Delta Sigma Pi: History, Structure, and Key Facts for Members

Purpose of Delta Sigma Pi

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, and to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students.

Type of fraternity

Professional

National Interfraternity Association membership

The Professional Fraternity Association

Date and place of founding

November 7, 1907 at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University, New York, NY.

Four founders of Delta Sigma Pi

Harold Valentine Jacobs, Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello, Henry Albert Tienken

Founder pictured in profile and why

Alexander Frank Makay, because he got in a bar fight with an AKPsi member and got a black eye.

Correct abbreviation for a member

Deltasig.

Supreme governing body

The Grand Chapter

Next Grand Chapter Congress

August 11-15, 2027 in New Orleans, LA.

Current Grand President

Erica Kolsrud

Past Grand President

Paul Carpinella

Vice President of Finance

Jerry Hotwagner

Executive Director

Jeremy Levine

Province and Region

Northeastern Province, New England Region

Provincial and Regional VPs

Stacy Jordan (Provincial), Kelsie McAllister (Regional)

District Director for Theta Iota

Christopher Doto

Chapter Advisor

Mark Spurling

Role and election of Chapter Advisor

Must be faculty or administration, elected by chapter majority vote.

Five Deltasig faculty members

Mark Spurling, Joseph Golec, John D. Phillips, Robin Coulter, Lawrence Gramling

Description of the pledge pin

A true Greek letter Delta containing a crown of gold in a red field.

Risk Management categories

Alcohol and Drugs, Hazing, Discrimination and Harassment, Chapter Houses and Meeting Facilities, and Fraternity events.

Definition of a fraternity event

Any activity sponsored or endorsed by the chapter, or any event a reasonable person would associate with the Fraternity.

To whom do risk policies apply

Collegiate, alumni, and faculty members, pledges, colony members, and employees.

Central Office vs Board of Directors

Central Office is paid full-time staff, Board of Directors are elected unpaid volunteers.

Founder of the Central Office

H. G. "Gig" Wright

Location of Central Office

Oxford, Ohio

LEAD School vs LEAD Provincial Conference

LEAD Schools are one-day fall training events, Provincial Conferences are three-day spring events with banquets and meetings.

Chapter Management Program (CMP)

Online formal communication between collegiate chapters and the national Fraternity.

Three levels of CMP

Accredited Chapter, Chapter of Recognition, and Chapter of Excellence

Official colors

Old gold and royal purple

Official flower

Red Rose

Rival fraternity

AKPsi (Alpha Kappa Psi)

Theta Iota number 1

Paul W. Speltz

First woman in Theta Iota

Maureen Mahoney (1975, Treasurer)

Total initiates in Theta Iota

1792

Scholarship Key recipient

Graduating senior with the highest GPA in business or economics regardless of affiliation.

Mission of the Leadership Foundation

To financially support educational and charitable programs for members to achieve excellence.

Theta Iota founding date

March 8, 1970

Active collegiate and alumni chapters

232 active collegiate, approx. 62 active alumni

Total initiates since founding

Over 295,000

Your Big and their number

Thanh Bao, 1744

Chorus of Rose of Deltasig

Rose of Deltasig I love you, Rose of Delta Sigma Pi, When the shades of night are falling I dream of days gone by, As I go thru life's long journey, Memories will never die, I will always hear you calling, Rose of Delta Sigma Pi.