Kendall Hall at Chico State: a brick dome and arched entrance behind a lawn and clipped shrubs, under a clear blue sky

Delta Sigma Pi, the co-ed professional business fraternity: Epsilon Theta Chapter at Chico State.

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The coat of arms of Delta Sigma Pi

[02]Who we are

Our Purpose

Delta Sigma Pi is a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage scholarship, social activity and the association of students for their mutual advancement by research and practice; to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce, and to further a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture and the civic and commercial welfare of the community.

[From the Bylaws of Delta Sigma Pi][Tap a photo to open it]

  1. [01]

    Leadership Development

    Every brother holds a role, from chapter offices to running Biz Talks and rush week, and the fraternity's leadership conferences train them for it.

  2. [02]

    Commitment to Diversity

    Rush is open to every Chico State student in good standing. Different backgrounds and viewpoints make better business leaders.

  3. [03]

    Service & Philanthropy

    More than six service initiatives a year in Chico and on campus, with the causes chosen and the work organized by brothers.

  4. [04]

    Social & Professional Networking

    Alumni come back for Biz Talks, host visits at their companies and refer brothers into open roles. The friendships last longer still.

[Purpose, mission and core values of Delta Sigma Pi ↗]

[03]A line from 1907 to now

History timeline

New York University

1907

Four students found a fraternity for business.

On November 7, 1907, Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello, Harold Valentine Jacobs and Henry Albert Tienken founded Delta Sigma Pi at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, an evening school on Washington Square. The fraternity was organized to foster the study of business in universities.

The marble Washington Arch at the foot of Fifth Avenue, New York, about 1905
Washington Square, New York, about 1905

Chico State

1960

Epsilon Theta charters on December 3.

A local business fraternity, Alpha Beta Pi, became the Epsilon Theta Chapter at Chico State College, now California State University, Chico, on December 3, 1960. Twenty-five students and six faculty members were initiated that day in Bidwell Mansion.

Chapter president Clay Wallen and Regional Director Burell Johnson shake hands over a lectern above a Delta Sigma Pi banner, Mrs. Clay Wallen and Mrs. Glenn Kendall seated at the head table on either side
The charter, December 3, 1960

Sixty-five years on

Today

Growing every semester. One standard.

A new pledge class joins every semester, and a full professional calendar keeps it busy. The standard is the one the chapter set in 1962, when it tied for first in the nation, and 1,418 brothers and alumni have kept it since.

About twenty brothers in suits and dresses lined up on an indoor staircase
Fall 2025

From the chapter archive

[04]From the chapter archive

[Archive/List]
[Archive/2010]

About ninety alumni and members, young and old, posed together in a banquet room
The chapter's 50th anniversary2010

Delta Sigma Pi, The DELTASIG archives

[Emblem]
The coat of arms of Delta Sigma Pi

Delta Sigma Pi / 1907

A terracotta and brick arch at the entrance of Kendall Hall, with arched windows above

The Kendall Hall arcade

Chico, California39.73° N · 121.84° W

Between Bidwell Park and downtown

Brick arcades, a rose garden out front and Big Chico Creek running through the middle of campus. Epsilon Theta has met here since 1960, a few minutes’ walk from one of the largest city parks in the country.
1887
Chico State is founded. It is the second-oldest campus in the California State University system.
Glenn Hall
Home of the College of Business, where most brothers take their classes.
The red rose
The flower of Delta Sigma Pi, growing in the City of Roses.
CampusParkValley

From the quad to the orchards

Trinity Hall's brick bell tower behind a rose garden in full bloom

Trinity Hall

The bell tower above the George Petersen Rose Garden, in bloom each spring.

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By the numbers

Chapter and national statistics

1,418

Brothers and alumni

Initiated at Epsilon Theta since 1960, from this year's pledge class to alumni across finance, technology, consulting and more.

95%

Job placement within 3 months of graduation

Self-reported by graduating brothers.

10

National recognitions since 2014

From Delta Sigma Pi, including Chapter of Excellence, its highest chapter rating, in 2014, 2015 and 2017.

Delta Sigma Pi, nationally

224

Active collegiate chapters

Of 305 chartered at universities since 1907.

12,000

Collegiate brothers today

Nearly twelve thousand students in active chapters right now.

300,000+

Brothers initiated

Since four students founded the fraternity at New York University.

55

Alumni chapters

Where brothers keep meeting long after graduation.

[05]Life in the chapter

Sixty-five years of showing up

Biz Talks puts alumni and employers on stage in front of a full room. Employer visits and networking nights fill out the semester.

[06]Where our brothers have landed

Alumni work at the companies below. Many of them hire from this chapter.