Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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7' 3 are ,wh 1: N 1 llll F- NW 'J Ln ,. ., lull 115- 4 .lt in' 5 X . KAPPA SIGMA Founded at University Virginia, 1869 Active Cll3.1J'lC1'S-IOS A Delta Tau of Kappa Sigma . . FRATRES IN FACULTATE Arthur Campbell Henry A. Schauffler FRATRES IN UNIVERSITATE 1933 Roderick Tripp Clarke Kenneth Keith King, Jr. J. Rudolph Schafer Egon John Toman Thomas James VVade Reginald James Xvillfillill 1934 John Thomas Burns Harold Ganung Robbins James Francis Sweeney 1935 VVilliam Thomas Brazell Wfaldemar Henry Toman Wfilliam Newton Lester Wfilliam Baker VX7ilson John Edward Robinson Jack Hamilton Linclabury 1936 LeRoy Dyal Philip G. I-lussong Gustav F. Hallstrom J, Howard VanEpps Wlilliain J. Beebe 192 1929

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if Lambda Chi Alpha was founded at Boston A Q University, growing out of the Cosmopolitan Law Club, which had been organized in 1905. X-Vhat is regarded as the first meeting of the Wx 'w - . Y I 1, -fr ., traternitv was held November 2, l909, and this JAC! N it I .-f ,, , ', , ' ' . 5599? A Ag p has been aeeepted by the tiateinity as its date 'lv F ifa: ., 'p ll ' of founding. Wflnle the fraternit f was organ- U HVA QA W . I e I b 3 I e ix' , ized with a view to national expansion, no at- A A J fx ' ' . . X ,, :-abs if tem at to establish new cha Jters was made until W M. , 'mtcpiv X 5 1 QQ! I 1 W the spring of 1912. The growth of the fraternity from then on was both consistent and substan- tial as an unbroken roll of seventy-eight active chapters indicates. The Union chapter, Rho Zeta, developed as an outgrowth of the BINV. Club, which formerly held meetings in the dormitories, but later rented a house and assumed the Greek name of Delta Theta Phi fraternity. This organization petitioned Lambda Chi Alpha, and its charter was granted in 1915. The govern- ment of the fraternity is by a general assembly which as a rule is held biennially. 191 A '

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A ' ginia, December 10, 1869, hy NVilliam McCormick, George Arnold, Edmund Rogers, slr., Frank Nicodemus and John ' , Boyd. The founders were not denied opportunity to be- come associated with some of the dozen fraternities of the hvfi time at Virginia, but three of them, McCormick, Rogers i E and Nicodemus, had been close friends as young men in i b 4 ' Ilaltimore. They wanted to he together and under the I Ill I leadership of McCormick decided to found an organization of their own, The relations of these three, and Arnold and lloyd were so close, they have always been known in the literature and tradition of the fraternity as the live friends and brothers. Kappa Sigma was the first southern fraternity to place a chapter in the north, and is now national in its scope, with 108 active and 19 inactive chapters, being rep- resented in every state with the exception of Nevada, Delaware and Connecticut. Kappa Sigma was founded at the University of Vir- .,, x A 4 . 'i'il:f,i ' V f.f1v 4 Ne' 'fs' ,. H i ffzkhififi 11-tl R if if 1, ,V,isi il W,i Ml- i i1,l,l- ji wi R4 wi an '11 i-fr is t- ,'y,,.,iA1- 'y' ii. 1 it WWI. V, .Y 'U 95 i lu 'll,ll'!4ff?gi 'f,. .,1,' 1. f:: - -- i f,yj,., n ll 1' 1 TIMII ' 7,',i