Temple University School of Law - Restatement Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Phi Delta Delta

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 tgma JSu Jfraternitp SKiMA XI PHI was founded February 11, 1903 in Washington, I). C. Chapters of the fraternity are now found in the leading law schools throughout the country. The purposes of the fraternity can best be stated in the words of the “Declaration” made by each member: ‘Tnited by the strong tie of true brotherhood in the law, we mutually resolve to labor for the good of our order, our country, and mankind. We will strive to promote the well-being of students and practitioners of the law, and to cultivate the ethics of the profession. To secure harmony and maintain good-will, thereby perpetuating the Brotherhood; it shall be our earnest endeavor to suppress personal, sectional, religious and political prejudices, us well as all unhealthy rivalry and selfish ambition. To the end, therefore, that we achieve fraternal harmony and lasting benefit, we humbly implore the guidance and assistance of the Ruler of the l'n i verse.” Russel II. Con well Chapter was named after the beloved and distinguished founder of Temple University, who died December fi, 1925, after a lifetime of valuable service to his fellow-men. Among the members of the various chapters are included the following distinguished men: William Howard Taft, George Wharton Pepper. James M. Beck, Oliver Wkndkli. Holmes, (illARLES KvaN 111 (HIES. Francis Ciiaeman,

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mi Bella Bella PHI DELTA DELTA, a legal fraternity for women, was founded at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles on November 11, 1911, its purpose being the promotion of a higher standard of professional ethics and culture among women in law schools and in the legal profession. Although the founders were aware that “sorority” was the term commonly applied to Greek letter societies for women, it was thought that “fraternity” more aptly expressed the idea of the larger professional sisterhood which Phi Delta was destined to be. Over twenty-two chapters have been installed in various universities and law schools in the United States. Hecently a charter was granted to a group of women students in British Columbia, Canada, thus making the fraternity not only a national, but an international organization. Some members of Phi Delta Delta holding prominent positions at the present time are: Mabel Walker Wille-brandl. Assistant Attorney General of the United States and National President of the fraternity; Ann Agnes O’Neill, Assistant Solicitor of the State Department, Washington, D. C.; Lou-Ida Martin, Assistant Attorney General of Kansas; Edwina Falkner, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama; Hon. Mary O’Toole, Judge of Municipal Court of Washington, I). C.; Hon. Edith M. Atkinson, Judge of Juvenile Court, Dade County, Florida, and Hon. Georgia P. Bullock, one of the founders and Police Court Judge of Los Angeles. Tau Chapter was installed at Temple University on May .‘1, 1921, the charter members being Elizabeth B. Cole, Adda M. Lutz Ferguson, Mary E. Grisel, Gladys E. Hobart and Mary Rose Magee. Miss Henrietta L. Wiekev, formerly a member of Omicron at Dickinson College, is now affiliated with Tau chapter.