Alpha Delta Phi

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Alpha Delta Phi
Founded	1832 at Hamilton College
Founders	Samuel Eells Lorenzo Latham John S. Underwood Oliver Andrew Morse Henry Lemuel Storrs
Motto	Manus multæ cor unum (Many hands, one heart).
President	Jon Vick, HAM '64 (Fraternity), Craig Cheslog BDN '93 (Society)
Colors	Emerald and Pearl
Flower	The Lily of the Valley
Chapters	23 chapters and 3 affilliates (Fraternity), 5 chapters (Society)
Scope	United States, Canada
Homepage	[http://www.alphadeltaphi.org] (Fraternity), [http://www.adps.org] (Society)

Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ) is a Greek-letter fraternity in the United States and Canada. Nowadays the name refers to both an all-male fraternity that was founded in 1832 by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York and a "society" that broke off from the fraternity in 1992 which permits co-educated chapters. The Fraternity and the Society both come out of Eells's vision for a "literary society," although Alpha Delta Phi's original academic focus is preserved to varying degrees by individual chapters.

From its early days, Alpha Delta Phi sought students of a decided literary orientation. In the founder's own words, the literary pursuit of the fraternity must "be built on a more comprehensive scale providing for every taste and talent and embracing every department of literature and science. It must be national and universal in all its adaptations, so as not merely to cultivate a taste for literature or furnish the mind with knowledge but with a true philosophical spirit looking to the entire man, so as to develop the whole being -- moral, social and intellectual." Today, the literary tradition is carried on the international level in the form of annual literary competitions sponsored by the Alpha Delta Phi Foundation, which awards cash prizes in each of five categories.

Alpha Delta Phi was a charter member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference (formerly known as the National Interfraternity Council) (NIC), and a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Hamilton W. Mabie (Williams College, class of 1867), was the first President of the NIC.

The Fraternity

The Fraternity is a retronym used now to distinguish the all-male Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity (aka the Alpha Delta Phi International) from the co-ed Alpha Delta Phi Society. In general parlance, the Fraternity refers to itself simply as "Alpha Delta Phi", since the Society adds "Society" to the end to distinguish itself.

Chapters

As of 2005 the Fraternity has 23 chapters and 3 affiliates, the oldest chapter at Hamilton College and the most recent affiliate at Brandeis University.

• HAMILTON CHAPTER, HAMILTON UNIVERSITY - Clinton, NY (1832-active)
• MIAMI CHAPTER, MIAMI UNIVERSITY - Oxford, OH (1835-1873, 1951-active)
• YALE CHAPTER, YALE UNIVERSITY - New Haven, CT (1836-1873, 1888-1935, 1990-active)
• AMHERST CHAPTER, AMHERST COLLEGE (1836-1989, 2002-active)
• BOWDOIN CHAPTER, BOWDOIN COLLEGE - (1841-1972, 1976-1992)
• University of Michigan (Peninsular) - Ann Arbor, MI - 1846
• ALABAMA CHAPTER, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA (1850 - 1859)
• University of Rochester - Rochester, NY - 1850
• University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA - 1855
• KENYON CHAPTER, KENYON COLLEGE - Gambier, OH (1858-active)
• Union College - Schenectady, NY - 1859
• Cornell University - Ithaca, NY - 1869
• Trinity College (Phi Kappa) - Hartford, CT - 1877
• Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD - 1889
• University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN - 1892
• University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario - 1893
• University of Chicago - Chicago, IL - 1896
• McGill University (Memorial) - Montreal, Quebec - 1897
• University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI - 1902
• University of California - Berkeley, CA - 1908
• University of Illinois - Champaign, IL - 1911
• University of Washington - Seattle, WA - 1921
• BRITISH COLUMBIA CHAPTER, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - Vancouver, British Columbia (1926-active)
• M.I.T. (Lambda Phi) - Cambridge, MA - 1976
• University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA - 1978
• ADELPHO CHAPTER, CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY (1987-active)
• Pennsylvania State University (Nittany Affiliate) - State College, PA - 2000
• Northeastern University - (Nu Epsilon Zeta Affiliate) - Boston, MA - 2004
• York College of Pennsylvania (Omega Theta Chi Affiliate) - York, PA - 2005
• Brandeis University (Affiliate)- Waltham, MA - 2006

*Source: Alpha Delta Phi International

The Society

Several Alpha Delta Phi chapters began co-educating in the 1960's, starting with the California Chapter. Not all chapters approved of this change, and several decades of disputes followed, with some members lobbying for full admission of women, and others wanting to ban women altogether or grant them some form of associate membership. By 1992, the chapters agreed to bifurcate Alpha Delta Phi, creating the Alpha Delta Phi Society alongside the existing Fraternity. The Society espouses "home rule", letting each chapter decide whether or not to co-educate. To date, all of its chapters are co-educated.

