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What year did Sigma Phi and Delta Phi appear, completing the Union Triad?
1827
What was the first women's group?
I.C Sorosis, founded at Monmouth College, Illinois 1867
Who made the first Kappa Alpha Theta badges?
John F. Newman (City College of New York 1869, Muhlenberg 1871)
What is the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC)?
Representatives of 26 Greek-letter groups, including Phi Gamma Delta, established 1909.
Fiji Insignia
- Black Diamond - Star at the top - Outlined in gold - Upper case greek on top - Lower case greek on top
Phi Gamma Delta Gentlemen Never:
1. Speak poorly of another fraternity or sorority 2. Incite or participate in fights or altercations with other fraternity men 3. Destroy or vandalize property of another fraternity 4. Show poor sportsmanship, including cheating and unfair play
When and where was Delta Tau Delta founded?
1859 at Bethany College, West VA
Alpha Chapter: Year and College
1886 at Washington & Jefferson
How many American College Fraternities existed when the Civil War began?
26. 20 of these had been founded north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
How many total chapters had the 26 original College fraternities established?
379
When and Where was Phi Beta Kappa founded?
5 months after declaration of independence. Five students at William and Mary on Dec. 5,1776
Other events in which Fijis lost their lives
9/11: 6 Fijis Civil War: 386 Paris Bombings: 1
Number of alumni and college students represented by the NIC.
Almost 4.5 million alumni, 350,000 college students in over 5,400 chapters on 800 campuses.
Who was Sigma Phi's rival fraternity?
Alpha Delta Phi
What two Fraternities were born at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia?
Alpha Tau Omega (1865) and Sigma Nu (1869)
What was the first fraternity to be founded west of the Allegheny Mountains?
Beta Theta Pi in 1839
What are the Miami Triad Fraternities?
Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi
What Fraternity absorbed the Rainbow Society?
Delta Tau Delta in 1886
What was the F.H.C? (Fat Hat Club)
Earliest formation of a social club in the Western Hemisphere. College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. Founded 1750 +Thomas Jefferson
Who is the only true women's sorority?
Gamma Phi Beta
Milton W. Bohn
Gave $5,000 loan for the construction of first house. (Muhlenberg 1884, Penn State 1888)
What is the oldest of all existing social fraternities?
Kappa Alpha Society (Northern K.A). Union College in Schenectady, NY 1825
Union Triad Fraternities
Kappa Alpha Society, Sigma Phi, Delta Phi
Who were the two first Greek-letter Women's fraternities?
Kappa Alpha Theta, founded at what is now DePauw University, Indiana (1870). Kappa Kappa Gamma, founded at Monmouth College (1870).
Important Sorority founding dates
Kappa Alpha Theta: January 27, 1870 Gamma Phi Beta: November 11, 1874
Why are we the Mu Lambda Chapter?
Mu Lambda = Mid Lands, where we are located.
Where was the very first Fraternity house constructed?
Penn State, Gamma Phi Chapter. Finished construction 1889
What are the Jefferson Duo fraternities?
Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Kappa Psi
Eugene D. "Buddy" Cote III
Served as NIC chairman 2014-2015. (Maine 1981)
Other Southern Fraternities before the Civil War
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Alabama 1856), Chi Phi (UNC 1858)
Who was the first fraternity to expand and where?
Sigma Phi, placing a chapter at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY 1831.
What was the only organized Fraternity during the Civil War?
Theta Xi at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY 1864
Who is the "Mother of Fraternities"?
Union College
What was the first distinctively Southern Fraternity?
W.W.W or "Rainbow society" at University of Mississippi in 1849
Phi Gamma Deltas Lost in WWI and WWII
WWI: 104 Fijis WWII: 485 Fijis
