How do I start a high school fraternity

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Originally Posted by double greek

I was in a High School fraternity as well as a college fraternity. All things considered, I preferred the high school fraternity experience. A key part of that was many of us had been friends since since beginning school or at least since junior high. We pleged the fraternity we did knowing most of our pledge brothers and knowing about many of the members, some of whom were older brothers or neighbors.

My fraternity, and the others in my town as well as the high school sororities, were National organizations: we all had old rituals and chapters elsewhere.

HS fraternities exploded in number in the 1920s and survived both the Depression and WW2 in good shape, and they rebounded fully after WW2. They began to lose steam with the advent of the rock 'n' roll age and were almost swallowed by the turmoil of the 1960s and early 70s. By the late 1970s, few chapters survived of perhaps 5 or 6 HS fraternities, and most of those chapters had folded by the end of the 1980s.


Some of the HS fraternities that I know that had National organizations are, in alphbetical order: Delta Sigma, Gamma Delta Psi, Phi Kappa, Phi Sigma Chi, Phi Sigma Epsilon, Sigma Phi Omega, Theta Kappa Omega.

What was the HS fraternity like? This sounds interesting.