List of Psi Omega chapters

This is the complete Chapter and Colony Roll of Psi Omega Fraternity, a professional fraternity for Dentistry. An asterisk (*) denotes an inactive chapter. Chapters listed by order of usage by the fraternity[1] and date of founding where known; naming was not strictly by order of the Greek alphabet due to the timing of installation ceremonies, reuse of names and local preference. Active chapters are in bold, inactive chapters are in italic.

List of chapters
Name Chartered Institution Location Status Notes Reference
Alpha 1892 Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (now U Maryland) Baltimore, MD Active [2][3]
Beta 1893 New York Dentistry New York, NY Active [2]
Gamma *
  see Zeta		 1894 Pennsylvania Dental College Philadelphia, PA Merged into Zeta (1910) [2][4]
Delta * 1895, 1941 Tufts Boston, MA Inactive
(1938-1941, 1965)		 [2]
Epsilon 1896 Western Reserve University (now Case Western) Cleveland, OH Active [2][5]
Zeta
  see Gamma *		 1896 Penn Philadelphia, PA Active [2][4][6]
Eta 1896 Temple Philadelphia, PA Active [2]
Theta * 1901 SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY Inactive (1912) [2]
Iota * 1896 Northwestern Chicago, IL Inactive (2001) [2][7]
Kappa * 1896, 1977(?) Loyola Chicago, IL Inactive (1993) [2][8][9]
Lambda *
  see Zeta Kappa		 1896 Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Inactive (1903)
restored as Zeta Kappa 1918-		 [2][10][11]
Mu * 1897 Denver Dental School Denver, CO Inactive (1932) [2][12]
Nu 1897 Pitt Pittsburgh, PA Active [2]
Xi
  see Delta Tau *		 1897 Marquette Milwaukee, WI Active [2][13]
Mu Delta * 1897 Harvard Cambridge, MA Inactive (1965) [2]
Omicron 1897 Louisville Louisville, KY Active [2]
Pi *
  see Alpha		 1898 Baltimore Medical Baltimore, MD Merged into Phi (1913) [2][14]
Beta Sigma 1898 San Francisco P&S (U Pacific) San Francisco, CA Active [2]
Rho * 1899 Ohio Dental (U Cincinnati) Cincinnati, OH Inactive (1926) [2][15]
Sigma (original) *
  see Zeta		 1899 Medico-Chirurgical College (Perelman, UPenn) Philadelphia, PA Merged into Zeta (1917) [2][16]
Tau *
  see Gamma Tau		 1900 Atlanta Dental Atlanta, GA Merged with Gamma Iota (1918)
Became Gamma Tau		 [2][17]
Upsilon 1900 USC Los Angeles, CA Active [2][18]
Phi *
  see Alpha		 1900 Maryland Baltimore, MD Merged into Alpha (1924) [2][3][14]
Chi 1900 Oregon Portland, OR Active [2]
Psi 1901 Ohio-Starling Medical College (now Ohio St.) Columbus, OH Active [2][13][19]
Omega * 1903 Indiana Dental Indianapolis, IN Inactive (19xx?) [2]
Beta Alpha 1903 Illinois Chicago, IL Active [2]
Beta Gamma *
  see Beta Theta		 1903 George Washington University Washington, DC Merged with Beta Theta (1919) [2][20]
Beta Delta 1903 UCSF San Francisco, CA Active [2]
Beta Epsilon * 1903 New Orleans Dentistry New Orleans, LA Inactive (1926) [2][21]
Beta Zeta * 1903 St. Louis Dental St. Louis, MO Inactive (1991?) [2][22]
Beta Eta * 1904 Keokuk Dental College Keokuk, IA Inactive (1909) [2]
Beta Theta *
  see Beta Gamma		 1904 Georgetown Washington, DC Inactive (1990) [2][20]
Gamma Iota *
  see Gamma Tau		 October 25, 1904 Atlanta Southern Dental College Atlanta, GA Inactive (1918)
became Gamma Tau		 [2][17][23]
Gamma Kappa * November 17, 1905 Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Inactive (1936-1958), (19xx) [2][23]
Gamma Lambda * April 17, 1906 Dental and Oral Surgery, NY (now Columbia) New York, NY Inactive (19xx) [2][23]
Gamma Mu April 30, 1906 Iowa Iowa City, IA Active [2][23][24]
Gamma Nu * November 26, 1906 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN Inactive (1926) [2][23][25]
Gamma Xi *
  see Gamma Omicron		 1907 University College of Medicine (now VCU Medical) Richmond, VA Merged with Gamma Omicron (1913) [2][26]
Gamma Omicron
  see Gamma Xi *		 1908 Medical College of Virginia (now VCU Medical) Richmond, VA Active [2][26]
Gamma Pi * 1909 Washington (MO) St. Louis, MO Inactive (1912) [2][22]
Delta Rho *
  see Phi Rho		 1910 Kansas City Dental (now UMKC) Kansas City, MO Merged with Delta Phi (1920)
became Phi Rho		 [2][27]
Delta Tau *
  see Xi		 1912 Wisconsin P & S (now Marquette) Madison, WI Schools merged (1912) [2][13][28]
Delta Upsilon 1913 Texas Houston, TX Active [2]
Delta Phi *
  see Phi Rho		 1914 Western Dental (now UMKC) Kansas City, MO Merged with Delta Rho (1920)
became Phi Rho		 [2][27]
Gamma Tau * 1918 Emory Atlanta, GA Inactive (1988) [2][17]
Zeta Kappa
  see Lambda *		 1918 Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Active [2][10][11]
Delta Chi * 1919 Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario Toronto, Ontario
Canada		 Inactive (19xx)? [2]
Delta Psi December 7, 1920 Baylor Dallas, TX Active [2][29]
Phi Rho 1920 University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry Kansas City, MO Active [2][27]
Delta Omega 1921 Loyola New Orleans (now LSU)? Baton Rouge, LA Inactive? (1970), or now at LSU? [2][21]
Psi Alpha * 1921 Creighton Omaha, NE Inactive (1935) [2]
Psi Beta * 1921 McGill University Montreal, Quebec,
Canada		 Inactive (1930) [2]
Phi Alpha * 1924 Maryland Baltimore, MD Inactive (1939) [2][30]
Psi Gamma 1926 Tennessee Memphis, TN Active [2]
Psi Delta * 1929 Dalhousie Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada		 Inactive (1932) [2]
Delta Mu 1939 Detroit Mercy Detroit, MI Active [2][31]
Theta Xi * 1947 Washington Seattle, WA Inactive (19xx)? [2]
Chi Tau February 13, 1951 Alabama Birmingham, AL Active [2][32]
Chi Upsilon 1951 North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC Active [2]
Sigma Eta 1958 New Jersey Medicine and Dentistry (now Rutgers) Newark, NJ Active [2]
Sigma (second) 1962 West Virginia Morgantown, WV Active [2]
Sigma Chi April 6, 1973 South Carolina Charleston, SC Active [2][33]
Sigma Alpha 1974 UT San Antonio San Antonio, TX Active [2]
Gamma Gamma 1975 Florida Gainesville, FL Active [2]
Sigma Iota 1980? Southern Illinois Alton, IL Active [34]
Nu Sigma 1997? Nova Ft. Lauderdale, FL Active [34]
Upsilon Nu October 13, 2006 UNLV Las Vegas, NV Active [34][35]