Chapters

As of 2005 the Society had four undergraduate chapters and two alumni chapters. The Society was founded in 1992 by four chapters: Brunonian (at Brown University), Columbia (at Columbia University), Middletown (at Wesleyan University), and Stanford (at Stanford University). The Bowdoin chapter, which had been required to withdraw from the Fraternity by the administration of Bowdoin College, joined the Society a year later. In 1994, the Society's first new chapter was formed at Middlebury College, becoming Alpha Delta Phi's first chapter to be co-educated from the beginning. Bowdoin College later abolished its fraternity system, and the Bowdoin chapter became alumni-only. In 2005, Middlebury's undergraduate chapter went under, and it became alumni-only as well.

Notable Alumni

Athletics

• Bernard W. Bierman -- University of Minnesota, 1915, Athlete, University of Minnesota Football Coach
• Walter A. Haas, Jr. -- University of California, 1937, owner of Oakland Athletics, Honorary Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
• Francis "Fay" T. Vincent -- Williams College, 1960, former Commissioner, Major League Baseball

Business and Finance

• C.F.W. Bruce -- University of Toronto, 1926, President of the Aluminum Company of Canada.
• Henry Clay Folger -- Amherst College, 1879, President of Standard Oil and Founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library
• G. Keith Funston -- Phi Kappa Chapter, 1932, President of the NYSE, 1951-1967.
• William R. Grace -- (Col 1900), Founder of W.R. Grace & Co.
• Arthur B. Homer -- Brown University, 1917, President of the Bethlehem Steel Company.
• David Packard -- Stanford University, 193?, Founder of the Hewlett-Packard Computer Corporation
• Charles H. Percy -- University of Chicago, 1941, U.S. Senator, Chairman of Bell & Howell Corporation.
• Phillip W. Pillsbury -- Yale University, 1924, President of The Pillsbury Corporation
• John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -- Brown University, 1897, Financier and Philanthropist.
• Elwyn L. Smith -- Cornell University, 1917, Founder and President of the Smith Corona typewriter company
• Allan Sproul -- (Cal 1919, Director, Kaiser Aluminum.
• Grant Tinker -- Dartmouth College, 1949, President of NBC.
• Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser -- Yale University, 1917, Chairman of the Weyerhaeuser Company.
• Gerald B. Zornow -- University of Rochester, 1937, Chairman of Eastman Kodak

Clergy

• Bishop Henry D. Aves -- (K 1878).
• Bishop Frederick Burgess -- (Brn 1873).
• Bishop Sheldon M. Griswold -- (Un 1882).
• Bishop John M. Kendrick -- (K 1859).
• Bishop Theodore B. Lyman -- (Ham 1837).
• Bishop H. Clifford Northcott -- (N 1919).
• Bishop Lyman C. Ogilby -- (Ham 1943).
• Bishop Lauriston L. Scaife -- (PK 1931).
• Bishop Herbert Shipman -- (Col 1890).
• Bishop Dudley S. Stark -- (PK 1917).

Education

• Joseph S. Ames -- John Hopkins Chapter, 1886, President of Johns Hopkins University
• Charles W. Eliot -- Harvard Chapter, 1853, President of Harvard University
• William Watts Folwell -- Geneva Chapter, 1857, President of the University of Minnesota
• Louis Agassiz Fuertes -- Cornell Chapter, 1987, Naturalist and Artist
• G. Keith Funston -- Phi Kappa Chapter, 1932, President of Trinity College
• Daniel Coit Gilman -- Yale Chapter, 1852, President of Johns Hopkins University
• [Emory W. Hunt]] -- Rochester Chapter, 1884, President of Denison University; President of Bucknell University
• Robert M. Hutchins -- Yale Chapter, 1921, President of the University of Chicago
• Andrew Van Vranken Raymond -- Union Chapter, 1875, President of Union College
• Eugene V. Rostow -- Yale Chapter, 1933, Dean of the Yale School of Law, Adviser to the US Department of State
• Thomas B. Rudd -- Hamilton Chapter, 1921, President of Hamilton College

