Founder's Day: March 17, 1917

Each year on March 17th, undergraduates and graduates celebrate our Founder's Day. It is a time to honor the women that created Delta Phi Epsilon. We honor them for the fine ideals and purposes which inspired them.

We've come such a long way in the United States since 1917, it's incredible!

"Minna Goldsmith Mahler, Eva Effron Robin, Ida Bienstock Landau, Sylvia Steierman Cohn and Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman, five young law students saw Delta Phi Epsilon as a society 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 have distinct chapters at various colleges..." with the motto Esse Quam Videri: to be rather than to seem to be." Quote from headquarters at DPHIE.org

Hope you all had an AMAZING founder's Day and remember exactly where we came from UMBC :)