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| Are Members of Phi Sigma Pi permitted to have dual or multiple memberships in other Greek letter or academic organizations? Yes/No, and Explain the reason why: |
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| Yes, membership in either a Greek social organization or academic society does not prevent prospective individuals from joining Phi Sigma Pi. Brothers are also permitted to join either of the above. |
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“Hazing shall be defined as, but not limited to, any action taken or situation
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| What is the supreme legislative body of the National Fraternity |
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| Phi Sigma Pi’s legislative body is composed of |
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| Grand Chapter consists of National Council; delegates of Collegiate and Alumni Chapters and NAA |
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| What is the executive and administrative body of the National Fraternity |
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| The above executive and administrative body is composed of |
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| National President; Senior Vice-President; National Secretary; VP of Finance; VP of Chapter Dvlpmnt; VP of Membership Dvlpmnt; VP of Alumni Dvlpmnt AND VP of Philanthropy |
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| What is the name of Phi Sigma Pi’s National philanthropy? |
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| What is the organizational purpose of Phi Sigma Pi’s National philanthropy? |
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| Organization dedicated to eliminating educational inequity in the public school system. Recruits college graduates to teach in underserved schools across the U.S to provide greater educational opportunities. |
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| What is The Phi Sigma Pi Foundation? |
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| Charitable foundation created to help collect and distribute funds in support of the programs and goals of Phi Sigma Pi. Members are individuals and alumni who have made significant financial contributions to the Fraternity. |
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| What is the purpose of holding a Grand Chapter Conference? |
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| Grand Chapter Conference is held to conduct business. Delegates attend to discuss the relevant issues facing the organization. Amendments to the National Constitution and the election of the National Council take place during Grand Chapter business. |
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| Recruits, Trains and supervises Phi Sigma Pi Region Consultants; develops membership materials and resources for chapters |
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| Director of Member Services |
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Oversees the day-to-day operations of Phi Sigma Pi and serves as liaison between
National Council and National Office personnel |
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| Cultivates relationships with prospective universities and interested students to establish Phi Sigma Pi colonies which when activated become Phi Sigma Pi chapters |
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| Leads the Risk Management Education/Training and enhancement of Regional Conference planning and execution |
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| Assistant Director of Member Services |
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| Coordinates annual giving and cultivates lifetime Member relationships; serves as editor of the The Purple & Gold/The Lampadion and monthly e-newsletters and as staff liaison to The Phi Sigma Pi Foundation |
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| Director of Publications and Alumni |
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| Responsible for developing and managing the Fraternity's leadership programs; and serves as staff liaison to Teach For America |
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| Director of Leadership Advancement |
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| Advises chapters assigned to her/him on all aspects of management issues; recruitment; educational resources; programming and development |
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| Ensures that accurate records are kept at all National meetings |
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| Oversees the development of alumni resources and benefits; assists chapters and associations in improving and enhancing alumni relations |
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| Serves as the parliamentarian at all National meetings |
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| Serves as official ambassador and representative of Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity |
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| Guides the Fraternity fiscally and develops an annual budget with the Executive Director |
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| Develops programs to foster communication between chapters and improve regional collaboration among chapters |
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| VP of Chapter Development |
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| Responsible for leading and developing our National philanthropic efforts with our National Philanthropy, Teach For America |
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| improves and develops resources to ensure Initiation programs produce strong and dedicated Brothers |
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| VP of Membership Development |
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| What is your Chapter’s Greek letter name? |
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| he names of the two fraternal songs are |
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| Brothers Are We and Brother |
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| Who wrote the music and lyrics of Brothers are We |
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| Charles Darrin and Edward Ingraham |
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| Who wrote the music and lyrics to Brother |
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| What is the membership certificate called |
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| Whose signatures are located on the certificate |
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| National President and National Secretary |
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| What is the only means by which an individual may become a member of Phi Sigma Pi? |
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| Through the use of the Ritual |
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| What are the fraternity colors? |
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| What is the auxiliary color |
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| What is located at the bottom of the coat of arms |
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| Banner with the Greek words for Phi Sigma Pi |
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| What is located at the top of the coat of arms |
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| Please describe what objects appear on the center part of the coat of arms? |
