Regionals
 

Hi!

In 1953 the SUNY system outlawed national GLOs due to racist practices, leaving the peculiar situation w/ many colleges in the state of New York with many GLOs that are "local" but have many chapters across the state that are loosely affiliated with each other. Some chapters still exist, some died out, some affiliated w/ NPC groups after the ban was lifted, some changed their names etc...

I really want to put together a directory of these "regionals", active chapters, dead chapters, chapters that changed affiliations, etc but I need a lot of your help! Please let me know of any Im missing as well!

Here's what I have so far!

SORORITIES

Phi Kappa Pi (Clionian Society)
-SUNY Geneseo (Alpha Clio) (Active)
-SUNY Potsdam (Kappa Clio) (Active)
-SUNY Plattsburgh (Delta Clio) (Dead?) (Unrecognized?)(Phi Kappa Chi)
-SUNY Oneonta (? Clio) (Dead)
-Mansfield (? Clio) (Dead)
-New Paltz (? Clio) (Dead)

Alpha Kappa Phi (Agonian Society)
-SUNY Geneseo (Alpha) (Active)
-SUNY Oneonta (Beta) (Active)
-SUNY Potsdam (Gamma) (Active)
-SUNY Plattsburgh (Delta) (Dead)
-SUNY Oswego (Epsilon) (Dead)
-Mansfield (Epsilon) (Alumni)
-SUNY Brockport (Zeta) (Dead)
-Jamaica, NY (Eta) (Alumni)
-SUNY Cortland (Theta) (Dead)
-Indiana, PA (Iota) (Dead)
-Pittsburgh, PA (Iota) (Alumni)
-SUNY New Paltz (Kappa) (Active)

Alpha Delta Society
-SUNY Geneseo (Epsilon) (Active)
-SUNY Potsdam (Kappa) (Active)
-SUNY Oswego (Eta) (Active)
-SUNY Plattsburgh (Theta) (Dead)

Sigma Gamma Phi (Arethusa Society)
-SUNY Geneseo (Gamma) (Active)
-SUNY Brockport (Alpha) (Dead)
-Rochester Free Academy (Beta) (Dead)
-SUNY Oneonta (Delta) (Active)
-SUNY New Paltz (Epsilon) (Dead)
-Buffalo Normal School (Zeta) (Dead)
-SUNY Oswego (Eta) (Active)
-SUNY Cortland (Theta) (Dead)
-Potsdam Normal School (Lambda) (Dead)
-Community College of the Finger Lakes (Eta) (Dead)
-SUNY Potsdam/ Clarkson University (Iota) (Active)
-SUNY Fredonia (Kappa) (Active)

FRATERNITIES

Delpic Society
-SUNY Geneseo (DKT) (Alpha) (Active)
-SUNY Oneonta (Beta) (Dead)
-Jamaica, NY (Gamma) (Dead)
-Mansfield (Delta) (Dead)
-SUNY Cortland (Epsilon) (Dead)
-SUNY New Paltz (Zeta) (Active)
-SUNY Plattsburgh (Eta) (Dead)
-SUNY Potsdam (Baconian) (Active)
-SUNY Binghamton (Theta) (Active)

A bunch of Clio chapters joined ASA...

SUNY Buffalo became the Pi Pi chapter of ASA.
SUNY Cortland became the Gamma Clio chapter of ASA
SUNY Oneonta became the Beta Xi Chapter of ASA

These all went back to Clio after the ban on nationals.

SUNY Oswego became the Beta Tau chapter of ASA and did not go back to Clio, but turned into a local called Alpha Sigma Chi.

Pi Pi recolonized I believe in the 1970s and closed in around 1992-94.

It appears that the remaining chapters of both Alpha Kappa Phi (Agonian) and Sigma Gamma Phi (Arethusa) have re-affiliated with each other and/or have some alumnae board oversight.

Have the 2 remaining Phi Kappa Pi (Clionian) chapters re-affiliated with each other?
-SUNY Geneseo (Alpha Clio) (Active)
-SUNY Potsdam (Kappa Clio) (Active)

Or have the 3 remaining Alpha Delta re-affiliated with each other.
-SUNY Geneseo (Epsilon) (Active)
-SUNY Potsdam (Kappa) (Active)
-SUNY Oswego (Eta) (Active)

Thanks for the information. I always wanted to know more about those groups. I don't think they ever made it into Baird's. I've only read the really early editions, so I could be wrong.

I have a question for any of you ladies... how is Clionian pronounced? Is is cl-eye-onian or cl-ee-onian? sorry, tough to type it....
FYI, the ASA Pi Pi chapter closed in 1995.

