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Old 12-17-2007, 07:47 AM
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In our first years, we established the above chapters plus:
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Brenau
Kappa Phi, Mt Union

These were both released to Tri-Delta in 1914. (Kappa Phi chapter was recolonized in around 2001 and closed in 2004.)

What about Gamma Beta Sigma, St. Mary's? Do you know anything about them? Were they an official chapter?
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Old 12-17-2007, 07:50 AM
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TECHNICALLY, those are our "single letter chapters." However, the question NBH was really asking was how many of our oldest chapters are still active, since the oldest chapters in a GLO are usually only designated with one letter.
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Old 12-17-2007, 07:53 AM
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In our first years, we established the above chapters plus:
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Brenau
The first time I saw that Chapter Designation on our roster it kinda took me aback. I was thinking, "Did an entire chapter of SPhiE get sex changes and we let them keep their fraternity name as a Chapter Desgination?". Yes, I realize that all happened way before sex changes, etc - but it was a random off the wall thought.
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Old 12-17-2007, 08:07 AM
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The first time I saw that Chapter Designation on our roster it kinda took me aback. I was thinking, "Did an entire chapter of SPhiE get sex changes and we let them keep their fraternity name as a Chapter Desgination?". Yes, I realize that all happened way before sex changes, etc - but it was a random off the wall thought.
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Old 12-17-2007, 09:24 AM
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What about Gamma Beta Sigma, St. Mary's? Do you know anything about them? Were they an official chapter?
Oh crap, I knew I forgot a couple! I was on my slow ass home puter and couldn't pull up my whole list. Editing...
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Old 12-17-2007, 05:54 PM
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Beta chapters seem doomed.
Unfortunately, I don't have time to research this for Delt, but I do know that my chapter, which is Beta, is still active and is the oldest continuously active in the Fraternity, having been founded in 1862.
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Old 12-17-2007, 07:04 PM
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I did Delta Tau Delta for you, DeltAlum.

I have no idea how naming chapters was done for Delt but this is what I found:

12 ? active out of 37 45 ?? but Delt's another one that has several very old double-letter chapters (i.e. Beta Lambda @ Lehigh 1874 is active).

Edited according to the 1890 edition of Baird's.

Theta – Bethany College 1859 1860 active
Gamma – West Liberty College 1859 1861-1862
Gamma – Washington and Jefferson College 1861 active
Delta - Morgantown Academy 1861-1862
Beta – Ohio University 1862 active
Epsilon - Franklin College 1863-1863
Alpha – Allegheny College 1863 active
Kappa – Poughkeepsie Collegiate Institute 1865 - 1867
Zeta - Monmouth College 1865-1871
Lambda – Monmouth College 1865 um, no
Mu – Waynesburgh College 1865 - 1866
Mu – Ohio Wesleyan University 1866 active
Kappa – Hillsdale College 1867
Iota – Jamestown Collegiate Institute 1868 - 1871
Chi – Westminster College 1868 1869-1870
Lambda – Lombard College 1869 - 1885
Delta – University of Michigan 1871 nope, 1875
Rho – Lake Shore Seminary 1871 - 1875
Sigma - Franklin College 1871-1882
Zeta - University of Missouri 1872-1872
Upsilon - Illinois University 1872-1878
Phi – Hanover College 1872
Tau – Pennsylvania State 1872 - 1874 active
Chi – Franklin College 1872 uh, no, it was Sigma...see above
Iota – Michigan State 1872
Psi - Wabash College 1872-1879
Eta – Buchtel College 1873
Xi – Simpson College 1873
Psi - Kentucky University 1873-1878
Rho – Stevens Institute of Technology 1874 active
Tau – Franklin and Marshall 1874
Nu – Lafayette College 1874
Chi – Iowa Wesleyan 1874 1875-1880
Sigma – Mt. Union College 1875 - 1884
Omega - Iowa Agricultural College 1875
Epsilon – Albion College 1876 active
Psi – Wooster College 1879
Upsilon – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1879 active
Omicron – University of Iowa 1880
Chi – Kenyon College 1881 active
Sigma - Columbia College 1882-1888
Zeta – Case Western Reserve University 1882 active
Sigma – Williams College 1891
Phi – Washington and Lee University 1896
Omega – University of Pennsylvania 1897 active


Chapters that were originally Rainbow
Pi – University of Mississippi 1848 (1886)
Lambda – Vanderbilt University 1881 (1886)


For God's sake, will some Delt please fix this mess I made of your history!
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Old 12-17-2007, 08:19 PM
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Unfortunately, I don't have time to research this for Delt, but I do know that my chapter, which is Beta, is still active and is the oldest continuously active in the Fraternity, having been founded in 1862.
Um, I was only teasing about this, everyone.
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Old 12-17-2007, 08:55 PM
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I did Delta Tau Delta for you, DeltAlum.

I have no idea how naming chapters was done for Delt but this is what I found:

12 active out of 37 but Delt's another one that has several very old double-letter chapters (i.e. Beta Lambda @ Lehigh 1874 is active).

