If you put it in a timeline, you get an interesting picture of some periods of rapid expansion, and then closings - much like the process that FSUZeta described in the Mizzou thread:
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Originally posted by FSUZeta
i do know that during the "hippie"(viet nam war) era, membership in most greek organizaitons suffered. guess everyone was "stickin' it to the man." that might account for the demise of some chapters on your campus, i.e.,membership drops as a whole as fewer girls participate in formal recruitment, the strong remain strong. even though quota figures may be down, the stronger chapters reach the lower quota figure. the mid-sized chapters begin to struggle or do year round cob and the struggling chapters have to close. now please understand that i do not know the reputations of any of the sororities on your campus, now or in the past ,so i am just speculating. i also realize that few of the closed chapters at mizzou left in the 70's, but lower recruitment numbers from that era might have caused problems that carried on into the 80's and 90's. i went thru formal recruitment at florida state in the fall of 1975. at the time there were 17 sororities, all housed. after formal recruitment two chapters left campus, one the following year and one that tried to recolonize was not successful.all the chapters that left had lower membership numbers and that 1975 recruitment was a make or break for them. this was near the end of the above mentioned era. one bad recruitment can have a huge impact on a chapter, and in some cases they are not able to recover.if they do hang on, it can take them many years to recover. i do think that all of the npc sororities understand better how to help their chapters who may need a bit of help, so maybe fewer chapters will be closing.
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1902 - Kappa Kappa Gamma
1902 - Pi Beta Phi
1904 - Chi Omega
1904 - Kappa Alpha Theta
1906 - Zeta Tau Alpha
1906 - Alpha Delta Pi
1912 - Delta Delta Delta
1918 - Phi Mu
1920 - Alpha Phi
1920 - Phi Sigma Sigma
1921 - Kappa Delta
1922 - Gamma Phi Beta
1924 - Alpha Chi Omega
1924 - Delta Zeta
1925 - Alpha Epsilon Phi
1929 - Alpha Xi Delta *
1933 – Inactive: Phi Sigma Sigma
1934 - Delta Phi Epsilon
1934 - Inactive: Kappa Delta *
1939 - Delta Gamma
1939 - Sigma Delta Tau
1940 - Alpha Gamma Delta
1941 - Alpha Omicron Pi
1943 - Inactive: Alpha Xi Delta *
1963 - Recolonization: Alpha Xi Delta *
1965 – Inactive: Phi Mu
1973 – Inactive: Alpha Omicron Pi
1970s - Inactive: Alpha Gamma Delta closed in the mid seventies *
1977 – Inactive: Delta Zeta
1981 - Recolonization: Kappa Delta *
1980s - Recolonization: Alpha Gamma Delta re-colonized in the mid eighties *
1988 – Inactive: Gamma Phi Beta
1990 – Inactive: Delta Phi Epsilon
1996 – Inactive: Alpha Gamma Delta *
* recolonizations
ETA: new info from tinydancer and g41965 -- thanks for making the picture more complete; this will really help! 