I believe it is with an "eye" sound. While at Convention this summer, I met some SKs from SUNY Geneseo (which I was really excited to talk about the Regional chapters there) and I said Clio with an "ee" sound like the name, and I was corrected. Any Clios correct me if I am wrong.

It is Cl-eye-onian.

Thanks ladies! I think I just won an adult beverage :)

"SUNY Oswego became the Beta Tau chapter of ASA and did not go back to Clio, but turned into a local called Alpha Sigma Chi.

I clicked on the Alpha Sigma Chi link -- it gives the history of the chapter and ends with a creed that's taken word-for-word from ASA's. Isn't that infringing on copyright? (Or, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"?) And the coat of arms/crest looks very similar.

"Faces Change, but Traditions Stay the Same"

Sounds like they wanted to keep the traditions that were stripped from them by the ban and no thought to reaffiliate with ASA when they could.

I can't imagine what I would do if suddenly I was told that I could no longer be an AOII as a collegian. I'd probably change one letter and keep everything else the same, too! :)

Before my chapter became Alpha Xi Delta, we were a local called Alpha Sigma Chi as well! ASC for "Always Sisters in Charity" ...

It's been that way for a long long time (and that site has been around for a long time). They even use the ASA nickname. If Alpha Sigma Alpha wanted to sue them, it would have happened by now. Why they haven't reaffiliated, is for someone more knowledgeable than me to answer.

what does the symbol for clio look like?

what do you mean by symbol?

Hi, I'm a sister of Alpha Sigma Chi at SUNY Oswego, I just pledged in F'08, and was hoping maybe someone could better explain the clio thing. I dont understand how it was broken up?

oh and by symbol i meant letter lol... someone tried to explain it once, but it just confused me

The Clio Sorority was founded at Geneseo in 1872 and at one point had ten chapters throughout New York/ Pennsylvania. Yours at Oswego was at one point the Iota chapter. In the early part of the century Alpha Sigma Alpha began petitioning Clio chapters to become Alpha Sigma Alpha. Our Chapter specifically was asked in 1943, but declined although a few chapters did join like yours. In 1953 the Chancellor of the SUNY system made the decision to disolve all nationally affiliated Greek organizations because of the racist policies of some. So at that point all of the remaining Clio chapters ended thier afilliation with each other as did Alpha Sigma Alpha chapters at SUNY. Some of the ASA chapters went back to being Clio, some created their own locals, etc. I think the national ban was lifted sometime in the 1980's, but most of the Clio chapters had closed by that time, so the only remaining ones are Alpha Clio, SUNY Geneseo, and Kappa Clio, SUNY Potsdam. So I guess our sororities are distantly related, lol.

Anyway there is no letter for Clio, we go by the letters Phi Kappa Pi. Hope that helps!

Yes thank you, that helps a lot. It's good to know that our sororities used to be related at some point lol. I was curious because I found some composites in our house with the letters Phi Kappa Pi on them, and I've met a couple brothers of Psi Phi Delta at SUNY Potsdam who told me that their sisters we're Phi Kappa Pi and I figured that somehow there had to be a relation, so it's good to finally understand it!

Just so you know, I am a member of the SUNY Geneseo Arethusa - Sigma Gamma Phi Sorority and unfortunatly -SUNY Oswego (Eta) is now dead. We only have Geneseo, Potsdam, Fredonia, and Oneonta.

Do you know when they closed, and what letters they went by?

Hello. Today the Delphic Society is known as The Delphic Fraternity. We presently have an active undergraduate chapter at the University of Virginia and two alumni chapters at SUNY New Paltz and Binghamton. I appreciate you listing us. Please note our chapter at Potsdam is dormant. Hope everything is well with your organization.

In Greek Unity,
The Delphic Fraternity, Inc.
http://delphicfraternity.info/

Hello fellow Greeks:

I see that under Fraternities you list the Delphic Society's Baconian Chapter at Potsdam as active. Why is that?

That post is 8 years old. Was it active then?

No. Last time it was active in Potsdam was around 1933. Just curious as to why someone thought it was active?

I know this thread is like super old but I have an interesting story about locals gone national and then local again similar to the Alpha Sigma Chi story. In undergrad, I was in a local sorority Theta Kappa. In the early 1970’s until 1989 they were a chapter of Kappa Delta. While some things were changed, our secret motto, songs, and some of the ritual came straight from the ΚΔ playbook. Theta Kappa was briefly a colony of ΑΣΤ in the mid 90’s and went back to ΘΚ until 2010 when the sorority died out. Ironically, I ended up becoming an AI to ΑΣΑ in 2014.

What school was this?

UNC-Pembroke. ΚΔ re-established there around 2008ish and is thriving.