Junior college sororities

[m65863]

Is that how Eta Upsilon Gamma, Sigma Iota Chi, etc would be classified? What happened to them, anyway? Rider College (NJ) had HUG and SIX, which became chapters of NPCs in the 60s. I don't know anything else, though.

My list of these junior college sororities:
Eta Upsilon Gamma
Pi Sigma Gamma
Sigma Iota Chi
Theta Tau Epsilon
Zeta Mu Epsilon

[MaggieXi]

Originally Posted by m65863

Is that how Eta Upsilon Gamma, Sigma Iota Chi, etc would be classified? What happened to them, anyway? Rider College (NJ) had HUG and SIX, which became chapters of NPCs in the 60s. I don't know anything else, though.

My list of these junior college sororities:
Eta Upsilon Gamma
Pi Sigma Gamma
Sigma Iota Chi
Theta Tau Epsilon
Zeta Mu Epsilon

What is it that you are asking exactly? Are you asking if Junior Colleges have sororities? What happened to the sororities at Rider? Or if they are local sororities?

[m65863]

To clarify, the sororities I mentioned... what happened to them?

And how would one categorize Eta Upsilon Gamma, Sigma Iota Chi, etc? I read somewhere that there was an umbrella org for "junior college sororities". Just wondering when it dissolved. And why couldn't these groups get absorbed by national NPCs, like what many AES sororities did after the AES dissolved?



Rider College now has NPC sororities. In the 60s, Rider had some NPCs and Eta Upsilon Gamma and Sigma Iota Chi. SIX went to AXiD.

[TSteven]

I found this via Google search.

Mystery Solved: Eta Upsilon Gamma Sorority Pin

1/2" high x 1/4" wide, brass with black enamel center. Design is of three Greek letters, Eta Upsilon Gamma, clasped hands and a skull & crossbones.

Drew has solved this one. He writes "The organization, as you correctly assumed, is Eta Upsilon Gamma. It was a sorority in junior colleges. Founded in 1901 at Christian College, Columbia, MO, it had chapters in many institutions, predominately but not exclusively southern and border states." This sorority was still active in 1930, but ceased to exist sometime in the 1940s or 50s. A small amount of information on this sorority is available in "Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities, 12th Edition", published in 1930. Later editions of Baird's do not include this sorority.

[m65863]

Thank you, TSteven.

Rider College (now University) chapter of HUG is now ZTA.

Rider also had Zeta Mu Epsilon.

Well, if Baird's stopped covering these groups in the 1940s, then maybe the junior college sorority congress dissolved during WWII....

[oldu]

When two-year colleges expanded to four-year curriculums, such as Rider, some of the chapters left their original organizations to join NPC groups. At Rider Sigma Iota Chi became Alpha Xi Delta, Zeta Mu Epsilon became Delta Zeta and Eta Upsilon Gamma became Zeta Tau Alpha. Also interesting, the Iota Alpha Pi chapter (a now defunct NPC group) chartered in 1947 and reverted to local status in 1955 as Iota Sigma Pi, joined Delta Phi Epsilon in 1962.

[m65863]

Thank you, Oldu! You should seriously rewrite Baird's.

But, let's not forget I still stumped ya with Beta Delta Pi!

And I found the answer to Beta Delta Pi:
A collegiate sorority founded at Bucknell in the late 1800s. The first sorority on campus.

1916- convention. Coat of arms adopted.

There were about 10 chapters of BDPi, with some information available in a Toronto family's history. Must get me to a li-berry!!!

[m65863]

Here's info on BDPi from College Fraternity Heraldy (Butterfield, 1931):

Sable, on a sinister blend six plates ermine.

Motto: Inter se fideles

This group uses a closed helmet in profile of silver. The design of the coat of arms was taken from the pin and hence the shield shows a notch in the dexter chief. The design was adopted at the 1917 convention.

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