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Beta Sigma Psi, the oldest Christian fraternity, was founded as a national fraternity for Lutheran students in 1925 at the University of Illinois, home to the largest Greek system in the United States. The fraternity had its origins in the concerns of Rev. Frederick William Gustav Stiegemeyer, the son of a Lutheran pastor, who had been ...
All collegiate fraternities and sororities, beginning with Phi Beta Kappa in 1776, had, at inception, either a tacit or overt spiritual component. This may have been as simple as an official opening or closing prayer, expanding to Biblical lessons contained within rituals, and rules regarding behavior that are modeled on various Christian, or Jewish strictures.
This is considered the re-founding of the Beta Psi chapter and is symbolic of Alpha Sigma Phi’s national symbol, the phoenix. Today, the lineage of all active brothers can be traced back to Stern and Lambeck. The Beta Psi chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi maintains a membership of approximately twenty brothers. [9]
Beta Psi's origin dates back to February 1920 when six young men formed a social fraternity in "a junior college in Chicago." [1] The Members of this parent organization who later went to the University of Illinois and the Armour Institute formed local fraternities: Mu Omega Beta at the University of Illinois, and the Sodales Club at Armour Institute.
Beta Sigma Psi National Lutheran Fraternity (ΒΣΨ), commonly known as Beta Sig, is a United States social organization for Lutheran college men. Founded at the University of Illinois in 1925, the fraternity has more than 7,500 initiated members. It has twelve chapters, primarily in the mid-west, and over 300 undergraduate members.
Gamma Phi Beta: 1982: Social sorority Active [1] Phi Eta Sigma: 1982 First-year academic honor society Active [17] Phi Psi 1982–1992 Social fraternity, local Inactive [1] Alpha Theta Pi 1984–1988 Social sorority, local Merged [1] [u] Kappa Psi Lambda 1984–1986 Social sorority Merged [1] [v] Zeta Delta Pi 1985–1988 Social sorority Merged ...
Beta Psi became the New Hampshire Alpha chapter of Phi Kappa Psi in 1896. The Dartmouth chapter dissociated from the national in 1967 over the national's reaction to the chapter's pledging of a black student, and adopted the new name Phi Sigma Psi. Phi Sigma Psi was one of the six fraternities that adopted a formal coeducational membership ...
The Phi Psi chapter house at Lafayette College. The chapter naming convention is composed of the top-level subnational division of that chapter's host institution, and a Greek letter in alphabetical order from when the charter was originally issued. For example, the first Phi Psi chapter is from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.