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Beta Theta Pi Facts and Firsts
 

Firsts

Beta Theta Pi was the first fraternity to:

• Be founded west of the Allegheny Mountains (1839)
• Have the oldest continuously published college fraternity magazine (1872)
• Publish an open constitution for public inspection (1879)
• open the first fraternity chapter in 13 states
• be the first chapter on 35 campuses - more than any other organization
• Establish a chapter west of the Mississippi (1866)
• Organize into districts for administrative purposes (1873)
• Have General Officers (1872)
• Create Alumni chapters (1867)
• Have a General Convention and one of the few to have annual Conventions
• Adopt a minimum 2.5 GPA for chapters to be in good standing (1984)
• Adopt a minimum 2.5 GPA for members to be in good standing.(1997)

Facts
Beta has:

• More members listed in Who's Who in America and Candian Who's Who than any other fraternity.
• 85 Rhodes Scholars, most of any fraternity
• More than 197 members have been members of the US House or Senate, most of any fraternity.
• 23 States have had a Beta as Governor
• More Olypmic medalists than any other fraternity.

Alpha Gamma Delta was the first and remains the only NPC org to have a chapy in Hawaii. Yeah!

We have 18 chapters in California but I'm not sure if that makes us the biggest org in the state.

Alpha Phi Alpha...

has the second oldest African-American
publication, The Sphinx

is the first intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity for Black men

has the first Black senator- Edward Brooke

has the first Black mayor of New York City- David Dinkins

has the first Black mayor of Atlanta- Maynard Jackson (who just passed away, may God bless his soul)

has one of the co-founders of the NAACP and the first Black man to get a doctorate from Harvard- W.E.B. DuBois

that's all I can think of off the top of my head at 2:17am

Phi Sigma Sigma was the first sorority to be founded as a non-sectarian organization. :D

Alpha Phi

Founded Panhellenic Conference (invited all the sororities to have a meeting)
Had the first Sorority House
First to use Greek Letters
First to establish Risk Managment

We may have been the first to initate an alumni. I know we iniated one in the early 1900's.

Phi Mu has:

the first woman to fly solo around the world
the first female attorney general of Ohio
first woman to hold the rank of Commander in the U.S. Navy
first commanding officer of the Naval Medical Clinic
first female Lt. Governor of Louisiana
first woman director general of the Foreign Service

we are also:
only women's fraternity to serve as a corporate sponsor of the Children's Miracle Network

Phi Mu was proud to be the first NPC group to establish National Philanthropy Day

all of this can be found on our website

Alpha Gam: Fun Facts and Firsts
 

* Alpha Gamma Delta was the first Women's Fraternity established
with the intention of becoming International

* Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to adopt a philanthropy…
Summer Camp for Underprivileged Youths, 1919

* Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to create an
Executive Council Structure…1923

* Alpha Gamma Delta was one of the first chapters to build
central offices…1927

* Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to set a minimum
grade point average…1947

* Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to initiate a non-Caucasian member…
Diane Lam, Delta Zeta Chapter, University of British Colombia, 1953

* Alpha Gamma Delta was the first chapter to colonize in Hawaii …
Delta Sigma Chapter, University of Hawaii at Manao, 1992

* Alpha Gamma Delta has the widest span of chapters…
from Alpha Eta in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Delta Sigma in Manao, Hawaii

* Alpha Gamma Delta has the most websites from a Greek Organization…
including collegiate, alumnae, and junior circle

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The first Canadian NPC sorority in Canada was Kappa Alpha Theta at U of T. It's now closed. The oldest STILL RUNNING sorority chapter is Alpha Phi, at U of T (but of course! ;) )
Go to www.canadiangreeks.com to look up the dates, cuz I am lazy and Shala did all the research for you already for this website! :D

DG has only ever had "one male initiate" and that was Georga Banta (he is/was a Phi Delta Theta, now deceased)

Ah, but Tri Sigma spans from Alaska to Mannheim, Germany (they have a chapter at U of Maryland's Mannheim, Germany campus...true story!) Both are impressive spans, though!

I believe it was Kappa Alpha Theta (1870). Alpha Phi (1872)

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Going West to East, wouldn't AGD's still be farther? :confused:

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I guess.
AGD stretches from Hawaii to NY (not sure which chapter is the farthest east, maybe Nova Scotia)

Tri Sigma stretchs from California/Alaska to Germany.
I don't know which is the farthest stretching. I guess the AGD one. But across the Atlantic is no slouch either.

We could file Tri Sigma under the first to have a Non-North American collegiate chapter.

Kappa Alpha Theta has the oldest founding chapter continually in existence... (Phi Mu, Alpha Delta Pi and Pi Beta Phi's founding/Alpha chapters have all been closed at one point.)

BUT

Pi Phi has the oldest continually running NPC chapter, Iowa Alpha. (Drat them ;) )

And yes, Theta is "the first greek-letter fraternity known among women." The letters KAQ were a symbol of the fraternity from the beginning in 1870. :) Alpha Phi is close though.

I think Phi Mu has three male hononary initiates. I know Stonewall Jackson and President of the Confederacy Davis were two, but I'll have to think about the third...

any Phi Mu got her Phi Manual handy?

Tri-Sigma
 

I think (don't hold this to me) that Tri-Sigma may have been the first or one of the first sororities to have a chapter in Alaska.

We also hold as sisters, the creator of The Care Bears (remember them?).
And one of our sisters wrote the book "Where the Heart Is" upn which the movie is based.

That's all I can think of right now.

One man has been allowed to wear our badge.

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