All of the _______ NPC Chapters
 

Ok - this is one of those threads for NPC buffs, and those who like to waste time.

Let's go by chapter, and list the university where all 26 NPCs have that chapter. (Yes, I realize not ever group has a chapter for every letter-deal with it.) Since I *think* it's most common, let's go Alpha-Omega, then Alpha Alpha, Alpha Beta, Alpha Gamma, etc then Beta Alpha, Beta Beta, Beta Gamma - well, you get it.

Alpha Chapters

Alpha Chi Omega - DePauw University
Alpha Delta Pi - Wesleyan College
Alpha Gamma Delta - Syracuse University
Alpha Epsilon Phi - Barnard College
Alpha Omicron Pi - Barnard College
Alpha Phi - Syracuse University
Alpha Sigma Alpha - Longwood University
Alpha Sigma Tau - Eastern Michigan University
Alpha Xi Delta - Lombard College
Chi Omega - University of Washington
Delta Delta Delta - Boston University
Delta Gamma - Mount Union College
Delta Zeta - Miami University
Delta Phi Epsilon - New York University Law School
Gamma Phi Beta - Syracuse University
Kappa Alpha Theta - DePauw University
Kappa Delta - Longwood University
Kappa Kappa Gamma - Monmouth College
Phi Mu - Wesleyan College
Phi Sigma Sigma - Hunter College
Pi Beta Phi - Monmouth College
Sigma Delta Tau - Cornell University
Sigma Kappa - Colby College
Sigma Sigma Sigma - Longwood University
Theta Phi Alpha - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Zeta Tau Alpha - Longwood University

Ok - who's going to take on doing the Beta chapters?

Question: Is this currently active chapters? Or just listing each group's Beta Chapter whether it is open or closed?

Try open & closed - but some org's closed chapters might be hard to find. In the interest of this thread only taking a year or so ;), if you can't find a closed chapter (or an org doesn't HAVE that chapter designation), just put that. You can always go back and edit your post later if you end up finding it, or if a member of that GLO looks it up and lets you know.:)

ETA: I suppose there could be super bonus brownie points for putting the year the chapters were founded/closed.

It'd be every chapter with a Beta since she listed every NPC's Alpha chapter, many of which (including AOII's) are closed.

Too lazy to do the research but here's a hint to whomever wants to attempt this- Alpha Sigma Alpha single-letter chapters that were closed because they were at teachers' colleges:
Beta: Lewisburg Seminary, Lewisburg, WV
Gamma:College for Women, Columbia, SC
Delta: Mary Baldwin Seminary, Staunton, VA
Epsilon: Fauquier Institute, Warrenton, VA
Zeta: Fairmont Seminary, Washington, DC
Eta: Ward Seminary, Nashville, TN

And AOII's Beta Chapter at Brown was never actually open. . . .

What about the NPC groups that do not use some sort of Alpha to Omega designation?

For example, the current chapter designation for Pi Beta Phi is State and Letter. And for chapters in Kentucky it would be as follows.

Kentucky Alpha - Louisville
Kentucky Beta - Kentucky
Kentucky Gamma - Eastern Kentucky

Other states will have State Alpha, State Beta, State Gamma etc.

Maybe pick the first founded State Beta Chapter as the "Beta" chapter, and the and the second founded State Beta chapter as the "Alpha Beta" chapter.

It's not going to all work out perfect, due to variances in chapter designations...but just use your best judgement. I'm sure someone will correct you if your totally wrong.:p;)

You think?

Fun thread!

I'll do the Delta chapters. :)

LOL. In general, though, people don't get snarky about OH EM GEE, you put Alpha Beta, and our Alpha Beta Chapter is at RuffemTuffem Tech, how could you NOT know that??? Although if you put something really stupid, you probably will get made fun of.:D;)

So is this chronological founding or just letter designation? For AOII, Pi chapter at Tulane was founded in 1898 while Beta was chartered in 1908, same day as Delta and Gamma as the 9th, 10th, and 11th chapters.

Letter designation. Basically, in the end, we should have a nice resource of "Gee, I wonder where XYZ's Pi Chi chapter is? Oh, it's at State U". Also, I know it's been discussed before, but it's always interesting to see that "Oh, wow, XZY, ABC, DEF, and GTG all have their Beta Epsilon Chapter at U of State!".

