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Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ), commonly known as DKE or Deke, is one of the oldest fraternities in the United States, with fifty-six active chapters and five active colonies across North America. It was founded at Yale College in 1844 by fifteen sophomores who were discontented with the existing fraternity order on campus.
In 1905, as Stuart Pierson was being initiated into Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, students sent him to a railroad bridge, which they believed was not in use; however, an unscheduled train arrived, killing Pierson. This is a list of hazing deaths in the United States. This is not an exhaustive list.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity has 56 active chapters and 5 active colonies. It was originally established at Yale University with the Phi chapter in 1844. [1] [2]Of a total of 56 active chapters, 49 are in the United States, while seven are in Canada – at the University of Toronto, McGill University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Manitoba, the University of ...
The Delta Kappa Pledge Manual was last published in 1959. ... while the vice president oversaw the ritual and was the director of expansion. ... Epsilon 1931 –1944 ...
1967: Delta Kappa Epsilon, Yale University. Future US president George W. Bush (who at the time was president of the fraternity) was implicated in a scandal where members of the DKE fraternity were accused of branding triangles onto the lower back of pledges. Mr. Bush is quoted as dismissing the injuries as "only a cigarette burn".
The history of The Dickey Club stretches back to 1844 when Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity was founded at Yale University. [3] At the time, social societies at Yale were class-based, with certain societies reserved for seniors, and others reserved for juniors, sophomores, and freshmen.
Kappa Sigma Theta, Phi Theta Psi, Delta Beta Xi, Delta Sigma Phi, [3] were all sophomore societies at Yale, and the two large freshman societies of Delta Kappa and Kappa Sigma Epsilon lived until 1880. [4] Delta Kappa established chapters at Amherst College, the University of North Carolina, University of Virginia, University of Mississippi ...
The Sigma Chi house at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, c. 1905. Sigma Chi was founded in 1855 by Benjamin Piatt Runkle, Thomas Cowan Bell, William Lewis Lockwood, Isaac M. Jordan, Daniel William Cooper, Franklin Howard Scobey, and James Parks Caldwell as the result of a disagreement over who would be elected Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society of Miami University in Ohio.