Alpha Delta Pi, nickname ADPi, was founded as a Adelphean Society inside Could 15, 1851 at Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia. Alpha Delta Pi holds a distinction of existence a number one secret society for women & a mother of today’s sorority models. It was founded on the lesson of scholarship, leadership, service to others & sisterhood. These lesson however option a policies & software download of the sorority now.

Within 1905 a Adelphean Society changed it's title to Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), but was late changed because the men's fraternity per equivalent title was already swell established at numbers of universities in which ADPi wanted to begin chapters.

A open motto of ADPi is "We Live for Each Other," & its colors come cerulean blue & white. A official flower is the woodland violet, the mascot occurs as lion nicknamed Alphie and a symbol is the diamond. Alpha Delta Pi presently has complete 130 chapters in the United States and Canada, & complete 150 alumnae associations, and their Executive Professional is located in Atlanta, Georgia. Its national philanthropic gift is the Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Alpha Delta Pi was founded by vi women, Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Williams Mitchell, Sophronia Woodruff Dews, Octavia Andrews Rush, Mary Evans Glass, & Ella Pierce Turner.

Alpha Delta Pi occurs as member class action of the National Panhellenic Conference, which is the governing council of the 26 member sororities.