# of Single Letter Chapters Still Active?

[Leslie Anne]

I did Delta Tau Delta for you, DeltAlum.

I have no idea how naming chapters was done for Delt but this is what I found:

12 ? active out of 37 45 ?? but Delt's another one that has several very old double-letter chapters (i.e. Beta Lambda @ Lehigh 1874 is active).

Edited according to the 1890 edition of Baird's.

Theta – Bethany College 1859 1860 active
Gamma – West Liberty College 1859 1861-1862
Gamma – Washington and Jefferson College 1861 active
Delta - Morgantown Academy 1861-1862
Beta – Ohio University 1862 active
Epsilon - Franklin College 1863-1863
Alpha – Allegheny College 1863 active
Kappa – Poughkeepsie Collegiate Institute 1865 - 1867
Zeta - Monmouth College 1865-1871
Lambda – Monmouth College 1865 um, no
Mu – Waynesburgh College 1865 - 1866
Mu – Ohio Wesleyan University 1866 active
Kappa – Hillsdale College 1867
Iota – Jamestown Collegiate Institute 1868 - 1871
Chi – Westminster College 1868 1869-1870
Lambda – Lombard College 1869 - 1885
Delta – University of Michigan 1871 nope, 1875
Rho – Lake Shore Seminary 1871 - 1875
Sigma - Franklin College 1871-1882
Zeta - University of Missouri 1872-1872
Upsilon - Illinois University 1872-1878
Phi – Hanover College 1872
Tau – Pennsylvania State 1872 - 1874 active
Chi – Franklin College 1872 uh, no, it was Sigma...see above
Iota – Michigan State 1872
Psi - Wabash College 1872-1879
Eta – Buchtel College 1873
Xi – Simpson College 1873
Psi - Kentucky University 1873-1878
Rho – Stevens Institute of Technology 1874 active
Tau – Franklin and Marshall 1874
Nu – Lafayette College 1874
Chi – Iowa Wesleyan 1874 1875-1880
Sigma – Mt. Union College 1875 - 1884
Omega - Iowa Agricultural College 1875
Epsilon – Albion College 1876 active
Psi – Wooster College 1879
Upsilon – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1879 active
Omicron – University of Iowa 1880
Chi – Kenyon College 1881 active
Sigma - Columbia College 1882-1888
Zeta – Case Western Reserve University 1882 active
Sigma – Williams College 1891
Phi – Washington and Lee University 1896
Omega – University of Pennsylvania 1897 active


Chapters that were originally Rainbow
Pi – University of Mississippi 1848 (1886)
Lambda – Vanderbilt University 1881 (1886)


For God's sake, will some Delt please fix this mess I made of your history!

[bluefish81]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

I did Delta Tau Delta for you, DeltAlum.

I have no idea how naming chapters was done for Delt but this is what I found:

12 active out of 37 but Delt's another one that has several very old double-letter chapters (i.e. Beta Lambda @ Lehigh 1874 is active).

Theta – Bethany College 1859 active
Gamma – West Liberty College 1859
Gamma – Washington and Jefferson College 1861 active
Beta – Ohio University 1862 active
Alpha – Allegheny College 1863 active
Kappa – Poughkeepsie Collegiate Institute 1865
Lambda – Monmouth College 1865
Mu – Waynesburgh College 1865
Mu – Ohio Wesleyan University 1866 active
Kappa – Hillsdale College 1867
Iota – Jamestown Collegiate Institute 1868
Chi – Westminster College 1868
Lambda – Lombard College 1869
Delta – University of Michigan 1871
Rho – Lake Shore Seminary 1871
Phi – Hanover College 1872
Tau – Pennsylvania State 1872 active
Chi – Franklin College 1872
Iota – Michigan State 1872
Eta – Buchtel College 1873
Xi – Simpson College 1873
Rho – Stevens Institute of Technology 1874 active
Tau – Franklin and Marshall 1874
Nu – Lafayette College 1874
Chi – Iowa Wesleyan 1874
Sigma – Mt. Union College 1875
Epsilon – Albion College 1876 active
Psi – Wooster College 1879
Upsilon – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1879 active
Omicron – University of Iowa 1880
Chi – Kenyon College 1881 active
Zeta – Case Western Reserve University 1882 active
Sigma – Williams College 1891
Phi – Washington and Lee University 1896
Omega – University of Pennsylvania 1897 active


Chapters that were originally Rainbow
Pi – University of Mississippi 1848 (1886)
Lambda – Vanderbilt University 1881 (1886)

DeltAlum, I realize that you didn't post this, but thought you might know. Did your fraternity used to reuse letters? I ask this because I know that Iowa State's Delt Chapter was originally Omega before the ban on Greek Life (1890s). When Greek Life was reinstated (1904) and Delt returned (believe they'd gone underground), they became the Gamma Pi chapter.

[Leslie Anne]

Your post got me thinking so I checked in an earlier edition of Baird's and there it was....Omega at Iowa. Then I found a whole lot of discrepancies so I edited my post.

Sorry, Delts!