Alumni Chapters

Alumni Chapters[1][23][36] of Psi Omega include:

Province 1 (western)

  • Oregon Alumni Chapter - Portland, Oregon
  • Seattle-Sealth Alumni Chapter - Seattle, Washington - Organized December 31, 1904
  • Southern California Alumni Chapter - Los Angeles, California
  • Tacoma Alumni Chapter - Tacoma, Washington
  • (dormant) San Francisco Alumni Chapter - San Francisco, California

Province 2 (south)

  • Arkansas State Alumni Chapter - Hot Springs, Arkansas
  • Houston Alumni Chapter - Houston, Texas
  • New Orleans Alumni Chapter - New Orleans, Louisiana

Province 3 (midwest)

  • Chicago Alumni Chapter - Chicago, Illinois
  • Cleveland Alumni Chapter - Cleveland, Ohio - Organized February 7, 1905
  • Columbus Alumni Chapter - Columbus, Ohio
  • Detroit Alumni Chapter - Detroit, Michigan
  • Illinois Kappa Chapter Alumni Association - Chicago, Illinois
  • Indiana Alumni Chapter - Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Minnesota Alumni Chapter - Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Milwaukee Alumni Chapter - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Ohio State Alumni Chapter - Columbus, Ohio
  • (dormant) Iowa State Alumni Chapter - Iowa City, Iowa
  • (dormant) Portsmouth Alumni Chapter - Portsmouth, Ohio - Organized November 14, 1905

Province 4 (southeast)

  • Alabama State Alumni Chapter - Birmingham, Alabama
  • Georgia State Alumni Chapter - Atlanta, Georgia
  • North Carolina State Alumni Chapter - High Point, North Carolina
  • South Carolina Alumni Chapter - Charleston, South Carolina

Province 5 (northeast)

  • Baltimore-Oriole Alumni Chapter - Baltimore, Maryland
  • Duquesne-Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Washington D.C. Alumni Chapter - Washington, D.C.
  • West Virginia Stage Alumni Chapter - Wheeling, West Virginia
  • (dormant) Boston Alumni Chapter - Boston, Massachusetts
  • (dormant) Buffalo Alumni Chapter - Buffalo, New York - Organized March 26, 1907
  • (dormant) Connecticut State Alumni Chapter -
  • (dormant) New York Alumni Chapter - New York City, New York
  • (dormant) New Jersey State Alumni Chapter - Newark, New Jersey
  • (dormant) Philadelphia Alumni Chapter - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

References

All chapter locations and designations for groups founded prior to 1976 are taken from the referenced 20th ed. of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities.[2] Additional chapter information taken from a referenced 2013 edition of the Fraternity's Frater Magazine, a publication for actives and alumni of Psi Omega Fraternity.

