How/Why did your chapter begin?

[KSigkid]

To make a long story short, the Greek system was just beginning to build up at my school after an absence. Two Kappa Sigs who had transferred decided the time was right for a chapter at the school - within a few months, a colony was formed, a little over a year after that, the Mu Psi chapter was born.

[agzg]

My chapter was local for about a day. We were the first NPC on campus, although there were several locals and little sister groups around on and off for several years, but in September, 1976 we were born.

There's a super old scrapbook in our house, from the late 70s before any other NPC groups expanded to Gannon, and there's pictures from Greek Week. It's kinda neat to see my Alpha Gam sisters competing by themselves against... all men. Actually, it's pretty hilarious, especially since there was a caption to the effect of "Once again, the TKEs feel like they have to rub it in our faces that they won and we came in dead last." Of course that could just be funny to me because the TKEs have been known to break into our house and steal all our Greek Week trophies... a 30 year old rivalry continues.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

There's a super old scrapbook in our house, from the late 70s...

"Super old?"

[PKPILZ003]

In the fall of 1990, after being dissatisfied with the rush options available to him, Nick DeFina went to the university's student life office and asked how to start a fraternity. There he was handed a copy of Baird's and was told that DePaul had no formal means to bring another group on campus, save the Greek Council giving that group membership. He proceeded to do 2 things - recruit men to join his cause and send letters to every NIC fraternity in the country. Of the 50 letters he sent out, only 15 of them were interested in colonizing what was considered a "commuter school". Of the 15, DeFina's group, of which I was the 3 member, started looking into each group so we could make a decision as to what group we wanted to join.

In January of 1991, we narrowed it down to 3 groups - SAE, Phi Kappa Psi and ATO. We sent letters back to those three groups and asked for more information. 2 of those groups sent us more forms and requests for more information, Phi Psi sent a consultant, S. Michael Wallen, who came to us and explained everything that was expected of us and what we could expect from them if we decided to be Phi Psis. We had a meeting in a room in Seton Hall 320 and decided amongst the 12 of us that Phi Kappa Psi was for us.

On a rainy April 20, 1991, after we played intramural floor hockey, the 12 founders of the IL Zeta Colony were affirmed as provisional members of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. It took 2.5 years, but, after meeting the 10 obligations of membership and submitting a chartering petition, we received our Chapter Charter on October 9, 1993 with 29 Founding Brothers, 7 of whom were Colony Founders. In the 12 years since, IL Zeta has grown to be the largest (over 200 total initiates) and most influential group on campus and, to its credit, can be responsible for the decision of other groups to follow and colonize on our campus.

Live ever, Die never!
V et V

[PhoenixAzul]

Ten women founded Tau Delta Sorority as the Tomo Dachi Club at Otterbein College in 1915. Greek life was forbidden at the time, so literary clubs were formed using names unique to each organization, with most retaining their original club name in some form to this day. Tomo Dachi became Tau Delta in 1921, when the ban on Greeks was lifted. Due to changing culture and declines in enrollment, the number of chapters and size of chapters fluxuated over the years, and Tau Delta was no exception. The sorority went inactive several times, but was sucessfully refounded in 1989 by 5 awesome women (hey, I'm biased). The sorority as it exists today is the product of this refounding, backed by the spirit of our 1915 start and 1921 founding.

We are thrilled to be celebrating 85 years of sisterhood this fall! Local all the way