Zeta Psi
| Zeta Psi | |
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| ΖΨ | |
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| Founded | June 1, 1847 New York University |
| Type | Social |
| Scope | International |
| Motto | ΤΚΦ (Tau Kappa Phi) |
| Colors | White |
| Flower | White Carnation |
| Publication | The Circle |
| Philanthropy | Zete Kids USA |
| Chapters | 86 (52 Active, 34 Inactive) |
| Nickname | Zete |
| Headquarters |
15 South Henry St Pearl River, New York USA |
| Homepage | http://www.zetapsi.org |
The Zeta Psi Fraternity Incorporated (ΖΨ) was founded June 1, 1847 as a social college fraternity. The organization now comprises about fifty active chapters and twenty-six inactive chapters, encompassing roughly fifty thousand brothers, and is a founding member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference. It has historically been selective about the campuses at which it has established chapters, focusing on forging new territory and maintaining a presence at prestigious institutions: it was the first Fraternity on the West Coast at the University of California, Berkeley June 10, 1870, the first Fraternity in Canada at the University of Toronto, March 27, 1879, and the only fraternity to have chapters simultaneously at all eight Ivy League schools with the chartering of the Eta Chapter at Yale University in 1889 (though this claim lasted only a few years, owing to faculty opposition to the Princeton University Chapter). The fraternity became intercontinental on May 3, 2008 with the chartering of Iota Omicron at the University of Oxford.
Zeta Psi’s international headquarters is located in Pearl River, New York. Its current president is Les Mann, who was elected in 2016.
On the first of June in 1847, three young men gathered in a New York City bungalow with a purpose in mind: the constitution of a new Greek-letter society. Their names were John Bradt Yates Sommers, William Henry Dayton, and John Moon Skillman.
Then students at New York University, the three men formed the core of the first chapter, Phi. But William Dayton was stricken with poor health, and departed New York shortly afterwards for more temperate climes. He retired to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where the warm weather and liberal policies were expected to improve his humors, intending to begin a chapter there. But the move was inauspicious: Dayton died within the year, and the University of North Carolina was without a chapter of Zeta Psi.
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