  1. 1908-1909 issues of The Frater
  2. Anson, Jack L.; Marchenasi, Robert F., eds. (1991) [1879]. Baird's Manual of American Fraternities (20th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Baird's Manual Foundation, Inc. p. V-50–51. ISBN 978-0963715906.
  3. At the consolidation of their schools, the younger Phi Chapter of ΨΩ merged into Alpha Chapter. For a time the combined entity was called Phi-Alpha Chapter. Eventually the group reverted to the name Alpha Chapter.
  4. Due to a merger between schools, where in 1909 the Penn Dental College consolidated its assets into the more stable University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, ΨΩ's Gamma Chapter was merged into the Fraternity's Zeta Chapter in 1910.
  5. Epsilon Chapter website, accessed 22 September 2014.
  6. Zeta Chapter website, accessed 22 September 2014
  7. The dental school at Northwestern University closed in 2001.
  8. Loyola Closing Dental School, Chicago Tribune, accessed 21 September 2014.
  9. Dentos 1979
  10. The Fraternity's Lambda Chapter closed in 1903, and rather than restarting under that same designation, fifteen years later students established the Zeta Kappa Chapter in 1918.
  11. Zeta Kappa Chapter website, accessed 22 September 2014.
  12. The Fraternity's Mu Chapter closed with closure of the dental school at the University of Denver. Historical sketch Archived 2014-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 21 September 2014
  13. Baird's 20th ed. notes that the Delta Tau Chapter at Wisconsin's P & S (became Marquette University) was merged into Psi Chapter at Starling Ohio Medical (became Ohio State), "when the institutions were consolidated". This appears to be an error in that book. Clearly the 'Psi' was meant to be 'Xi', and that correction is reflected here.
  14. Pi Chapter merged into Phi Chapter in 1913.
  15. Rho Chapter ceased with the closing of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1926.
  16. Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia was absorbed by UPenn in 1916. There already being a chapter of ΨΩ at UPenn in Zeta Chapter, the younger Sigma Chapter was let go dormant. This chapter should not be confused with a later creation of Sigma Chapter at West Virginia.
  17. Tau Chapter merged with Gamma Iota Chapter, and according to Baird's Manual "later" became known as Gamma Tau Chapter. Emory University closed its dental school in 1988.
  18. Upsilon Chapter website Archived 2014-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 22 September 2014.
  19. Psi Chapter website, accessed 22 September 2014.
  20. Beta Gamma Chapter of ΨΩ merged with Beta Theta Chapter in 1919. The combined group closed in 1990.
  21. Beta Epsilon Chapter of ΨΩ merged with Delta Omega Chapter in 1926. That school, Loyola New Orleans ceased its dental program in 1970.
  22. Gamma Pi Chapter of ΨΩ merged into Beta Zeta Chapter in 1912. Washington University closed its dental school in 1991.
  23. 1907-1908 issues of The Frater
  24. Gamma Mu Chapter website Archived 2005-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 22 September 2014.
  25. Vanderbilt's Dentistry school ceased operations in 1926.
  26. Gamma Xi Chapter merged with Gamma Omicron Chapter in 1913.
  27. Delta Rho Chapter and Delta Phi Chapter merged in 1920, later calling themselves the Phi Rho Chapter of ΨΩ.
  28. The merger captured the Wisconsin P & S dental school from the Medical College of Wisconsin for Marquette University; later, Medical College of Wisconsin adherents abandoned further merger activity and remained separate from Marquette.
  29. 1934 Baylor Roundup Yearbook
  30. Why didn't this chapter merge into Alpha Chapter?
  31. Delta Mu Chapter website Archived 2014-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 22 September 2014.
  32. UAB - Archives - UAB History
  33. College of Dental Medicine Student Organizations Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
  34. Spring 2013 issue of The Frater, a magazine for members of ΨΩ, accessed 21 September 2014.
  35. UNLV Psi Omega - About Us
  36. The Frater, Spring 2014 ed. Archived 2014-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 23 Sept 2014

See also

List of dental schools in the United States

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