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Originally posted by hoosier
I hope this doesn't degenerate, but my fraternity and every one I have heard about (except for that Banta guy who started a couple sororities) were started by college-age people - in most cases after some other GLO didn't take them.
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There are cases where faculty or college staff were involved in founding a fraternity or sorority. In the case of my own fraternity, the man we consider "The Father of the Sinfonia" and our "primary" founder was not a student but rather was the burser of the New England Conservatory. He was, of course, joined by a number of students who are also considered founders.
Charles Richardson's role in helping found Chi Omega also comes to mind.
But this is the first time that I have heard of older men (or women) with no immediate connection to a college or university founding a GLO; it's also the first time that I have heard of an instance where
no student were involved as founders.