Kappa Alpha Theta

Kappa Alpha Theta ( ΚΑΘ ) is a Sororité of founded international size the January 27th 1870 at the university DePauw. The organization has 125 chapters in universities of the the United States and with the Canada with a total of 210.000 members.

History

Kappa Alpha Theta was founded at the university DePauw in 1870 with an aim of giving a more important weight to the women in the universities with male majority of the time. Four women, Bettie Locke (Hamilton), Alice Allen (Brant), Bettie Tipton (Lindsay) and Hannah Fitch (Shaw), decided to create this organization of assistance to the women. They thus created the sorority to propose the honest spirit of existing fraternities. Kappa Alpha Theta was based partly on the fraternity of the father of Bettie Locke (Beta Theta pi) and on the fraternity of his/her brother (Phi Gamma Delta).

Bettie and its friend Alice Allen wrote together a constitution, the ceremonies, drew a badge and encouraged the other girls of the campus to return in the new sorority. It was necessary three years so that the project is on the rails. The first initiation proceeded the January 27th 1870. The first sorority with Greek letters reserved to the women had been born. The badge of the sorority is colors black and gilded. The sorority arrived then in the university of Indiana in May.

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