Delta Sigma Pi Professional Business Fraternity
Learn more about Delta Sigma Pi
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.
Delta Sigma Pi Atlanta Alumni Chapter
The Atlanta Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi serves the following mission: To recognize and develop a well-balanced program, therefore enriching the brotherhood and the community. We strive to focus on the fraternity and community as a whole and give everyone some of what they are looking for when they join the Atlanta Alumni Chapter.
Our History
Delta Sigma Pi was created on November 7, 1907 at New York University by Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello, Henry Albert Tienken, and Harold Valentine Jacobs.
The original idea was to form a club composed of students in the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of NYU. However, when one of the original five members dropped from the group to accept a pledge from a Greek letter organization, the remaining four opted to organize the club as a fraternity instead. It took almost two years of struggling for the organization to be officially recognized at New York University. The organization thrived as a local fraternity to a point where it was quite ready for national scope when Beta Chapter was installed in the evening division of Northwestern University in 1914, and Gamma Chapter at Boston University in 1916. The Central Office was created in 1924 and under the authority of H.G. Wright (past Grand President, current Grand Secretary-Treasurer) moved into a suite of rooms at 222 West Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois, where it remained for 30 years (29 of which were under the direction of H.G. Wright.
In the years leading up to WWII, Delta Sigma Pi grew steadily, however as the campuses were drained of potential members, the active chapter roll fell from 50 to 11. After WWII, however, the rebuilding of the Central Office and fraternity were swift and by 1950 (only four years after the war) the active chapter roll consisted of 60 chapters.
Under the leadership of J.D. Thomson (Grand Secretary-Treasurer since 1946 and slated to succeed H.G. Wright after his retirement in 1955) the Central Office was moved to its new colonial building adjacent to the Miami University Campus in Oxford, OH at 330 South Campus Avenue where it stands today.
Delta Sigma Pi continues to expand each year not only in the number of chapters and members, but also in its scope of activities and influence in the world of business.
On November 7, 1975 the Board of Directors authorized the chapters to immediately initiate qualified female business students, however it was not until 1977 in Toronto that the Grand Chapter Congress passed the ratification of coeducational membership in the Fraternity.
Shortly afterwards, in 1979 a milestone was reached with the initiation of the 100,000th member. The 150,000th member was initiated in 1991 and the 175,000th member in 1997.
In 1981 another milestone was reached with the 200th chapter being initiated into the Fraternity. Today, 171 out of 243 installed chapters nationwide are active on college campuses. And over 50 alumni chapters are functioning at some level of social and professional interaction, like yours truly…the AAC. For more information on the chapters across the country click here.
The original idea was to form a club composed of students in the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of NYU. However, when one of the original five members dropped from the group to accept a pledge from a Greek letter organization, the remaining four opted to organize the club as a fraternity instead. It took almost two years of struggling for the organization to be officially recognized at New York University. The organization thrived as a local fraternity to a point where it was quite ready for national scope when Beta Chapter was installed in the evening division of Northwestern University in 1914, and Gamma Chapter at Boston University in 1916. The Central Office was created in 1924 and under the authority of H.G. Wright (past Grand President, current Grand Secretary-Treasurer) moved into a suite of rooms at 222 West Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois, where it remained for 30 years (29 of which were under the direction of H.G. Wright.
In the years leading up to WWII, Delta Sigma Pi grew steadily, however as the campuses were drained of potential members, the active chapter roll fell from 50 to 11. After WWII, however, the rebuilding of the Central Office and fraternity were swift and by 1950 (only four years after the war) the active chapter roll consisted of 60 chapters.
Under the leadership of J.D. Thomson (Grand Secretary-Treasurer since 1946 and slated to succeed H.G. Wright after his retirement in 1955) the Central Office was moved to its new colonial building adjacent to the Miami University Campus in Oxford, OH at 330 South Campus Avenue where it stands today.
Delta Sigma Pi continues to expand each year not only in the number of chapters and members, but also in its scope of activities and influence in the world of business.
On November 7, 1975 the Board of Directors authorized the chapters to immediately initiate qualified female business students, however it was not until 1977 in Toronto that the Grand Chapter Congress passed the ratification of coeducational membership in the Fraternity.
Shortly afterwards, in 1979 a milestone was reached with the initiation of the 100,000th member. The 150,000th member was initiated in 1991 and the 175,000th member in 1997.
In 1981 another milestone was reached with the 200th chapter being initiated into the Fraternity. Today, 171 out of 243 installed chapters nationwide are active on college campuses. And over 50 alumni chapters are functioning at some level of social and professional interaction, like yours truly…the AAC. For more information on the chapters across the country click here.
