A Guide to FrAternity And Sorority LiFe - Virginia Tech
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PhI dELTA ThETA<br />
exPenses:<br />
New Member, First Semester dues:<br />
$285<br />
Fall Semester dues: $450<br />
Spring Semester dues: $450<br />
acaDeMics:<br />
GPA New Member Initiation<br />
Requirement: 2.7<br />
GPA Active Membership<br />
Requirement: 2.5<br />
Phi delta Theta was founded by six men of the cloth on december 26, 1848, at Miami<br />
University in Oxford, Ohio. Robert Morrison and fellow senior John McMillan Wilson invited<br />
John Wolfe Lindley, Robert Thomson drake, <strong>And</strong>rew Watts Rodgers, and Ardivan Walker<br />
Rogers <strong>to</strong> join them in forming this secret society. They drafted and amended a constitution<br />
over the following days, ultimately producing the Bond of Phi delta Theta, a document<br />
that has remained principally unchanged since its creation.<br />
Phi delta Theta quickly spread across the country, becoming the first fraternity <strong>to</strong> expand<br />
west of the Mississippi. In 1902 Phi delta Theta became the first international fraternity<br />
when a chapter was established at McGill University in Quebec. The fraternity now has<br />
156 chapters in 44 states and five Canadian provinces. The fraternity has initiated nearly<br />
223,000 men since 1848.<br />
The <strong>Virginia</strong> Eta chapter of Phi delta Theta traces its roots back <strong>to</strong> the local nonaffiliated<br />
fraternity, Sigma Alpha Kappa, which was founded on February 19, 1967, as a group of<br />
27 young men. On April 29, 1972, soon after <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong> fraternal groups were permitted<br />
<strong>to</strong> be affiliated nationally, it received its official charter from Phi delta Theta general<br />
headquarters in Oxford. Since 1972, the <strong>Virginia</strong> Eta chapter has initiated 491 brothers,<br />
who live their lives according <strong>to</strong> the three cardinal principles of Phi delta Theta: friendship,<br />
sound learning, and moral rectitude.<br />
IFC<br />
FDQ<br />
Nickname: Phi Delt<br />
National Founding Date:<br />
December 26, 1848<br />
National Website:<br />
www.phideltatheta.org<br />
National Chapters: 169<br />
Chapter Name:<br />
virginia eta<br />
<strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong><br />
Chartering Date:<br />
april 29, 1972<br />
Local Website:<br />
vt.phideltatheta.org<br />
Mot<strong>to</strong>:<br />
“we enjoy life by the Help<br />
and society of others”<br />
Active Members: 29<br />
Chapter House: no<br />
Philanthropy:<br />
national als foundation<br />
Famous Members:<br />
neil armstrong<br />
benjamin Harrison<br />
frank lloyd wright<br />
lou Gehrig<br />
burt reynolds<br />
Detlef schremph<br />
Portico 2009-2010<br />
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