Mu Beta Psi

Mu Beta Psi
ΜΒΨ
Founded	November 5, 1925 North Carolina State University
Type	Service
Scope	National
Colors	Red and White
Flower	Red and White American Beauty Rose
Chapters	18 lettered, 1 alumni
Headquarters	Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Homepage	mubetapsi.org

Mu Beta Psi National Honorary Musical Fraternity is a service and music fraternity with chapters and colonies at universities throughout the eastern United States. Founded in 1925 at North Carolina State University by the director of bands, Major Percy Walter "Daddy" Price, this group began as a male-only, honorary fraternity for colleges lacking a music major. It spread early to several colleges throughout the southern United States. In 1961 it expanded eligibility requirements to admit women. By the early 2000s, the fraternity had expanded to several colleges throughout the eastern half of the United States.

Although an honorary fraternity, Mu Beta Psi views itself as primarily a music service group. Several of the chapters run scholarship programs and pride themselves on providing service to their music departments.

Any member of the fraternity is referred to as a "Brother" without regard to the member's sex. This practice comes from the fraternity's beginnings and is used in context as a designation of membership status, not gender.

Chapters

The chapters were named in order of their acceptance to Mu Beta Psi. Chapters are:

Chapter	Location	Chartered	Status (Inactive Date)
Alpha (Α)	North Carolina State University	1925	Active
Beta (Β)	Davidson College	1929	Inactive (1931)
Gamma (Γ)	never chartered†	N/A	N/A
Delta (Δ)	Clemson University	1937	Inactive (2005)
Epsilon (Ε)	Washington and Lee University	1965	Inactive (ca. 1985)
Zeta (Ζ)	Michigan Technological University	1967	Active
Eta (Η)	Virginia Military Institute	1970	Inactive (1971)
Theta (Θ)	St. Augustine's College	1973	Inactive (ca. 1986)
Iota (Ι)	Duke University	1981	Inactive (ca. 1984)
Kappa (Κ)	Wofford College	1989	Inactive (1996)
Lambda (Λ)	Anderson University	1991	Inactive (1992)
Mu (Μ)	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1993	Active
Nu (Ν)	State University of New York at Oswego	1994	Active
Xi (Ξ)	Saint Vincent College	1996	Inactive (2006)
Omicron (Ο)	Roanoke College	2001	Active
Pi (Π)	Rutgers University	2007	Active
Rho (Ρ)	Northern Michigan University	2008	Active
Sigma (Σ)	St. Louis University	2009	Inactive (2011)
Tau (Τ)	American University	2011	Active
Alumni Association‡	N/A	1970	Active

† Gamma Chapter was never formally designated; Percy Price died before a school could be finalized and a Charter issued, and the effort was lost. Records speculate that Gamma was going to be at The College of William and Mary but that has never been confirmed.

‡ The Mu Beta Psi Alumni Association is a separate organization, but considered an active chapter. The Alumni Association is open to alumni of all Mu Beta Psi chapters, active or otherwise.

External links

• Mu Beta Psi National Webpage
• Mu Beta Psi Alumni Association Webpage