All of the _______ NPC Chapters

[Beryana]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Letter designation. Basically, in the end, we should have a nice resource of "Gee, I wonder where XYZ's Pi Chi chapter is? Oh, it's at State U".

And, yeah, it's probably a good idea to call it before you do it. I'd hate to have two people researching the same letter designation, only for them to post at the same time and cancel eachother out.

Then Chi Omega's needs to be changed as their founding chapter actually is Psi and not Alpha - and their chapter designations go "backwards".

Sorry to make this complicated. . . .

[Cutie_Hootie]

Hate to nitpick, but for Chi Omega, our founding chapter is Psi Chapter at the University of Arkansas. Our Alpha Chapter is at the University of Washington, founded in 1909.

Love the idea though! I would love to see if any other organizations have my chapter designation--Upsilon Lambda!

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Beryana

Then Chi Omega's needs to be changed as their founding chapter actually is Psi and not Alpha - and their chapter designations go "backwards".

Sorry to make this complicated. . . .

Originally Posted by Cutie_Hootie

Hate to nitpick, but for Chi Omega, our founding chapter is Psi Chapter at the University of Arkansas. Our Alpha Chapter is at the University of Washington, founded in 1909.

Love the idea though! I would love to see if any other organizations have my chapter designation--Upsilon Lambda!

Changed.

[Beryana]

Originally Posted by Cutie_Hootie

Love the idea though! I would love to see if any other organizations have my chapter designation--Upsilon Lambda!

AOII's Upsilon Lambda chapter is University of Texas-San Antonio, founded in 1978. Upsilon Lambda stands for the chapter submotto of United for Life.

[TSteven]

I was going to suggest that perhaps the first post could be edited as "Founding" chapters. Then there could be a post listing the Alpha chapters.

So to use Chi Omega as an example, in the first post (founding) it would be Arkansas. For Alpha chapters it would be Washington. When it comes to Psi chapters a designation as the founding chapter could be noted as well.

[AlphaFrog]

We'll just see what happens when people start posting other letters. It will all work out in the end. Or GC will implode on itself, and the world will come to an end. Whatever.

Seriously people....I just started the thread because I had a random idea. Feel free to make up your own rules as you go along.

[pbear19]

Shamelessly taken from the 1977 Baird's, so info may or may not be exact:

Beta Chapters

Alpha Chi Omega - Albion
Alpha Delta Pi - Winstong Salem 1905-1910
Alpha Epsilon Phi - Hunter 1909-1970
Alpha Gamma Delta - Wisconsin
Alpha Omicron Pi - Brown 1908-1908 (the potentially 9th chapter)
Alpha Phi - Northwestern
Alpha Sigma Alpha - Lewisburg (WVA) 1903-1904
Alpha Sigma Tau - Central Michigan
Alpha Xi Delta - Iowa Wesleyan
Chi Omega - Colby (19th? chapter)
Delta Delta Delta - St Lawrence (6th chapter)
Delta Gamma - Washington (27th chapter)
Delta Phi Epsilon - Teachers Colege NYC (1917-1922)
Delta Zeta - Cornell (1908-1932)
Gamma Phi Beta - Michigan
Kappa Alpha Theta - Indiana
Kappa Delta - Chatham Episcopal Institute (1902-1904)
Kappa Kappa Gamma - St. Mary's School (1871-1974)
Phi Mu - Hollins (1904-1929)
Phi Sigma Sigma - Tufts (1918-1922)
Pi Beta Phi - 2nd chapter is Iowa Alpha, Iowa Wesleyan
Sigma Delta Tau - Pennsylvania
Sigma Kappa - a second chapter was founded alongside Alpha at Colby in 1890 or 1891, later merged with Alpha
Sigma Sigma Sigma - Lewisburg Female (1903-1908)
Theta Phi Alpha - Illinois (1919-1953)
Zeta Tau Alpha - Richmond Women's (1902-1903)

ETA - if someone 'called' Beta and I didn't notice, my apologies.

[EtaPhiZTA]

Originally Posted by pbear19

Shamelessly taken from the 1977 Baird's, so info may or may not be exact:

Beta Chapters

Alpha Chi Omega - Albion
Alpha Delta Pi - Winstong Salem 1905-1910
Alpha Epsilon Phi - Hunter 1909-1970
Alpha Gamma Delta - Wisconsin
Alpha Omicron Pi - Brown 1908-1908 (the potentially 9th chapter)
Alpha Phi - Northwestern
Alpha Sigma Alpha - Lewisburg (WVA) 1903-1904
Alpha Sigma Tau - Central Michigan
Alpha Xi Delta - Iowa Wesleyan
Chi Omega - Colby (19th? chapter)
Delta Delta Delta - St Lawrence (6th chapter)
Delta Gamma - Washington (27th chapter)
Delta Phi Epsilon - Teachers Colege NYC (1917-1922)
Delta Zeta - Cornell (1908-1932)
Gamma Phi Beta - Michigan
Kappa Alpha Theta - Indiana
Kappa Delta - Chatham Episcopal Institute (1902-1904)
Kappa Kappa Gamma - St. Mary's School (1871-1974)
Phi Mu - Hollins (1904-1929)
Phi Sigma Sigma - Tufts (1918-1922)
Pi Beta Phi - 2nd chapter is Iowa Alpha, Iowa Wesleyan
Sigma Delta Tau - Pennsylvania
Sigma Kappa - a second chapter was founded alongside Alpha at Colby in 1890 or 1891, later merged with Alpha
Sigma Sigma Sigma - Lewisburg Female (1903-1908)
Theta Phi Alpha - Illinois (1919-1953)
Zeta Tau Alpha - Richmond Women's (1902-1903)

