The largest merger of national collegiate fraternities of Jewish membership was effectuated yesterday with the signing of legal documents joining Phi Sigma Delta and Phi Alpha into a single fraternity with 47 undergraduate chapters and a total membership of approximately 17,000 students and alumni.
The fraternity will be known in perpetuity, according to a joint announcement by officers of both groups, as “Phi Sigma Delta. ” The new Phi Sigma Delta has a combined heritage of 94 years, Phi Sigma Delta having been established on November 10, 1909 at Columbia University, New York, and Phi Alpha having been created on October 14, 1914 at George Washington University, Washington, D. C.
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