon Standards of Excellence. The five categories, also known as "The Five S's", are:
SISTERHOOD, SCHOLARSHIP, SERVICE, SOCIAL, & SELF

PHILANTHROPIES
The Delta Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD)

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