Америкалық студенттік бауырластық Zeta Psi тарихы

American collegiate fraternity

Zeta Psi (ΖΨ) is a collegiate fraternity. It was founded on June 1, 1847, at New York University. The organization now has fifty three active chapters and thirty four inactive chapters, with roughly 50,000 members. Zeta Psi is a founding member of the North American Interfraternity Conference. As one of the world's oldest collegiate fraternities, Zeta Psi has historically been selective about the campuses at which it establishes chapters. The chapter at the University of California, Berkeley (June 10, 1870) made Zeta Psi the first fraternity in the U. S. west of the Mississippi. Its chapter at the University of Toronto, (March 27, 1879) was the first in Canada. The founding of the Eta chapter at Yale University (1889) briefly made it the only fraternity to have chapters at all eight Ivy League schools. The fraternity became intercontinental on May 3, 2008, with the chartering of Iota Omicron at the University of Oxford, and then with the chartering of Theta Omicron at Trinity College Dublin in 2012. Its newest chapter, Psi Omicron at the University of Paris, joined on May 18, 2019. The motto is "ΤΚΦ" in Greek, rendered in English as "Tau Kappa Phi", "TKP", or "TKPhi". Zeta Psi's headquarters is located in Pearl River, New York.

On June 1, 1847, three students at New York University, John Bradt Yates Sommers, William Henry Dayton and John Moon Skillman, formed a new Greek letter society in a New York City bungalow. The three men formed the core of the first chapter, Phi, but William Dayton was stricken with poor health and left New York shortly afterward for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dayton died within the year. The Phi chapter at NYU persisted in his absence and graduated its first member the next year with George S Woodhull (Φ '48). The second chapter was established as Zeta at Williams College in Massachusetts. The Delta chapter was founded at Rutgers University later that year

The nation was still young indeed even after the end of the Civil War: California had only recently become a State, committing to the side of the victorious Union and contributing its men––though the conflict took place mainly across the continent thousands of miles away. It was then only fitting that the Fraternities should next move to California. As pioneers in many initiatives, Zeta Psi was the first fraternity west of the Mississippi river and hence also the first to establish a chapter on the West Coast. In 1870, Zeta Psi established the Iota chapter at the University of California, Berkeley (though the Iota chapter would not be joined until 1892 by the next Western addition, the Mu chapter at Stanford University). Zeta Psi was not even content to remaining a national Fraternity, so the fraternity pressed northward into Canada. The brothers of the Xi chapter at the University of Michigan in 1879 constituted the Theta Xi chapter at the University of Toronto, making Zeta Psi the first international Fraternity. Since then, Zeta Psi has actively bolstered its Canadian presence, commissioning a director solely for Canadian chapter development and amassing a long list of successful chapters there. The end of the 19th century was fertile ground for Zeta Psi. It took root at no fewer than fourteen colleges in those latter days: Omega was founded at University of Chicago in 1864; Pi at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1865; Lambda at Bowdoin College, 1867; Beta at University of Virginia, 1868; Psi at Cornell University, 1868; Iota at UC Berkeley, 1870; Gamma, first at the US Naval Academy in 1874, and then at Syracuse College in 1875 after the government proscribed Fraternities at its military academies; Theta Xi at University of Toronto, 1879; Alpha at Columbia University, 1879; Alpha Psi at McGill University, 1883; Nu at Case Western Reserve, 1884; Eta at Yale, 1889; Mu at Stanford, 1892; Alpha Beta at University of Minnesota, 1899. The establishment of the Eta chapter at Yale marked Zeta Psi as the only fraternity to establish chapters at all eight Ivy League schools. The patron saints are as follows:

University Chapter Designation Patron Saint New York University Phi John Marshall Williams College Zeta Mark Hopkins Rutgers University Delta Benjamin Franklin University of Pennsylvania Sigma Robert Morris Colby College Chi Nelson Dingley Brown University Epsilon Roger Williams Dartmouth College Psi Epsilon Salmon P. Chase Tufts University Kappa Paul Revere Lafayette College Tau Marquis de Lafayette University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Upsilon Augustus Van Wyck University of Michigan Xi Henry Clay Bowdoin College Lambda James Bowdoin University of Virginia Beta Thomas Jefferson Cornell University Psi Theodore Roosevelt University of California, Berkeley Iota Meriwether Lewis Syracuse University Gamma Ernie Davis Columbia University Alpha Alexander Hamilton McGill University Alpha Psi James Wolfe Case Western Reserve University Nu William Henry Harrison Yale University Eta Nathan Hale Stanford University Mu Leland Stanford University of Minnesota Alpha Beta George Rogers Clark University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Alpha Epsilon Abraham Lincoln University of Wisconsin Lambda Psi James Madison University of Washington Phi Lambda George Washington University of Manitoba Pi Epsilon Lord Selkirk University of California, Los Angeles Sigma Zeta Zachary Taylor University of British Columbia Sigma Epsilon George Vancouver

First published in 1859, with two later editions in 1867 and 1883, the Catalogue of the Zeta Psi Fraternity contained names of members of the Fraternity arranged by chapters and years of initiation. In 1874, the Addenda to the Catalogue of the Zeta Psi Fraternity 1867 1874 was published to complement the 1867 edition of the Catalogue of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. In 1888, the title was changed to the Directory of the Zeta Psi Fraternity and contact information was added for members of the Fraternity. Later editions of The Directory were produced in 1889, 1893, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1916, 1922, 1926, 1932, 1953, 1987, 1992, and 1998. The Semicentennial Biographical Catalogue of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America was published in 1899. This volume contained biographies of over 4000 members of Zeta Psi from 1847 to 1900 and historical information about each chapter. The Directory continues to be published on a regular basis and the modern version is a useful networking tool for members of the Zeta Psi Fraternity.

Published in 1903, The Jubilee of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America is a record of the fiftieth anniversary of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. Likewise, The Double Diamond Jubilee of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America published in 1997 was an account of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, made to complement The Story of Zeta Psi. Both volumes include historical information on the fraternity and its chapters.

First published in June 1909, The Circle is the annual publication of the fraternity. The corresponding secretary has the duty of filing a report for The Circle every year. The Circle was preceded by other periodic publications that were unsuccessful. These publications were "The Zeta Psi Monthly" published in 1883; "The Zeta Psi Quarterly" published from 1884 to 1886; and "The Bulletin of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America" first published in 1897.

Steve Berman, who was a member of the Beta Tau chapter at Tulane University, featured the fraternity in his short story "His Mouth Will Taste of Chernobyl".