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In North America, fraternities and sororities (Latin: fraternitas and sororitas, 'brotherhood' and 'sisterhood') are social clubs at colleges and universities.They are sometimes collectively referred to as Greek life or Greek-letter organizations, as well as collegiate fraternities or collegiate sororities to differentiate them from traditional not (exclusively) university-based fraternal ...
Delta Sigma Phi became the first fraternity to own a chapter house, with Kappa Delta becoming the first sorority to acquire a house shortly thereafter in 1952. The 1950s was a period of steady increase of membership in the Greek community, coinciding with the gradual increase in undergraduate enrollment at the university.
At the time, Alpha Phi Omega was an all-male national service fraternity and it was not clear if the amendment applied to the organization. At the 1976 national convention of Alpha Phi Omega, the fraternity voted to become coeducational in compliance with these new university rules and regulations.
LaSalle Sr. High School in Niagara Falls New York was also home to multiple fraternities, dating back to the 1950s. The school itself recognized these programs up until the late 1960s as group photos were included in the yearbooks of the time. These included ΣΨ - Sigma Psi, ΓΣ - Gamma Sigma, and ΩΔ - Omega Delta, listed as male fraternities.
Sigma Psi Zeta In 2017, the member organizations unanimously voted to add Desi to its formal name, a word describing people from the Indian subcontinent or South Asia, and in doing so adopted the acronym APIDA, to explicitly reflect their service of groups with South Asian membership.
Alpha Xi: 1923: Illinois Institute of Technology: Active [ad] Alpha Pi: 1939: Purdue University: Active [ae] Alpha Omicron: 1945: Missouri Valley College: Active [af] Alpha Rho: 1926 – 1954, 1982: New Jersey Institute of Technology: Active [ag] Alpha Sigma: 1926 – 1977: Wagner College: Inactive [ah] Alpha Tau: 1926: Stevens Institute of ...
Alpha Gamma Delta 1973–1975: Virginia Jacobson: Alpha Delta Pi 1975–1977: Gwen McKeeman: Delta Zeta 1977–1979: Adele Williamson: Phi Mu 1979–1981: Minnie Mae Prescott: Kappa Delta 1981–1983: Mary Barbee: Sigma Sigma Sigma 1983–1985: Cynthia McCrory: Alpha Sigma Tau 1985–1987: Sidney Allen: Alpha Sigma Alpha 1987–1989: Beth Saul ...
The merged fraternity was initially called Delta Sigma Theta, but the name was changed to Sigma Theta Epsilon in 1949 when a national sorority Delta Sigma Theta that was already using the name threatened legal action. By the late 1950s, Sigma Theta Epsilon had grown to over twenty chapters. However, its numbers began to decline at the end of ...