History
In 1893, ten women at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, shared a vision and a dream of a national organization dedicated to the personal growth of women. Their dream became Alpha Xi Delta, one of the oldest women’s fraternities in the United States.
The ten founders of Alpha Xi Delta were Cora Bollinger Block, Alice Bartlett Bruner, Bertha Cook Evans, Harriett Luella McCollum, Lucy W. Gilmer, Lewie Strong Taylor, Almira Lowry Cheney, Frances Elisabeth Cheney, Eliza Drake Curtis Everton, and Julia Maude Foster.
The ideals envisioned by Alpha Xi Delta’s founders have remained constant throughout the years, inspiring each member to pursue individual excellence. Now a national fraternity with more than 150,000 initiated members, the Fraternity is an organization with college chapters and alumnae associations throughout the United States.
Since Alpha Xi Delta’s founding over 118 years ago, the Fraternity continue to emphasize the ideals the Founders instilled in the Fraternity: sisterhood, leadership, knowledge and service to our communities.
Alpha Xi Delta is the only National Panhellenic Conference sorority that uses Xi in its official name.
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