Delta Upsilon history

By 1838 two-thirds of all students at Williams belonged to the society which engaged in militant agitation against the other two fraternities.

At the Troy Convention in 1847, the chapters in attendance voted to take the name ‘The Anti-Secret Confederation.’

In 1854 the University of Vermont chapter, which was named Delta Psi, severed its connections with the Anti-Secret Confederation.

An 1855 debate proposed by Kappa Alpha against the Oudens was called-off after the Social Fraternity appointed James Garfield, an Ouden well known for his rhetorical skills, to represent them.

At the 1862 convention, the fraternity's mother chapter, Williams, declared the purposes of the fraternity had been corrupted and, over the objections of the other chapters, withdrew.

By 1865, a year after becoming Delta Upsilon, DU had grown to 15 chapters in the northeast.

The Delta Upsilon Quarterly started publishing in 1882.

Penn’s chapter was established on March 23, 1888 and first appeared in The Record of that same year.

In 1898, Delta Upsilon joined the recent trend of fraternity expansion into Canada by chartering a chapter at McGill University in Montreal.

In 1909, Charles Evans Hughes led the incorporation of the fraternity.

In 1915 the Harvard chapter stopped paying dues to the fraternity.

By 1920 the fraternity had grown to 44 chapters.

John Arthur Clark, the celebrated former commander of the Seaforth Highlanders and a Member of Parliament from Vancouver, was elevated to "international president", the fraternity's penultimate office, in 1944, holding it for three consecutive terms.

In 1945, The Equitable Union made overtures asking for cooperation and unification as a branch of the Social Fraternity.

In 1949, through the vision and generosity of Hugh E. Nesbitt, an alumnus from the Ohio State Chapter, the Delta Upsilon Educational Foundation (DUEF) was founded to provide educational scholarships to DU members.

On the 17th of November, 1955, at Dean Griffin‘s invitation, a committee consisting of Pete Dewees, Alex Wilkie, Earl Schooley, and Rick Green met at Georgia Tech to discuss plans for establishing a colony.

The turbulence the Greek system experienced in the middle 20th century began for Delta Upsilon in 1956.

In the spring of 1957, the club applied to the General Fraternity for a charter.

At the 1862 convention, the fraternity's mother chapter, Williams, declared the purposes of the fraternity had been corrupted and, over the objections of the other chapters, withdrew. It was permanently erased when Williams College banned all fraternities in 1962.

In 1969, Delta Upsilon International Headquarters moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, to service the Fraternity's membership more efficiently.

In 1972 the Pennsylvania Chapter was disbanded, but re-organized eighteen years later.

Almost 20 years later, in 1986, the Brown chapter rejoined Delta Upsilon.

Since 1992, Delta Upsilon chapter has occupied a house at 4035 Spruce Street.

The new chapter was installed in 1999, four years after the D.U. Club had merged with the Fly Club.

The fraternity remains active at Penn in 2003.

In 2005 the six-year-old Delta Upsilon chapter voted to disaffiliate from the fraternity.

In 2009, Delta Upsilon introduced its 152nd chapter.

In 2014, ten years after the collapse of Delta Psi, Delta Upsilon entered the Burlington campus for the first time since its split with Delta Psi, chartering a colony.

In May 2018, Delta Upsilon announced a Substance-free Housing Policy to its membership.

In 2019, the North American Interfraternity Conference removed hard alcohol from all NIC member organization housing.