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Delta Kappa Epsilon
(ΔΚΕ)
Founded June 22, 1844 (1844-06-22) (age 163)
No. Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Year 1844 ( MDCCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year 12 Old South Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Type Social
Scope United States, Canada
Motto Kerothen Philoi Aei

"Friends From The Heart Forever"
Colors Gules (Crimson), Azure (Blue), Or (Gold)
Symbol Rampant Lion
Flower None
Chapters 52 active
Headquarters P. Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. O. Box 8360
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Homepage http://www.dke.org

Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ; also pronounced D-K-E or "Deke") was founded at Yale College in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class who, upon hearing that some but not all of them had been invited to join the two existing societies (Alpha Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon), instead elected to form their own fraternity. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887 The Split Since the 1992 split the Fraternity and the Society are completely separate and independent legal entities with separate governing bodies and are not separate or parallel Fraternity Origin In the 18th and 19th centuries college extracurricular activities were primarily intellectual exercises in the form of literary debates readings and oratorical These men sought to establish a fellowship "where the candidate most favored was he who combined in the most equal proportions the gentleman, the scholar, and the jolly good fellow. The term gentleman (from Latin gentilis, belonging to a race or "gens" and "man" Cognate with the French word gentilhomme Scholarly method &mdash or as it is more commonly called scholarship &mdash is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as " For He's A Jolly Good Fellow " is a British and American Song which is sung to congratulate a person on a significant event such as a Retirement "

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Founding and history

Original version of the ΔΚΕ coat of arms
Original version of the ΔΚΕ coat of arms

In the spring of 1844, due to undergraduate politics and a division in the Sophomore class, a number of men of high character and scholastic attainment did not receive bids from the two societies--Alpha Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon. The Split Since the 1992 split the Fraternity and the Society are completely separate and independent legal entities with separate governing bodies and are not separate or parallel Fraternity Origin In the 18th and 19th centuries college extracurricular activities were primarily intellectual exercises in the form of literary debates readings and oratorical So unfair, in fact, were the selections that some men who did receive bids promptly rejected them. There arose a feeling of such injustice that fifteen men resolved to form their own society, one which would be more fraternal in nature and less restricted to the limited (and, as they saw it, unfair) membership criteria of their rivals.

This new society was founded June 22, 1844, in room number 12 Old South Hall, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut. Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Year 1844 ( MDCCCXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. At this meeting, the Fraternity's secret and open Greek mottos were devised. The open motto is "Kerothen Philoi Aei" ("Friends from the Heart, Forever"). The pin and secret handshake were also devised. The DKE pin shows the Greek letters DΚΕ on a white scroll upon a black diamond with gold rope trim and a star in each corner. DKE's heraldic colours are azure (blue), or (gold), and gules (crimson) and its flag is a triband of those colours with a left-facing rampant lion in the middle.

The fifteen founders were: William Woodruff Atwater, Dr. Edward Griffin Bartlett, Frederic Peter Bellinger, Jr. , Henry Case, Colonel George Foote Chester, John Butler Coyngham, Thomas Isaac Franklin, William Walter Horton, The Honorable William Boyd Jacobs, Professor Edward Van Schoonhoven Kingsley, Chester Newell Righter, Dr. Elisha Bacon Shapleigh, Thomas Du Bois Sherwood, Orson William Stow, and Albert Everett Stetson.

This first Chapter was denoted Phi chapter and is the only fraternity at Yale that has never gone inactive. It also holds the distinction of being the longest uninterrupted chapter of DKE.

Within three years of the founding at Yale, chapters were founded at Bowdoin, Princeton University, Colby College, and Amherst College. Bowdoin College, founded in 1794 is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Colby College, founded in 1813, is an American private liberal arts college located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville Maine. Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Since that time, DKE has grown to over 64 chapters and has initiated over 85,000 members across North America.

DKE is inextricably linked to the history of the United States of America, as its members have included five of forty-three Presidents of the United States: Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4 1822 January 17 1893 was an American politician, lawyer, military leader and the nineteenth Theodore Roosevelt (ˈroʊzəvɛlt October 27 1858 January 6 1919 also known as T Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. Another way to look at this impact, is that five of the most recent 25 US Presidents (20%) were Dekes (at the time of George W. Bush's election).

Some might argue that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be the 6th US President that was a DKE. FDR was a member of the Alpha Chapter of DKE at Harvard, also known as the "Dickey Club. " However the Alpha Chapter derecognized by DKE International due to the chapter's stance on dual membership with other fraternities. Here is a detailed explanation of Harvard's complex club system: The Porcellian was the loftiest of Harvard's "final" clubs. The selection process was rigidly hierarchical. First you had to get into the Institute of 1770, the oldest and largest club. If you were among the first 70 or 80 of the 100 sophomores accepted, you were taken into Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ("the Dickey"). Then you might join a "waiting" club, and at last a final club like Porcellian or A. D. Your chances improved if you were a "legacy," i. e. , related to a member.

