Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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lf I llur RW M PHI SIGMA KAPPA Founded at Massachusetts State College, 1873 Active Cl13.DtCl'S-46 Beta of Phi Sigma Kappa . 1883 FRATRES IN FACULTATE John Albert Sanford FRATRES IN UNIVERSITATE l933 john I. A. ,Lyons Frank Xllallace Morris 1934 Paul Adanti Francis D. Gelsleichter 1935 Benjamin A. Brown Hugh R, Elwyn Daniel A. Guttman Donald E. Rowlands Peter I. Sherwood joseph R. Horvath, Jr. Harold D. Strickland George XV. Papen I-I. Grant Towne Ellwood lj. lVengenroth Gilbert V. Nlfoodside 1936 Gustave Brunner Donlin Grady Eugene I-Iull x' Y.-' , , A Lfllf v ---elf' Sir... my NCS , J A lll'll' ' ,Li 7 ,Q 1' lllllws fl ll' W 184 an 'I it-EM:-I M, aa a-1, S W aa:-.its Gerard A. Neumann james Seymour David P. Stockwell

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'- 5- Phi Delta Theta was founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, December 26, 1848, by Robert Morrison, '49g john McMillan VV'i1- - my .. YQ.. . r v My qw ef ' , ,s 12 Ek son, '48g Robert Thompson Drake, '5Og John XN'olfe Lindley, '50g Ardivan XfXIE111iC1' Rodgers, '51 and Andrew Wfatts Rogers, '51. Morrison first proposed the organization to Wfilson, and -is, -5 E- they were joint authors of The Bond of the :J E i Phi Delta Theta, which is a statement of the N principles of the fraternity and has never been E-5 -' 'L changed. The founders intended that the so- ig N' fail flint 11 Clety should be extended to other institutions, ' Q5 ' In mmm! E and today the fraternity embodies an active chapter roll of 102, while 21 chapters are in- active. The first meeting of the founders of Phi Delta Theta was in VVi1son's room in the north dormitory which still stands, and the room was later marked with a granite tablet. The fraternity now maintains a general headquarters at Oxford, Ohio, in a building owned by the fraternity. 183 n - -LL5-1. x igi,i 1 ,.. 1? x Av? I 14- Wal, wr, ll I , '- agp!! '. I in , V 1 F., . 1 1- , .W A ffl F- ' ' ' ' r f ' ii ,I x - 9 .,1gg-v q'2.:+.'f ii t ,, ,im f'- M14 r 1 'vi 2 ' 'Z .J R.

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Phi Sigma Kappa was founded at the Massachusetts NX f ' Agricultural College, Amherst, March 15, 1873, and for .44 live years had no exoteric name, but was generally T known. as The Three T's'l. The fraternity became na- , T tional in 1888, due to the activity of the alumni members xrssaf,-552 -. N, lil 1 I 'Stiff 1? ' ' 4-, -an iv- Q, S1Fm'i9'tI.i? f'?Z 'f .1 , LL at ,, , QTQZA T 1-1 ex x rl, ,,,r ,i I I 1' i X c . .. ' 'J 1 J J t. who went to the Albany Medical College for graduate 13Ir5 study. For a little while the parent chapter was desig- nated as Pi and the Albany chapter as Alden March, after the founder of the college. In 1922 however the latter chapter established itself as Beta at Union. There are forty-six active and live inactive chapters. Two thousand six hun- dred members of Phi Sigma Kappa are known to have been enrolled in the allied armies and navies during the VVorld lfVar, of whom 1ll4 were com- missioned, 73 decorated for bravery, and 60 gave up their lives. l l ' 'L .',,i N V: MN . i tr gi Qilgiilgliiialll Hal tl K I ' l ,i , .ii'il':-i Liliiwifi ...P A..i L -- i 'vii -lf