Founding and history
A society was founded June 22, 1844, in total Dozen Old South Hall, Yale College. At this meeting, a Fraternity's secret & open Greek catchword were devised. A open slogan is "Kerophen Philoi Aei" ("Friends from the Heart, Forever"). A pin & secret handshaking was too devised. A DKE pin shows ΔΚΕ inside the scroll, upon the diamond sustaining the star in every corner. DKE's heraldist colours come sky-blue (blue), or even (gold), & gules (crimson) & its flag occurs as triband of people colours by owning the left-facing rampant lion midmost.

Inside ternion years of the introduction at Yale, chapters were founded at Bowdoin, Princeton University, Colby College, and Amherst College. Since that instance, DKE has grown to all through 64 chapters & has initiated over 85,000 members across Northward United states.

DKE is inextricably linked to the history of the United States of America, as its members use at times involved 5 of forty-3 Presidents of the United States: Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.

When you took a Civil War, the foremost Union officer killed around battle was the Deke, Theodore Winthrop of Phi. Six weeks fallowing Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Philip Spence of Zeta commanded Confederate troops in their last unionised battle of the war.

In the election of 1876, the Republican Party chose between two Dekes, nominating Hayes rather than rival and fellow DKE James G. Blaine, who later served two administrations as Secretary of State and who authored the Fourteenth Amendment; Blaine also ran unsuccessfully for President.

In a period of the Spanish-American War, the 1st Western officer to become flushed was the DKE, Surgeon John B. Gibbs (Rutgers), & his brother around DKE J. Frank Aldritch (DePauw) dies whilst a USS Maine is sunk. In that equivalent war, DKE Theodore Roosevelt distinguishes himself & starts in his path to the Presidency.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the member of a DKE Chapter (Alpha at Harvard) that had been suspended for conflict by owning a international organization, & for this understanding he is non usually numbered among a Presidents world health organization were Dekes. A fraternity's membership has likewise involved twelve of Our contries & American politicians, business community, sports numbers, & creative person world health organization own achieved iconic status, including among numerous others J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, Cole Porter, Henry Cabot Lodge, Dick Clark, Tom Landry, and George Steinbrenner. Deke flags use at times been carried to the North Pole, by Admiral Robert Peary (Theta), and to the Moon, by astronaut Alan Bean (Omega Chi).

Delta Kappa Epsilon administers a kindly organization known as the Rampant Lion Foundation. Likewise, Deke has championed an organization call for ROAR, which stands for Restore My Associational Rights. ROAR campaigns for even the freedom of fraternities & greek organizations generally to work forswearing interference & discrimination from either university administrations or others.

When you took a presidency of George W. Bush, questions were raised every bit to whether DKE initiates were branded by owning the microscopic Δ on their cheek inside an work of hazing. Though apparently occasionally dekes (a blunt ranges from either Two-Five between sources) were branded, it was entirely voluntary & was non a portion of any initiation rite; as a matter of fact people world health organization were branded got already been members for many years.

Famous alumni
Presidents of the United States Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi (Hayes was not actually a Deke; his two sons were, and the fraternity later conferred honorary membership upon him). Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha Gerald R. Ford, Omicron George H. W. Bush, Phi George W. Bush, Phi

Vice Presidents of the United States J. Danforth Quayle, Psi Phi Sitting state governors George Pataki, New York (Honorary) Tony Knowles, Phi, Alaska Don Siegelman, Psi, Alabama

Newspaper publishers & editors Whitelaw Reid, Kappa, Editor-in-chief, New York Tribune William Randolph Hearst, Alpha, Publisher, Hearst Newspapers Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho, Publisher, Los Angeles Times Richard J. V. Johnson, Omega Chi, Publisher, Houston Chronicle Eugene Pulliam, Psi Phi, Publisher, Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc. Rance Craine, Psi Phi, Publisher, Crain Communications

Justices of the United States Supreme Court John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi Harold H. Burton, Theta Potter Stewart, Phi Businessmen John F. Akers, Phi - Past President of I.B.M. J. Pierpont Morgan, Alpha - financier Irving H. Chase, Phi - Chase Manhattan Bank Dean Witter, Jr., Phi - Dean Witter & Co. (Now part of Morgan Stanley) Edward Bausch, Beta Phi - Bausch & Lomb Opticals William W. Wrigley, Phi - Wrigley Company Howard Heinz, Phi - H. J. Heinz Company Howard Johnson, Phi - Howard Johnson Motor Inns James M. Gamble, Lambda - Procter & Gamble Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi - Southwest Airlines Fred Smith, Phi - Federal Express Craig McCaw, Sigma Rho - McCaw Wireless, cellular telephones Evan Fawkes, Phi - Waldersteed Hotel Chain

Celebrated political figures Henry Cabot Lodge, Alpha - Senate Majority Leader James G. Blaine, Theta - Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Presidential Candidate Dean G. Acheson, Phi - Secretary of State under Harry S. Truman William Simon, Rho - Secretary of the Treasury Mario Garcia Menocal, Delta Chi - President of the Republic of Cuba Yuan Schikau, Phi - Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, Kappa - first director of the C.I.A. Robert Todd Lincoln, Alpha - Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln Sargent Shriver, Phi - First Director of the Peace Corps Luke Vander Linden, Iota Mu - President, Brooklyn Young Republicans

