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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Betarulz,
Not disputing your comments, but...
I have been told that the former Delt chapter at the University of Colorado at Boulder was the oldest Greek Letter Organization founded West of the Mississippi. I'm not sure that's true, and would be interested to know which was actually first. I was told that by an international president of our Fraternity.
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Okay after a little research, just on the fact that I don't like to be wrong if I can help it, I found that the University of Colorado-Boulder was founded in 1876 which would be a full 10 years after the establishment of the Alpha Beta chapter of Beta Theta Pi at the University of Iowa. Also noticed that Delta Tau Delta's international website claims something about the "Four Divisions of the Fraternity" in 1874 and something about Delt being the first Fraternity to do so. Now I'm not sure exactly what the Four Divisions are but they sound similar to administrative districts like Beta has. If this is true then Delt would be incorrect to claim that they were the first Organization to do this because Beta did it a year earlier in 1873. Perhaps though I'm reading something else in to it that isn't really there so I could be wrong and whatever you did, you did first.
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