one local spawns four chapters

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As your self-pronounced professor of fraternity & sorority history at Trivial University, I have come up with another interesting item.

Iowa State University:

1904, a ban on fraternities & sororities is lifted and social groups begin organizing.

Spring 1905 Colonnade Club organized, taking the name from the large Colonial home they obtained.

March 1908 Colonnade Club determines to petition a national for membership but a group desiring to stay local split off to form Colonial Club.

1909, Colonnade Club petitions Delta Upsilon for a charter.

1910, unhappy with the slow progress of obtaining a D U approval, another group breaks off forming Palisades Club.

1911, five members of Palisades split and become El Paso Club.

12/6/13, after fours years trying Colonnades is chartered as a Delta Upsilon chapter.

12/13/19, Colonials became Beta Deuteron chapter of Theta Delta Chi.

5/8/20, Palisades became Phi chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi.

3/12/27, El Paso became Beta Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Phi.

Thus, the small group of upper classmen who formed Colonnade Club were ultimately responsible four four different fraternities at Iowa State. Amazingly, all are still active today (although Alpha Sig has been inactive for a few years).

Most of this information comes from an excellent hard back book written in 1949 by Walter J. Miller entitled Fraternities & Sororities at Iowa State.