{ Delta Phi Epsilon }

On March 17, 1917, five women at New York University School of Law took a pledge of sisterhood and loyalty, founding the Alpha Chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon. These five women were nicknamed the "DIMES":

 

Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman 

Ida Beinstock Landau

Minna Goldsmith Mahler

Eve Effron Robin

Sylvia Steierman Cohn

 

Five years later, Delta Phi Epsilon was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of New York. On December 5, 1922, our sorority stretched beyond international boundaries as the first Canadian chapter was installed at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.