ETA - if someone 'called' Beta and I didn't notice, my apologies.

One fact that I always found interesting about Zeta Tau Alpha is that we officially have two Beta chapters. Richmond Women's College was our first Beta chapter, now called Beta (old). This chapter was actually opperated sub-rosa and unfortunately didn't stay active very long. Our second Beta chapter, now called Beta (new), was opened at Judson College in Marion, Alabama, on March 16, 1905. Unfortunately, this chapter was only active for fourteen years. "Thus both of Zeta's Beta chapters - the short-lived Original Beta and the Judson grouop, upon whom was bestowed the designation of the extinct first Beta chapter - suffered extinction because of administrative disapproval of fraternities." (taken from The History of Zeta Tau Alpha)

[cuteASAbug]

Originally Posted by pbear19

Shamelessly taken from the 1977 Baird's, so info may or may not be exact:
Alpha Sigma Alpha - Lewisburg (WVA) 1903-1904

Not to be nitpicky, but the dates are definitely off for Beta. I have a copy of the first issue of the Alpha Sigma Alpha Magazine from 1906 and under chapter info it says that Beta initiated women in 1906, which means that there is no way that it was closed in 1904.

[nightowl86]

i am about to go through recruitment after winter break. Any advice?

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by nightowl86

i am about to go through recruitment after winter break. Any advice?

Why are you asking for advice on this thread?

A lot depends on your school.

Hopefully, since you are at a school with deferred recruitment, you have spent time meeting sorority women during fall term and carried yourself in an appropriate matter. Also, hopefully your first semester GPA is shaping up to be good.

If you do not have recommendations for the sororities at your campus, I would advise getting some.

[nittanyalum]

I am impressed you all are taking this on but I am waaaayyyyy out of my depth here. I'll pop in now and then to see how quick you get through the letters, tho'! Good luck!

[paulam]

I think this is a great thread...however, I already see how this is going to play out. Someone did the Beta chapters and when I looked at the listing for Sigma Delta Tau, it indicated our Beta chapter at the University of Pennsylvania was inactive. It was reactivated several years ago. I'm sure this will happen with other chapters of not only my sorority but others as well.

My suggestion is that a designated person from each sorority submit her accurate list of chapters both active and inactive along with the schools and dates founded. I can copy mine from our website and double check it in my current issue of our magazine, The Torch, which arrived the other day. Otherwise this will turn out to be a mass of misinformation.

I will volunteer to do Sigma Delta Tau. Any other volunteers? I think everything should be coordinated by our esteemed leader of this thread, Alpha Frog.

Paula M.
Sigma Delta Tau
ΣΔTPatriae Multi Spes Una

[pbear19]

I specifically said my info was from 1977, so I readily admit there could be a LOT of variances from what I posted and the actual info. So I can do one of two things - I can remove the post on the chance that the info is wrong, or I can update it if people correct me.

Just PM me or reply specifically to the thread with exact changes that should be made and I am happy to make them. Paula, I couldn't tell from your National site when Beta was rechartered, so I just removed the dates entirely.

Meh, I thought the idea was fun.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Ok - this is one of those threads for NPC buffs, and those who like to waste time.

Let's go by chapter, and list the university where all 26 NPCs have that chapter. (Yes, I realize not ever group has a chapter for every letter-deal with it.) Since I *think* it's most common, let's go Alpha-Omega, then Alpha Alpha, Alpha Beta, Alpha Gamma, etc then Beta Alpha, Beta Beta, Beta Gamma - well, you get it.

Alpha (Founding) Chapters
Delta Gamma - Lewis School for Girls

While you are right in that this was Delta Gamma's first ever chapter, its designation was actually "Psi". One of my wise DGs on this board told me that chapter denoted as "Alpha" was at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, 1882-1908. I should also mention that Psi has been used more than once, so you will sometimes see the Psi-II designation for when the Psi name was used again (i.e. recycled), but at a different campus.

The DG chapter designated as "Beta" is at University of Washington in Seattle, WA, but our 2nd ever chapter was actually elsewhere (and I am not sure where it was). I am looking in my NM Education Materials, but it doesn't apparently to be explicitly stated as to which was Chapter #2. Suffice it to say that in the earliest days of DG, they didn't really follow the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, etc. ordered naming convention. That came later on.