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Old 04-11-2009, 11:38 PM
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Didn't Tri Sigma used to be S.S.S.? Correct me if I'm wrong.
You are correct! Sigma Sigma Sigma began in the fall of 1897 at the Normal School in Farmville, VA as the S.S.S. club. After much planning by our Founders during their initial meetings as the S.S.S. club, they officially announced the founding of Sigma Sigma Sigma on April 20, 1898.

On an interesting note, Julie Tyler, one of Kappa Delta's founders, was roommates with one of our Founders, Lucy Wright.
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Old 04-11-2009, 11:40 PM
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Old 04-12-2009, 01:13 AM
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It is interesting to learn how many of our current day fraternities & sororities once had a name different from what we know them today. Some changed to avoid duplicating another group, others to take Greek letters, and yet others for reasons unknown. Maybe members of some of the organizations can fill us in. Here are the groups I have discovered:

Alpha Delta Pi from Alpha Delta Phi from Adelphian
Beta Sigma Psi - Concordia Club
Delta Upsilon - Equitable Fraternity - Anti-Secret Confederation
Kappa Alpha Order - Phi Kappa Chi
Phi Kappa Tau - Phrenocon - Non-Fraternity Association
Phi Kappa Theta - Phi Kappa Sigma
Phi Mu - Philomathean
Phi Mu Delta - Commons Club
Phi Sigma Kappa - T T T
Pi Beta Phi - I. C. Sorosis
Sigma Chi - Sigma Phi
Sigma Phi Epsilon - Sigma Phi - Saturday Night Club
Sigma Pi - Tau Phi Delta
Tau Delta Phi - Phi Sigma Beta
Tau Kappa Epsilon - Knights of the Clasic Lore
Theta Xi - Sigma Delta
Zeta Beta Tau - Home Fraternity

The secret society name of Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) was Zion Be-mishpat Tipadeh, which means "Zion shall be redeemed with justice and return upon to it with righteousness." This name was originally used by a youth society of German and Austrian men under the Jewish faith from University of Vienna, Austria. The American secret society, Z.B.T. was structured from this youth society until the name and organizational structure was changed to a Greek-Letter Fraternity.
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Old 04-12-2009, 12:46 PM
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Tau Kappa Epsilon - Knights of Classic Lore
Took out the "the."
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Old 04-13-2009, 01:43 PM
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Actually, I think Theta Xi has always been Theta Xi.

It's true that all of the founders of Theta Xi were former members of Sigma Delta. Sigma Delta had been dissolved a month earlier and no longer existed. Theta Xi was an entirely new group with no ties to Sigma Delta. All that is according the the national website.

I'll have to ask Mr. PinkRose tonight.
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Old 04-13-2009, 02:31 PM
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Phi Sigma Kappa - T T T
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Theta Xi - Sigma Delta
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Actually, I think Theta Xi has always been Theta Xi.
Along those same lines, was Phi Sigma Kappa ever called TTT? Their national website is pretty much silent on the subject of history, but here is what their Iota chapter website says:
Clay was elected president of the group which for its first five years had no name. Its cryptic characters could not be pronounced, either (a problem which they had not really considered since it was a secret society). Outsiders referred to them by names such as "T, double T, T upside-down," "The Huddlers," and others.
This makes it sound like any names based on the three Ts were used by non-members, not by members. (And it makes no mention of TTT)?

Any Phi Sigs out there who can shed some light?
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Old 04-13-2009, 03:00 PM
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Phi Kappa Theta - Phi Kappa Sigma

I believe Phi Kappa Sigma is still operating and has no connection to Phi Kappa Theta.

A friend who is a Phi Kappa Theta told me that his fraternity was the result of merging Theta Kappa Phi with Phi Kappa.
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Old 04-13-2009, 03:40 PM
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Phi Kappa Sigma was the original name of Phi Kappa, founded at Brown University, from 1889 until 1900. It was originally intended to remain a local club and the Greek letters stood for Fraternity of Catholic Students. When they determined to become a national fraternity they had to change the name because a Phi Kappa Sigma already existed. When Phi Kappa merged with Theta Kappa Phi in 1959 the name changed to Phi Kappa Theta. This information is per Phi Kappa's entry in an earlier Baird's Manual.
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Old 04-13-2009, 03:51 PM
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RE: Theta Xi

Sigma Delta was a local fraternity founded at RPI in 1859. Dissention in the organization arose and approximately half left to form Theta Xi in 1864. The other half petitioned Sigma Phi for a charter but were denied. I am not sure if it folded or was the predecessor to Delta Phi, Zeta Psi, DKE or Chi Phi, all chartered at RPI shortly thereafter. Actually, Theta Xi was proposed to be called Theta Psi until they discovered a local group at Yale by the same name. Again, old Baird's are the main source for the above.
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Old 04-13-2009, 03:56 PM
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Phi Kappa Sigma was the original name of Phi Kappa, founded at Brown University, from 1889 until 1900. It was originally intended to remain a local club and the Greek letters stood for Fraternity of Catholic Students. When they determined to become a national fraternity they had to change the name because a Phi Kappa Sigma already existed. When Phi Kappa merged with Theta Kappa Phi in 1959 the name changed to Phi Kappa Theta. This information is per Phi Kappa's entry in an earlier Baird's Manual.
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Thanks for the info. That makes sense of it all for me.
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Old 04-13-2009, 04:08 PM
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Sigma Delta was a local fraternity founded at RPI in 1859. Dissention in the organization arose and approximately half left to form Theta Xi in 1864.
That's different though from saying they changed their name, though. They withdrew from one organization and formed a new one.

Interesting nonetheless.
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Old 07-23-2009, 07:18 PM
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Delphian Society- Psi Upsilon Society- Psi Upsilon Fraternity, though it was more of a splintering from the Delphian Society then the whole thing transforming.

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Old 07-24-2009, 01:28 AM
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Pi Kappa Phi- Nu Phi (meaning Non-fraternity). At first, we were a literacy club called Chrestomathics.
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Old 07-24-2009, 01:42 AM
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I just realized nobody said the classic.

Societas Philosophiae- Phi Beta Kappa
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Old 07-24-2009, 03:00 AM
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Alpha Phi was originally known as The Michaelanean Society.
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