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drew up plans for a women's fraternity they named Alpha Delta Sigma. Its founders were Mary G. Fickett, Georgia L. Hodgdon, Frances G. Gefford, Martha L. Root, Carrie L. Worthen, and Kate E. Cousens. In
October 1895, the fraternity's members drafted its constitution and bylaws. Its first initiations
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February 1897 and was the first sorority on campus. Its original members were Agnes Burnham, Autense Cousens, Susie Davis, Rena Dunn, Maude Farnham, Lottie Farrar, Grace Fernandez, Carrie Green, Emily Hamlin, Rena Morrisette. Mildred Powell, and Pearl Swain. Phi Gamma's colors were yellow and
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The regional sorority Delta Sigma adopted the colors and symbols of its predecessor Delta Sigma (local). Its colors were Nile or pale green and white. Its flower was the violet. Its badge was "a square of black enamel with concave sides outlined in gold, and displaying the letters
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University was called The Secret Order of Delta Sigma. It used the original local fraternity's 1895 founding date and was incorporated in 1908. It was active until 1911 when Brown banned Greek letter organizations.
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in 1897, so the three incoming Delta Sigma chapters were all slightly older than the new sorority's chapters. With this merger, Delta Sigma ceased to exist as a regional fraternity. In its lifetime, it had around 200 members.
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