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Chapter Facts:
• Initiated Betas: 206
• Active Brothers: 39
• GPA: 3.07
• Two major philanthropy events each year cosponsored with a prominent sorority
• Alumni: From California to Texas to Florida we have alumni working for many prestigious companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PaineWebber, ABC-TV, American Express, even the New York Police Department and the US Army
Beta Quick Facts:
• Initiated Betas: 165,000
• Living Betas: 114,000
• Undergraduate membership with pledges: 6,200
• Chapters/Colonies: 135
• Scholarships awarded by Beta Theta Pi Foundation last year: 83
Office: Oxford, Ohio. Completed October 1994. 17,000 sq. ft.; occupied by 30 full and part-time staff, including education consultants. Cost $2.9 million, including eight acres of land, building, furnishings and equipment.
Beta Firsts:
• First college fraternity founded west of the Allegheny Mountains (August 8, 1839)
• First and oldest continuously published college fraternity magazine (1872)
• First college fraternity to publish an open constitution for public distribution (1879)
• First fraternity in 13 states — more than any other fraternity.
• First fraternity established on more than 35 campuses — more than any other fraternity
• First fraternity to establish a chapter west of the Mississippi River (1866)
• First fraternity to adopt an expansion view
• First to break into districts for administrative purposes (1873)
• First fraternity to have general officers (1872)
• First fraternity to create alumni chapters (1867)
• First fraternity to have a General Convention and one of few to have annual Conventions
• First to host an interfraternity event and meeting
• First to require chapters to keep informed about each other
• First fraternity to adopt a 2.5 minimum GPA for a chapter (1984)
• First fraternity to adopt a 2.5 minimum GPA for each member (1997)
Other Facts
• A leader among college fraternities with members listed in Who’s Who in America and Canadian Who’s Who — more than any other fraternity
• There was a Beta on the Supreme Court from 1877 to 1975, including the late Justice William O. Douglas, Whitman ’20. In 1911 there were four members who were Betas. Between 1881-1889 three members of the court were Betas.
• More than 80 Rhodes Scholars — more than any other fraternity
• More than 197 have been members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives — more than any other fraternity
• Twenty-three states have had a Beta as Governor
• Six Betas have won the Medal of Honor
• Nearly 165,000 initiated members; almost 114,000 living members; approximately 6,200 undergraduate members on 141 campuses in the United States and Canada
• 100 alumni associations in cities throughout the United States and Canada
• Beta Theta Pi Leadership-Scholarship Awards total more than $90,000 annually for ndergraduates and graduate members
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