Delta Pi Delta
| Delta Pi Delta Fraternity | |
|---|---|
| ΔΠΔ | |
| Founded | October 17, 1958 Mount Olive College |
| Motto | Dieu Et Honneur God and Honor |
| Members | 850 collegiate |
| Website | www |
Delta Pi Delta (ΔΠΔ) is a social, secret, Greek-letter, college fraternity located at Mount Olive College in Mount Olive, NC. Founded in 1958, it is the only Greek-letter fraternity at the institution.
Delta Pi Delta was founded on October 17, 1958 by five freshmen students: Paul Taylor, Richard Barnes, David Thompson, Allen Tate, and Daniel Masterson at Mount Olive College. The men sought to create the first social fraternity at the young Baptist junior college despite previous efforts by the administration and founders of the institution to ban such social organizations.
Reverend W. Burkette Raper, a Baptist minister and first president of Mount Olive College staunchly opposed fraternities and sororities or any other type of secret, social organizations or clubs at the College. In fall of 1958, the five men took a petition to the Student Council for approval to form a social fraternity. As Paul Taylor’s cousin, Martin Taylor, was President of the Student Council at the time, the petition met little opposition from the Student Council and with a majority vote was passed.
The new fraternity initially took the name, K.A. Fraternity for “Knights of Apollo,” but the name was soon changed as many faculty and administration felt the name was too close to Kappa Alpha Order another national social fraternity. Daniel Masterson, one of the founding members, had an older brother who was a member of a fraternity at Georgia Tech. Inspired by his brother’s fraternity, he proposed calling the new organization, “Delta Pi Delta.” The name was approved by the members and the new Greek-letter fraternity was born. As a result, much of the symbolism and traditions of Delta Tau Delta were borrowed by the new organization, including a similarity to Delta Tau Delta's coat of arms.
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