Alpha Gamma Delta - International Women's Fraternity The University of Texas at Dallas

The Alpha Gamma Delta Purpose

  • To gain understanding that wisdom may be vouchsafed to me.
  • To develop and prize health and vigor of body.
  • To cultivate acquaintance with many whom I meet.
  • To cherish friendships with but a chosen few and to study the perfecting of those friendships.
  • To welcome the opportunity of contributing to the world's work in the community where I am placed because of the joy of service thereby bestowed and the talent of leadership multiplied.
  • To honor my home, my country, my religious faith.
  • To hold truth inviolable, sincerity essential, kindness invaluable.
  • To covet beauty in environment, manner, word and thought.
  • To possess high ideals and to attain somewhat unto them.
  • This shall be my purpose that those who know me may esteem Alpha Gamma Delta for her attainments, revere her for her purposes and love her for her womanhood.

Vision:

Inspire the Woman. Impact the World.

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 with Alpha Gamma Delta.

Jewel:

Pearl

Badge:

The Badge design was selected by the Founders: a monogram of the three Greek letters, with the Delta plain, the Gamma engraved, and the Alpha superimposed upon the two.

Today, the badge may be worn only by initiated members either plain or jeweled with pearls.

The Alpha Gamma Delta Badge

Colors:

Red, Buff and Green

Flowers:

A red and buff rose, with green asparagus plumosa fern. The true buff (pale yellow) rose is rarely available, so for practical purposes yellow roses are used. The two different color roses must always be used together on Fraternity occasions.

The Alpha Gamma Delta Badge

Mascot:

The mascot of Alpha Gamma Delta is the squirrel, by the name of Skiouros. The mascot was chosen by Gamma Chapter.

An explanation of the squirrel's selection appeard in a 1915 publication: "... Our little friend, we find, is also nimble and agile—he leaps from branch to branch and accomplishes much progress...to symbolize the spirit that never dies, the spirit of energetic alertness and progress."

The Alpha Gamma Delta Badge

Founding:

Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York on May 30, 1904

Armorial Bearings:

The Coat of Arms was approved at the first Alpha Gamma Delta Convention in 1907. Founder Emily Helen Butterfield, who was recognized as an authority on heraldry, created the final design.

The Alpha Gamma Delta Crest

Alpha Gamma Delta International website:

http://www.alphagammadelta.org/

Alpha Gamma Delta Dallas Alumnae Chapter:

http://www.dallasagd.org/



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