[01]About the chapter
Initiation day, 2019
[02]Our story
Delta Sigma Pi was founded on November 7, 1907 by four business students at New York University: Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello, Harold Valentine Jacobs and Henry Albert Tienken. The fraternity was organized to foster the study of business in universities. In 1975 it became the nation’s first co-ed professional business fraternity, and it has grown into one of the largest business fraternities in the world: 224 collegiate chapters, 55 alumni chapters and more than 300,000 initiated members.
Epsilon Theta received its charter at California State University, Chico on December 3, 1960. It was the first business fraternity on campus. More than sixty years on, it is still the only one that recruits entirely from business majors, and that focus is the reason its alumni network runs so deep in the fields brothers want to enter. Its record goes back almost as far. Epsilon Theta tied for first in the nation in 1962, two years after its charter, and Delta Sigma Pi named it a Chapter of Excellence in 2014, 2015 and 2017.
The chapter is growing too. It brings in a new pledge class every semester and counts 1,418 brothers and alumni since 1960. Every brother holds a committee role, runs at least one event a year, and reports to the chapter on it. Brothers have held internships and full-time roles in finance, marketing, technology, accounting, consulting and entrepreneurship.
A full house
[03]The Purpose of Delta Sigma Pi
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.
[04]The arms
The coat of arms and the seal are registered marks of Delta Sigma Pi, shown by one of its chapters.
[05]The red rose
Delta Sigma Pi adopted the red rose as its flower on May 14, 1921. The Rose of its song, “The Rose of Delta Sigma Pi,” is founder Harold Jacobs’ wife.
Chico is best known as the City of Trees, for Bidwell Park and its shaded streets, but it had its roses first. John Bidwell, the city’s founder, introduced so many rose varieties that he called it the City of Roses, and that name is still on the city seal.
In 1967 the chapter’s own Rose, a Chico State College student, was named the fraternity’s national Rose of Deltasig.
[06]Chapter pillars
Brotherhood here is practical. Brothers study together, rehearse interviews together and show up for each other's events. Accountability runs in both directions.
The bond does not end at graduation. Alumni return for Biz Talks, host chapter visits at their companies and refer brothers into open roles.
Every brother runs something. Committees plan recruitment, sponsorship, service and the chapter's professional calendar, and every event has a budget and a debrief.
The calendar includes resume and interview workshops, employer networking nights, alumni panels and company visits.
The chapter runs more than six service initiatives each year in Chico and on campus. Brothers pick the causes and organize the work.
Service is part of the pledge program and part of active membership. It is where the chapter meets the town it lives in.