Entertainment

• Roger Faxon -- John Hopkins University, 1970, C.O.O. of Columbia Pictures
• Hayden Schlossberg -- University of Chicago, 2000, co-screenwriter, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
• Ben Stein -- Columbia University, 1966, actor and author
• Fredric March -- University of Wisconsin, 1920, actor
• Chris Miller -- Dartmouth College, 1963, co-screenwriter, Animal House
• Raymond Joseph Teller (of Penn and Teller) -- Amherst College, 1970, actor and magician

Government and Military

• Hon. John Black Aird -- University of Toronto, 195?, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Canadian Senator.
• Henry B. Brown -- Yale University, 1856, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Salmon P. Chase -- Secretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln. Chief Justice of the United States.
• Bainbridge Colby -- Williams College, 1890, Secretary of State. Founder of Progressive Party.
• Joshua L. Chamberlain -- Bowdoin College, 1852. Hero of the Battle of Gettysburg. Received Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Medal of Honor, Governor of Maine, President of Bowdoin College.
• Dwight F. Davis -- Harvard University, 1900, Secretary of War. Donor of the Davis Cup.
• Alastair W. Gillespie -- McGill University 198?, Member of Canadian Parliament, Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce (Canada).
• Alger Hiss -- Johns Hopkins University, clerk to fellow fraternity alumnus Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., influential U.S. State Department official, convicted of perjury in House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into communist spying.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- Harvard University, 1861, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• Edward M. House -- Cornell, 1881, politician, Presidential adviser, and diplomat.
• William Luther -- University of Minnesota, 1967, U.S. Congressman.
• Harlan Fiske Stone -- Amherst College, 1894, Chief Justice of the United States.
• Lt. Colonel Steven R. Nagel -- University of Illinois, 1969, NASA Astronaut, Space Shuttle Discovery.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Harvard University, 1904, President of the United States.
• John S. Wold -- Union College, 1938, U.S. Congressman, oil man, and philanthropist.

Law and Judiciary

• Henry B. Brown -- (Y 1856), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
• Salmon P. Chase -- (D 1826), Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
• William R. Day -- (P 1870), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes -- (Hvd 1861), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
• Dana H. Porter -- (Tor 1921), Chief Justice of Ontario.
• William B. Scott -- (McG 1912), Chief Justice, Superior Court of Quebec.
• George Shiras, Jr. -- (Y 1853), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
• Harlan F. Stone -- (Am 1894), Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

Literature and Journalism

• Samuel Hopkins Adams, Hamilton College, 1891, Author.
• Francis Bellamy -- University of Rochester, 1876, author of the original Pledge of Allegiance
• John Perry Barlow -- Middletown, 1969, poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Philip Barry, Yale University, 1918, Author.
• Stephen Vincent Benet, Yale University, 1919, Poet.
• Richard G. Eberhart, University of Minnesota, 1926, Poet.
• John Farrar, Yale University, 1918, Poet, Publisher.
• Henry R. Luce, Yale University, 1920, Publisher; Founder of Time, Life.
• Robert Ludlum -- Middletown, 1959, novelist
• Col. Robert R. McCormick -- Yale University, 1903, Editor and Publisher of the Chicago Tribune.
• Daniel Pearl -- Stanford University, 1985, journalist and victim of American war on terror.
• Scott Turow -- Amherst College, 1970, novelist
• Thornton Wilder -- Yale University, 1920, author and playwright

Science and Engineering

• Dr. Frederick M. Allen -- (Cal 1902), Pioneer in Diabetes.
• Farrington Daniels -- (Minn 1910), Pioneer in Solar Energy; Chairman, Chemistry at University of Wisconsin.
• Dr. Hans Lisser -- (Cal 1907), Pioneer in Gland Disorders.
• William H. Masters -- (Ham 1938), Researcher, Human Sexuality.
• Louis Nicot Ridenour -- (Chi 1932), Member, Atomic Energy Commission.

External links

Fraternity

• [Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity]
• [Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity] at the Open Directory Project

Chapters

• [Minnesota Chapter]
• [British Columbia Chapter]
• [California Chapter]
• [Adelpho Chapter - Chapman University]
• [Cornell Chapter]
• [Lambda Phi Chapter - MIT]
• [Memorial Chapter - McGill University]
• [Toronto Chapter]
• [Virginia Chapter]
• [Rochester Chapter]
• [Brandeis Affiliate]

Society

• [Alpha Delta Phi Society]
• [Alpha Delta Phi Society] at the Open Directory Project

Chapters

• [Columbia Chapter]
• [Brown Chapter]

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