Our Founders: Helen M. Doge 
Frances E. Haven, E. Adelaine Curtis, and Mary A. Bingham

On November 11, 1874 four women came together at Syracuse University in New York, where they created a women's society in a time where men had all the power. For 142 years we have honored and lived by their vision of "inspiring the highest type of womanhood", not only by working as a sisterhood, but as well as helping to create a foundation for future sisters and building them to be confident and strong women. 
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​Gamma Phi Beta was founded to, "develop a higher spiritual, mental, and social culture." 
"Founded on a rock we stand, We a band of loving sisters firm united, heart and hand."- List the watchword, written by Helen Dodge Ferguson
"Since the rock is the firmest and most enduring substance, able to withstand the ravages of time, and offering the strongest protection, it seemed fitting that Gamma Phi Beta should be thus founded."
- Founder E. Adeline Curtis