The Sigma Chi Quarterly:  November 1892 - Vol XII

Zeta Zeta - Centre College

'The second term finds Zeta Zeta in her usual flourishing condition. Having now an active membership of twenty loyal Sigs, the only danger which threatens us is that which is always attendant upon success. Since our last communication we have again lifted the mystic veil  and ushered into the realms of Sigma Chi five new initiates. They are Messrs. Carl Mize, Hazel Green, KY; Charles Swango, Frankfort, KY; Morrison Breckenridge, Arthur & Julian Van Winkle, Danville, KY. They are all fine fellows and typical Sigs, and we take pleasure in introducing them to Sigma Chi world. Brother Mize is a son of Hon. W. O. Mize, now a member of the Kentucky Senate, Bro Swango is a son of Judge G. B. Swango, Registrar of the Kentucky Land Office. Bro Breckenridge is a son of Col. R. J. Breckinridge, who is now serving in the Kentucky Senate. He is certainly a rising young orator, fashioned after his distinguished ancestors, and Zeta Zeta has him already booked for an inter-collegiate oratorical winner. Arthur & Julian are the younger brothers of John S. Frank and Edwin Van Winkle, to whom a good part of Zeta Zeta's prosperity is due.'

May the fraternal love that binds us together as one great brotherhood in Sigma Chi continue to prevail until "The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll, and the earth shall wax old as does a garment." James H. Swango

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Short History of Sigma Chi

THE SIGMA CHI Fraternity was founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, on June 28, 1855, by Thomas Cowan Bell, James Parks Caldwell, Daniel William Cooper, Isaac M. Jordan, William Lewis Lockwood, Benjamin Piatt Runkle, and Franklin Howard Scobey.

The first chapter established by Sigma Chi in 1855 was Alpha at Miami University in Southern Ohio. The next chapter Gamma, also in Southern Ohio and initiated in 1855, marked forward growth for the Fraternity. From 1855 to the start of the Civil War in 1861, the Fraternity installed a total of 12 chapters.

Soon after the war began, Sigma Chi’s active membership plummeted. All of the chapters in the south disbanded and most of the active members in the north enlisted into the war. There was not much growth of the fraternity within the four years that the Civil War went on. Only four chapters were chartered. The Fraternity was in its sixth active year and though it dwindled drastically at that point in time, it managed to stay alive.

Leading into the 20th Century, Sigma Chi expounded its efforts and increased in average of about one new chapter a year. Before World War I started, Sigma Chi did a lot of expanding. From the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century, the fraternity branched out to Georgia, California, New York, Oregon, Washington, Texas, and many more places all over the United States. But between 1939 and 1945, with the onset of World War II, there were only five chapters installed.

A drop in the numbers of chapter installations occurred again in the late 1990s because of the First Gulf War and continued into the 2000s with the start of the US-Iraq War. The chapter installment rate dropped every time there was war, signifying that each war waged has had a detrimental effect on the membership of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Within the first 100 years Sigma Chi had a total of 124 active undergraduate chapters and has grown since then by 111, which makes the total, to date, 235 active undergraduate chapters. Many times the fraternity has seen a decline in the rate of installed chapters, but overall there has been an upward climb to a successful fraternity.

Individuals, buildings, machines, roads, etc., wear out with the relentless march of the years. Worthwhile institutions grow stronger as the years roll on. The tremendous motivating force of Sigma Chi is its everlasting appeal to youth. Each year sees an infusion of new blood into its ranks.

Robert M. Collett The Centennial History of Sigma Chi

And when the green on our graves has mouldered away, some gray warrior sitting by night at the blazing fire will tell thy deeds to his sons, and they shall bless and admire the men of old.

William Lewis Lockwood

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Chapters list as of June, 2010 