Sports & entertainment Cole Porter, Phi - composer Charles Ives, Phi - composer Paul Brown, Kappa - coach of Cleveland Browns and owner of the Cincinnati Bengals Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi - coach of Dallas Cowboys Joe Paterno, Upsilon - Penn State football coach George Steinbrenner, Epsilon - owner of the New York Yankees Don Schollander, Phi - won four gold palm inside floating in the 1964 Summer Olympics Hugh Culverhouse, Psi - owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi - Commissioner of Major League Baseball Dick Clark, Phi Gamma - hosted American Bandstand Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta - actor Jonathan Winters, Lambda - comedian and writer Bob Pettit, Zeta Zeta - National Basketball Association All star and hall of famer.

More famed Dekes Melvil Dewey, Sigma - devised the Dewey Decimal System Charles A. Ellis, Gamma Phi - designed the Golden Gate Bridge Robert E. Peary, Theta - first man to reach the North Pole Alan Bean, Omega Chi - Apollo astronaut

Active chapters

One) Phi - Yale

Two) Zeta[http://www.dkezeta.com/] - Princeton

Three) Sigma - Amherst

Four) Gamma[http://www.gammadke.com/] - Vanderbilt

Little phoebe) Psi - Alabama

Six) Chi - Mississippi

Vii) Beta - UNC

Eighter) Kappa - Miami

Nine) Lambda[http://www.lambdadke.org/] - Kenyon

X) Eta - Virginia

Xi) Alpha Alpha - Middlebury

Twelve) Omicron[http://www.umdke.com/] - Michigan

Thirteen) Rho[http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~dke/] - Lafayette

Fourteen) Tau - Hamilton

Xv) Mu - Colgate

Sixteen) Beta Phi[http://www.cif.rochester.edu/~dke/] - Rochester

Xvii) Zeta Zeta - LSU

Xviii) Phi Chi - Rutgers

Xix) Gamma Phi[http://people.brynmawr.edu/clorah/DKEmain.htm] - Wesleyan

Xx) Beta Chi[http://www.bxdeke.org/] - Case Western

Xxi) Delta Chi - Cornell

Twenty-two) Delta Delta[http://dke.uchicago.edu] - Chicago

Twenty-three) Phi Gamma[http://www.phigamma.com/] - Syracuse

Two dozen) Theta Zeta - Berkeley

Xxv) Phi Epsilon[http://www.mndke.com/] - Minnesota

Xxvi) Sigma Tau - MIT

Twenty-seven) Theta Chi - Union College

Twenty-eight) Tau Lambda - Tulane

Xxix) Alpha Phi - Toronto

Xxx) Delta Kappa - Pennsylvania

31) Sigma Rho[http://dke.stanford.edu/] - Stanford

32) Rho Delta - Wisconsin

33) Kappa Epsilon - Washington

34) Omega Chi[http://www.texasdekes.com/] - Texas

35) Alpha Tau[http://www.dkemb.org/] - Manitoba

36) Delta Phi[http://www.dke.ca/index2.htm] - Alberta

37) Phi Alpha[http://www.ubc-dke.org/] - British Columbia

38) Tau Delta - Sewanee

39) Psi Delta[http://www.wfu.edu/Student-organizations/dke/] - Wake Forest University

Xl) Sigma Alpha[http://www.dke.org.vt.edu/] - Virginia Tech

41) Phi Delta[http://www.dke.ca/phidelta/] - Western Ontario

42) Alpha Mu - Rowan

43) Epsilon Rho[http://www.duke.edu/web/dke/] - Duke

44) Nu Zeta[http://www.dke-nz.org/] - Pace

45) Zeta Upsilon[http://www.davisdke.cjb.net/] - UC, Davis

46) Phi Sigma - Bryant

47) Phi Rho[http://www.greeks.psu.edu/ifc/dke/] - Penn State

48) Chi Rho[http://orgs.bloomu.edu/dke/] - Bloomsburg

49) Zeta Chi[http://www.dkezx.com/] - Bentley

L) Sigma Beta - UC, Santa Barbara

51) Beta Gamma[http://www.dkenyu.com/] - NYU

52) Alpha Beta - DePaul

53) Sigma Kappa - Michigan State

54) Delta Tau - Ohio State

55) Delta Psi[http://www.indiana.edu/~dke/] - Indiana

56) Mu Chi - Maryville

57) Upsilon Omega - South Alabama

58) Kappa Omega - Lake Forest

59) Rho Beta[http://www.richmonddke.com/] - Richmond

Sixty) Phi Beta - Stephen F. Austin

61) Theta Rho[http://dekebruins.com/] - UCLA

For the complete listings of completely historical chapters, understand [http://www.dke.org/S1a.htm DKE's Chapter Website].