Local Chapter History

The Delta Epsilon chapter at the University of New Orleans was founded in 1958 as the local sorority Delta Epsilon Beta. Early in 1962, the group petitioned Alpha Xi Delta for a charter. At the time, the next Alpha Xi Delta chapter was to be Delta Delta, but Delta Epsilon Beta wanted to become Delta Epsilon chapter. The group was pledged as Delta Epsilon chapter on March 3, 1962 and installed May 12, with Mary Burt Brooks Nash, National President, presiding at the ceremony.

The Delta Epsilon chapter has since initiated over 600 members. Each girl is unique and diverse in her own way, but as a whole they unite as one happy family. There is a strong bond of sisterhood between us, but most importantly we are friends as well. We are there to see each sister through good times and bad, to lend a shoulder to cry on, or an ear for listening. Our bond of sisterhood and friendship is so strong that it last for many years after our college life is over. Without Alpha Xi Delta in our lives we don't know where we would be today.