During the Civil War, the first Union officer killed in battle was a Deke, Theodore Winthrop of Phi. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty-three Six weeks after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Philip Spence of Zeta commanded Confederate troops in their last organized battle of the war. The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and CSA) formed as the government set up from 1861

In the election of 1876, the Republican Party chose between two Dekes, nominating Hayes rather than rival and fellow DKE James G. Blaine, who later served two administrations as Secretary of State and who authored the Fourteenth Amendment; Blaine also ran unsuccessfully for President. Please DO NOT flip the colors --> The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed and intense presidential elections in American history James Gillespie Blaine ( January 31, 1830 &ndash January 27, 1893) was a U The United States Secretary of State (commonly abbreviated as SecState) is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with Foreign affairs The Fourteenth Amendment ( Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution is one of the post- Civil War Reconstruction Amendments, first

Flag of ΔΚΕ
Flag of ΔΚΕ

During the Spanish-American War, the first American officer to be killed was a Deke, Surgeon John B. Gibbs (Rutgers), and his brother in DKE J. Frank Aldritch (DePauw) died when the USS Maine was sunk. "The Maine" redirects here For the pop punk band see The Maine (band. In this same war, Deke Theodore Roosevelt distinguished himself and started on his path to the Presidency.

The fraternity's membership has also included dozens of American and Canadian politicians, businessmen, sports figures, and artists who have achieved iconic status, including among many others J.P. Morgan, Jr., William Randolph Hearst, Cole Porter, Henry Cabot Lodge, Dick Clark, Tom Landry, and George Steinbrenner. John Pierpont ("Jack" Morgan Jr ( September 7, 1867 — March 13, 1943) was an American banker and Philanthropist For other people named William Randolph Hearst see William Randolph Hearst (disambiguation William Randolph Hearst I (April 29 1863 &ndash Cole Albert Porter (June 9 1891 &ndash October 15 1964 was an American Composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana. This article is about Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924 a US politician in the early twentieth century Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an American Television, Radio personality, Game show host Thomas Wade Landry ( September 11, 1924 – February 12, 2000) was an American football player and coach George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930 in Rocky River Ohio) is an American Billionaire businessman and the principal Deke flags have been carried to the North Pole by its discoverer, Admiral Robert Peary (Theta), and to the Moon by astronaut Alan Bean (Omega Chi). The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is subject to the caveats explained below defined as the point in the northern Robert Edwin Peary ( May 6, 1856 &ndash February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed Alan LaVern Bean (born March 15 1932 is a former NASA Astronaut and became the fourth person to walk on the moon at the age of thirty-seven years in November

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Pin of ΔΚΕ

Delta Kappa Epsilon administers a charitable organization called the Rampant Lion Foundation. As well, DKE has championed an organization call ROAR, which stands for Restore Our Associational Rights. Restore Our Associational Rights Inc ( ROAR) was an Organization formed by United States College fraternities to pursue Legislation ROAR campaigns for the freedom of fraternities and Greek organizations in general to operate without interference and discrimination from university administrations or others.

Additional historical facts

Traditionally an Eastern Seaboard fraternity, DKE's Yale chapter had an early reputation as a Southerner's fraternity. Many wealthy plantation owners sent their sons to Yale where they joined DKE. Two of the original founders were from the South and 13 out of 38 members of 1845 and 1846 were from the South. DKE's first chapter in the South was Gamma chapter founded in 1847 (Vanderbilt University) followed by Psi chapter at the University of Alabama in the same year.

Delta Kappa Epsilon's first West Coast chapter was founded at the University of California, Berkeley on Halloween night, 1876. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley DKE is the fourth fraternity at the prestigious institution. Their rival, Stanford University, followed suit in 1901. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in

Delta Kappa Epsilon became an international fraternity with the addition of the Alpha Phi chapter in 1898 at the University of Toronto, Canada.

DKE is the only fraternity that has a club in New York. The DKE Club of New York was founded in 1885 and is currently in residence at the Yale Club of New York City. The Yale Club of New York City, commonly called the Yale Club, is a prominent private club in Midtown Manhattan, New York City The club is a rare survivor of the fraternity clubs that once proliferated at the turn of the century and then folded.

The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded in 1855 when twelve members of the Miami University chapter of DKE (Kappa Chapter) split evenly over a debate on the office of Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society. Sigma Chi ( ΣΧ) is one of the largest and oldest all-male college Greek-letter social fraternities and a Secret society. Six Deke members, led by Benjamin Piatt Runkle, rescinded their membership and later founded Sigma Chi because they refused to vote for a brother Deke simply because he was a Deke. Benjamin Piatt Runkle, ( September 3, 1836 &ndash June 28, 1916) was one of the original seven founders of Sigma Chi fraternity The leader of the "loyal" Dekes was future Ambassador Whitelaw Reid. Whitelaw Reid ( October 27, 1837 &ndash December 15, 1912) was a U Frank Baird, a "loyal" Deke, had a hand in creating the Sigma Chi "White Cross" badge along with the founders of Sigma Chi. He was known as an artist on campus and assisted his former Deke brothers.

Reportedly, the past president of Yale's DKE chapter is guaranteed to be one of the 15 juniors tapped to form the Yale's Skull and Bones senior secret society. Skull and Bones is an elite Secret society based at Yale University, in New Haven Connecticut.

Alumni

DKE counts many political, business, sports, education, science, and arts leaders. Listed is a sample of some famous Dekes.

Presidents of the United States

Vice Presidents of the United States

Justices of the United States Supreme Court

Newspaper publishers and editors

Agency heads

Businessmen

Political figures

Sports and entertainment

James Russell - Tau - 3x NESCAC Pole Vault Champion

Matt Stover -Alpha Omega - Kicker, Baltimore Ravens - 2nd most accurate in NFL history (83. Robert Bacon ( July 5, 1860 &ndash May 29, 1919) was an American statesman and diplomat 8%)

Other famous Dekes


For a more complete listing of prominent Dekes visit: Prominent Alumni

Chapters

Main article: List of Delta Kappa Epsilon Chapters

External links and references

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