During training the Leadership Consultants had the opportunity to travel to the birthplace of Alpha Delta Pi in Macon, Georgia. In Macon there are many significant locations for members of Alpha Delta Pi including Rose Hill Cemetery where our founder Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald is buried.
Finally, we were on our way to Wesleyan Female College which was the first college to grant women degrees and the home of Alpha Delta Pi Alpha Chapter. While they no longer have greek life at Wesleyan, Alpha Delta Pi still has a special place on the campus. Sororities were abolished by the Board of Trustees in 1914 but the remaining women in the sororities were allowed to hold meetings until they graduated. At the time of the closing of greek life there were four sororities on campus, Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Delta Delta, Phi Mu, and Zeta Tau Alpha. In the 1917 yearbook, the sorority women wrote about the death of the sorority. Please read this passage below.
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| All of the Leadership Consultants graveside with Miss Eugenia. Bottom: Lauren, Courtney, myself, Morgan, Haley, Katie Top: Katherine, Kashia, Logan, Caroline |
Another photo op for the Leadership Consultants!
Left to right: Kashia, Grace, Morgan, Katherine, Caroline, Logan, Courtney, Haley, Lauren, Katie
Found this at the cementary and loved it so much I made the van stop so I could take a picture.
After Rosehill Cementary we made our way to the Cannonball House after making a roadside stop to see the sight of the first Alpha Delta Pi Convention. The Cannonball House is home to many old articfacts from Wesleyan Female College where Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu were founded. Both the Adelphean (Alpha Delta Pi) Society and the Philomathean (Phi Mu) society have a founder's parlor which holds pictures of our founders. The front also has a beautiful porch and a cannon because the house was hit by a cannonball (hence the name).
The site of the first convention!
Inside the Founder's Parlor with the classic hug train!
With the cannon out front of the house!
Another photo op in front of the house!
Let those who have tears prepare to shed them now, for the following dolorous lines will cause even the most granite-hearted to become lachrymose and bathe themselves in melancholy drops. Sororities are dead at Wesleyan.
They passed away very suddenly in the spring of nineteen fourteen, and for three long years they have been lying in state in their respective halls. The final interment will take place this commencement with the passing of the nineteen seventeen sisters.
The coroner's inquest held at a post mortem examination revealed the deplorable fact that they had been taken unawares and maliciously murdered by a set of conspirators- the trustees.
For the last time, the faithful survivors of the desceased sisterhood who have mourned with heavy heart their dreary afflictioins will appear in the Annual, and our pictures this year portray but a shawdow of our former self. Now with the voice of sorrow, we shout our requiem. Hark from the tomb the mournful sound of wailing Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Mu, Zeta Tau Alpha, Delta Delta Delta.
The good that we did lives after us, and Wesleyan without Soroities will be Hamlet without the Ghost, Germany without the Kaiser, and night without stars.
I think these ladies were very sassy and I loved this passage they wrote. The archivist at the college was kind enough to let us have a look at the archives from which this was pulled and assume a greater picture of our history.
On the campus there are also many great photo opportunities for us as Leadership Consultants and we for sure took advantage of it!
The Alpha Delta Pi fountain on the campus.
Naturally, we hopped in and took some great shots. Personally, love love love this photo!
Under the banner for the college.
#graceprobs
At the Alpha Delta Pi bench that's engraved with the names of our six founders and our Coat of Arms.
It was an incredible experience to be back at the foundation of our sorority with women who are equally as passionate about the mission of Alpha Delta Pi.
For more pictures check out this album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200202839415990.1073741827.1302150062&type=1&l=9db87d1eac
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