And, yeah, it's probably a good idea to call it before you do it. I'd hate to have two people researching the same letter designation, only for them to post at the same time and cancel eachother out.

Then Chi Omega's needs to be changed as their founding chapter actually is Psi and not Alpha - and their chapter designations go "backwards".

Sorry to make this complicated. . . .

Hate to nitpick, but for Chi Omega, our founding chapter is Psi Chapter at the University of Arkansas. Our Alpha Chapter is at the University of Washington, founded in 1909.

Love the idea though! I would love to see if any other organizations have my chapter designation--Upsilon Lambda! :)

Changed.;)

AOII's Upsilon Lambda chapter is University of Texas-San Antonio, founded in 1978. Upsilon Lambda stands for the chapter submotto of United for Life.

I was going to suggest that perhaps the first post could be edited as "Founding" chapters. Then there could be a post listing the Alpha chapters.

So to use Chi Omega as an example, in the first post (founding) it would be Arkansas. For Alpha chapters it would be Washington. When it comes to Psi chapters a designation as the founding chapter could be noted as well.

We'll just see what happens when people start posting other letters. It will all work out in the end. Or GC will implode on itself, and the world will come to an end. Whatever.:p

Seriously people....I just started the thread because I had a random idea. Feel free to make up your own rules as you go along.

This should be fun, not too serious. Corrections will be made as we go so don't fret. :)

FYI - If you're using an edition of Baird's, the info can be way off.

I am impressed you all are taking this on but I am waaaayyyyy out of my depth here. I'll pop in now and then to see how quick you get through the letters, tho'! :) Good luck!

Shamelessly taken from the 1977 Baird's, so info may or may not be exact:

Beta Chapters

Alpha Chi Omega - Albion
Alpha Delta Pi - Winstong Salem 1905-1910
Alpha Epsilon Phi - Hunter 1909-1970
Alpha Gamma Delta - Wisconsin
Alpha Omicron Pi - Brown 1908-1908 (the potentially 9th chapter)
Alpha Phi - Northwestern
Alpha Sigma Alpha - Lewisburg (WVA) 1903-1904
Alpha Sigma Tau - Central Michigan
Alpha Xi Delta - Iowa Wesleyan
Chi Omega - Colby (19th? chapter)
Delta Delta Delta - St Lawrence (6th chapter)
Delta Gamma - Washington (27th chapter)
Delta Phi Epsilon - Teachers Colege NYC (1917-1922)
Delta Zeta - Cornell (1908-1932)
Gamma Phi Beta - Michigan
Kappa Alpha Theta - Indiana
Kappa Delta - Chatham Episcopal Institute (1902-1904)
Kappa Kappa Gamma - St. Mary's School (1871-1974)
Phi Mu - Hollins (1904-1929)
Phi Sigma Sigma - Tufts (1918-1922)
Pi Beta Phi - 2nd chapter is Iowa Alpha, Iowa Wesleyan
Sigma Delta Tau - Pennsylvania
Sigma Kappa - a second chapter was founded alongside Alpha at Colby in 1890 or 1891, later merged with Alpha
Sigma Sigma Sigma - Lewisburg Female (1903-1908)
Theta Phi Alpha - Illinois (1919-1953)
Zeta Tau Alpha - Richmond Women's (1902-1903)

ETA - if someone 'called' Beta and I didn't notice, my apologies. :)

Chapters
 

I think this is a great thread...however, I already see how this is going to play out. Someone did the Beta chapters and when I looked at the listing for Sigma Delta Tau, it indicated our Beta chapter at the University of Pennsylvania was inactive. It was reactivated several years ago. I'm sure this will happen with other chapters of not only my sorority but others as well.

My suggestion is that a designated person from each sorority submit her accurate list of chapters both active and inactive along with the schools and dates founded. I can copy mine from our website and double check it in my current issue of our magazine, The Torch, which arrived the other day. Otherwise this will turn out to be a mass of misinformation.

I will volunteer to do Sigma Delta Tau. Any other volunteers? I think everything should be coordinated by our esteemed leader of this thread, Alpha Frog.

