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Sinfonia *was* professional -- I was there.
I pledged Phi Mu Alpha in 1976, at the height of the professional era. At every opportunity, Sinfonia vigorously denied that it was a social fraternity, and insisted that it was professional through and through.
I would not have joined a social fraternity; I wanted a professional organization and I found one.
Now Phi Mu Alpha claims to be social, and many Sinfonians assert that the organization has never been professional. But something that disturbs me greatly is as follows. With rare exception, the brothers who most loudly proclaim that the fraternity has always been social were not members of Sinfonia during the 1970s. Indeed, many of them had not even been born yet. What makes them such experts on the fraternity's history?
Myself, I do not know what happened in 1898, but I am a personal witness to Phi Mu Alpha in the late 1970s, and it was proud to describe itself as a professional fraternity.
- - Dave Barber, Eta-Omicron 1976
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