A brief history of AED.

On Apnl 28, 1926, fifteen premedical students at the University of Alabama met with Dr. Jack P. Montgomery, Chairman of the Premedical Committee and Professor of Organic Chemistry, to formalize the organization of a new premedical honorary fraternity. A second chapter was installed at Howard College, now Samford University, in 1929. At the first national convention at the University of Alabama on April 18, 1980, ten members representing five chapters and one petitioning group were in attendance. From these modest beginnings, Alpha Epsilon Delta today has become the world's largest body devoted to premedical education, with a membership exceeding 120,000 in 171 chapters of which about 7,800 are in active chapters and about 8,500 in professional school. Originally the Society was an unincorporated association, but in 1949 it was incorporated in the State of Michigan. In February, 1962, the Society was reincorporated in the District of Columbia as a non-profit, educational organization.

The object of the Society is to encourage and recognize excellence in premedical scholarship; to stimulate an appreciation of the importance of premedical education in the study of medicine; to promote cooperation and contacts between medical and premedical students and educators in developing an adequate program of premedical education; to bind together similarly interested students; and to use its knowledge for the benefit of health organizations, charities, and the community.