Nickname: Deephers or DPhiE
International Founding Date: March 17, 1917
Local Founding Date: April 11, 1987
Motto: esse quam videri "to be rather than to seem to be"Values: Justice, Sisterhood, Love
Colors: Royal Purple and Pure Gold
Mascot: Unicorn
Flower: Lovely Purple Iris
Jewel: Pearl
International Philanthropy: Delta Phi Epsilon Education Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
Local Philanthropy: Barbara Kettle Gundlach Women's Shelter Home
Delta Phi Epsilon was formed "to promote good fellowship among the women students among the various colleges in the country...to create a secret society composed of these women based upon their good moral character, regardless of nationality or creed...", to help in acquiring knowledge, appreciation, discriminating judgment, and a true feeling of sisterly love through the interaction, one upon the other, of sympathetic and friendly natures. It’s objective is in the influence of its members on each other to achieve the liberal spirit, the habit of kindly judgment, to be unimpressed by the external displays of life, to care for our sisters because of what they are, not because of what they achieve.More about
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