Delta Sigma Fraternity

Delta Sigma
ΔΣ
Founded	September 1897 Lewis Institute, Chicago, IL
Type	High School Fraternity
Scope	National
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ΔΣ (Delta Sigma) was a high school fraternity founded in 1897 at Lewis Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

History

Delta Sigma was founded at Lewis Institute in September 1897, as an athletic fraternity fostering clean athletics, loyalty and high ideas. Delta Sigma was arguably the first secondary fraternity to accept members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths. Delta Sigma Chapters spread throughout the United States, and they remained active until the 1980s. By the 1980s most chapters of Delta Sigma had faded away. A few chapters may have remained into the early 1990s.

Members of Delta Sigma were commonly known as "Delts". The official publication of Delta Sigma was The Bulletin.

Chapters

• Beta Omicron - Decatur, Alabama
• Beta Zeta - Forrest City, Arkansas
• Beta Nu - New Orleans, Louisiana
• Beta Xi - West Memphis, Arkansas
• Gamma Lambda - St. Louis, Missouri
• Gamma Upsilon - Helena, Arkansas (Active until 1992)
• Gamma Chi - Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Gamma Xi - Memphis, Tennessee

National Conventions

• 1926 - Little Rock, Arkansas
• 1977 - Atlanta, Georgia
• 1979 - Hot Springs, Arkansas
• 1981 - Nashville, Tennessee
• 1982 - Memphis, Tennessee

References