’50 Walter James Bryson, III, Emory ’51 Henry Turner Knight, Jr., Penn. The predominant part played in the establishment of Florida Beta by transfers is shown by the fact that of its 29 charter members, 17 are initiates of other Chapters, as follows: In the meantime, other transfers from SAE Chapters had entered Florida State University and in the fall of 1947 Phi Alpha was successful in pledging 11 men to whom it had extended bids. Phi Alpha then petition was submitted to the electorate of the Fraternity for a vote by mail and was approved just in time to permit SAE to be one of the events fraternities installing Chapters on March 5, 1949. In the meantime, the extension machinery of SAE had been set in motion and, after careful investigation, Florida State University was approved as a suitable domicile for a SAE chapter by the Permanent Extension Investigation Committee, the Supreme Council and Province Epsilon.
Finally, March 5, 1949, was set as the date on which Chapters of national fraternities could be installed. Only groups which could meet the established standards were permitted to operate. A committee on fraternities was set up which adopted regulations governing the organization and operation of local fraternities. There were Chapters of 14 sororities at Florida State College for Women and when the institution became Florida State University the Administration proved itself hospitable to fraternities. Sullenberger, written under date of May 24, 1947. The first information about the organization of Phi Alpha, received at the National Office, came in a letter from John. Shaw, Davidson ’22, business manager of Florida State University. Its members quickly won the support of the local alumni and were especially fortunate in having as their adviser Roderick K. Phi Alpha was the first fraternity organized at Tallahassee. Diffenbaugh, a pledge of North Carolina Theta at Davidson College, both of whom were initiated by Florida Upsilon before Florida Beta was installed. Sullenberger, ’46, and James Homer Turner, ’45 and James G. Caswell, ’48 two transfers from North Carolina Nu at Duke University, John W.
In March, 1947, they organized the Phi Alpha Fraternity with nine members, five of them transfers from Florida Upsilon at the University of Florida, Fred O. This legislation became effective May 15, 1947, but during the precedin college year approximately 700 male students had attended a branch of the University of Florida which had been established at Tallahassee as a temporary measure by the Governor of Florida and his Cabinet.Īmong the men attending the temporary branch were members and pledges of SAE Chapters who sensed the opportunity to plant a Chapter of their fraternity in a promising field. The opportunity to establish fraternity Chapters at Tallahassee came as the result of a bill passed by the Florida Legislature in May, 1947, making both the University of Florida at Gainesville and the Florida State College for Women at Tallahassee co-educational and changing the name of the latter institution to Florida State University. Florida Beta, installed at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., March 5, 1949, under a charter granted to the Phi Alpha Fraternity by a mail vote, will in all probability always occupy a unique place in the history of Sigma Alpha Epsilon: first, as having been organized and perpetuated by the largest group of transfers from other Chapters ever engaged in such an enterprise and second, as having been one of seven Chapters of as many college fraternities installed at the same institution on the same day.
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