Theta – Bethany College 1859 active
Gamma – West Liberty College 1859
Gamma – Washington and Jefferson College 1861 active
Beta – Ohio University 1862 active
Alpha – Allegheny College 1863 active
Kappa – Poughkeepsie Collegiate Institute 1865
Lambda – Monmouth College 1865
Mu – Waynesburgh College 1865
Mu – Ohio Wesleyan University 1866 active
Kappa – Hillsdale College 1867
Iota – Jamestown Collegiate Institute 1868
Chi – Westminster College 1868
Lambda – Lombard College 1869
Delta – University of Michigan 1871
Rho – Lake Shore Seminary 1871
Phi – Hanover College 1872
Tau – Pennsylvania State 1872 active
Chi – Franklin College 1872
Iota – Michigan State 1872
Eta – Buchtel College 1873
Xi – Simpson College 1873
Rho – Stevens Institute of Technology 1874 active
Tau – Franklin and Marshall 1874
Nu – Lafayette College 1874
Chi – Iowa Wesleyan 1874
Sigma – Mt. Union College 1875
Epsilon – Albion College 1876 active
Psi – Wooster College 1879
Upsilon – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1879 active
Omicron – University of Iowa 1880
Chi – Kenyon College 1881 active
Zeta – Case Western Reserve University 1882 active
Sigma – Williams College 1891
Phi – Washington and Lee University 1896
Omega – University of Pennsylvania 1897 active


Chapters that were originally Rainbow
Pi – University of Mississippi 1848 (1886)
Lambda – Vanderbilt University 1881 (1886)
DeltAlum, I realize that you didn't post this, but thought you might know. Did your fraternity used to reuse letters? I ask this because I know that Iowa State's Delt Chapter was originally Omega before the ban on Greek Life (1890s). When Greek Life was reinstated (1904) and Delt returned (believe they'd gone underground), they became the Gamma Pi chapter.
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Old 12-18-2007, 02:13 AM
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Your post got me thinking so I checked in an earlier edition of Baird's and there it was....Omega at Iowa. Then I found a whole lot of discrepancies so I edited my post.

Sorry, Delts!
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Old 12-19-2007, 04:36 PM
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Um, I was only teasing about this, everyone.
Haha no, I think you're right. A lot of Beta chapters don't exist anymore. I think Kappa's Beta chapter was at a school that closed. Hmm...
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Old 12-20-2007, 05:49 AM
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Haha no, I think you're right. A lot of Beta chapters don't exist anymore. I think Kappa's Beta chapter was at a school that closed. Hmm...
Beta Chapters

Alpha Chi Omega - Albion
Alpha Delta Pi - Winstong Salem 1905-1910
Alpha Epsilon Phi - Hunter 1909-1970
Alpha Gamma Delta - Wisconsin
Alpha Omicron Pi - Brown 1908-1908 (the potentially 9th chapter)
Alpha Phi - Northwestern
Alpha Sigma Alpha - Lewisburg (WVA) 1903-1904
Alpha Sigma Tau - Central Michigan
Alpha Xi Delta - Iowa Wesleyan
Chi Omega - Colby (19th? chapter)
Delta Delta Delta - St Lawrence (6th chapter)
Delta Gamma - Washington (27th chapter)
Delta Phi Epsilon - Teachers Colege NYC (1917-1922)
Delta Zeta - Cornell (1908-1932)
Gamma Phi Beta - Michigan
Kappa Alpha Theta - Indiana
Kappa Delta - Chatham Episcopal Institute (1902-1904)
Kappa Kappa Gamma - St. Mary's School (1871-1974)
Phi Mu - Hollins (1904-1929)
Phi Sigma Sigma - Tufts (1918-1922)
Pi Beta Phi - 2nd chapter is Iowa Alpha, Iowa Wesleyan
Sigma Delta Tau - Pennsylvania
Sigma Kappa - a second chapter was founded alongside Alpha at Colby in 1890 or 1891, later merged with Alpha
Sigma Sigma Sigma - Lewisburg Female (1903-1908)
Theta Phi Alpha - Illinois (1919-1953)
Zeta Tau Alpha - Richmond Women's (1902-1903)


I stole this from the other thread....you're right, the Beta name is a bad omen!
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Old 12-21-2007, 12:48 PM
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Single letter chapters

Sigma Delta Tau has 13 of 24 single letter chapters that are still active. Active chapters are highlighted.

ALPHA CORNELL
BETA PENNSYLVANIA
GAMMA OHIO STATE
DELTA BUFFALO
EPSILON CINCINNATI
ZETA LOUISIANA STATE
ETA GEORGIA
THETA NEBRASKA
IOTA MCGILL
KAPPA ILLINOIS
LAMBDA UCLA
MU SOUTHERN CAL
NU MINNESOTA
XI OKLAHOMA
OMICRON WEST VIRGINIA
PI IOWA
RHO ALABAMA
SIGMA NORTHWESTERN
TAU TEXAS
UPSILON INDIANA
PHI PENN STATE
CHI MICHIGAN
PSI MASSACHUSETTS
OMEGA SYRACUSE


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Old 12-24-2007, 01:46 AM
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I'm working on making my list better-updated, but I believe Phi Sigma Kappa has 12 active, 11 inactive, and 1 seceded (Tau chapter at Dartmouth didn't think we were adjusting to the Civil Rights movement quickly enough and is a still-operational co-ed fraternity called "Phi Tau").

Our Alpha is still rockin away at UMass.
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That is so awesome. I would love to be a member of a single letter organization. So cool!!!
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