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City College and brought to their office. The bench remains there today. Despite theirinitial difficulties, ∑AM holds the distinction of growing the quickest, adding twentychapters, and making it the largest Jewish fraternity of its time.Following ∑AM, the other fraternities engaged in expansion projects. Whenexpanding to other campuses chapters undergo a naming process in which Greek lettersare used to designate chapters of the organization, rather than by the university or collegeat which they located. There are two different methods of naming chapters. The mostcommonly used method is naming chapters in order using Greek letters. For example,ZBT's founding chapter, or Alpha Chapter, comprised of JTS students is officially listedas founding at City College, the second chapter, the Beta Chapter is at Long IslandCollege Hospital, third chapter- Gamma is at NYU etc. 79In the next few years several Jewish fraternities were founded including PhiSigma Delta at Columbia University in 1909, Beta Sigma Rho or Bet Samach at Cornellin 1910, Tau Delta Phi at City College of New York in 1914, Tau Epsilon Phi atColumbia University in 1910, Kappa Nu at University of Rochester in 1911, OmicronAlpha Tau at Cornell in 1912 and Phi Beta Delta at Columbia in 1912. All of thesefraternities did not survive World War II as their members were called to duty. Thefraternities above were absorbed by the two oldest and most stable fraternities, Pi LamdaPhi and ZBT, or function in a limited capacity today. The last Jewish fraternity in thisperiod was AEPI (ΑΕΠ), founded at the School of Commerce at New York University in1913.The founding members of ΑΕΠ fraternity came from middle-class homes andreceived formal business training in the evenings. One of the founding members, Charles79 Sanua, Here's To Our Fraternity, 29919