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ΒΘΠ - Beta Theta Pi
Image:btpshield.png
Motto ___ kai ___
Colors Delicate shades of Pink and Blue
Symbol Zephinius
Flower Deep pink Queen of the Prairie or June Rose
Founded August 8, 1839 at Miami University
Fraternity type Social Fraternity (secret sect of the Union Literary Society)
Scope international
Headquarters 5134 Lugar-Bates Drive
Oxford, Ohio, USA
Chapters over 120 chapters and colonies
Homepage http://www.betathetapi.org

Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ) is a college social fraternity founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad. Beta, as it is nicknamed, was the first college fraternity to be founded west of the Allegheny Mountains and has over 120 chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada. More than 175,000 members have been initiated world-wide. Beta Theta Pi has more than 6,500 undergraduate members and 118,000 living initiates. Beta's Administrative Office is located at 5134 Lugar-Bates Drive, Oxford, Ohio.

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[edit] Founders

At 9 o'clock in 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 Literary 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: ".....of ever honored memory"
—"Founders' Paragraph" summarizing the first regular meeting

[edit] Famous Betas

[edit] Academia

[edit] Community Organizations

[edit] Government and politics

[edit] Arts, entertainment, and media

[edit] Sports

[edit] Military

  • Omar Bundy Depauw 1881 (World War I General)
  • John Coburn Wabash 1846 (Civil War General and founder of the Wabash College Chapter)

[edit] Business

[edit] Other Prominent Betas

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