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The Sigma Chi house at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, c. 1905. Sigma Chi was founded in 1855 by Benjamin Piatt Runkle, Thomas Cowan Bell, William Lewis Lockwood, Isaac M. Jordan, Daniel William Cooper, Franklin Howard Scobey, and James Parks Caldwell as the result of a disagreement over who would be elected Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society of Miami University in Ohio.
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. It was established on April 17, 1909, at DePauw University , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and its charter was designed by William Meharry Glenn.
Phi Delta Theta, along with Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad. [4] The fraternity has over 200 active chapters and colonies in over 44 U.S. states and five Canadian provinces and has initiated more than 310,000 men between 1848 and 2024. [5] There are over 180,000 [2] living alumni.
Runkle was the only founder of Sigma Chi to become Grand Consul, serving as the seventh national president from 1895 to 1897. [2] Runkle held commands at the Peekskill Military Academy, the Military School in Freehold, New Jersey, and at the Miami Military Institute in Germantown, Ohio from 1902 to 1909. He served as trustee of Miami University ...
In 1933, Sigma Chi erected and dedicated a Founders' Memorial Monument in the San Francisco National Cemetery where Bell is buried. [ 13 ] [ 2 ] [ 14 ] Bell is the namesake of the Thomas Cowan Bell Scholastic Foundation, located in San Jose, California , which awards college scholarships to both members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and students ...
The national organization cited accountability issues among members as the reason for the suspension. Sigma Chi is the third fraternity to be kicked off KU’s campus in 2022.
Phi Sigma Beta, (ΦΣΒ) was founded in 1910. It became ΤΔΦ - Tau Delta Phi collegiate fraternity. [2] [a] Phi Sigma Chi, (ΦΣΧ) was founded on November 28, 1900, in Zanesville, Ohion. It chartered 117 chapter, possibly the most chapters of high school fraternity.
Jordan was twenty years old when he became one of the founding members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity in 1855 at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. [citation needed] Jordan graduated from Miami University in 1857 and obtained his master's degree from Miami in 1862. He was an orator of first and 15th Grand Chapters.