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In 1950 the Beta Sigma Rho ritual was changed to reflect a non-sectarian viewpoint. Beta Sigma Rho merged into Pi Lambda Phi on December 12, 1972, adding 5 active chapters, and merging 2 chapters. The existing two chapters at the Pennsylvania State University would not merge, thus at that school Beta Sigma Rho's Beta chapter became local, Beta ...
It was founded as the first nonsectarian fraternity, "a fraternity in which all men were brothers, no matter what their religion; a fraternity in which ability, open-mindedness, farsightedness, and a progressive, forward-looking attitude would be recognized as the basic attributes."
Sigma Lambda Pi was established in April 1915 at New York. [2] Its founders were Herbert J. Roeder, Mathew W. Sherman, Abraham Weinberg, and Milton R. Weinberger. [2] It was a Jewish emphasis fraternity but was incorporated in New York as a non-sectarian organization.
There were 2,300 members in the late 1890s. The first Council was held on July 9, 1888. Paid sick and death benefits. [15] Apparently defunct by the early 1920s. [16] American Order of the Square – Founded in 1921 in Rochester, New York. The "superintendent of the organization" was John A. J. Papineau. Claimed to be non-sectarian and non-secret.
Three Jewish students, upset at any idea of religious discrimination, would found the non-sectarian (no discrimination against race, religion, or color) Pi Lambda Phi at Yale University in 1895. On the other end of the spectrum, fourteen students would form the Z.B.T. Society (later Zeta Beta Tau ) in 1898 which was only open to Jewish students.
Delta Theta Tau (ΔΘΤ) is a North American service sorority that is community based and non-collegiate. It was founded on October 16, 1903, in Muncie, Indiana. Delta Theta Tau was the first non-sectarian sorority. [1] [2] Its members are only required to "believe in a higher power."
Zeta Beta Tau (ΖΒΤ) is a Greek-letter social fraternity based in North America. It was founded on December 29, 1898. Originally a Zionist youth society, its purpose changed from the Zionism of the fraternity's early years when, in 1954, the fraternity became non-sectarian and open to non-Jewish members, changing its membership policy to include "All Men of Good Character" regardless of ...
Phi Epsilon Pi was the first fraternity to appropriate funds for activities outside of its own organization, with the creation of an endowment of $10,000 in 1925 to fund scholarships at the National Agricultural College in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The interest from this fund paid the annual expenses for young men interested in agriculture.