Alpha Delta Gamma

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Alpha Delta Gamma Fraternity

ΑΔΓ

Nicknames: ADG
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The Coat of Arms

Founded: October 10, 1924 at

Loyola University, Chicago, (Chicago, Il)

Founders:
  • Francis Patrick Canary
  • John Joseph Dwyer
  • William S. Hallisey
  • James Collins O'Brien, Jr
Motto: "A Brother Who Is Helped By A Brother Is Like A City Walled"
Official Colors: Red & Gold
Chapters & Colonies: 12
Official Flower: Red Carnation
Headquarters: St. Louis, MO
Alpha Delta Gamma Website


Alpha Delta Gamma National Fraternity (ΑΔΓ) is a National Catholic Social Fraternity.

Alpha Delta Gamma had its beginning with four students at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University of Chicago in 1924. Francis Patrick Canary, John Joseph Dwyer, William S. Hallisey and James Collins O'Brien, Jr., first conceived the idea of founding a new unique fraternity during a ride on Chicago's "L" (The elevated railway). The "Founding Four" realized the need for an organization quite different from those existing on their campus.

The "Founding Four" envisioned a new concept in fraternities - one based upon the traditions, ideals of true brotherhood, and missionary zeal of Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier and Issac Jogues. They saw five specific areas of development for students at Catholic colleges- the spiritual, the scholastic, service to college and community, encouragement of school spirit among fellow students, and the social. In effect, they wanted a fraternity founded upon Christian ideals of true manhood, sound learning, and the unity of fraternal brotherhood. These ideals were decreed the purpose of Alpha Delta Gamma when it first came into being. (http://www.alphadeltagamma.org)

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Famous Members

  • Edward Derwinski, former Congressman and Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  • Harry S. Truman, former President
  • George Brett, Hall of Fame Baseball Player
  • Carl Sandburg, Poet
  • Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame Baseball Player
  • Ollie Mattson, Former professional Football Player
  • Hunter Wendlestadt, Major League Baseball Umpire
  • Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington
  • William Smithburg, President and CEO Quaker Oats Co.
  • Michael Quinlan, former Chairman and CEO McDonald's Corp.
  • Patrick Wayne, Actor
  • J. Skelley Wright, US Circuit Court of Appeals Judge
  • James P. Delaney, Multi- Millionaire Philanthropist
  • Benjamin Aranda III, former Justice Pro Tem of the California State Court of Appeals
  • Lieutenant General Donald Lamontagne, former member of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Sources

  • History of Alpha Delta Gamma, Available only to members
  • The Mark of Honor Pledge Manual, Available only to members


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