Paula M.
Sigma Delta Tau
ΣΔTPatriae Multi Spes Una

I specifically said my info was from 1977, so I readily admit there could be a LOT of variances from what I posted and the actual info. So I can do one of two things - I can remove the post on the chance that the info is wrong, or I can update it if people correct me.

Just PM me or reply specifically to the thread with exact changes that should be made and I am happy to make them. :) Paula, I couldn't tell from your National site when Beta was rechartered, so I just removed the dates entirely. :)

Meh, I thought the idea was fun.

While you are right in that this was Delta Gamma's first ever chapter, its designation was actually "Psi". One of my wise DGs on this board told me that chapter denoted as "Alpha" was at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, 1882-1908. I should also mention that Psi has been used more than once, so you will sometimes see the Psi-II designation for when the Psi name was used again (i.e. recycled), but at a different campus.

The DG chapter designated as "Beta" is at University of Washington in Seattle, WA, but our 2nd ever chapter was actually elsewhere (and I am not sure where it was). I am looking in my NM Education Materials, but it doesn't apparently to be explicitly stated as to which was Chapter #2. Suffice it to say that in the earliest days of DG, they didn't really follow the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, etc. ordered naming convention. That came later on. :)

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Changed.:)

I think once we get a little ways into this, we can paste a few posts together (or, I can edit the OP) to make the info more accessible. Or, we could start a new thread with just the actual list and no chit-chat.

Upsilon Lambda - wow!!! ZTA just chartered Kappa Omega! How many chapters are active right now though? Just curious :)

And I'm with Nittany, I'm interested but I don't think I'll be able to contribue much here. I'll definitely keep checking in though!

FYI, Chi Omega names their chapters "backwards" so it's really like the Lambda Upsilon chapter for other orgs. Still, Chi Omega has a lot of chapters!

Or list all Pi Phi's State Betas since for some groups its chapters are not named alphabetically in order of charter year. For example, AOII's second chapter was Pi at Tulane in New Orleans. Our third was Nu Chapter at NYU followed by Omicron at University of Tennessee. I know Kappa Delta has a similar issue with non-alphabetical order.

I can help by giving all the AOII chapters in order of charter if anyone needs it. PM me if you can't find a chapter for us. Hint...we have no Mu chapter.

One fact that I always found interesting about Zeta Tau Alpha is that we officially have two Beta chapters. Richmond Women's College was our first Beta chapter, now called Beta (old). This chapter was actually opperated sub-rosa and unfortunately didn't stay active very long. Our second Beta chapter, now called Beta (new), was opened at Judson College in Marion, Alabama, on March 16, 1905. Unfortunately, this chapter was only active for fourteen years. "Thus both of Zeta's Beta chapters - the short-lived Original Beta and the Judson grouop, upon whom was bestowed the designation of the extinct first Beta chapter - suffered extinction because of administrative disapproval of fraternities." (taken from The History of Zeta Tau Alpha)

This thread is great! I probably won't be able to contribute much, but I'm still interested.

PS, Theta Phi's website has a list of all open & closed chapters, in the order in which they were founded, with the year & Greek letter designation if anyone is trying to tackle a letter without Baird's. I noticed a couple innaccuracies as far as chapter's that were closed within the last ten years or so, but I'll just try to point those out if we get that far into the alphabet.

Sigma Delta Tau Chapters
 

Below is a list of active and inactive chapters of Sigma Delta Tau as of December 1, 2007. Active chapters are highlighted.

