Crow, Martha Emily Foote

Alpha Phi Founders Postcard

This postcard reads "The women who started it all" and features photographs of the 10 founders of Alpha Phi Fraternity. The back of the postcard features an announcement for the publication of the first in a three-volume series of history …

Twenty-Fourth Annual Reunion of Alpha of Alpha Phi Program, June 10, 1896

This program for a reunion of Alpha Chapter members includes a poem and a list of toasts.

37th General Convention of Alpha Phi International Fraternity Program, June 25-29, 1948

This program from the 1948 Convention in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, lists the Fraternity's founders, officers, convention committee members, and alumnae and collegiate delegates. A schedule of business events and leisure activities is als…

Fraternity Directory, January 1947

Martha Foote Crow and Father Cabinet Card, July 1897

Alpha Phi Founder Martha Foote Crow poses with her father, John Barlett Foote.

Alpha

The story of the founding of Alpha Chapter is also that of the beginning of Alpha Phi International Fraternity. From the first expression of their mutual need for “a circle of friends who could sympathize with one another,” our…

Forget Me Nots Seed Packet

This packet of forget-me-not seeds features a quote from Founder Martha Foote Crow on the back.

Martha Foote Crow Reading Photograph

Eta

Although the chapter at Boston University was the third Alpha Phi chapter installed, they chose the name "Eta" - the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet - rather than "Gamma" because there were seven founding members of the chapter. Thus,…

Alpha of Alpha Phi Diamond Jubilee Program, September 26-27, 1947

This program includes the schedule for the weekend, the menu for the banquet, a song sheet, and a list of the jubilee committee as well as a narrative about the founding of Alpha Phi and the first chapter house.