Chapter	University	Founded	Date Inactive	Rechartered
Alpha	Miami University	1855	1858	1892
Gamma	Ohio Wesleyan University	1855	1884	1888
Epsilon (original)	Western Military Institute	1856	1858
Eta	University of Mississippi	1857	1912	1926
Iota	Jefferson	1858	1869
Lambda	Indiana University	1858
Nu (original)	Washington College	1859	1863
Omicron	Dickinson College	1859
Xi	DePauw University	1859
Pi (original)	Erskine College	1860	1861
Psi	University of Virginia	1860	1861	1866
Sigma (original)	Lagrange Synodical	1860	1861
Theta	Gettysburg College	1863	2005	2009
Epsilon	George Washington University	1864	2000
Kappa	Bucknell University	1864
Rho	Butler University	1865
Upsilon	Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania	1865	1876
Zeta	Washington & Lee University	1866
Phi	Lafayette College	1867	1997
Mu	Denison University	1868	2000	2004
Omega	Northwestern University	1869	2000	2005
Sigma	Princeton University	1869	1882	2010
Chi	Hanover College	1871	1917	1936
Delta	University of Georgia	1872	1990	1996
Nu	Cumberland University	1872	1880
Pi	Samford University	1872	1885	1994
Sigma Sigma	Hampden-Sydney College	1872	1977	1983
Tau	Roanoke College	1872	1902	1923
Beta	Wooster	1873	1914
Beta Beta	Mississippi College	1873	1874
Epsilon Epsilon	Monmouth College	1874	1878
Gamma Gamma	Randolph-Macon	1874	1901
Theta Theta	University of Michigan	1874	2003
Delta Delta	Purdue University	1875
Phi Phi	University of Pennsylvania	1875	1878	1884
Iota Iota	University of Alabama	1876	1877	1914
Zeta Zeta	Centre College	1876
Chi Chi	Birmingham-Southern College	1879	1882	1993
Delta Chi	Wabash College	1880	1894	1909
Kappa Kappa	University of Illinois	1881	1894	1892
Alpha Eta	University of Iowa	1882	1991	2000
Alpha Gamma	Ohio State University	1882
Alpha Omicron	Tulane University	1882	1883	1886
Alpha Theta	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1882
Alpha Zeta	Beloit College	1882
Zeta Psi	University of Cincinnati	1882
Alpha Delta	Stevens Institute of Technology	1883	1891
Alpha Epsilon	University of Nebraska	1883
Alpha Iota	Illinois Wesleyan University	1883
Alpha Kappa	Hillsdale College	1883	1886	1980
Alpha Lambda	University of Wisconsin	1884
Alpha Mu	Virginia Military Institute	1884	1885
Alpha Nu	University of Texas-Austin	1884	2004	2009
Alpha Xi	University of Kansas	1884
Alpha Beta	University of California-Berkeley	1886	1968	1972
Alpha Pi	Albion College	1886	1977	1980
Alpha Rho	Lehigh University	1887	1989	1993
Alpha Sigma	University of Minnesota	1888
Alpha Tau	University of North Carolina	1889	1900	1913
Alpha Upsilon	University of Southern California	1889	1994	2000
Alpha Phi	Cornell University	1890
Alpha Chi	Pennsylvania State University	1891
Alpha Omega	Stanford University	1891	1967	1974
Alpha Psi	Vanderbilt University	1891	1991	1996
Alpha Alpha	Hobart College	1892	2006
Eta Eta	Dartmouth	1893	1960
Lambda Lambda	University of Kentucky	1893
Nu Nu	Columbia University	1894	1964	1984
Mu Mu	West Virginia University	1895
Xi Xi	University of Missouri-Columbia	1896	2002	2007
Omicron Omicron	University of Chicago	1897	1952
Rho Rho	University of Maine	1902
Tau Tau	Washington University	1903
Upsilon Upsilon	University of Washington	1903
Psi Psi	Syracuse University	1904	1998
Beta Gamma	Colorado College	1905
Omega Omega	University of Arkansas	1905
Beta Delta	University of Montana	1906
Beta Epsilon	University of Utah	1908
Beta Eta	Case Western Reserve University	1909	1972	1973
Beta Theta	University of Pittsburgh	1909
Beta Zeta	University of North Dakota	1909
Beta Iota	University of Oregon	1910	1996	2000
Beta Kappa	University of Oklahoma	1912	2004	2007
Beta Lambda	Duke University	1912
Beta Mu	University of Colorado-Boulder	1914	1999
Beta Nu	Brown University	1914	1965	1973
Beta Omicron	Iowa State University	1916
Beta Pi	Oregon State University	1916
Beta Xi	University of New Mexico	1916	2002	2008
Beta Rho	Montana State University	1917
Beta Sigma	University of Tennessee-Knoxville	1917
