two groups with the same name

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

Interesting -- I'd love to know what happened to my Dad's chapter of Alpha Lambda Tau. He was President of the University of Chattanooga chapter in 1939.

MANY thanks to oldu for letting me know that the ALT chapter at UC became Pi Kappa Alpha!

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

MANY thanks to oldu for letting me know that the ALT chapter at UC became Pi Kappa Alpha!

My Dad was President of the Alpha Lambda Tau fraternity chapter at University of Chattanooga in 1935-36. If he was alive today, he'd be 90 years old. About a month ago, I met one of my Dad's fraternity brothers! I told him I wear my Dad's pin on my charm bracelet. He said, "I don't know what happened to my pin -- I think I gave it to a girl who never gave it back!" He also told me of his fond memories of fraternity trips to my grandparents' cabin on Signal Mountain where they would go opossum hunting. I wish I had more time to talk to this sweet man -- he passed away last week.

[oldu]

I discovered two more groups named the same of now defunct fraternities. Kappa Phi Lambda, an Asian interest sorority with chapters located mostly in the east is the same name of a fraternity founded at Washington & Jefferson College in 1862. It expanded to 11 chapters within a few years but abruptly in the early 1870s various chapters left to become chapters of Delta Tau Delta, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Chi and Beta Theta Pi, and it was extinct by 1874. Another is Phi Delta Kappa, a professional educators organization. It is the same name of another group ironically founded at W. & J. in 1874. It expanded to five chapters, but after the other four closed for various reasons the Alpha chapter revived the then defunct Alpha chapter of Phi Gamma Delta in 1881 and it was out of business.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by oldu

I discovered two more groups named the same of now defunct fraternities. Kappa Phi Lambda, an Asian interest sorority with chapters located mostly in the east is the same name of a fraternity founded at Washington & Jefferson College in 1862. It expanded to 11 chapters within a few years but abruptly in the early 1870s various chapters left to become chapters of Delta Tau Delta, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Chi and Beta Theta Pi, and it was extinct by 1874. Another is Phi Delta Kappa, a professional educators organization. It is the same name of another group ironically founded at W. & J. in 1874. It expanded to five chapters, but after the other four closed for various reasons the Alpha chapter revived the then defunct Alpha chapter of Phi Gamma Delta in 1881 and it was out of business.

Out of curiosity, do you what chapter/s or Psi Upsilon this is, because I never heard of KPL outside of the Asian Interest Sorority.

[oldu]

The Kappa Phi Lambda chapter at University of Michigan. It was founded in 1865 and merged with the existing Psi U chapter in 1870. The Mt. Union group went to Delt, Northwestern to Sig Chi and Denison to Beta. Westminster went to local status and years later to Sigma Nu.