Chi Phi

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Chi Phi
(ΧΦ)
The Crest of the Chi Phi Fratenity
Founded December 24, 1824 (1824-12-24) (age 183)
Princeton University
Type Social
Scope International
Motto Truth, Honor and Personal Integrity
Colors Scarlet and Blue
Symbol Chakett
Flower None
Chapters 56 across nation, 8 colonies
Headquarters W. M. Byrd Memorial HQ

1160 Satellite Blvd NW
Suwanee, Georgia 30024, USA
Homepage http://chiphi.org

The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) fraternity is an American college social fraternity founded in 1824 at Princeton University, in 1858 at the University of North Carolina, and in 1860 at Hobart College, making it the oldest social collegiate fraternity in history (Source :http://www.chiphi.org). Today, Chi Phi has over 44,000 living alumni members from over 90 active and inactive Chapters.

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[edit] Notable Historical Facts (Appel et al. 1993)

Chi Phi has an unusual origin that involved the founding of three different and independent social fraternities named Chi Phi. The Princeton Order was founded at Princeton University in 1824, but only survived for a few years before becoming dormant. The Princeton Order was revived in 1854 by the nephew of the original founder. The Southern Order was founded in 1858 at the University of North Carolina. The third independent fraternity to be named Chi Phi was founded a few years later in 1858 at Hobart University and expanded over the next few years to include many more chapters. In the years that followed, the Hobart and Princeton Orders joined to form what is now known as the Northern Order. Several years later, after the Civil War the Northern and Southern orders joined to form a national fraternity, which is the Chi Phi Fraternity that exists today.

Stevie Ray Vaughan's music video for the song "When the House is a Rockin'" (Don't Bother Knockin') was filmed almost entirely at the Omega chapter house at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Except for a brief period in 1911, three Chi Phis (Joseph Mackey Brown, John Marshall Slaton and Nathaniel E. Harris) held the office of Governor in the State of Georgia from 1909 to 1917. They didn't always see eye-to-eye, however; Brown was vehemently opposed to Slaton's pardon of Leo Frank in 1915 and since his death in 1932, Brown has often been implicated as a conspirator in Frank's lynching. During the same period, another Chi Phi, Hiram W. Johnson served as Governor of California and was later elected to five terms as a U.S. Senator.

In 1867, as a result of the Civil War, the Southern Order of Chi Phi granted a charter to a group of southern students at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland. After the reopening of southern colleges and the graduation of its members, the Edinburgh charter was withdrawn in 1870. The Chi Phi chapter at the University of Edinburgh was and still is the only chapter of an American fraternity to be founded outside of the U.S.

Although Georgia Tech grads hate to admit they owe anything to Georgia grads (see Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate), Nathaniel E. Harris and Henry W. Grady, two Chi Phis from the University of Georgia, are widely credited with developing the public and legislative support that resulted in the formation of the Georgia Institute of Technology. As a result of his efforts, Nathaniel E. Harris was elected and served as the President of Georgia Tech's Board of Trustees from 1886 until his death in 1929.

Chi Phi's conservative expansion philosophy that only the old, well established schools were suitable for a Chapter, which was in effect for some sixty years (1892 to 1954), led to the denial of a petition for a charter by a group of students at the University of Richmond in 1901. This group, led by Chi Phi Brother Carter Ashton Jenkens, Delta '03, went on to found the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. During the subsequent fifty-three year period, Sigma Phi Epsilon chartered over 140 Chapters, while Chi Phi only chartered 14.

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Further information: List of Chi Phi Chapters

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[edit] References

  • Appel, Dr. Theodore B. et al. 1993 The Chronicles of Chi Phi, Chi Phi Educational Trust
  • Baird, William, ed 1915 Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities
  • Council of the Chi Phi Fraternity 1927 Biennial Catalogue of The Chi Phi Fraternity 1927, Lancaster Press, Inc.

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