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| An open book with staff laid across it on a field of purple; 3 stars laid diagonally; clasped links on a field of gold |
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| Fraternal orders existed as early as: |
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| What was the first Greek letter organization to be established in the United States? |
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| Name one of the two earliest Greek letter organizations for women |
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| Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma |
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| State colleges and universities were once know as and referred to as: |
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| Normal and Teacher's colleges |
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| From which Greek letter organization did several of the original members of Phi Sigma Pi belong to? |
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| Phi Sigma Pi was established at which institution? (original name) |
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| State Teacher's College at Warrensburg Missouri |
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| What is State Teacher's College at Warrensburg Missouri's current name? |
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| University of Central Missouri |
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| What date is Phi Sigma Pi's founding? |
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| Name the three founders of Phi Sigma Pi: |
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| Eldo L. Hendricks, C.H. McClure, and Claude A. Phillips |
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| The founders of our fraternity decided that Phi Sigma Pi would not only stress _______, _________, _________, but do so in a concept of an equal _________ dedicated to these three ideals. |
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| Scholarship, Leadership, Fellowship; Tripod |
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| In what year did Phi Sigma Pi become a "National" Fraternity? |
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| At which school was the second chapter established? |
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| Bradley Polytechnic Institute |
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| The first national publication for all Members (undergraduate and alumni) was called __________. It was later renamed ____________ which means ____________. |
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| Phi Sigma Pi Newsletter, The Lampadion, little torch |
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| What is the reasoning of those who opposed he merger of Phi Sigma Pi with Kappa Phi Kappa fraternity? |
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| Members felt the merger would unnecessarily change the identity of PSP |
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| Why was the 1940 Purple and Gold newsletter established? |
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| To maintain closer contact between the chapters and national office |
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| True or False: The information published in either the collegiate newsletter and alumni magazine is confidential and not to be shared with non-members. |
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| Who was the Brother credited with creating the first membership handbook for Phi Sigma Pi? |
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| What events in the mid 20th century slowed the momentum and growth of Phi Sigma Pi had been experiencing in its early years? |
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| World War II, The Great Depression |
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| In What year did Phi Sigma Pi Fraternity become Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity? |
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| What was the dilemma facing Phi Sigma Pi with the passage of Title IX? |
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| Phi Sigma Pi's status as a men;s only organization was seen as discriminatory to the future career opportunities of women, and would have to become co-educational since the organization was not solely a Greek social fraternity, but an honor fraternity. |
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| What action was required for Phi Sigma Pi to allow women to be inducted as members? |
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| Amendment to the Phi Sigma Pi constitution by the Grand Chapter |
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| Phi Sigma Pi's first scholarship was established by ________ to promote the future academic opportunities of Brothers who ________________. |
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| Dr. Richard C. Todd and Clauda Pennock Todd; embody the ideals of scholarship, leadership, and fellowship |
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| ______________ is the name of the monetary fund used to assist Brothers in need of financial support due to medical illness, personal loss or other catastrophic hardships? The meaning of the fund's name translates to ______________. |
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| The Subrosa Fund; under the rose |
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| Briefly describe the purpose of our National Philanthropy Teach for America |
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| Organization dedicated to eliminating educational inequity in the public school system. Recruits college graduates to teach in underserved schools across the U.S. to provide greater educational opportunities. |
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| Historical documents uncovered by Kappa chapter and the National Office in 2008 revealed that this woman was inducted as a member of Phi Sigma Pi in 1945, 32 years prior to the passage of Title IX. |
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| A Brother of Alpha chapter, she was the first woman to be inducted as a collegiate member. |
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| She was the first woman to be inducted as an honorary Brother following Title IX: |
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| A Brother of Alpha Epsilon Chapter, she served as National Secretary and Interim Vice President of Chapter Development in addition to being the first woman elected to serve as National President. |
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| Inducted as an honorary Brother by Alpha Alpha Chapter, she was the first woman to be elected to the National Council in the position of National Historian |
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| A Founder, he was President of State Teacher's College- Warrensburg. Also known as "Alpha 1" he served as Central Regional Director for several years. our National award recognizing excellence in educational cultural and leadership programming is named in his honor |
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| A Founder, he headed the History Department at State Teacher's College- Warrensburg. Served as both National Counselor and Vice President and was responsible for the founding of Beta Chapter. Awarded the first Distinguished Service Key for his many contributions, our outstanding service project award is named after him |
