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Sigma Lambda Pi (ΣΛΠ) was an officially non-sectarian and historically Jewish fraternity founded in 1915 at New York University. It stopped operations in 1932 as chapters either closed, became locals or merged with Phi Epsilon Pi.[1]
Sigma Lambda Pi was established in April 1915 at New York.[2] Its founders were Herbert J. Roeder, Mathew W. Sherman, Abraham Weinberg, and Milton R. Weinberger.[2] It was a Jewish emphasis fraternity but was incorporated in New York as a non-sectarian organization.[2]
In 1932 the fraternity disintegrated.[3] The chapters at Boston, Muhlenberg, and Ohio State joined Phi Epsilon Pi. The Baird's archive explains that at the time, these were the last three active chapters.[3] The Columbia chapter dissolved[3] The branch at Rider College became a local, being allowed to retain the name Sigma Lambda Pi.[3] Later, the Rider chapter granted a charter to the Bryant and Stratton Commercial College in Providence, Rhode Island.[3]
The badge of Sigma Lambda Pi was in the shape of an arch with a crown surmounting it.[2] The arch had seven pearls, the crown ten pearls, and there was a sapphire at the top.[2] The badge's exposed gold was nugget finished, and the letters were gold on a background of gold.[2] The fraternity's colors were sapphire blue and gold.[2] Its motto was "Dum Vivimus Fratres Vivamus" whose English translation is "while we live, let us live as brothers".[2] Its flower was the Carnation.[4]
^This chapter had its origin in the Rho Club (local), which had formed in 1926.
^Chapter was formed from Sigma Phi Beta (local). This chapter reverted to local status when the fraternity dissoleve and became Zeta Beta Tau in 1957.
^This chapter switched to local status under the name Sigma Lambda Pi, and later became a chapter of Tau Epsilon Phi. ΤΕΦ's chapter list notes its Sigma Lambda chapter at Bryant College (predecessor school name) chartered in 1967, thus the local lasted for several decades.
^ abcdefRobson, John, ed. (1963). Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (17th ed.). Menasha, Wisconsin: The Collegiate Press, George Banta Company, Inc. pp. 731.
