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BETA THETA PI

2012 University of Connecticut

Fraternity Chapter of the Year

Founded on August 8, 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Beta Theta Pi exists as one of the oldest and most revered social fraternities. With over one hundred chapters throughout the United States and Canada, Beta Theta Pi recruits those who share in the ideals and principles set forth by our eight founders and upheld by our brothers today. The Zeta Chi chapter of Beta Theta Pi here at the University of Connecticut was founded on February 21, 2004 and currently stands 42 brothers strong.

FOUNDERS’ PARAGRAPH

At nine o'clock on the evening of the eighth day of the eighth month of the year 1839, eight earnest young men, all students at Miami University, held the first meeting of Beta Theta Pi in the Hall of the Union Literacy Society, an upper room in the old college building (known as "Old Main".) The eight founders in the order in which their names appear in the minutes were:

John Reily Knox, 1839

Samuel Taylor Marshall, 1840

David Linton, 1839

James George Smith, 1840

Charles Henry Hardin, 1841

John Holt Duncan, 1840

Michael Clarkson Ryan, 1839

Thomas Boston Gordon, 1840

"of ever honored memory"