All About DG

Delta Gamma was founded in 1873 in Oxford, Mississippi at the Lewis School for Girls. Mary Comfort Leonard, Eva Webb Dodd and Anna Boyd Ellington are the founders of Delta Gamma. Delta Gamma strives to foster high ideals of friendship among college women, promote their educational and cultural interests, create in them a true sense of social responsibility and develop in them the best qualities of character. Delta Gamma was the first fraternity to establish an independent philanthropic Foundation in Ohio in 1951. Delta Gamma was also the first fraternity to establish lectureship speakers on campuses to promote values and ethics. Expanding first to the North and then to the East, Delta Gamma was part of the first intersorority conference meeting in 1891 and later one of the seven charter members of the National Panhellenic Conference in 1901. Today, there are over 80,000 members of Delta Gamma and over 140 chapters across the United States and Canada. Delta Gamma's central office is located in Columbus, Ohio.