Alpha Phi Symbols
Fun Phi Facts
Colors: Silver and Bordeaux
Symbol: Ivy leaf
Flowers: Lily of the Valley and Forget-me-not
Mascot: The Phi Bear
Motto: Union Hand in Hand
Over 140 collegiate chapters
Over 200 alumnae chapters
Over 140,000 sisters from 1872 to present
Alpha Phi is the 4th oldest and 4th largest sorority.
One of only three international sororities.
A professor of Greek at Syracuse University advised the founders to call the organization Alpha "Fee" instead of Alpha "Fie" to be grammatically correct, as the Phi follows a vowel and is the last letter in the sequence.
Three of our founders were listed in "Who's Who of America": Clara Bradley Burdette, Martha Foote Crow, and Rena Michaels Atchison.
In 1902, the Theta Chapter of Alpha Phi called the inter-sorority meeting which resulted in the founding of what is now the National Panhellenic Council.
Alpha Phi's original colors were blue and gold. In 1879, the colors were changed to the more distinct silver and bordeaux. Blue and gold were the colors of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and the change was made in order to set Alpha Phi apart from the other greek organization.