A question to the NPHC Greeks

[Rain Man]

As a service to Mccoyred, I am going to help answer her question on whether or not the NIC/NPC mergers were as a result of orgs being too weak to sustain themselves. I will be compiling data taken from the 20th edition of Bairds Manual of American College Fraternities to help find out this answer.

(Note: due to the length, this will be in a series of posts in this thread). A summary of which will be posted in the "NPHC..10th Group" thread).

Ready? Here we go.

Alpha Gamma
- Primary cause of decease: Weak organization
- Founded 1867 @ Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN
- Had 21 chapters
- Two folded due to antifraternity laws (not sure of it was campus or jurisdictional).
- One became an Alpha Tau Omega chapter
- The rest disbanded

Alpha Gamma Upsilon
- Primary cause of decease: Merger w/Alpha Sigma Phi
- Founded 1922 in Fort Wayne Indiana
- Had 14 chapters
- The majority of the chapters (of which 4 was active) merged w/Alpha Sigma Phi in May 1965
- 1 joined FIJI (it was inactive in 1965)
- 1 disbanded because it was a chapter at an unaccredited school.
- 1 joined Sigma Phi Epsilon in 1968

Alpha Kappa Phi
- Primary cause of decease: Civil War
- Founded c.1858 at Centre College, KY
- 5 chapters, possibly more, but are unknown due to the Civil War
- A few chapters were revived after the Civil War, all but 1 went inactive, which became Beta Beta chapter of Beta Theta Pi

Alpha Kappa Pi
- Primary cause of decease: Merger with Alpha Sigma Phi
- Founded 1/1/21 at Newark College of Engineering
- Went national 3/23/26
- Had 36 chapters. Merged w/Alpha Sigma Phi in 1946.

Alpha Lambda Tau
- Primary cause of decease: World War II
- Founded 1920 at Oglethorpe University
- Several chapters joined Tau Kappa Epsilon, the rest disbanded.

Alpha Mu Sigma
- Primary cause of decease: The Great Depression & World War II
- Founded 3/21/14 at Cooper Union University
- Had 21 chapters, which was reduced to 3 by 1962
- 1 joined Tau Epsilon Phi in 1962
- 2 dissolved, of which Alpha Chapter dissolved due to the decline of the fraternity system in 1971 (antiestablishment)

Alpha Sigma Chi
- Primary cause of decease: Merger with Beta Theta Pi
- Founded 1871 at Rutgers and Cornell Universities
- Had 7 chapters
- 1 chapter was expelled due to "creative differences"
- All other active chapters joined Beta Theta Pi

Beta Kappa
- Primary cause of decease: Merger with Theta Chi
- Founded 10/15/1901 at Hamline University
- Had 40 chapters
- Merged with Theta Chi in 1942
- One chapter joined Lambda Chi Alpha in 1942

Beta Sigma Rho
- Primary cause of decease: Merger with Pi Lambda Phi
- Founded in 1910 at Cornell University
- Had 15 chapters
- Merged with Pi Lambda Phi 12/12/72

Beta Sigma Tau
- Primary cause of decease: Merger with Pi Lambda Phi
- Founded May 1948 at the National Conference of Intercultural Fraternities, Chicago, IL
- Had 15 chapters
- Merged with Pi Lambda Phi in 1956

Chi Tau
- Primary cause of decease: Internal dissention
- Founded 10/3/20 at what is now Duke University
- Had 9 chapters & possibly others.
- Dissolved in 1929

Delta Alpha Pi
- Primary cause of decease: Merger with Phi Mu Delta/Great Depression (org was weakened as a result of it)
- Founded 11/22/19 at Ohio Wesleyan University
- Had 6 chapters
- All but one joined Phi Mu Alpha, the remaining one joined Alpha Chi Rho

Delta Epsilon
- Primary cause of decease: Weak organization (possibly due to Civil War)
- Founded 1862 at Roanoake College (chapters were to be in the state of Virginia only).
- Had 3 chapters, 2 of which died out, the remaining one joined Beta Theta Pi in 1868

Delta Kappa
- Primary cause of decease: Merger with Sigma Pi
- Secondary cause of decease: Org was weakened due to change in SUNY policy forbidding any of its colleges to have a chapter of a national GLO on its campus. As a result, 12 chapters of the org was forced to go inactive.
- Founded 1920 at State Teachers College, Buffalo NY
- Had 19 chapters
- Merged with Sigma Pi in September 1964, one chapter joined Delta Sigma Phi

Delta Sigma Lambda
- Primary cause of decease: Weak organization
- Founded 9/9/21 in San Francisco
- Had approx. 10 chapters
- 2 joined FIJI
- 2 joined Theat Chi
- 1 became a local org
- 1 joined Lambda Chi Alpha

Epsilon Alpha
- Primary cause of decease: Civil War
- Founded at University of Virginia in 1855
- Had 5 chapters

Gamma Tau
I'm giving this org it's own private post. Scroll down a little and you will see why.

And that's it for now. I will be listing more orgs in a separate post at a later time.