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Re: Nabokov''s tenuous connections to the Alpha Delta Phi
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Something to note from the Wikipedia page for Alpha Delta Pi: "In 1905 the Adelphean Society changed its name to Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), but was later changed because a men's fraternity by the same name was already well established at many universities where ADPi wanted to start chapters."
It is possible that this name change could cause some confusion. However, I have not found evidence of an Alpha Delta Pi chapter in Utah. There is a current Alpha Phi sorority, but I'm not sure how old that is.
Hunting down the 1949 edition of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities would allow you to narrow down the possibilities. I suggest contacting a librarian at the University of Utah or an alumni group for further assistance.
Sincerely,Joseph
Joseph SchlegelPhD CandidateUniversity of Toronto
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 1:11 PM, Mahmoud Aliamer <maliamer04@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
Boyd says in Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, "On July 3 [1949] they reached Salt Lake City. There they stayed at a sorority house, Alpha Delta Phi, the Nabokovs themselves in a room with a private bath, a condition Nabokov had insisted on before agreeing to come."
I'm confused for the following reason:Alpha Delta Phi, to my knowledge, has never had a chapter in Utah. What's more, Alpha Delta Phi is a fraternity, not a sorority - true, there is the Alpha Delta Phi Society developed so women would be able to join the Alpha Delta Phi, but it wasn't developed until 1992.It's possible, I'll concede, that the Nabokovs may have stayed at Alpha Phi or Alpha Delta Pi, but the Alpha Delta Phi sorority at the University of Utah sounds implausible to me.
Nabokov does have a very very feeble connection to the Alpha Delta Phi, however.
Twice in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov does the Lily of the Valley - official flower of the Alpha Delta Phi - show up.Once in "The Circle:" "In a melting crystalline mist, as if it were all taking place under water, Innokentiy saw himself as a boy of three or four entering the manor house and floating through marvelous rooms, with his father moving on tiptoe, a damp nosegay of lilies of the valley bunched in his fist so tight that they squeaked..."Once in "Mademoiselle O:" "Uncles and aunts and cousins would arrive on such days from neighborhood estates, and the village doctor would come in his dogcart, and the village schoolmaster would be heard blowing his nose in the cool hall, where he passed from mirror to mirror with a greenish, damp, creaking bouquet of lilies of the valley or a sky-colored, brittle one of cornflowers in his fist."
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It is possible that this name change could cause some confusion. However, I have not found evidence of an Alpha Delta Pi chapter in Utah. There is a current Alpha Phi sorority, but I'm not sure how old that is.
Hunting down the 1949 edition of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities would allow you to narrow down the possibilities. I suggest contacting a librarian at the University of Utah or an alumni group for further assistance.
Sincerely,Joseph
Joseph SchlegelPhD CandidateUniversity of Toronto
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 1:11 PM, Mahmoud Aliamer <maliamer04@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
Boyd says in Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, "On July 3 [1949] they reached Salt Lake City. There they stayed at a sorority house, Alpha Delta Phi, the Nabokovs themselves in a room with a private bath, a condition Nabokov had insisted on before agreeing to come."
I'm confused for the following reason:Alpha Delta Phi, to my knowledge, has never had a chapter in Utah. What's more, Alpha Delta Phi is a fraternity, not a sorority - true, there is the Alpha Delta Phi Society developed so women would be able to join the Alpha Delta Phi, but it wasn't developed until 1992.It's possible, I'll concede, that the Nabokovs may have stayed at Alpha Phi or Alpha Delta Pi, but the Alpha Delta Phi sorority at the University of Utah sounds implausible to me.
Nabokov does have a very very feeble connection to the Alpha Delta Phi, however.
Twice in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov does the Lily of the Valley - official flower of the Alpha Delta Phi - show up.Once in "The Circle:" "In a melting crystalline mist, as if it were all taking place under water, Innokentiy saw himself as a boy of three or four entering the manor house and floating through marvelous rooms, with his father moving on tiptoe, a damp nosegay of lilies of the valley bunched in his fist so tight that they squeaked..."Once in "Mademoiselle O:" "Uncles and aunts and cousins would arrive on such days from neighborhood estates, and the village doctor would come in his dogcart, and the village schoolmaster would be heard blowing his nose in the cool hall, where he passed from mirror to mirror with a greenish, damp, creaking bouquet of lilies of the valley or a sky-colored, brittle one of cornflowers in his fist."
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