This is the complete Chapter and Colony Roll of Psi Omega Fraternity, a professional fraternity for Dentistry. Chapters listed by order of usage by the fraternity[1] and date of founding where known; naming was not strictly by order of the Greek alphabet due to the timing of installation ceremonies, reuse of names and local preference.
Collegiate chapters
editThe collegiate chapters of Psi Omega include the following. Active chapters noted in bold, inactive chapters noted by italics.
Name | Chartered | Institution | Location | Status | Notes | Reference |
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Alpha | June 8, 1892 | Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (now U Maryland) | Baltimore, MD | Active | [2][3] | |
Beta | 1893 | New York Dentistry | New York, NY | Active | [2] | |
Gamma see Zeta |
1894 | Pennsylvania Dental College | Philadelphia, PA | Merged into Zeta (1910) | [2][4] | |
Delta | 1895, 1941 | Tufts | Boston, MA | Inactive (1938-1941, 1965) |
[2] | |
Epsilon | 1896 | Western Reserve University (now Case Western) | Cleveland, OH | Active | [2][5] | |
Zeta see Gamma |
1896 | Penn | Philadelphia, PA | Active | [2][4][6] | |
Eta | 1896 | Temple | Philadelphia, PA | Active | [2] | |
Theta | 1901 | SUNY Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | Inactive (1912) | [2] | |
Iota | 1896 | Northwestern | Chicago, IL | Inactive (2001) | [2][7] | |
Kappa | 1896, 1977(?) | Loyola | Chicago, IL | Inactive (1993) | [2][8][9][10] | |
Lambda see Zeta Kappa |
1896 | Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | Inactive (1903) restored as Zeta Kappa 1918- |
[2][11][12] | |
Mu | 1897 | Denver Dental School | Denver, CO | Inactive (1932) | [2][13] | |
Nu | 1897 | Pitt | Pittsburgh, PA | Active | [2] | |
Xi see Delta Tau |
1897 | Marquette | Milwaukee, WI | Active | [2][14] | |
Mu Delta | 1897 | Harvard | Cambridge, MA | Inactive (1965) | [2]
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Omicron | 1897 | Louisville | Louisville, KY | Active | [2] | |
Pi see Alpha |
1898 | Baltimore Medical | Baltimore, MD | Merged into Phi (1913) | [2][15]
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Beta Sigma | 1898 | San Francisco P&S (U Pacific) | San Francisco, CA | Active | [2] | |
Rho | 1899 | Ohio Dental (U Cincinnati) | Cincinnati, OH | Inactive (1926) | [2][16] | |
Sigma (original) see Zeta |
1899 | Medico-Chirurgical College (Perelman, UPenn) | Philadelphia, PA | Merged into Zeta (1917) | [2][17] | |
Tau see Gamma Tau |
1900 | Atlanta Dental | Atlanta, GA | Merged with Gamma Iota (1918) Became Gamma Tau |
[2][18] | |
Upsilon | 1900 | USC | Los Angeles, CA | Active | [2][19] | |
Phi see Alpha |
1900 | Maryland | Baltimore, MD | Merged into Alpha (1924) | [2][3][15]
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Chi | 1900 | Oregon | Portland, OR | Active | [2] | |
Psi | 1901 | Ohio-Starling Medical College (now Ohio St.) | Columbus, OH | Active | [2][14][20] | |
Omega | 1903 | Indiana Dental | Indianapolis, IN | Inactive (19xx?) | [2] | |
Beta Alpha | 1903 | Illinois | Chicago, IL | Active | [2] | |
Beta Gamma see Beta Theta |
1903 | George Washington University | Washington, DC | Merged with Beta Theta (1919) | [2][21] | |
Beta Delta | 1903 | UCSF | San Francisco, CA | Active | [2] | |
Beta Epsilon | 1903 | New Orleans Dentistry | New Orleans, LA | Inactive (1926) | [2][22] | |
Beta Zeta | 1903 | St. Louis Dental | St. Louis, MO | Inactive (1991?) | [2][23] | |
Beta Eta | 1904 | Keokuk Dental College | Keokuk, IA | Inactive (1909) | [2] | |
Beta Theta see Beta Gamma |
1904 | Georgetown | Washington, DC | Inactive (1990) | [2][21] | |
Gamma Iota see Gamma Tau |
October 25, 1904 | Atlanta Southern Dental College | Atlanta, GA | Inactive (1918) became Gamma Tau |
[2][18][24] | |
Gamma Kappa | November 17, 1905, 1958 | Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | Inactive (1936-1958), (19xx) | [2][24] | |
Gamma Lambda | April 17, 1906 | Dental and Oral Surgery, NY (now Columbia) | New York, NY | Inactive (19xx) | [2][24] | |
Gamma Mu | April 30, 1906 | Iowa | Iowa City, IA | Active | [2][24][25] | |
Gamma Nu | November 26, 1906 | Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | Inactive (1926) | [2][24][26] | |
Gamma Xi see Gamma Omicron |
1907 | University College of Medicine (now VCU Medical) | Richmond, VA | Merged with Gamma Omicron (1913) | [2][27] | |
