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Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (ΦΜΑ) is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music. [1] The chapter is the basic unit of organization in Phi Mu Alpha. The designation of chapter has been given to at least three different kinds of organization over the history of the fraternity : collegiate, alumni , and ...
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia was founded as the Sinfonia Club by Ossian Everett Mills, the bursar of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. [5] Mills was profoundly interested in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual development of the conservatory's students and had a tradition of hosting devotional meetings going back as far as 1886. [8]
Name Original chapter Notability References George Banta: Alpha (1917): Founder of the George Banta Company (later known as Banta Corporation); served as historian of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and is honored as a "second founder" of that fraternity in recognition of his contributions to its development and expansion; instrumental in the expansion of Delta Gamma women's fraternity, of which he ...
This is the list of chapters and colonies of Phi Mu, a National Panhellenic Conference sorority, in order of formation. In some cases a naming convention appears to utilize a first letter indicative of a state or region, thus many Pennsylvania chapter designations begin with "Phi"; however there are some exceptions to this rule where a name was derived from a predecessor local.
See Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia for full article. ... List of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia chapters; Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award; D. Peter W. Dykema; E. John M. Eargle; G.
Burrell was initiated into Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia's Alpha Chapter at the New England Conservatory on June 12, 1899, and soon thereafter was elected as the chapter's second president in January 1900. His leadership was significant as the fraternity had only recently been founded at the Conservatory eight months earlier, during the previous school ...
Combs was one of the founders of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. The Sinfonia became national when he accepted a chapter at the Broad Street Conservatory on October 6, 1900. Combs was Supreme Treasurer from 1901–1902 and 1903–1904; and Supreme President from 1902–1903 and 1914–1915.
[3] Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia later revived the Song and Flower Mission as a national program, renamed the Ossian Everett Mills Music Mission in his honor. [3] In 1900, he was elected to the committee of Boston's Ward 12. [14] He died of pneumonia at his home in Wellesley, Massachusetts on December 20, 1920, after several days of illness.