EPSILON BETA CHAPTER
National History
Alpha Epsilon Phi was founded by 7 Jewish Women; Ida Beck Carlin, Lee Reis Leibert, Helen Phillips Lipman, Rose Gerstein Smolin, Rose Salmowitz Marvin, Stella Strauss Sinsheimer, and Augustina “Tina” Hess Solomon; on October 24, 1909 at Barnard College in New York City.
The founding sisters of AEPhi dreamed of forming a sorority where exceptional women of all backgrounds, religions, interests, and varying beliefs would be welcomed with open arms.
This sorority would endeavor to foster lifelong friendship and sisterhood, academics, social involvement, and community service, all the while providing a home away from home for its members.
Epsilon Beta
Chapter History
The Epsilon Beta Chapter was originally chartered at Brooklyn College on February 26th, 1954. In 1991, a group of young women founded Kappa Psi with the goal of affiliating with a national sorority. On January 6th, they were pinned as pledges of Alpha Epsilon Phi. The Epsilon Beta chapter was rechartered in March of 1992.
Today, the Epsilon Beta chapter is the most diverse sorority on Brooklyn College campus with sisters from around the world. We still hold the values and ideals of our founding mothers, and are one of 50 active chapters around the country.