Alpha Phi

Epsilon Theta Chapter

                                      Other Facts

  • Alpha Phi is called a "fraternity" because it was founded before the word "sorority" was invented
  • Alpha Phi is pronounced Alpha "fee" (long "e") not "fie," because this originally was the correct way to pronounce the greek letter.
  • Alpha Phi was one of the first women's fraternity to use Greek letters as its emblem.
  • Alpha Phi is one of the organizations that has twice received the American Heart Association's highest award, The Heart and Torch Award.
  • Alpha Phi is one of three international sororities.
  • Alpha Phi was the first women's fraternity in America to build and occupy its own chapter house.
  • Alpha Phi's original colors were blue and gold.

    •                                        Famous Phis

        Allison Cink Rickels (Epsilon Theta-Northern Iowa) CEO/executive director of Farmhouse Foundation, the first woman executive director of a men’s fraternity educational foundation (since 2007).

    Kimberly Williams (Βeta-Northwestern) Actress. Movies: Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride: Part 2 and Indian Summer. Stage credits: Vagina Monologues. Television credits: Neil Simon's Jake's Women, Relativity, The 10th Kingdom miniseries and Hallmark commercials. She appears this fall on ABC®’s According to Jim (see Fall 2001 Quarterly).

     

         Jeri Ryan (Βeta-Northwestern) Actress. Television: played the role of Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager, Ronnie Cooke on Fox’s Boston Public (since 2001), Melrose Place, Who’s the Boss?, The Flash, Time Trax, Matlock and Dark Skies. Starred in several films including Men Cry Bullets, The Last Man, Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000, a cameo in Disney's The Kid, and Down with Love. Miss Illinois in 1989.

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