Gamma Omicron see Gamma Xi |
1908 | Medical College of Virginia (now VCU Medical) | Richmond, VA | Active | [2][27] | |
Gamma Pi | 1909 | Washington (MO) | St. Louis, MO | Inactive (1912) | [2][23] | |
Delta Rho see Phi Rho |
1910 | Kansas City Dental (now UMKC) | Kansas City, MO | Merged with Delta Phi (1920) became Phi Rho |
[2][28] | |
Delta Tau see Xi |
1912 | Wisconsin P & S (now Marquette) | Madison, WI | Schools merged (1912) | [2][14][29] | |
Delta Upsilon | 1913 | Texas | Houston, TX | Active | [2] | |
Delta Phi see Phi Rho |
1914 | Western Dental (now UMKC) | Kansas City, MO | Merged with Delta Rho (1920) became Phi Rho |
[2][28] | |
Gamma Tau | 1918 | Emory | Atlanta, GA | Inactive (1988) | [2][18] | |
Zeta Kappa see Lambda |
1918 | Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | Active | [2][11][12] | |
Delta Chi | 1919 | Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario | Toronto, Ontario Canada |
Inactive (19xx)? | [2] | |
Delta Psi | December 7, 1920 | Baylor | Dallas, TX | Active | [2][30] | |
Phi Rho | 1920 | University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry | Kansas City, MO | Active | [2][28] | |
Delta Omega | 1921 | Loyola New Orleans (now LSU)? | Baton Rouge, LA | Inactive? (1970), or now at LSU? | [2][22] | |
Psi Alpha | 1921 | Creighton | Omaha, NE | Inactive (1935) | [2] | |
Psi Beta | 1921 | McGill University | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Inactive (1930) | [2] | |
Phi Alpha | 1924 | Maryland | Baltimore, MD | Inactive (1939) | [2][31] | |
Psi Gamma | 1926 | Tennessee | Memphis, TN | Active | [2] | |
Psi Delta | 1929 | Dalhousie | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Inactive (1932) | [2] | |
Delta Mu | 1939 | Detroit Mercy | Detroit, MI | Active | [2][32] | |
Theta Xi | 1947 | Washington | Seattle, WA | Inactive (19xx)? | [2] | |
Chi Tau | February 13, 1951 | Alabama | Birmingham, AL | Active | [2][33] | |
Chi Upsilon | 1951 | North Carolina | Chapel Hill, NC | Active | [2] | |
Sigma Eta | 1958 | New Jersey Medicine and Dentistry (now Rutgers) | Newark, NJ | Active | [2] | |
Sigma (second) | 1962 | West Virginia | Morgantown, WV | Active | [2] | |
Sigma Chi | April 6, 1973 | South Carolina | Charleston, SC | Active | [2][34] | |
Sigma Alpha | 1974 | UT San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | Active | [2] | |
Gamma Gamma | 1975 | Florida | Gainesville, FL | Active | [2] | |
Sigma Iota | 1980? | Southern Illinois | Alton, IL | Active | [35] | |
Nu Sigma | 1997 ? | Nova Southeastern | Ft. Lauderdale, FL | Active | [35] | |
Upsilon Nu | October 13, 2006 | UNLV | Las Vegas, NV | Active | [35][36] |
Alumni Chapters
editAlumni Chapters[1][24][37] of Psi Omega include:
Province 1 (western)
- Oregon Alumni Chapter - Portland, Oregon
- Seattle-Sealth Alumni Chapter - Seattle, Washington - Organized December 31, 1904
- Southern California Alumni Chapter - Los Angeles, California
- Tacoma Alumni Chapter - Tacoma, Washington
- (dormant) San Francisco Alumni Chapter - San Francisco, California
Province 2 (south)
- Arkansas State Alumni Chapter - Hot Springs, Arkansas
- Houston Alumni Chapter - Houston, Texas
- New Orleans Alumni Chapter - New Orleans, Louisiana
Province 3 (midwest)
- Chicago Alumni Chapter - Chicago, Illinois
- Cleveland Alumni Chapter - Cleveland, Ohio - Organized February 7, 1905
- Columbus Alumni Chapter - Columbus, Ohio
- Detroit Alumni Chapter - Detroit, Michigan
- Illinois Kappa Chapter Alumni Association - Chicago, Illinois
- Indiana Alumni Chapter - Indianapolis, Indiana
- Minnesota Alumni Chapter - Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Milwaukee Alumni Chapter - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Ohio State Alumni Chapter - Columbus, Ohio
- (dormant) Iowa State Alumni Chapter - Iowa City, Iowa
- (dormant) Portsmouth Alumni Chapter - Portsmouth, Ohio - Organized November 14, 1905
Province 4 (southeast)
- Alabama State Alumni Chapter - Birmingham, Alabama
- Georgia State Alumni Chapter - Atlanta, Georgia
- North Carolina State Alumni Chapter - High Point, North Carolina
- South Carolina Alumni Chapter - Charleston, South Carolina
Province 5 (northeast)
- Baltimore-Oriole Alumni Chapter - Baltimore, Maryland
- Duquesne-Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Washington D.C. Alumni Chapter - Washington, D.C.
