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About Us

Our History

Founded in 1904, Alpha Gamma Delta is an international fraternity for women, dedicated to academic excellence, leadership development, high ideals and sisterhood. Today, Alpha Gamma Delta enjoys wide recognition as a premier women's organization committed to academic excellence, leadership development, high ideals and sisterhood. The Fraternity makes a unique, lifelong impact on its members. No matter where life takes an Alpha Gam, she will always find herself surrounded by sisterhood.

 

Our flowers.....................................................Red and buff roses with green plumosa fern

Our jewel...............................................................................................................Pearl

Our colors........................................................................................Red, Buff and Green

Our mascot.........................................................................................Skirious (Squirrel)

Our founding..................................May 30, 1904,Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

 

 

The Alpha Gam Mission

Alpha Gamma Delta is an international fraternity for women that exists to provide opportunities for personal development through the spirit of sisterhood.



  • We support lifelong learning as a means to gain understanding and wisdom.
  • We promote the value of fraternal membership and commitment to higher education.
  • We help prepare members to contribute to the world's work.
  • We advocate lifetime involvement in Alpha Gamma Delta.

 

Famous Alpha Gams

Raquel Welch, Carly Simon, Gloria Loring, Carol King, Vogue Managing Editor Lorraine Davis, Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched), Barbara Jo Walker (Miss America 1947), Shelly Winnaman (body double in Pretty Woman), Amber Brkich (Survivor II: Outback), Ellen Janeway Brothers, President of American Girl and the Executive Vice President of Mattel