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In 1982, A. Thomas Brown was elected Grand Regent. In 1983, Theta Tau moved the central office from the executive secretary's home to space in the Theta Xi Memorial Headquarters Building in Creve Coeur; held its first national conference; and first employed a second member, Dean W. Bettinger, T '81, as extension director/chapter consultant.
The organization was founded in 1916 as the National Industrial Conference Board (NICB). At the time, tensions between labor and management in the United States were seen as potentially explosive in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 and the Ludlow Massacre in 1914.
More than 500,000 nurse scholars have been inducted into Sigma. It is the second largest nursing organization in the world. [citation needed] Its 580 chapters are located on more than 700 college and university campuses in the United States and countries including Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, China (), Eswatini, South Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the ...
Armiger and two others, Frances Wollner, MSN, and Mary Kornguth, MS, founded Niagara University's Nursing Honor Society in 1975, in order to become eligible for Sigma Theta Tau. [20] Founded in 1922, Sigma is the premier honor society for the nursing profession.
Theta Epsilon: September 30, 1911 Southwestern University: Georgetown: Texas: Active [x] Theta Theta: February 23, 1912 University of Texas at Austin: Austin: Texas: Active [y] Delta Delta: March 16, 1912 – January 1, 1915 College of Wooster: Wooster: Ohio: Inactive [23] [z] Delta Epsilon: May 25, 1912 Millikin University: Decatur: Illinois ...
Sigma Theta Tau: ΣΘΤ: Nursing October 4, 1922: 1959: Tau Beta Pi: ΤΒΠ: Engineering June 15, 1885: December 30, 1925: Tau Sigma Delta: ΤΣΔ: Architecture and Allied Arts May 1913: February 28, 1948 [18] Theta Alpha Kappa: ΘΑΚ: Religious Studies / Theology Fall 1976 1985 (Assoc), 1986 (Full) Upsilon Pi Epsilon: ΥΠΕ: Computing and ...
Robert Rowe Gilruth (October 8, 1913 – August 17, 2000) was an American aerospace engineer and an aviation/space pioneer who was the first director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
Other honor societies were established a century later, including Tau Beta Pi for engineering (1885), Sigma Xi for scientific research (1886), and Phi Kappa Phi for all disciplines (1897). Mortar Board was established in 1918 and was the first national honor society for women who were college seniors.