I am not a member of Phi Gamma Delta, however, my former upstairs neighbor is a Fiji and we discussed this before. Granted it was at a party so my recollection may not be what it should be.

My understanding is that not all chapters are named in that way (name of the school or city), but most are. As I recall, (may be wrong, so please correct) Fiji's chapter designations started with the single letter chapters (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc.), then at some point, the chapters were named after either the city or college.

For example, his Fiji chapter at The University of Colorado is Beta Kappa - for Bolder, Colorado. The Fiji chapter at The University of Kentucky is Upsilon Kappa named for University of Kentucky.

FYI: I believe that Alpha Epsilon Pi may do something similar. UK's chapter, now inactive, was Lambda Kappa (Lexington, Kentucky).

Interesting -- we did the same thing, and I didn't know of any other GLO that followed that pattern. I have no idea why we did it that way.

We do have a Beta Alpha chapter, though. It came after Psi Omega and was followed by Gamma Alpha, Gamma Beta, Delta Alpha, etc.

We have no double-letter (like Beta Beta) chapters, except for Alpha Alpha, which is the chapter designation for a national honorary initiate.

The University of Kentucky
 

The University of Kentucky

E
Alpha Gamma Delta
Phi Sigma Rho

GI
Kappa Alpha Theta
Sigma Nu

Kentucky
Ceres
Delta Chi
FarmHouse
Triangle

Kentucky B
Phi Kappa Psi
Pi Beta Phi

Kentucky E
Phi Delta Theta
Sigma Alpha Epsilon

The University of Nebraska
 

The University of Nebraska

Z
Alpha Omicron Pi
Delta Zeta*

Q
Phi Beta Chi
Sigma Delta Tau*

K
Alpha Gamma Rho
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma

N
Alpha Phi
Pi Kappa Phi*

X
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Sigma Phi*
Sigma Psi Zeta

P
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Delta

R
Alpha Xi Delta
Kappa Alpha Theta

AE
Alpha Delta Pi
Sigma Chi
Theta Xi

Nebraska
Acacia
Delta Chi*
Delta Upsilon
FarmHouse
Triangle

Nebraska A
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Kappa Psi
Sigma Phi Epsilon

*inactive

Chi Chapters:
DDD
DKE

The Phi Kappa Tau's chapter name is Delta Gamma at Ole Miss. The ATO's chapter name is Delta Psi.

I know the Chi Omega's at Alabama are also the Nu Beta Chapter, which is the name of my AOII chapter at Ole Miss.

SDSU has the Gamma Alpha chapters of both Delta Sigma Phi and Alpha Phi

As well as the Beta Lambda Chapters of ZBT and Gamma Phi.

AT Bowling Green State Univ. Ohio

Beta Mu Chapter of

Alpha Xi Delta
Delta Gamma
Kappa Delta

That's kinda funny... I would have expected it to be Beta Chi instead of Beta Kappa... Hmm, maybe they already had a Beta Chi.

Thanks for the information! :)

Zeta Phi Beta and Phi Beta Sigma
-Morgan State University: Gamma Chapter
-Clark Atlanta University: Psi Chapter

University of Michigan
Zeta Sigma Chi and Alpha Phi Alpha are both Epsilon chapters.

DePauw has the Alpha chapters of Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta :)

I know it's not the same, but I used to think it was cool that the AXO chapter in Chapel Hill that we do stuf with is Epsilon Chi and the AOII chapter on Elon's campus was Epsilon Chi.

longwood college (in va.)should hold 4 alpha chapters if they all name them like we do:

kappa delta, zeta tau alpha, sigma sigma sigma and alpha sigma alpha

The Tekes go in Greek Letter order, except for Scorpion at Cornell, which was the local's name, in place of Sigma.

So the first 24 (with that exception) are Alpha - Omega.

The second 24 are Alpha + (i.e Alpha-Alpha - Alpha Omega)

Then Beta + etc.

To save embarassment, they skipped the Eta + and skipped to Theta +

No decent chapter would enjoy being named Eta Beta or Eta Kappa, or something like that, altho at least one GLO uses Eta +

Unlike most GLOs, we use the classic greek nomenclature:
after all single letters, we use the second tier, third, and so on, of Greek letters (deuteron, triton, etc). So, for example, Beta Charge is in Cornell University, Beta Deuteron Charge is in Iowa State, Beta Triton Charge is in Lake Forest, Beta Proteron Charge is (was) in Ballston Law School in NYC. Alpha Charge is for our founding Charge in Union College, Omega Charge is for departed brothers.

As far as same chapter names, I think Union College in Schenectady, NY, should have six "Alpha" chapters, due to the fact that it was the birthplace of six national fraternities:
Kappa Alpha
Sigma Phi
Delta Phi
Psi Upsilon
Chi Psi
Theta Delta Chi

/hijack
Does anyone else notice that all FIJI front doors are painted purple? Along the same line, SigEps are painted red?

AGD: For all two letter designation names, the first letter represents the region (e.g. Alpha and Zeta first means northeast; Beta and Epsilon, midwest; Gamma and Theta, south; Delta, west)

At the University of Toronto, Pi Phi and Phi Delt are both Ontario Alphas.

Gamma Phi and AEPhi are both Alpha Alpha chapters, but AEPhi closed at U of T in the mid 50s.