Farmhouse and Acacia

[chelly]

I know i sound like a complete fool, but can someone please explain to me what Farmhouse and Acacia are?

Delta Delta Delta Phi Beta Chapter FPC '04
"Let Us Steadfastly Love One Another"
*I Love My AEPi Man!*
Proud daughter of a Phi Sigma Kappa!

[HPU PIKE]

http://www.farmhouse.org/

http://www.acacia.org/about_main.htm


chelly, you don't sound like a fool at all. I had no idea what they were when i first joined GC either. They are both Fraternities with many of the same values and traditions held by most Greek-letter fraternities. If you look around their Ntl. websites, you will find out a lot more about both orgs.

[Tom Earp]

chelly remember, "The Dumbest Question is The One You Never Ask".

HPU Pike, thanks for placing those links up!

You will find, if you explore that there were a lot of reasons Greek Organizations were started, just as there are today.

Try: greekpages.com.


I too found those two sites very interesting as never really looked that much at them.

[TSteven]

I thought I would add one other NIC fraternity, sans Greek letters, Triangle Fraternity.

http://www.triangle.org/

All three NIC fraternities were founded around a hundred years ago at mid-western universities. Acacia Fraternity founded in 1904 at the University of Michigan; FarmHouse International Fraternity founded in 1905 at the University of Missouri; and Triangle Fraternity founded in 1907 at the University of Illinois.

[AlphaSigOU]

Triangle and FarmHouse require that you be enrolled as a student in a specific field of study (engineering, science or architecture for Triangle, agriculture for FarmHouse) before you can pledge.

Alpha Sigma Kappa is a sorority with the same membership requirements as Triangle.

Originally, Acacia required that candidates for membership have taken the Masonic obligations (interpreted as the Master Mason degree). This requirement was later dropped, though Masonic lodges at locations where Acacia chapters are found are active supporters of the fraternity.

[hoosier]

There's also a social fraternity for architecture - APX.

They had a chapter at U Ill., and Purdue too, I think.

I met a Teke once, who said he had been the exec secy of Triangle for a while, supposedly the only non-member to every head a GLO's office.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by hoosier
I met a Teke once, who said he had been the exec secy of Triangle for a while, supposedly the only non-member to every head a GLO's office.

In 1913 Ida Shaw Martin (yes Tri-Delts, that's you) was elected to Membership and in 1914 was elected national President for Alpha Sigma Alpha, and there continues to this day to be non-members at our HQ, and even a male or two.

So, yeah, as you probably thought, this guy was full of BS

[Tom Earp]

Sometimes ASAs come up with some great POSTS!.

hoosier always comes with interesting info. pisses off some stiff necks, but He is 99 % right, oh H giving a benetit of a doubt!

OOPS, was that a typo!????

[Erik P Conard]

there have been quite a few CEOs of GLOs who did not belong
as an undergrad. Most are the same as regards runnin' em.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Triangle and FarmHouse require that you be enrolled as a student in a specific field of study (engineering, science or architecture for Triangle, agriculture for FarmHouse) before you can pledge.

Farmhouse at Iowa State also rushes Business majors. Our out-going IFC Pres is a member of Farmhouse and is a business major from suburban Kansas City (and he wears shoes that are more expensive than my entire outfit...).

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Triangle and FarmHouse require that you be enrolled as a student in a specific field of study (engineering, science or architecture for Triangle, agriculture for FarmHouse) before you can pledge.

I knew a lot of FarmHouse guys that were NOT agriculture majors. I'm not sure that it is a requirement that you be an agriculture major. I may be completely wrong, but I knew guys w/majors varying from Landscape Architeture to Business to Restuarant/Hotel Mgmt.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Farmhouse at Iowa State also rushes Business majors. Our out-going IFC Pres is a member of Farmhouse and is a business major from suburban Kansas City (and he wears shoes that are more expensive than my entire outfit...).

According to FH's By-Laws, the chapter can pledge any male student provided (along with other determinations of good character, etc.):

his subjects of study can be applied toward a degree in agriculture or related fields, or he has a rural background, or he shares an agricultural interest; or he demonstrates qualities of character, scholarship and professional excellence to which FarmHouse men aspire.

[hottytoddy]

I think AGR is for agriculture too? I"m not sure though....I know there's a chapter at UT.

[TSteven]

Alpha Gamma Rho

You don't have to study production agriculture to join AGR. AGR is for any young man preparing for any ag or food related career, including food science, biotechnology, agri-marketing, environmental science and many others. AGR has strong ties with 4-H and FFA, but even if you have never been a member of these groups, you can be a member of AGR.

[TSteven]

Alpha Gamma Sigma - "A Professional Fraternity of Agricultural Heritage" - is another NIC member.

Alpha Gamma Sigma