History of Delta Sigma Pi

 

Delta Sigma Pi was founded in 1907 at New York University: School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance by Harold Valentine Jacobs, Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello an Henry Albert Tienken.  Currently there are more than 250 chapters and over 205,000 members have been initiated to date

 

Purpose

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 through 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.

 

Abbreviated Time Line

1907, November 7th - Delta Sigma Pi founded at NYU

1914 - Second Chapter founded at Northwestern University

1925, May 9th - Alpha Lambda chapter founded at UNC Chapel Hill

1928 - Delta Sigma Pi becomes a charter member of the Professional Fraternity Association

1953 - Central Office moved to Oxford, OH

1956 - First international chapter opens in Mexico City College

1975, November 7 - Delta Sigma Pi becomes a co-ed fraternity

1979 - 100,000th member initiated

2003 - 200,000th member initiated