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Alpha Xi Delta (ΑΞΔ or A-''"Zee"''-D ) is a sorority founded on April 17, 1893 at Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois. Alpha Xi Delta is one of the oldest women's fraternities as well as one of the ten founding fraternities of the National Panhellenic Conference. Alpha Xi Delta has over 150,000 initiated members and maintains chapters at 126 institutions across the United States. By Constitution, Alpha Xi Delta is one of the few social sororities that can accept graduate students as well as undergraduates.〔The Constitution itself is not available to the public. However, an official workbook of the organization's academic standards specifically mentions "graduate students who were initiated as graduate students," clearly making reference to the Constitutional possibility of such members. Link: http://www.alphaxidelta.org/clientuploads/Academic/2012%20Academic%20Achievement%20Chair%20Breakout%20Workbook.pdf.〕 ==History== In 1893, ten women at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, shared a vision and a dream of a national organization dedicated to the personal growth of women. Their dream became Alpha Xi Delta, one of the oldest women’s sororities in the United States. The ten founders of Alpha Xi Delta were Cora Bollinger Block, Alice Bartlett Bruner, Bertha Cook Evans, Harriett Luella McCollum, Lucy W. Gilmer, Lewie Strong Taylor, Almira Lowry Cheney, Frances Elizabeth Cheney, Eliza Drake Curtis Everton, and Julia Maude Foster. The ideals envisioned by Alpha Xi Delta’s founders have remained constant throughout the years, inspiring each member to pursue individual excellence. Now a national sorority with more than 150,000 initiated members, the Sorority is an organization with 126 college chapters and alumnae associations throughout the United States. Since Alpha Xi Delta’s founding over 120 years ago, the sorority continues to emphasize the ideals the Founders instilled in the sorority: sisterhood, leadership, knowledge and service to our communities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.alphaxidelta.org/index.php?submenu=About&src=gendocs&ref=about-history&category=Main )〕 Alpha Xi Delta is the only National Panhellenic Conference sorority that uses Xi in its official name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alpha Xi Delta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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