Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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ffffxl .--1-4. l l ?l - s N E .. ..M..i.--1 3 . l-.l--1 PHI SIGMA DELTA Founded at Columbia University, 1909 Active Cl'l3.DtC1'5-23 V. Epsilon of Phi Sigma Delta FRATRES IN UNIVERSITATE Lewis I. Horwitz Sanford Brand Richard Diamond M areus Horwitz Joseph Cohen Arnold E. Dubb Irving Dworsky Morton Gold 1933 Melvin S. Myers Reuben Sorkin 1934 Samuel S. Keats 1935 Seymour Horwitz George Polansky 1936 Arthur R. Greenberg Milton Kohn Harvey M. Lifset Irving A. Lifset Leon Saiewitz 188 1914

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-, Phi Gamma Delta was founded in the room 6' , I lg of john Templeton McCarty in Fort Armstrong , V , a dormitory of jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, on the night of April 22, 1348. A ' 1 as mf-wmbhsww constitution was adopted on May 1, 1848, which building at Canonsburg, is in perpetual careaof the fraternity, and bears a bronze tablet in memory S K of the founders. In 1909 the graves of all the founders of the fraternity were marked by suitable memorials. ln 1868, the faculty at jeHerson College abolished secret frater- nities, and the grand chapter was transferred to New York City. Chi at Union was established in 1893, and has lived a stellar existence during the two score of years since its origin. is recognized as Founder's Day. Seventy active and twenty-four inactive branches make up the chapter Yroll, 'and graduate chapters Jrekist in 25.5 : sg-I seventy-thiee cities, and giaduate associations in thirty-seven, including Shanghai, China. The Mc- 1 Millan Log Cabin, the lirst Jefferson College X x QQ , fun l'Mnw1df 6 l 187

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Phi Sigma Delta was founded at Columbia University, November 10, 1910, by Alfred Iaason, Maxwell Hyman, Herbert L. Eisenberg, Wlilliam L. Berk, Joseph Levy, Herbert Minsky, Robert Shapiro, Joseph Shalleck. There are twenty-three active chapters and one inactive chapter. There are graduate clubs in New York, Albany, Providence, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles and Denver. Government is vested in a body known and designated as the executive council of Phi Sigma Delta fraternity consisting of the president, vice-president, executive secretary, treasurer, chairman of the internal expansion committee, chairman of the external expansion committee. and three fratres elected from the body of the fraternity. There is a cup awarded to the chapter whose record is most excellent, one to the second best chapter, and one to the chapter highest ranking in scholarship. A scholarship is awarded to the graduate who ranks highest in scholarship, and an award is given to the passive whose service has been most meritous to the fraternity. 189