Beta Tau	Colorado State University	1919
Beta Upsilon	Washington State University	1919
Beta Chi	Emory University	1921
Beta Phi	University of Arizona	1921	2003	2009
Beta Omega	University of Toronto-Ryerson	1922
Beta Psi	Georgia Institute of Technology	1922
Gamma Delta	Oklahoma State University	1922
Gamma Epsilon	Whitman College	1923	1967	1970
Gamma Zeta	Union College	1923
Gamma Eta	University of Idaho	1924
Gamma Theta	University of Florida	1924
Gamma Iota	Louisiana State University	1925
Gamma Kappa	Utah State University	1926
Gamma Lambda	McGill University	1927
Gamma Mu	Wesleyan	1928	1959
Gamma Nu	University of South Carolina	1929
Gamma Omicron	Colgate University	1930
Gamma Xi	University of Wyoming	1930
Gamma Pi	University of Rochester	1932
Gamma Rho	Dalhousie University-St. Marys University	1933
Gamma Sigma	Auburn University	1934
Gamma Tau	North Dakota State University	1934
Gamma Upsilon	Mississippi State University	1938
Gamma Chi	University of Maryland	1942	2002
Gamma Phi	University of Miami	1942
Gamma Psi	Michigan State University	1942
Delta Epsilon	North Carolina State University	1943
Gamma Omega	University of Connecticut	1943	1951	1971
Delta Eta	University of California-Los Angeles	1947
Delta Iota	University of Denver	1947
Delta Kappa	Bowling Green State University	1947	2004
Delta Theta	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga	1947
Delta Zeta	Willamette University	1947
Delta Lambda	Davidson College	1948	1969
Delta Mu	Southern Methodist University	1948
Delta Nu	Wake Forest University	1948
Delta Omicron	University of British Columbia-Simon Fraser Univer	1949
Delta Pi	Ohio University	1949	2003
Delta Rho	Bradley University	1949
Delta Sigma	University of Rhode Island	1949	1996
Delta Tau	Westminster College	1949
Delta Upsilon	Kansas State University	1949
Delta Xi	San Diego State University	1949
Delta Phi	University of Puget Sound	1950
Delta Psi	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1950
Delta Omega	University of Tulsa	1951
Epsilon Zeta	Florida State University	1951
Epsilon Eta	California State University-Fresno	1952
Epsilon Theta	San Jose State University	1952
Epsilon Iota	St. Lawrence University	1953	1997
Epsilon Kappa	University of Memphis	1954
Epsilon Lambda	Ripon College	1955
Epsilon Mu	Texas Christian University	1955
Epsilon Nu	Texas Tech University	1955
Epsilon Xi	University of Houston	1956
Epsilon Omicron	The University of Western Ontario	1957
Epsilon Pi	University of Northern Colorado	1958
Epsilon Rho	University of Richmond	1958
Epsilon Sigma	Florida Southern College	1959
Epsilon Tau	Murray State University	1959
Epsilon Phi	Southeast Missouri State University	1960
Epsilon Upsilon	Arizona State University	1960
Epsilon Chi	Lamar University	1961	1983
Epsilon Psi	Sam Houston State University	1961
Epsilon Omega	Ball State University	1962
Beta Alpha	Western Reserve	1963	1970
Zeta Eta	Texas A&M University-Commerce	1963
Zeta Theta	Kettering University	1963
Zeta Iota	Pittsburg State University	1964
Zeta Kappa	University of California-Santa Barbara	1965	2007
Zeta Lambda	Kent State University	1965
Zeta Mu	Western Kentucky University	1965
Zeta Nu	Western Michigan University	1966
Zeta Xi	California State University-Northridge	1966
Zeta Omicron	Northern Arizona University	1967
Zeta Pi	Texas A&M University-Kingsville	1967
Zeta Rho	Central Michigan University	1967
Zeta Sigma	Eastern New Mexico University	1967
Zeta Tau	Fort Hays State University	1967
Zeta Phi	New Mexico State University	1968	1985
Zeta Upsilon	The College of William & Mary	1968
Zeta Chi	University of Nevada at Las Vegas	1969
Zeta Omega	East Tennessee State University	1969
Eta Alpha	Eastern Kentucky University	1970
Eta Beta	California State University-Long Beach	1970	1998
Eta Delta	Tennessee Tech University	1970
Eta Epsilon	University of South Alabama	1970
Eta Gamma	Middle Tennessee State University	1970
Eta Theta	Georgia Southwestern State University	1970
Eta Zeta	Georgia Southern University	1970
