Oldest GLO on campus?

[amycat412]

at the University of Southern California, Theta was the first sorority in 1887.

for all the houses:
KAT - 1887
AXO -1895
PiPhi - 1917
DDD - 1921
DG - 1922
ADPi - 1925
GPhiB - 1938
APhi -1945
KKG - 1947

[hannahgirl]

University of Akron's oldest GLO's:
Delta Tau Delta (Eta Chapter) was the first fraternity on campus in 1873.
Kappa Kappa Gamma (Lambda Chapter) was the first sorority on campus in 1877.

Delta Gamma (Eta Chapter) was the next sorority in 1879 and is now the oldest existing Delta Gamma Chapter nationally.

[Siobhan]

I'm not sure about the fraternities, but UBC's oldest sorority is Kappa Kappa Gamma and they've been there since 1929 (I think...).

[Katey Alpha Gam]

Here at Eastern Michigan University, I am not 100% on nationals that have been here the longest, we colonized in 1974, but i know that tri-sigma has been here since at least the fifties. However, our oldest chapters sorority and fraternity-wise are our locals. Sigma Nu Phi was established in 1897 I believe (interesting story that I just heard was the they were Sigma Nu, but when the National faternity, Sigma Nu came here, they had to add Phi) Our oldest fraternity is Arm of Honor, which is the oldest active local fraternity in the world. I believe they were founded in 1870-something

[FuzzieAlum]

At Case Western Reserve, Sigma Psi (a local) is the oldest sorority still there, founded 1897. Alpha Phi was the first national, in 1980. That is - the first national that is still there. The first sorority to ever come to campus was DG in 1883, but they weren't open very long. They very much want to come back but Panhel votes it down every year - the campus hasn't yet supported five chapters, let alone six.

(If any DG knows what chapter letter the Western Reserve College chapter was, please PM me! Our school's greek life page says it was at the Cleveland College for Women, but I am 99% certain that Western Reserve hadn't created a separate women's college yet at that point.) Actually, I believe Theta was there in the 40s (it was Flora Stone Mather then). I'm trying to piece together my U's Greek history and it's insane b/c the college went by different names and merged and whatnot.

Fraternities started in 1840 at Western Reserve.

[lifesaver]

The fraternity system was established in 1978. Sig Ep was the first to colonize in Spring of 1978. Lambda Chi came on campus Fall of 1978. TKE followed in Spring of 1979. Then we didnt expand again till the mid-late 80's, Earliy 90's, then again in the late 90's.

As for sororities, 4 came on in Fall of 1978: ASA, Alpha Sigma Tau, AOPi, and Sigma Kappa. AST folded a year later and PHC existed with the 3 groups until 1999, when Phi Mu was brought to campus.

[hannahgirl]

FuzzieAlum said: (If any DG knows what chapter letter the Western Reserve College chapter was, please PM me! Our school's greek life page says it was at the Cleveland College for Women, but I am 99% certain that Western Reserve hadn't created a separate women's college yet at that point.)

I didn't realize that Case Western did have a DG chapter. I will try to find out what chapter it actually was. Since it was founded after my chapter, I assume that it might have been the Delta Chapter because at this time the two that are missing from the list are Alpha and Delta and since we didn't go exactly in order of the Greek Alphabet in the beginning it is difficult to pick out. I will do my best to find out cause i'm curious now too = )

Delta Gamma
Eta Chapter

[damasa]

Originally posted by Katey Alpha Gam
oldest fraternity is Arm of Honor, which is the oldest active local fraternity in the world. I believe they were founded in 1870-something

I think that figure is incorrect, because there is a local fraternity on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus that was established in 1866, and they are still active today. I'm not sure if there was a time when they went inactive, I think maybe just once, but don't quote me on that.

blaine

[KSigkid]

I believe that SAE is the oldest house on campus, with Lambda Chi right behind. Our school is weird in that we used to be a big Greek school, but then our President got rid of many of them in the 70s. They had been in some beautiful houses right on campus, but the President sold those houses to MIT, and they are now MIT fraternities. In that way, most of the other houses on campus are relatively new. (We've only been here since 1987).

Collin

[showstopper_1908]

The oldest Sorority at Pace is (my very own) Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. founded in 1908. The oldest Fraternity at Pace is Tau Kappa Epsilon. There are locals who have been at Pace longer than those organizations, but those organizations were just made up in the 1980's. It causes so much confusion there.

[GammaPhiBabe]

Sorority--Kappa Delta
Fraternity--Sigma Alpha Epsilon

[LexiKD]

As for NPC ages at ECU:
APhi/AZD/ADPi/KD/DZ/XO/SSS/AOPi
All of our groups were founded Feb 6,1960 except ZTA(sometime in the 80's) KD was just re-installed Nov 18,2000 but is included in the 1960 orginal.

[ADPiSweety]

The oldest sorority on UNLV's campus is Alpha Delta Pi =) However, I am unsure about the oldest Fraternity on UNLV's campus but I wanna say that Phi Delta Theta is the oldest fraternity on campus...I'm not sure though!

[AggieDZ]

AGDalum,

I've PM'd you!

Originally posted by AGDAlum


As Carnation knows, I was one of the chapter consultants sent to TAMU in early 1975 to begin the Panhellenic system. We followed up on recommendations from alums. ("Hi, I'm from Alpha Gamma Delta. We're starting a chapter here at A & M and Mrs. Smith from your hometown suggested I call you.") Since many of these coeds didn't know one sorority from another on more than one occasion they scheduled themselves for coke dates with reps from two sororities. Then there were the hours and hours of meetings to set up the college panhellenic--DZ's Gwen McKeeman (sp) and AGD's Patsy Davis were especially helpful.

Carnation and I still laugh about Debbie L's experience. Debbie was invited to a wedding shower at the Bryan, TX, country club. She walked into the wrong room and and only later realized that Rhonda, the bride-to-be, wasn't there. It turned out she was at a rush party. She never got to the shower but she did pledge Chi O. (Debbie was something of a ditz and for all Carnation and I know she still is, 27 years later.)

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by KSigkid
I believe that SAE is the oldest house on campus, with Lambda Chi right behind. Our school is weird in that we used to be a big Greek school, but then our President got rid of many of them in the 70s. They had been in some beautiful houses right on campus, but the President sold those houses to MIT, and they are now MIT fraternities. In that way, most of the other houses on campus are relatively new. (We've only been here since 1987).

Collin

Interesting... I had no idea that that was the history of those 2 fraternities at MIT. I'd thought LXA had been at MIT for much longer than that...