Kappa Alpha Theta (ΚΑΘ), also known as Theta, is an international women's fraternity founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University, formerly Indiana Asbury. Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter women's college fraternity. The organization currently has over 125 chapters at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada with a total initiated membership of nearly 210,000.
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Kappa Alpha Theta (ΚΑΘ), also known as Theta, is an international women's fraternity founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University, formerly Indiana Asbury. Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter women's college fraternity. The organization currently has over 125 chapters at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada with a total initiated membership of nearly 210,000.
Kappa Alpha Theta was founded in 1870 to give women a support group in the then mostly male college world at Indiana Asbury, now DePauw University. It is the first Greek-letter college fraternity for women, though the third secret society for women.
Indiana Asbury, as the university was known then, officially opened its doors to women in 1867, thirty years after the college was first established. Four women, Elizabeth McReynolds Locke Hamilton (Bettie Locke), Alice Olive Allen Brant (Alice Allen), Elizabeth Tipton Lindsey (Bettie Tipton), and Hannah Virginia Fitch Shaw (Jennie Fitch), sought...
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