National Office near First chapter?

[naraht]

Is your National Office in the general area of the college where your group was started? If not, are there are any particular reasons why not?

For Alpha Phi Omega, the answer is no. Our first chapter is Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, our National Offices for the last 70 years have been in the Kansas City area. The reason is that our Second National President was from Kansas City, stayed as National president for 15 years (extended by WWII) and took the Fraternity from being run out of someone's home to actually having a rented office with employees.

[KSUViolet06]

I know that our HQ is in Woodstock, VA and Longwood is in Farmville, VA. I have no clue if those 2 towns are close to each other.

Any VA GCers know?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I know that our HQ is in Woodstock, VA and Longwood is in Farmville, VA. I have no clue if those 2 towns are close to each other.

Not particularly. Woodstook is in the northern bit of Virginia, while Farmville is probably 150+ miles south of Woodstock?

Ours isn't close. Our Alpha chapter was in Boston, but our HQ is in Evansville, Indiana.

Another similar thread: What determines the location of an organization's national office?

Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

This is what's in the yellow pages for Indianapolis:

Isn't Lambda Chi also there?

[agzg]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Isn't Lambda Chi also there?

I have no idea - that was the yellow pages listing when I typed in "Fraternity and Sorority HQs in Indianapolis, Indiana"

(Unless that was an Earp reference...)

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

I have no idea - that was the yellow pages listing when I typed in "Fraternity and Sorority HQs in Indianapolis, Indiana"

(Unless that was an Earp reference...)

LOL. no. Per their website, Lambda Chi is on Founders Road in Indy.

As for who has their HQ where they started, I know about these:

Sigma Nu and Kappa Alpha Order are in Lexington, VA
Kappa Sigma is in Charlottesville, VA
Sigma Phi Epsilon is in Richmond, VA
Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Tau and Delta Zeta are all in Oxford, Ohio

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

As for who has their HQ where they started, I know about these:

Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Tau and Delta Zeta are all in Oxford, Ohio

The Peterson International Headquarters of Sigma Chi Fraternity - also founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio - is located in downtown Evanston, Illinois.

[Jill1228]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I know that our HQ is in Woodstock, VA and Longwood is in Farmville, VA. I have no clue if those 2 towns are close to each other.

Any VA GCers know?

I am originally from Virginia.

Farmville and Woodstock are 158 miles apart

[AOII Angel]

AOII was founded in NYC, but our IHQ is in Brentwood, TN. Our original office was in NYC in the home of one of our founders. I can't remember when or why we moved to TN, but I know that we stayed because a local alumna didn't want them to move from the Nashville area so she donated a sizable sum of money to build our new HQ in Brentwood. It's hard to say no to free money! I'll have to look in our history book to find out why we went to TN in the first place.

[agzg]

There are a lot of fraternity and sorority HQs in Indianapolis, Indiana, right?

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

There are a lot of fraternity and sorority HQs in Indianapolis, Indiana, right?

That's where AOII wanted to relocate which prompted the bid donation to stay in TN! I wonder what attracted all those groups to Indianapolis in the first place?

[DoctorD]

Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

There are a lot of fraternity and sorority HQs in Indianapolis, Indiana, right?

oh yes. It is amazing to drive down Founders Road and see a number of them.

On Founders Road:
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Xi Delta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Sigma Kappa
Zeta Tau Alpha
Delta Upsilon
Theta Chi



In Indianapolis:
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Tau Omega
Delta Sigma Phi
Phi Epsilon Kappa
Phi Kappa Theta
Phi Sigma Kappa
Zeta Beta Tau


If I missed any, my apologies.

BTW - with google map, you can actually "drive" down Founders Road these days and see pictures of several of the HQs. Just move the little dude in the upper left corner on the directional arrow to the street, and the view changes to pictures.

[DoctorD]

and clearly we were researching at the same time.

Some incentives were offered, I understand, for so many to end up in Indianapolis.

[rufio]

Originally Posted by DoctorD

oh yes. It is amazing to drive down Founders Road and see a number of them.

On Founders Road:
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Xi Delta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Sigma Kappa
Zeta Tau Alpha
Delta Upsilon
Theta Chi

i was just there for the first time last month.

[Denise_DPhiE]

Our HQ was located in New York City just minutes away from our Alpha at NYU. In the 1960s it was moved to Stamford CT and in 1993 it moved to St. Louis MO (the center of the country). In 2007, we made a strategic move to move it east to Philadelphia within a 3 hour drive of 50% of our membership (or some such astounding statistic).

[moe.ron]

Looking at the Union Triad:

Kappa Alpha Society - HQ in Lansing, NY, which is near Ithica. That is about a 3 hours drive.

Sigma Phi Society - HQ is in Ithica. Also a 3 hours drive.

Delta Phi Fraternity - HQ in Athen, GA. Really far away.