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History is a plant of slow growth; It is built up from the accretion of years. The old Phis and the young are workers who are building that history. ~ David Damaree Banta, Indiana 1855


Chapter History


As the Christmas holidays approached in 1848, the atmosphere on the Miami campus in Oxford, Ohio was gloomy and uncertain. This was the mood in which Robert Morrison suggested to a close friend and classmate, John McMillian Wilson, that they consider putting together a new collegiate brotherhood.

From this elemental beginning, Phi Delta Theta evolved into the positive international force for good it has become over the past 159 years. more

Fraternity History


The fraternity as a whole has been in existence since 1848 when it was founded by six men at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Those six men set forth to create an oganization based on three simple principles. Those principals, which have become the pillars of the fraternity, were friendship, sound learning and moral rectitude. more.