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News of Bygone Days

125 YEARS AGO
1883
By 1883 there had been eight chapters chartered; Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta and Theta, but only two remained active at this time – Alpha and Theta.

100 YEARS AGO
1908
Reported in the October 1908 Shield & Diamond:
There is no department of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity which is of such vital importance as the department of the alumni. At the last convention held in Richmond in May, 1907, this cause found many supporters, and much time and attention was given to it. As a result of this convention, a Committee on Alumni was formed, whose aim this is to arouse enthusiasm, and to keep alive, among its alumni, the fraternity spirit.

75 YEARS AGO
1933
The delegates went home from the 1933 Troutdale Convention aware that the Grand Old Man had resigned, that the Fraternity was being reorganized and that the Depression, which had begun in 1929, was still very much with them. Chapters had already felt the chilling hand of that financial disaster. Membership had declined as fewer students were able to join Pi Kappa Alpha each successive year since 1931. By 1933, however, even the number of young people attending colleges had declined so much that schools were closing.

50 YEARS AGO
1958
Important legislative actions in the 1958 Convention: National scholarship regulations adopted; defeated a motion for an additional pledge fee of $15.00 for scholastically ineligible pledges; grounds for expulsion specified; provided that hazing violations be reported directly to the National Office; granted to National Conventions the authority to charter chapters and alumni associations; qualified the status of married members; changed the title of National Expansion Director to Director of University Relations; directed the Supreme Council to meet on the odd years between Conventions at the National Headquarters; revised expansion procedure.

25 YEARS AGO
1983
Outstanding…motivational…educational…professional. Such are the adjectives used by over 250 participating undergraduates and alumni to describe the 1983 Officers’ Academy which was held August 10-14 on the campus of Southwestern-at-Memphis.

 

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