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Zeta Psi
Zeta Psi (ΖΨ) is an international collegiate fraternity. It was founded in 1847 at New York University. The fraternity has over 100 chapters, with roughly 50,000 members. Zeta Psi was 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.
On June 1, 1847, three students at New York University established Zeta Psi fraternity in a New York City bungalow. Its founders were John Bradt Yates Sommers, William Henry Dayton and John Moon Skillman. These men formed the core of the first chapter, Phi, but Dayton left New York due to poor health shortly and died within the year.
The fraternity established a second chapter, Zeta, at Williams College. The Delta chapter was founded at Rutgers University later that year. Three chapters followed in 1850: Omicron (now Omicron Epsilon) at Princeton University, Sigma at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chi at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The first Alpha chapter was founded in 1852 at Dickinson College in, but members met resistance from the administration, and the chapter became inactive in 1872.
During the Civil War, of Zeta Psi halted as campuses rallied for war and sent companies of soldiers to battle. At the outbreak of war, the Upsilon chapter at the University of North Carolina was the only chapter of in the Southern states. The Grand Chapter of Zeta Psi held a special meeting in early July 1862 where it adopted a resolution of unity: "while we many differ in political sentiment with those of our Brothers who are courageously battling for principles which they deem right, no disaster shall separate them from the union of Tau Kappa Phi."
The brothers of Upsilon replied by letter:
The tale of Brother Henry Schwerin (Θ '63) illustrates the embodiment of love even in the most trying of circumstance. Schwerin lay gravely wounded after the bloody Battle of Chattanooga; pinned on the breast of his Union uniform was the badge of Zeta Psi. A passing Confederate soldier, also a Zete, spied the badge and carried the Schwerin to medical care and safety. The badge later passed to his brother, Max Schwerin (Θ '70), who would one day serve as international president. After his death, it was donated to the fraternity's archives and remains among its treasures. Brother John Day Smith (Ε '72) witnessed the incident on the Chattanooga field and later related it to Brother Francis Lawton (Ε '69), who wrote the poem "The Badge of Zeta Psi," later set to original music.
Many chapters were inactive after the war, including Eta (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), Gamma (Georgia Military Institute), Psi Epsilon (Dartmouth), Upsilon (UNC), Epsilon (Brown), and Theta (Union). The Theta and Eta chapters ultimately recovered and reactivated.
Zeta Psi
Zeta Psi (ΖΨ) is an international collegiate fraternity. It was founded in 1847 at New York University. The fraternity has over 100 chapters, with roughly 50,000 members. Zeta Psi was 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.
On June 1, 1847, three students at New York University established Zeta Psi fraternity in a New York City bungalow. Its founders were John Bradt Yates Sommers, William Henry Dayton and John Moon Skillman. These men formed the core of the first chapter, Phi, but Dayton left New York due to poor health shortly and died within the year.
The fraternity established a second chapter, Zeta, at Williams College. The Delta chapter was founded at Rutgers University later that year. Three chapters followed in 1850: Omicron (now Omicron Epsilon) at Princeton University, Sigma at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chi at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The first Alpha chapter was founded in 1852 at Dickinson College in, but members met resistance from the administration, and the chapter became inactive in 1872.
During the Civil War, of Zeta Psi halted as campuses rallied for war and sent companies of soldiers to battle. At the outbreak of war, the Upsilon chapter at the University of North Carolina was the only chapter of in the Southern states. The Grand Chapter of Zeta Psi held a special meeting in early July 1862 where it adopted a resolution of unity: "while we many differ in political sentiment with those of our Brothers who are courageously battling for principles which they deem right, no disaster shall separate them from the union of Tau Kappa Phi."
The brothers of Upsilon replied by letter:
The tale of Brother Henry Schwerin (Θ '63) illustrates the embodiment of love even in the most trying of circumstance. Schwerin lay gravely wounded after the bloody Battle of Chattanooga; pinned on the breast of his Union uniform was the badge of Zeta Psi. A passing Confederate soldier, also a Zete, spied the badge and carried the Schwerin to medical care and safety. The badge later passed to his brother, Max Schwerin (Θ '70), who would one day serve as international president. After his death, it was donated to the fraternity's archives and remains among its treasures. Brother John Day Smith (Ε '72) witnessed the incident on the Chattanooga field and later related it to Brother Francis Lawton (Ε '69), who wrote the poem "The Badge of Zeta Psi," later set to original music.
Many chapters were inactive after the war, including Eta (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), Gamma (Georgia Military Institute), Psi Epsilon (Dartmouth), Upsilon (UNC), Epsilon (Brown), and Theta (Union). The Theta and Eta chapters ultimately recovered and reactivated.