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Alpha Lambda Tau
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Alpha Lambda Tau (ΑΛΤ) was an American men's college fraternity founded in 1916 at Oglethorpe College in Brookhaven, Georgia. For its first decade, Alpha Lambda Tau permitted expansion only within the Southern states. In 1946, the national organization of Alpha Lambda Tau dissolved; the majority of its chapters affiliated with Tau Kappa Epsilon.
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Alpha Lambda Tau originated as the Alpha Lambda Club at Oglethorpe College in Brookhaven, Georgia on October 8, 1916.[1][2] In 1920, the group held its first biennial convention.[2] In preparation of becoming a national fraternity, the club incorporated in the State of Georgia as Alpha Lambda Tau on March 27, 1921.[1][2] Being of Southern origin, it was originally decided that the fraternity would not expand north of the Mason–Dixon line.[2]
Alpha Lambda Tau grew by absorbing numerous local fraternities at Southern universities.[2] Beta was established in 1922 at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, followed by Gamma at Mercer University in 1923.[2] The fraternity dropped its anti-northern expansion policy at the 1927 national convention and issued a charter to Lambda at the University of Illinois.[2][3]
Alpha Lambda Tau became a junior member of the National Interfraternity Conference (NIC) in 1928. By 1930, it had initiated 1,250 members in had fifteen chapters.[2] It also had alumni chapters in Chicago, Birmingham, and Atlanta.[4][2]
In the fall of 1946, the national organization of Alpha Lambda Tau dissolved.[5] Five of the eight chapters that were active in 1946 merged with Tau Kappa Epsilon. Several chapters went to other national fraternities.[5] However, there was no official merger between Alpha Lambda Tau and another organization.
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Alpha Lambda Tau's badge was round with four gold arms with the letter ALOT.[2] Its center featured a black shield with a serpent, a cross, and two torches.[2] There were three stars above the shield and one below it.[2] Its pledge pin was a gold shield with a black enamel serpent and cross in the middle, with black panels on either side.[2]
The fraternity's colors were old gold and black.[2] Its flower was the American Beauty rose.[2] Its publication was The Rose Leaf.[2]
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Following are the chapters of Alpha Lambda Tau.[6][7]
- Chapter formed from Alpha Lambda (local), established in 1921. It withdrew and it revived the Eta chapter of Sigma Nu.
- Chapter formed from Alpha Gamma Chi (local), established in 1925. It withdrew and became the Beta Mu chapter of Delta Sigma Phi.
- Chapter formed from the Alpha chapter of Sigma Mu Sigma, established in 1921 at Tri-State University, now called Trine University.
- After being granted the name Beta-Epsilon chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon, ΤΚΕ was forced by NIC rules to revoke the chapter's charter because Tri-State was not (yet) accredited. The chapter affiliated with Kappa Sigma Kappa in 1952. In 1962 ΚΣΚ nationally merged with ΘΞ, but due to the accreditation issue, the chapter reverted to local status again, calling itself Tau Kappa Lambda (local). In 1966, once school accreditation was in place, it would become the Theta-Xi chapter of Kappa Sigma fraternity, with that new name a coincidence having no relation to the national fraternity into which its former national merged. To complete the historical record, ΤΚΕ's Beta-Epsilon chapter was recolonized in a separate effort on the Trine campus in 1989.
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