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The first fraternity to establish a chapter at Georgia Tech was Alpha Tau Omega in 1888, before the school held its first classes. Most of the IFC and NPC organizations have houses on Georgia Tech's campus, generally on or near Fifth Street, Ferst Avenue, Fowler Street, or Techwood Drive, in the area known as the Greek Sector. [2]
This is a list of chapters and colonies of Tau Beta Sigma (ΤΒΣ), National Honorary Band Sorority. Over 200 chapters of Tau Beta Sigma have been established in the United States since 1946, which are organized into six separate districts.
Tau Beta Sigma was founded at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) by Wava Banes (Turner Henry). [1] Due to corporation laws in the state of Texas at the time, however, the Texas Tech sisters surrendered their name, ritual, jewelry, constitution and Alpha chapter designation in January 1946 to the local band sorority at Oklahoma State University. [1]
During her time at Texas Tech, she was one of the first female members in the band, and the first female to graduate with a master's degree in music. [1] Additionally, she was motivated by a desire for women to have the same opportunities as men, and founded the Tau Beta Sigma Club in 1939.
The founder of Alpha Pi Mu was James T. French, who in 1949 was a senior industrial engineering student at Georgia Tech. [1] He recruited nine men that were members of the Georgia Tech chapter of Tau Beta Pi as the first members of Alpha Pi Mu.
Instances have arisen in which a singular chapter of an IFC-affiliated social fraternity brands itself a Christian chapter and initiates members based on national membership standards as well as religious beliefs. One of the oldest such chapters is the Beta Alpha chapter of Theta Xi fraternity at Georgia Tech which marked itself Christian in ...
In 1947, Kappa Kappa Psi created its first National Intercollegiate Band, a band composed of musicians from universities across the United States.Since 1953, the national chapters of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma have commissioned a new work for wind band to be premiered at the National Intercollegiate Band concert.
Sigma Omega Tau est. 1958 [2] Sigma-Beta 1973 Saint Mary's, Texas: Texas-San Antonio: Active Kappa Sigma Nu est. 1968 [2] Sigma-Sigma 1974 Georgia Southwestern: Georgia-Americus: Dormant Expanded 1973; dormant since 1990 [2] Sigma-Phi 1974 Embry-Riddle: Florida-Daytona Beach: Active Expanded 1972 [2] [22] Sigma-Delta 1974 North Alabama: Alabama ...