Theta Chi Fraternity
Theta Chi Fraternity is one of the oldest and largest collegiate fraternities in North America. Established at Norwich University in 1856, our fraternity has grown to over 215 chapters and colonies. Our growth over the intervening century and a half is a tribute to standards, ideals and objectives of our founding members and over 161,000 men who have followed them into member
ship in Theta Chi. Our fraternity is devoted to the advancement of scholarship and brotherhood and the building of qualities of character and leadership among our members. The motto of Theta Chi is “The Helping Hand,” signifying our core ideal – service to Alma Mater, country, community and all whom we meet in our personal and professional lives. It is in the spirit of this core ideal that the WPI alumni of Theta Chi have launched a scholarship program to give recognition to arriving Freshmen who have demonstrated the principle of the Helping Hand in service to their home communities. If our founders could see us today, surely they would be pleased. We are the international organization they envisioned, and we have kept inviolate the ideals and concepts that they held so dear. From our ranks have come leaders in industry, the sciences, law, medicine, education, military, and government at all levels. Many thousands of our alumni have carried the tradition of the Helping Hand into their neighborhoods, places of worship, communities and local organizations, to share their leadership skills with others. Theta Chi Fraternity exists to serve a need for young men of character, principles and ideals to associate with each other. Our chapters and colonies are laboratories for leadership. Our undergraduates grow, mature and develop through interaction with other outstanding young men. Most importantly, our chapters and colonies provide the support for excellence that is sorely needed today on college and university campuses. That brotherhood comes in a wide and diverse variety of shapes, sizes, forms, colors, and fashions, but it reflects the concept of the Helping Hand -- that the most important duty that we have is to assist others, especially in time of need. Young people today are in need of that support, perhaps more than ever before. Theta Chi fraternity squarely meets that need. Epsilon Chapter of Theta Chi
Epsilon Chapter of Theta Chi was established at WPI in April 1909. Theta Chi is the third oldest national fraternity represented on the WPI campus, and within our fraternity as a whole, Epsilon is the chapter in longest continuous operation. In April 2009, the alumni and undergraduate brothers of the chapter will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the chapter’s founding. As part of that commemoration, the chapter alumni will announce the establishment of the Community Service Scholarship and a fund-raising campaign to provide a permanent endowment for annual scholarship awards. The annual scholarship awards will be administered by the Epsilon Chapter Alumni Association, a non-profit foundation dedicated to encouraging and supporting the educational goals and leadership-development objectives of Epsilon Chapter and Theta Chi
