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not reputably affluent, snobbish or popular. 85The sorority was renamed Iota Alpha Pi in1913, and survived into the 1970's. The sorority was disbanded in 1971. 86The next Jewish sorority, Alpha Epsilon PhiAEΦ, opened at Barnard College in 1909. The earlyAEΦ served as the female counterpart to theearly ZBT. Its women tended to be of the upper-class. Despite the similarity of theirnames and likeliness of their badges (see above), ΑΕΠ and AEΦ's foundation wereunrelated. Founded four years apart, it is unclear if ΑΕΠ, founded second, was aware ofAEΦ's existence, and historians of both organizations failed to discover any link betweenthe two organizations. Where as AEΦ attracted elite women, ΑΕΠ sought out workingmen from middle-class homes.Similar to the fraternities, two sororities, Phi Sigma Sigma and Delta Phi Epsilonwere founded by Jewish women as non-Sectarian sororities. Phi Sigma Sigma ΦΣΣ,known as Phi Sig, was founded at Hunter College in 1913 by founders Lillian GordonAlpern, Josephine Ellison Breakstone, Fay Chertkoff, Estelle Melnick Cole, JeanetteLipka Furst, Ethel Gordon Kraus, Shirley Cohen Laufer, Claire Wunder McArdle, RoseSher Seidman, and Gwen Zaliels Snyder. Phi Sigma Sigma sorority was derogatorilyreferred to in Yiddish as "Fleishigmaigma", fleish meaning "meat", and igmaigmadrawing on the name of the sorority, by competing Jewish sororities. 87 Delta Phi Epsilonwas founded on March 17, 1917 at New York University Law School as the first nonsectariansorority at a professional school. The founders, Dorothy Schwartzmen Cohen,85 Sanua, 8186 Sanua, 8187 Sanua, 21421