Psi Upsilon
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| Missing image Psiucoat.jpg The Psi Upsilon coat of arms | |
| Founded | 1833 at Union College |
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| Motto | Unto us has befallen a mighty friendship. |
| Executive Director | Mark Williams, Phi '76, CAE. |
| Colors | Garnet and Gold |
Psi Upsilon (ΨΥ, Psi U) is the fifth oldest college fraternity, founded at Union College in 1833. It has chapters at colleges and universities throughout North America.
Famous members of Psi Upsilon include Presidents Chester Alan Arthur and William Howard Taft, who also served as Chief Justice, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, U.S. Senator and later Secretary of Defense William Cohen, FBI director William H. Webster, Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin, author Horatio Alger, and author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown.
Psi Upsilon also has a foundation that provides scholarships and other financial assistance to students of tertiary institutions throughout the US and Canada, giving preference to its own members, as well as mentoring and other support services.
Fraternity Firsts
During the late nineteenth century, Psi Upsilon was a leader in the world of fraternities. In many areas it has set the pace for the fraternity movement, being the first to:
- Hold a fraternity Convention (1841)
- Print a membership catalogue (1842)
- Print the faternity history (1843)
- Print a fraternity songbook (1849)
- Issue a fraternity magazine (1850)
Chapter Roll
- Theta, Union College (1833)
- Delta, New York University (1837)
- Beta, Yale University (1839)
- Sigma, Brown University (1840, inactive since 1993)
- Gamma, Amherst College (1841)
- Zeta, Dartmouth College (1842)
- Lambda, Columbia University (1842)
- Kappa, Bowdoin College (1843, inactive since 1998)
- Psi, Hamilton College (1843)
- Xi, Wesleyan University (1843)
- Alpha, Harvard University (1850, inactive since 1873)
- Upsilon, University of Rochester (1858)
- Iota, Kenyon College (1860)
- Phi, University of Michigan (1865)
- Omega, University of Chicago (1869)
- Pi, Syracuse University (1875)
- Chi, Cornell University (1876)
- Beta Beta , Trinity College (1880)
- Eta, Lehigh University (1884)
- Tau, University of Pennsylvania (1891)
- Mu, University of Minnesota (1891, inactive since 1993)
- Rho, University of Wisconsin (1896, inactive since 1987)
- Epsilon, University of California, Berkeley (1902), inactive since 1998)
- Omicron, University of Illinois (1910)
- Delta Delta, Williams College (1913, inactive since 1968)
- Theta Theta, University of Washington (1916)
- Nu, University of Toronto (1920, inactive since 1997)
- Epsilon Phi, McGill University (1928, inactive since 1997)
- Zeta Zeta, University of British Columbia (1935)
- Epsilon Nu, Michigan State University (1943)
- Epsilon Omega, Northwestern University (1949, inactive since 1999)
- Theta Epsilon, University of Southern California (1950, inactive since 1962)
- Nu Alpha, Washington and Lee University (1970, inactive since 1974)
- Gamma Tau, Georgia Institute of Technology (1970)
- Chi Delta, Duke University (1973)
- Zeta Tau, Tufts University (1981), suspended since 1992)
- Epsilon Iota, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1982)
- Phi Beta, College of William and Mary (1984)
- Kappa Phi, Pennsylvania State University (1989), suspended 1998)
- Beta Kappa, Washington State University (1991, inactive since 2003)
- Beta Alpha, Miami University (1992, inactive since 1996)
- Phi Delta, University of Mary Washington (1996)
- Lambda Sigma, Pepperdine University (1998)
- Alpha Omicron, New Jersey Institute of Technology (1999)
External Link
Psi Upsilon Online (http://www.psiu.org/) - official home page