Thanks for sharing the info DallasDelta! I love finding out new things about our wonderful sorority. That is quite neat about your president :)

CONGRATS TO THE TRI DELTAS AT UC Merced.

We were initiated this morning!

Merced Tri Deltas
 

Congratulations and best wishes to our newest chapter! Delta greetings to Epsilon Kappa.

Congrats to the newest Tri-Deltas at UC Merced!!! DL

so i was looking thru The Trident and noticed there will be an additional 2 chapters colonizing in 2009. University of Oregon, and Towson University (Maryland). so that's THREE new chapters this year:) page 24

isn't the University of Oregon a reactivation?

i consider a reactivation a new chapter, so i must have missed them mentioning that in the trident.
so, we did gain a new chapter:)

Yup, Theta Delta chapter. It was closed in 2000. Glad to have them back!

New Colony at Chapman Univ. in California
 

Tri Delta has a new colony at Chapman in Orange County, CA. The NPC system there has been expanding in recent years.

Other chapters at UC Irvine, CSULong Beach, CSU Northridge, UCLA, Pepperdine, LMU and Univ. of Southern California are not a great distance away.

Chapman will be Epsilon Nu!

http://dddchapman.com/home

Tri Delta at Chapman University
 

Tri Delta will begin interviews the end of September at Chapman. Go Epsilon Nu!

Update:

Epsilon Nu had a successful Bid Day. Tri Delta welcomed 97 new pearls to our sisterhood. The new chapter will be installed in November. This will be Delta Delta Delta's 16th chapter in California and 139th chapter nationwide.

Oh no!! I'm sad to see that EE at Cal Poly SLO is now inactive! It was such a young chapter. That's just too bad... :(

Miami of Ohio
 

Delta Delta Delta is returning to Miami of Ohio. The colony will be recruiting members in fall of 2013.

Miami of Ohio
 

Miami of Ohio has returned. The chapter has a colony of 118 new members. Best wishes for a successful future at Miami.

Boise State University
 

Delta Delta Delta has been selected to return to Boise State. The Beta Eta chapter will have a colony in fall of 2014.

:)

Yay! That's always good to hear :)

Beta Eta in Idaho
 

Beta Eta is returning in September. Tri Delta will be taking part in formal recruitment.

fabulous! thanks for posting! Δ♡

Boise State University--Beta Eta Chapter
 

Tri Delta's colony -- New members--64

New Colony Coming to Connecticut
 

Tri Delta will be joining the Greek community at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut fall of 2017.

:)

Pardon the crash, but if y'all can publicly share the information I was wondering how Tri Delta decides how to name chapters? It looks like there's some sort of order to it but I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is! And if y'all can't I obviously understand:)

If I remember correctly, we started with the single-letter chapters first, then Delta _____, Alpha _____, Theta ____, and Phi ______. (Based on this list, there seems to have been some overlap with the Deltas, Alphas and Thetas, but I think the original intention was to go roughly in that order.) Those are all significant letters to us. After those chapters were filled, we went back to where we left off in the Greek alphabet, back to Beta _____, then Gamma _____, etc., and now we're up to the Epsilons. I have no idea where Omega Delta came from!

My question: It seems like every other NPC sorority has been exploding in growth over the past five years. Have we really not added a new chapter in that time period? I know there have been a handful of recolonizations, which is awesome--IMO it's where our colonization energy should be if there's a limit to what we can do, and I know there is--but it just seems strange in the context of this massive system-wide growth otherwise.

Looking at IrishPipes' thread, there was Towson, Creighton and Chapman were all new chapters.

I think it is regional. I noticed that the Alpha chapters are on the east coast, the Deltas in the mid-west and Thetas are in the West.

Yes, I agree. The only colonizations since 2010 have been Miami Ohio & Boise State. As of right now our only future colonization is Quinnipiac in 2017 and we just presented at Washington University in St. Louis.

Oh gee. I looked it up, and found something. According to the 1988 History of Delta Delta Delta, p. 27:

“When the first two charters were granted, Delta was given to Iowa State and Delta Deuteron to Simpson. Contrary to expectation, the chapter at Simpson was initiated first, but the names remained unchanged . . . . When anti-fraternity legislation forced the Iowa State chapter off the campus, the name Delta eventually was transferred to Simpson, and when Iowa State was reinstalled in 1912, it was permitted to keep the name of the petitioning local, Omega Delta.”

Oregon
 

Tri Delta has had a successful return to the University of Oregon.

A bit late to the game...but my two cents...

I wonder how many of the other sororities are starting completely new chapters vs re-colonizations as well. The statistic hunter in me would love to see the NPC data and compare our growth vs others.
Thinking back to my own colony days, I seem to remember that Tri Delta has a preference (policy?) for recolonizing inactive chapters. I'd be interested to see if this is true. For example, let's say 10 universities in a given year are open to expansion, and of those 10, 6 have inactive chapters. Is it the expansion committee's decision to pursue those 6 and not the others? Kind of like how legacies had to be invited to the second round in the past? Or is each expansions evaluated on its own merits? Things to ponder...

We have presented at numerous colleges ( Conneticut, Louieville, Nevada Las Vegas are a few of the ones I know of ) in the past couple of years, but we have not been selected .

Presentations
 

We have two presentations this month:) think positive thoughts for our extension team!

The Connecticut presentation was successful. We will be colonizing in Quinnipiac University (CT) Fall 2017.

Tri Delta will be presenting at the University of Delaware tomorrow! Make sure you're following them on Facebook and Instagram:)

Thank you DallasDelta.

University of Delaware update: pi beta phi is colonizing spring 2016 and Tri delta in spring 2018!

Pardon the crash, but I know a few Tri Deltas and wish to say congratulations!

A question that maybe someone can answer. My MIL says she was a Tri Delt back in the 60's at Hardin Simmons University in Texas, but I can't find any record of that chapter. I don't want to really overly question this and appear rude but I can't find record of a chapter there. Anyone have any informaton?

I just pulled my Tri Delta Centennial History off the shelf. There is no Hardin Simmons University listed as ever having had a chapter. Maybe it was a local?

I also just pulled down my Bairds from 1991. There was a Phi Mu chapter there from 1907-11, but no other NPC groups are listed. The rest are honors, service and recognition. No Tri Delta in any form.

Pardon my crash, but was there another college near there with a Tri Delta chapter? Things were a little looser back then, maybe she went to H-S and pledged a chapter at another school.

Hardin-Simmons has never had nationals, only locals. There was a local group called "Delta" that was active during that period. As is often the case, maybe they were Tri-Delt "wanna bes" and copied some of their traditions from the national organization.

Phi Mu was there briefly from 1907-1911.

Double check, but I think Phi Mu had a chapter at a Hardin College that was in Missouri and closed during the 1930s.