16 Facts About Zeta Psi

Zeta Psi is one of the world's oldest collegiate fraternities.

Zeta Psi retired to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where the warm weather and liberal policies were expected to improve his humors, intending to begin a chapter there.

Brother John Day Smith witnessed the incident on the Chattanooga field, and later related it to Brother Francis Lawton, who would author the poem "The Badge of Zeta Psi, " later set to original music and preserved to this day.

Amid this sorrow and heroism where so many brothers of Zeta Psi perished, so too were even whole chapters swallowed by the War.

Pioneers in many initiatives, Zeta Psi was the first fraternity west of the Mississippi river and hence the first to establish a chapter on the West Coast: in 1870 it established the Iota chapter at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Since then, Zeta Psi has actively bolstered its Canadian presence, commissioning a director solely for Canadian chapter development and amassing a long list of successful chapters there.

The establishment of the Eta chapter at Yale had the result that Zeta Psi was the only fraternity to establish chapters at all eight Ivy-League schools.

Zeta Psi prescribed that every member should receive the fledgling Circle of Zeta Psi, and thus be apprised of the far-flung doings of the fraternity; that a general secretary be commissioned to travel among the chapters and treat with them; and that a foundation be established for the pecuniary support of the general Fraternity.

Over one-quarter of all brethren of Zeta Psi would serve during the First World War in foreign lands, and many did not return.

Zeta Psi provided the nation its first Assistant Secretary of War, Brother Benedict Crowell, noted for his bold reorganization of civilian military control during World War I Even after the war, Crowell remained politically powerful, and was later instrumental in engineering the repeal of National Prohibition.

Flag of the Zeta Psi is a white field with the letters Zeta and Psi or the words Zeta Psi written in the center in gold, piped in black.

Zeta Psi pledge pin is a white circle with a narrow gold outline.

Each chapter of Zeta Psi chooses at its founding a patron saint to represent the chapter.

Zeta Psi has chapters in five countries: Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, and France.

Zeta Psi is modeled after most modern democracies in that they have legislative, judicial, and executive branches of governance.

Each chapter in Zeta Psi has a unique name composed of one or two Greek letters.