- West Virginia Stage Alumni Chapter - Wheeling, West Virginia
- (dormant) Boston Alumni Chapter - Boston, Massachusetts
- (dormant) Buffalo Alumni Chapter - Buffalo, New York - Organized March 26, 1907
- (dormant) Connecticut State Alumni Chapter -
- (dormant) New York Alumni Chapter - New York City, New York
- (dormant) New Jersey State Alumni Chapter - Newark, New Jersey
- (dormant) Philadelphia Alumni Chapter - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
References
editAll chapter locations and designations for groups founded prior to 1976 are taken from the referenced 20th ed. of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities.[2] Additional chapter information taken from a referenced 2013 edition of the Fraternity's Frater Magazine, a publication for actives and alumni of Psi Omega Fraternity.
- ^ a b 1908-1909 issues of The Frater
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn Anson, Jack L.; Marchenasi, Robert F., eds. (1991) [1879]. Baird's Manual of American Fraternities (20th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Baird's Manual Foundation, Inc. p. V-50–51. ISBN 978-0963715906.
- ^ a b At the consolidation of their schools, the younger Phi chapter of ΨΩ merged into Alpha chapter. For a time the combined entity was called Phi-Alpha chapter. Eventually the group reverted to the name Alpha chapter.
- ^ a b Due to a merger between schools, where in 1909 the Penn Dental College consolidated its assets into the more stable University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, ΨΩ's Gamma chapter was merged into the Fraternity's Zeta chapter in 1910.
- ^ Epsilon chapter website, accessed 22 September 2014.
- ^ Zeta chapter website, accessed 22 September 2014
- ^ The dental school at Northwestern University closed in 2001.
- ^ Loyola Closing Dental School, Chicago Tribune, accessed 21 September 2014.
- ^ Dentos 1979
- ^ The dental school at Loyola of Chicago closed in 1993.
- ^ a b The Fraternity's Lambda chapter closed in 1903, and rather than restarting under that same designation, fifteen years later students established the Zeta Kappa Chapter in 1918.
- ^ a b Zeta Kappa chapter website, accessed 22 September 2014.
- ^ The Fraternity's Mu chapter closed with closure of the dental school at the University of Denver. Historical sketch Archived 2014-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 21 September 2014
- ^ a b c Baird's 20th ed. notes that the Delta Tau chapter at Wisconsin's P & S (became Marquette University) was merged into Psi chapter at Starling Ohio Medical (became Ohio State), "when the institutions were consolidated". This appears to be an error in that book. Clearly the 'Psi' was meant to be 'Xi', and that correction is reflected here.
- ^ a b Pi chapter merged into Phi chapter in 1913.
- ^ Rho chapter ceased with the closing of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1926.
- ^ Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia was absorbed by UPenn in 1916. There already being a chapter of ΨΩ at UPenn in Zeta chapter, the younger Sigma chapter was let go dormant. This chapter should not be confused with a later creation of Sigma chapter at West Virginia.
- ^ a b c Tau chapter merged with Gamma Iota chapter, and according to Baird's Manual "later" became known as Gamma Tau chapter. Emory University closed its dental school in 1988.
- ^ Upsilon chapter website Archived 2014-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 22 September 2014.
- ^ Psi chapter website, accessed 22 September 2014.
- ^ a b Beta Gamma chapter of ΨΩ merged with Beta Theta chapter in 1919. The combined group closed in 1990.
- ^ a b Beta Epsilon chapter of ΨΩ merged with Delta Omega chapter in 1926. That school, Loyola New Orleans ceased its dental program in 1970.
- ^ a b Gamma Pi chapter of ΨΩ merged into Beta Zeta chapter in 1912. Washington University closed its dental school in 1991.
- ^ a b c d e f 1907-1908 issues of The Frater
- ^ Gamma Mu chapter website Archived 2005-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 22 September 2014.
- ^ Vanderbilt's dentistry school ceased operations in 1926.
- ^ a b Gamma Xi chapter merged with Gamma Omicron chapter in 1913.
- ^ a b c Delta Rho chapter and Delta Phi chapter merged in 1920, later calling themselves the Phi Rho chapter of ΨΩ.
- ^ The merger captured the Wisconsin P & S dental school from the Medical College of Wisconsin for Marquette University; later, Medical College of Wisconsin adherents abandoned further merger activity and remained separate from Marquette.
- ^ 1934 Baylor Roundup Yearbook
- ^ Why didn't this chapter merge into Alpha chapter?
- ^ Delta Mu chapter website Archived 2014-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 22 September 2014.
- ^ UAB - Archives - UAB History
- ^ College of Dental Medicine Student Organizations Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Spring 2013 issue of The Frater, a magazine for members of ΨΩ, accessed 21 September 2014.
- ^ UNLV Psi Omega - About Us
- ^ The Frater, Spring 2014 ed. Archived 2014-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 23 Sept 2014