Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Four of ΟΑΤ 's other chapters went to Tau Delta Phi. [3] Richard Feynman joined the fraternity in 1935 when at MIT. [4] Phi Beta Delta effectively merged into Pi Lambda Phi on February 1, 1941. Baird's (19th ed.) notes the merger documents were signed on October 1, 1940. At the time, Pi Lambda Phi had 20 active chapters and Phi Beta Delta ...
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.
The Greek letters Phi Beta Delta are acronyms for the Greek words Philomatheia, Biotremmonia, Diapheren which translates to "Love of knowledge, valuing of human life; and achieving excellence". [11] The society's motto is Scientia Mutua Mundi or the "World's Shared Knowledge". [12] Phi Beta Delta's symbols include the torch and an open book.
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.
Pi Phi (ΠΦ) was founded in 1878 at Rochester Free Academy which was associated with the University of Rochester. Pi Phi spread to more than 110 chapters before lapsing into solely alumni chapters in the 1980s. Tau Kappa Delta (ΤΚΔ) was formed in 1924 at Pottsville High School in Pottsville Pennsylvania. The fraternity is active as of 2024.
It merged with Phi Delta on January 26, 1918. [4] By mutual agreement, in 1924, the fraternity split into Kappa Psi, which retained its pharmacy component, and Theta Kappa Psi, which became strictly a medical fraternity. [5] Theta Kappa Psi later struggled; it would go on to merge with Phi Beta Pi in 1961, but this union was again dissolved in ...
Phi Delta Psi was founded as an African American fraternity on the predominately white campus of Western Michigan University on March 27, 1977. [1] Its Founding Fathers include Kwameh Barnett, Derek Bell, Richard Bell, Gregory Brown, Charles Cameron, Gerald Dixon, Denis Jones, Peter McClain, Michael Mosby, and Daulton Tansil.