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| Elected as President in 1928, he is credited with galvanizing the National Officers into a cohesive unit; promoting Phi Sigma Pi nationally; and bringing Phi Sigma Pi into the Professional Interfraternity Conference, now known as the Professional Fraternity Association. A graduate scholarship is awarded in his name annually. |
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| Respectively elected as President and National Secretary in 1930, their tenure saw the number of chapters double in size from seven to fifteen, eight of which were at Pennsylvania schools |
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| Walter P. Percival and Clarence O. Williams |
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| They wrote the words and music to Brothers are we, in collaboration with the Music Department of Mansfield State Teacher's College, now known as Mansfield University of Pennsylvania ( Theta Chapter) |
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| Edward Ingraham and Charles Darrin |
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| An associate Professor of Education at Millersville University, his alma mater, for the majority of his professional career. He served as national Secretary/ Treasurer for nearly twenty years. he was honored for his contributions as a Brother over the course of four decades with the renaming of the Outstanding Chapter Award |
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| Known for devotion to the Fraternity as well as his many students at East Carolina University and Millersville university of Pennsylvania, where he taught history, he holds the distinction of serving in five positions over the course of 25 plus years; longer than any other Brother in the Fraternity's history |
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| One of many National leaders that emerged in the 1980s to help the Fraternity grow, he served as National Secretary/ Treasurer; VP of Membership Development and National President. A National award recognizing administrative excellence is named in his honor. |
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| Under his leadership and vision, the National organization nearly tripled in size; evolved to include a full-time professional staff; and eventually, the building of a permanent national Headquarters. An award for interchapter fellowship was named in his honor to recognize his efforts to help build and strengthen the Fraternity Nationally |
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| A Brother of Tau Chapter, he was the first recipient of the Todd Tripod Scholarship. He served as Vice President of Membership Development and Vice President of Alumni Development and continues to serve as faculty member and chapter adviser at East Carolina University |
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| An alumnus of Alpha Rho Chapter, he wrote the music and words Brother in 1996. Having been invited to perform and share the song at multiple chapter events, the Grand Chapter chose to designate it an official fraternal song in 2001 |
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| The Phi Sigma Pi Foundation was created by this former National Council Member and Alpha Phi alumna in 2004. she was the first President of the Board of Directors of the Foundation |
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| The highest honor an individual Brother in Phi Sigma Pi may receive is __________________, which is bestowed by the unanimous vote of the National Council for outstanding service to the National Fraternity. |
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| Matthew "Fresh" Nicholetta |
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| VP of Membership Development |
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| VP of Chapter Development |
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| VP of Philanthropy Development |
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| Give the Greek names of the Chapters in your Region, along withe the universities/ colleges where they are located. |
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Alpha Pi- Pennsylvania State University
Alpha Zeta- York College of Pennsylvania
Beta Eta- Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Iota- Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Omicron- Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Sigma- Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Theta- Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
Zeta Beta- Franklin and Marshall College |
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| What is the name of your region? |
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| Central Pennsylvania Region |
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| What is the name of book that Phi Sigma Pi Chapters, The Grand Chapter, and National Council use to run business meetings? |
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| The purpose for using parliamentary procedures to run a chapter meeting is to |
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| help the meeting run more efficiently |
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| How do you make a motion? |
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| "Call question" or "Move to previous question" (when appropriate) |
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| What does it mean to vote by consent? |
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| Nobody voiced objections-reemained silent |
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| How do you end the meeting? |
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| "I move to adjourn the meeting." |
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| Describe two of the ways to become an alumnus/a |
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| Describe two ways in which alumni can remain involved after college |
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| become a member of the National Council or a member of the National Alumni Association, Financial Support; Attend National Events; Apply to be a Regional Consultant |
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| Name the alumni Chapter and/or association in closest proximity to your Chapter |
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| Delaware Valley Alumni Chapter |
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Phi Sigma Pi shall be an honor Fraternity for students in four-year collegiate institutions and Phi Sigma Pi alumni, founded upon a basis of ____________ with the avowed purpose of advancing _____, _______, ___________. Phi Sigma Pi shall exist to meet the needs of close ____________ among students of like ideals who are interested int he same end. In carrying out the purpose of Phi Sigma Pi, the organization shall strive to personify and encourage three ideals:
1. The ______________________through scholarship
2.The_______________________ and ________________ qualities by promoting and advancing the welfare of humanity and
3. The fostering of non-discriminatory, _________ within Phi Sigma Pi's ranks.
Phi Sigma Pi shall constantly endeavor to make these ideals dynamic in the lives of Phi Sigma Pi's Members |
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Superior Scholarship; academic, professional, and social ideals; fellowship
1. acquisition and dissemination of knowledge and information
2. Application of professional skills; fostering of leadership
3. Fraternal Fellowship |
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