The mission of AEPhi is to inspire & support exemplary women dedicated to
friendship & a lifelong commitment to AEPhi while building on the vision of our founders.

- To aid foster and promote the establishment and maintenance of a sisterhood of college and university women.
- To help develop the highest type of womanhood through intellectual and cultural activities, social life and service to community, country and humanity.
- To aid, assist and encourage such students financially or otherwise by the establishment or financing of endowments, fellowships, scholarships, incentives and awards.
- To aid, promote and foster the development of good moral character, good citizenship, good personality and improvement of physical and mental well being of such students.
- To provide and promote leadership and guidance for the individual members, chapters and associates.


At Barnard College on October 24, 1909, seven Jewish women met together to form a new sorority. They named it Alpha Epsilon Phi. The founders were Helen Phillips, Rose Gerstein, Rose Salmowitz, Tina Hess, Ida Beck, Stella Strauss, and Lee Reiss. The reasons for founding the sorority were described by Tina Hess:

"The reason that we felt the need of a sorority at Barnard in those days was, as I have already mentioned, the need of something artificial to keep us together; artifical only in its organization, but beautiful in its ideals. We wanted a group of girls chosen not because of any special scholastic preeminence, financial circumstances or other arbitrary standards but a group who had common interests and were dominated by the ideals of true friendship."

Since its creation, Alpha Epsilon Phi has grown to comprise over 60 chapters. The ideals of sisterhood continue to touch the lives of college women all over the country.
 

We were founded on Temple's campus May 12, 1984 by Lizanne Burger, Myra K.Chack, Laura Lannutti, Sharon N. Singer, Barbara A. Rose, Sherri Pinsky,
Elayne Feldman.
 

Alpha Epsilon Phi is proud to announce that the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is our national philanthropy. Founded by Elizabeth Glaser, and AEF alumna from the University of Wisconsin, the foundation was established in 1988 after Elizabeth and her two children, Jake and Ariel Glaser, were diagnosed with HIV. The foundation was named in Elizabeth's memory after her death in 1994. The goal of the organization is to educate people on the special issues concerning children with the AIDS virus. The foundation has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars towards AIDS research in the 15+ years since its inception at the Glaser's kitchen table. AEF is proud to be able to support such a worthy cause through the efforts of its members.  More information about the Pediatric AIDS foundation can be found at their official website, http://www.pedaids.org.

The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation joins our other national philanthropy, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel-Hashomer, Israel. The Chaim Sheba Medical Center is a hospital is the first hospital in that region to provide medical care to all patrons, regardless of race, class or religious beliefs. It is also the only hospital in Israel with a dedicated children's ward.
 

 
Barbara Barrie
A TV and Broadway stage actress, she held leading roles in "Barney Miller" and "Tucker's Witch" on TV and "California Suite" on Broadway.

Marilyn Beck
A nationally syndicated Hollywood columnist and widely-published author.

Harriett Beloff
Olympic silver medal winner for figure skating in 1956.

Carol Lynn Blum
Miss Florida in 1965 and third runner-up of the Miss America Pagent in 1965.

Lillian Copeland
An Olympic athlete, she broke the world and Olympic records in the 1932 Olympic games in discus throw.

Karen Feld
A free-lance journalist and national public speaker on Congressional, health, and women's issues in Washington, D.C.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg
United States Supreme Court Justice

Elizabeth Meyer Glaser
AIDS activist and founder of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Sherrill Hoffman Grean
Producer/Director of "All My Children" TV series.

Lenore Oppenheimer Hershey
Senior Editor of "McCall's Magazine" and widely-published author and columnist.

Judith Hirschfield
The first woman to teach math at Harvard University.

Bessie Margolin
U.S. Labor Department Appeals attorney who practices before the U.S Supreme Court.

Anita Morris Perlman
The first woman to be named Brandeis University's "Woman of the Year". First woman to chair a B'nai B'rith agency (BB Youth Commission). She founded
B'nai B'rith Girls and was President of 13 civic organizations.

Bernice Preisser
The first female president of Pittsburgh Advertising Club in its 40 year history.

Charlotte Rae
A leading TV star as Mrs. Garrett in the "Facts of Life", she also starred on Broadway as Mammy Yokum in "Li'l Abner".

Judith Resnik
The second female astronaut who was killed aboard the Challenger.

Miriam Freund Rosenthal
Past National President of Hadassah, "Who's Who in American Women", Jewish Federation, Chairman of National Youth Aliyah, Founder of Intercollegiate Zionist Youth Federation of America.

Beth Kernsten Saul
First Jewish woman to be Chairman of the National Panhellenic Conference (1987-1989).

Dinah Shore
Top TV star for more than 35 years.

Ruth Freeman Solomon
Author of The Candlesticks and the Cross, The Eagle and the Dove, and The Ultimate Triumph.

Annette Greenfield Strauss
First woman mayor of Dallas, Texas.

Carol Tuttle
Founder and partner of Sinnet, Inc. a manufacturer of tennis and golf outfits sold nationwide.

Carmen Harvey Warschaw
Chair of California Democratic Party, Chair of California State Fair Employment Practices commision, 1953 Democratic Convention delegate, L.A.
Times "Woman of the Year".

Delores Kosberg Wilkenfeld
Past President of National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.

Harriet Fieldman Woods
Former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri.

Helen Levison Worth
Owner of world-famous gourmet cooking school in New York and author of several cookbooks