The Oracle: Phi Mu Delta's Membership Manual

went on to become the founding
Connecticut
Chapter designations were determined by a
chapters.
drew the number two ticket and became
Hampshire
Beta, and Vermont became Nu Gamma. The Nu
Nu
efforts were conservative at first with our
Expansion
new chapter at Northwestern University (Gamma
first
in 1921. Chapters at the University of Michigan
Alpha)
Beta) and M.I.T. (Nu Delta) soon followed this
(Gamma
decade ended with the additions of the Nu Eta Chapter at Rhode Island State College
The
the University of Rhode Island) in Kingston, Rhode Island, and Nu Theta Chapter at
(now
Pi in 1934, acquiring one chapter at NYU
Alpha
merging with our chapters at Ohio State and
and
War Years and Thereafter: 1940-1950
The
war was especially tough on Phi Mu Delta.
The
Mu Deltas took part in the war effort, and
Phi
90 made the ultimate sacrifice. Nu Alpha
about
not survive the war and to this day has
did
closed. Phi Mu Delta did not add any
remained
THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL FRATERNITY OF PHI MU DELTA
The Beginning: 1918-1920
The formation of the new fraternity was met with some early resistance when the alumni
the Union chapter refused to join Phi Mu Delta. So,
of
Universities of Vermont, New Hampshire, and
the
The Connecticut chapter drew number one,
lottery.
therefore became the Nu Alpha chapter, New
and
was determined by the location of the chapter,
prefix
this case the New England Region.
in
Years of Growth: 1920-1940
in 1922. Mu Alpha at Susquehanna University was our
expansion into the Mid-Atlantic Region, and Pi Alpha at the University of California,
first
(now Berkeley), was our first Pacific Region expansion.
Oakland
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. In addition, we merged with Delta
the University of Illinois.
many PMDs enlisted and fought in the war,
While
chapters crumbled away. As many as 800
their
new chapters during this period.
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