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presidents, military schools
Ronald Wilson Reagan and his older brother, John Neil Reagan served as Presidents of Iota chapter of TKE at Eureka College,
a church school near Peoria. When Reagan died he left $ to allow
college officials, IFC rep, and TKE reps, to attend his funeral. All
went, most were TKEs. Lambda Chi and Delta Sig, I think, are all
there too. Reagan and then-wife Jane Wyman built the library at
Eureka. He was a life-long friend of the greeks. The stories of his
collegiate visits are legion, and he was likely the best known ever.
Penn Military, now called Widener, in Chester, PA still has NIC chapters. Theta Chi was nurtured at Norwich, and lordy, SAE has
a marvelous military history. See Baird's. I would not be at all surprised to see greeks return to some of them. If we can have
nebulous metro charters, cooking schools, aeronautical ones, textile schools, golly...we have not yet hit cosmetology or auctioneering or chiropractic ones, but who knows.
The once boy scout fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, was hardly an
IFC social when Bill Clinton was a member. But I guess we could
toss them in if'n we're a mind to. Harry Truman was enthusiastic
about Lambda Chi Alpha, and so on...
Greek history is an important arm of higher education, and from
the Phi Psi cabin in the woods sprang a great youth movement.
But, as Kappa Sig says, "not all can wear the pin." But we are
hard working at it. Go Pike at Howard!
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