ALPHA CORNELL1917BETAPENNSYLVANIA1920GAMMAOHIO STATE1921DELTABUFFALO1921EPSILONCINCINNATI1923ZETALOUISIANA STATE1924ETAGEORGIA1924THETANEBRASKA1925IOTAMCGILL1926KAPPAILLINOIS1926LAMBDAUCLA1927MUSOUTHERN CAL1927NUMINNESOTA1929XIOKLAHOMA1929OMICRONWEST VIRGINIA1934PIIOWA1933RHOALABAMA1935SIGMANORTHWESTERN1938TAUTEXAS1939UPSILONINDIANA1940PHIPENN STATE1943CHIMICHIGAN1944PSIMASSACHUSETTS1945OMEGASYRACUSE1946ALPHA BETARHODE ISLAND1947ALPHA DELTACOLORADO1947ALPHA EPSILONPURDUE1948ALPHA ZETAPITTSBURGH1950ALPHA ETAWASHINGTON U1951ALPHA THETAMARYLAND1952ALPHA IOTATULANE (NEWCOMB)1955ALPHA KAPPASOUTH CAROLINA1957ALPHA LAMBDAMISSOURI1957ALPHA MUMIAMI (FLA)1957ALPHA NUWISCONSIN1958ALPHA XIBOSTON1959ALPHA OMICRONBROOKLYN COLLEGE1959ALPHA PIARIZONA1959ALPHA RHONYU1960ALPHA SIGMAHUNTER COLLEGE1960ALPHA TAUGEORGE WASHINGTON1961ALPHA UPSILONBRADLEY1962ALPHA PHIMEMPHIS STATE1962ALPHA CHIMIAMI OF OHIO1963ALPHA PSIAKRON1963ALPHA OMEGATOLEDO1964BETA ALPHADENVER1965BETA BETAMICHIGAN STATE1964BETA GAMMAHOUSTON1965BETA DELTAPARSONS COLLEGE1967BETA EPSILONCOLORADO STATE1966BETA ZETAQUEENS COLLEGE1967BETA ETANORTHERN ILLINOIS1967BETA THETAC. W. POST COLLEGE1967BETA IOTAMISSOURI KANSAS CITY1969BETA KAPPAWAYNE STATE1969BETA LAMBDAWEST CHESTER STATE1969BETA SIGMAHERBERT H. LEHMAN COLLEGE1968BETA NUFLORIDA1975BETA XIUNION COLLEGE1977BETA PIROCHESTER1978BETA RHOVIRGINIA1981BETA TAURUTGERS (NEW BRUNSWICK)1981BETA UPSILONSTANFORD1983BETA PHISUNY STONY BROOK1984BETA CHIKANSAS1985GAMMA ALPHASUNY BINGHAMTON1985GAMMA BETASUNY ALBANY1985GAMMA GAMMAHOFSTRA1986GAMMA DELTAAMERICAN UNIVERSITY1987GAMMA EPSILONSUNY ONEONTA1987GAMMA ZETASUNY BUFFALO1988GAMMA ETASOUTH FLORIDA1988GAMMA THETASUNY CORTLAND1988GAMMA IOTAHARTFORD1989GAMMA KAPPASUNY OSWEGO1989GAMMA LAMBDAFLORIDA STATE1989GAMMA MUNORTHEASTERN1989GAMMA NUSUNY NEW PALTZ1989GAMMA XIMONTCLAIR STATE1990GAMMA OMICRONYORK (CANADA)1990GAMMA PITAMPA1991GAMMA RHORAMAPO1991GAMMA SIGMAJOHNSON & WALES1991GAMMA TAUCOLUMBIA1992GAMMA UPSILONSUNY PLATTSBURGH1991GAMMA PHIYORK (PENNSYLVANIA)1991GAMMA CHISUNY GENESCO1992GAMMA PSIARIZONA STATE1992GAMMA OMEGAADELPHI1992DELTA ALPHAEASTERN MICHIGAN1992DELTA BETAILLINOIS STATE1993DELTA GAMMABRANDEIS1995DELTA DELTASTATEN ISLAND1996DELTA EPSILONEMORY2001DELTA ZETARUTGERS (CAMDEN)2002DELTA ETACOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON2003DELTA THETAPACE2007DELTA IOTANOVA SOUTHEASTERN COLONY2007

Paula M.
Sigma Delta Tau
ΣΔTPatriae Multi Spes Una One Hope of Many People

Sigma Delta Tau Gamma Chapter
 

I haven't heard of any plans to recolonize Gamma but this was one of our most successful chapters for many years. I was surprised when the chapter was inactivated. I hope national will consider reactivating it soon.

Paula M.
Sigma Delta Tau
ΣΔTPatriae Multi Spes Una One Hope of Many People

holy eyesore batman!

and yay for NYU having 2 single-letter chapters!

Just checking in to see if the Gamma chapters had been posted yet. I'm up after that with the Deltas.

I'm in class today. Yes, on a Saturday from 9 am to 5:30 pm! So I guess I'll post when I get home.

See ya!


ETA: The 1920 edition of Baird's (while flawed) is online via Google books.