Week 1- History of Delta Sigma Pi

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

4 Founders

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.

The Purpose of DSP

Nov. 7, 1907

Founding Date

Rose

Flower

1957

When the central office relocated?

330 South Campus Avenue, Oxford, OH

Where is the central office located today?

222 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL

Where was the first central office located?

1921

When was the standardized initiation ritual implemented?

1975

When was it unanimously decided that women would be allowed to join?

1914 in Northwestern University Night School

When and where was the beta chapter founded?

1916 in Boston University

When and where was the gamma chapter founded?

1924

When did H. G. "Gig" Wright's tenure start?

2001 & Kathy Jahnke

When was the first female Grand President Elected? What was her name?

2007 at Orlando, Florida

When & where was the centennial celebration

2013 & Onuka Ibe

When was the first African American Grand President elected? What was his name?

2019

When was the 300th chapter installed?

Deltasig

What is the shorthand for Delta Sigma Pi?

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.

Chorus of 'Rose of Deltasig'

New York University School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance

Where was the founding place of Delta Sigma Pi?

H. G. "Gig" Wright

Who established the central office and served as its executive director for 31 years?

Delta (Δ) Sigma (Σ) Pi (Π)

Greek Letters of Delta, Sigma, and Pi

Old gold & Royal Purple

Colors of Delta Sigma Pi

80 chapters

How many chapters did H.G. "Gig" Wright help establish?

29 chapters

How many chapters did H. G. "Gig" Wright establish as Grand President?

1970

When was the Theta Sigma chapter of Delta Sigma Pi established?

Theta Sigma

What is the name of the UCF chapter of Delta Sigma Pi?