# of Single Letter Chapters Still Active?

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Originally Posted by betasigrose

Wow! I'm suprised my sisters didn't post on this one! If I'm wrong, please correct me!

Alpha Sigma Alpha

Active
Alpha, Longwood College, 1901-1919, 1933-

Inactive
Beta, Lewisburg Seminary, 1903-1907
Gamma, College for Women, Columbia, S.C., 1904-1910
Delta, Mary Baldwin Seminary, 1905-1908
Epsilon, Fauquier Institute, 1905-1906
Zeta, Fairmont Seminary, 1905-1906
Eta, Ward Seminary, 1905-1910
Iota, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1908-1913 (released to Pi Beta Phi)
Nu, Shorter College, 1910-1912

TECHNICALLY, those are our "single letter chapters." However, the question NBH was really asking was how many of our oldest chapters are still active, since the oldest chapters in a GLO are usually only designated with one letter.

In our first years, we established the above chapters plus:
Gamma Beta Sigma, St. Mary's (NC) 1909-1910
Kappa Phi, Mt Union 1909-1914
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Brenau 1909-1914
Chi Iota, Hamilton (DC) 1909-1912

Kappa Phi & spe were both released to Tri-Delta in 1914. (Kappa Phi chapter was recolonized in around 2001 and closed in 2004.) Many of the above schools no longer have Greek systems.

ASA reorganized in 1914 with the following 4 chapters:
Alpha - Longwood (still open)
Alpha Alpha - Miami of Ohio (closed)
Alpha Beta - Truman State (still open, oldest continuous)
Alpha Gamma - Indiana U of PA

Our next chapters all were double letters - so instead of having single letter chapters, we really have the 4 above (the only ones allowed to use Alpha at the beginning) and 23 doubles.

Open:
Beta Beta - U of Northern Colorado
Gamma Gamma - Northwestern State U (Oklahoma)
Epsilon Epsilon - Emporia State
Zeta Zeta - Central MO State
Eta Eta - Pittsburg State
Nu Nu - Drexel U
Phi Phi - Northwest MO State
Psi Psi - Northwestern State U (Louisiana)

Closed:
Delta Delta - Ohio U
Theta Theta - Boston U
Iota Iota - Drake U
Kappa Kappa - Temple
Lambda Lambda - Ohio State
Mu Mu - Eastern Michigan U
Xi Xi - UCLA
Omicron Omicron - Kent State
Pi Pi - SUNY-Buffalo
Rho Rho - Marshall U
Sigma Sigma - Western State College (Colorado)
Tau Tau - Fort Hays State
Upsilon Upsilon - Denison U
Chi Chi - Ball State
Omega Omega - San Diego State