Phi Facts

Crest:


Colors:
Silver and Bordeaux

Fraternity Flower:
           
Forget-Me-Not and Lily of the Valley

Symbol:

Ivy Leaf　　　

Motto:

Union Hand in Hand　

Mascot:

Phi Bear
(named after Ursa Major, the Great Bear)　

* Alpha Phi is the FOURTH OLDEST and FOURTH LARGEST National Sorority.
* In 1902, Alpha Phi called together the first Inter-Sorority meeting. This Conference later came to be known as National Panhellenic Conference (NPC).
* Alpha Phi was the first sorority to own a chapter house and was the first NPC sorority to have a National Web Page!
* A professor of Greek at Syracuse University instructed the women to pronounce the letter "Phee" to be grammatically correct for a letter following a vowel.
* Alpha Phi is one of only three International Sororities.
* The original colors were blue and gold but they were changed to a more distinctive Silver and Bordeaux in 1879 when it was discovered Delta Upsilon had the same colors.