Eta Iota	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach	1971
Eta Kappa	Missouri State	1971	2007
Eta Lambda	Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	1971
Eta Mu	Eastern Illinois University	1971
Eta Nu	Northern Illinois University	1972	2000
Eta Omicron	Indiana University of Pennsylvania	1973
Eta Xi	Austin Peay State University	1973
Eta Pi	University of Central Florida	1974
Eta Rho	University of North Alabama	1974
Eta Sigma	University of California-Irvine	1975	1995	2003
Eta Tau	Stephen F. Austin State University	1975
Eta Upsilon	Texas A&M University-College Station	1976
Eta Chi	Youngstown State University	1977
Eta Phi	Troy University	1977
Eta Psi	Clemson University	1977
Eta Omega	Baylor University	1978
Theta Alpha	Clarion University of Pennsylvania	1978	2003
Theta Beta	University of South Florida	1979
Theta Gamma	Drake University	1980
Theta Delta	University of Southern Mississippi	1981
Theta Epsilon	North Georgia College	1982
Theta Eta	Missouri University of Science & Technology	1983
Theta Zeta	Bridgewater State College	1983
Theta Iota	Saint Louis University	1984
Theta Kappa	University of Texas at Arlington	1984
Theta Lambda	University of San Diego	1984	2004
Theta Mu	Spring Hill College	1984	2006	2009
Theta Nu	Alma College	1984
Theta Omicron	University of California-Davis	1985
Theta Pi	Indiana State University	1985
Theta Rho	Illinois State University	1985
Theta Sigma	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona	1985
Theta Xi	California State University-Sacramento	1985
Theta Phi	California State Poly.University-San Luis Obispo	1986	2002
Theta Tau	Texas State University - San Marcos	1986	1999	2009
Theta Upsilon	Yale University	1986
Iota Alpha	California State University-San Bernardino	1987
Iota Beta	James Madison University	1987
Theta Chi	Arkansas State University	1987
Theta Omega	Elon University	1987
Theta Psi	University of Waterloo	1987
Iota Delta	State University of New York-Albany	1988	2004
Iota Epsilon	College of Charleston	1988
Iota Eta	Western Connecticut State University	1988
Iota Gamma	Jacksonville University	1988
Iota Kappa	Fairleigh Dickinson University	1988
Iota Theta	University of Dayton	1988
Iota Zeta	Clarkson University	1988
Iota Lambda	University of Louisville	1989
Iota Mu	Wilfrid Laurier University	1989
Iota Nu	Furman University	1989
Iota Omicron	Western Illinois University	1989
Iota Pi	Marquette University	1989
Iota Xi	George Mason University	1989
Iota Chi	University of California-San Diego	1990
Iota Phi	University of North Texas	1990
Iota Rho	Bishops University	1990
Iota Sigma	Valparaiso University	1990
Iota Tau	University of St. Thomas	1990
Iota Upsilon	Boston University	1990
Iota Omega	Loyola Marymount University	1991
Iota Psi	Rutgers University	1991
Kappa Beta	University of North Florida	1991
Kappa Gamma	Western Carolina University	1991
Kappa Epsilon	University of Delaware	1992
Kappa Eta	Harvard University	1992
Kappa Theta	California State University-Chico	1992
Kappa Zeta	Radford University	1992
Kappa Iota	Southern Utah University	1993
Kappa Lambda	The College of Idaho	1994
Kappa Mu	University of Windsor	1994
Kappa Nu	State University of New York-Oswego	1994	2004
Kappa Xi	Tarleton State University	1996
Kappa Omicron	Pepperdine University	1998
Kappa Pi	Towson University	2000
Kappa Rho	American University	2000
Kappa Sigma	University of the Pacific	2003
Kappa Tau	Minnesota State University- Mankato	2004
Kappa Chi	Villanova University	2005
Kappa Phi	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott	2005
Kappa Upsilon	The Johns Hopkins University	2005
Kappa Omega	University of Tampa	2007
Kappa Psi	University of Tennessee-Martin	2007
Lambda Alpha	Knox College	2007
Lambda Beta	University of West Florida	2008
Lambda Gamma	Santa Clara University	2008
Lambda Delta	University of California-Merced	2009
Lambda Epsilon	University of New Haven	2009
Lambda Eta	Bryant University	2010
Lambda Zeta	Florida Gulf Coast University	2010