Delta Sigma Pi
| Delta Sigma Pi | |
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| ΔΣΠ | |
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| Founded | November 7, 1907 New York University, New York, NY |
| Type | Professional |
| Scope | International United States Canada Mexico
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| Colors | Old Gold |
| Flower | Red Rose |
| Publication | "The DELTASIG" |
| Chapters | 294 established, 221 active collegiate, 54 active alumni |
| Members | 13,000+ collegiate 265,000+ lifetime |
| Nickname | Deltasig |
| Headquarters |
330 South Campus Ave. Oxford, Ohio USA |
| Homepage | Delta Sigma Pi Website |
Delta Sigma Pi (ΔΣΠ) is one of the largest co-ed professional business fraternities in the United States. Delta Sigma Pi was founded on November 7, 1907, at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University, New York, New York and is currently headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. The Fraternity has 221 active collegiate chapters and 6 colonies, as well as 54 active alumni chapters, with over 265,000 initiated members.
Delta Sigma Pi is a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage scholarship, social activity and the association of students for their mutual advancement by research and practice; to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce, and to further a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture and the civic and commercial welfare of the community.
Delta Sigma Pi was founded by four men: Alexander Frank Makay, Henry Albert Tienken, Harold Valentine Jacobs, and Alfred Moysello. These four men, along with a fifth student, grew close to one another in their classes and from sharing the same subway route on their way home every evening. They often discussed topics of mutual interest including school affairs. One such topic that came up regularly involved the dominance of Alpha Kappa Psi, which had been founded a few years earlier as the only fraternity at NYU's School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance. The men felt they had been ignored by the fraternity due to their race and religion, so they decided to develop a new organization to provide students with an alternative. They decided the new organization would be a club open to all students, but the idea did not take off with the student body...
In 1907, the fifth student, Charlie Cashmore, dropped from the group when he was offered the opportunity to join the aforementioned organization. Perhaps because the other organization was a Greek letter fraternity, the four abandoned their plans for a club in favor of forming another Greek letter fraternity.
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