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Pledge – a probationary member of a fraternity or sorority, sometimes also called "associate member." [112] Pledge pin – a pin worn by pledges for the duration of the pledging period. It is usually given to a pledge following a ceremony when they are first offered membership in the organization and can be worn until their initiation.
The Lambda chapter at Kenyon College built the first fraternity lodge in 1854. Delta Kappa Epsilon became an international fraternity with the addition of the Alpha Phi chapter in 1898 at the University of Toronto, Canada. Expansion to the United Kingdom had little success. Today, ΔΚΕ chapters are located only in the United States and Canada.
Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.) is a fraternal organization that was founded on February 6, 1898, in Seattle, Washington, by a group of six theater-owners including John Cort (the first president), brothers John W. and Tim J. Considine, Harry (H.L.) Leavitt (who later joined the Loyal Order of Moose), Mose Goldsmith and Arthur Williams. [1]
Pi Kappa Alpha (ΠΚΑ), commonly known as Pike is a college fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1868. The fraternity has over 225 chapters and provisional chapters across the United States and abroad with over 15,500 undergraduate members and over 300,000 lifetime initiates.
The fraternity was founded on August 8 because this was the feast day of Saint Dominic, which was a university holiday at UST. In 1976, Alpha Kappa Rho merged with the Omega Fraternity & Sorority International (OFSI) of San Sebastian College and Zeta Upsilon Fraternity of the University of the East. The merged fraternities adopted the ...
The pace of chapter growth increased substantially in the 1980s and 1990s. For example, while the 1970s saw just two chapters formed, during the 1980s the fraternity gained 28 new chapters. All told, the fraternity has organized at more than 80 campuses, and from these boasts 35 active chapters and colonies. See the list of KDR chapters. [1]
Omega Eta Tau (ΩΗΤ), formed as Torch and Dagger in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1859, was the first known high school fraternity. The fraternity existed with lapses from 1861 to 1866 and again from 1880 to 1893. In 1900, it was renamed Omega Eta Tau and began expanding nationally. Omega Gamma Delta, (ΩΓΔ) was founded in 1902 in Brooklyn, New ...
Phi Kappa Theta (ΦΚΘ), commonly known as Phi Kap, is a national social fraternity that has over 35 active chapters and colonies at universities across 21 U.S. states.The fraternity was founded on April 29, 1959, at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, with the agreed-upon merger of two older Catholic fraternities, Phi Kappa and Theta Kappa Phi.