TERM 'SORORITY' COINED FOR GAMMA PHI BETA
The earliest Greek-letter associations were referred to as "fraternities" or "societies."

It was Professor Frank Smalley, who coined the term 'sorority' for Gamma Phi Beta. "Translate 'fraternity' into its real English equivalent of brotherhood and think how that sounds when applied to a society of women. Why then should the exact Latin equivalent be regularly so used?"

"The word 'sorority' or 'sisterhood,' moreover, is precise and definite and means exactly what we wish to denote when speaking of a society composed wholly of women."