Adelphean Room

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The Adelphean Room, located in the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house at Wesleyan College in Macon, is named in honor of the Adelphean Society, which was founded at the school in 1851. Later renamed Alpha Delta Pi, the society is considered to be the mother of the modern sorority system.

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