Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

Psi Upsilon Tn 1833 the Psi Upsilon fraternity was founded at Union College -*• as the result of a local society which had been formed for election purposes. The Lehigh chapter was granted to a local fraternity, Phi Thcta Psi, which had been built up at Lehigh through the efforts of G. F. Duck, H. V. Cooke, J. W. Leithead, R. G. Cooke and W. R. Pinckney. This group came through their first rushing season with twenty undergraduate students. Two members of the Lehigh faculty in- terested these men in petitioning the Psi Upsilon convention of 1883 and a charter was granted them the following year. Since scholarship was the chief criterion for selection of upper- classmen for membership to the fraternity there were in the first group valedictorians of two classes, oratorical prize winners and Wilbur Scholars. The first chapter house was located on East Market Street. The house which the chapter now occupies was built from the plans of T. C. Vissher ' 99. It is located on Brodhead Avenue, just off the campus. ' ' ■ ' ^ 32 ■^