This Week in UO Greek History

This Week in UO Greek History – 5.06.24

Delta Gamma – June 6th, 1934

This Week in UO Greek History – 4.29.24

Beta Theta Pi – 1908

This Week in UO Greek History – 4.22.24

Gamma Phi Beta 1914

This Week in UO Greek History – 4.15.24

Pi Kappa Alpha – 1937

This Week in UO Greek History – 4.08.24

Pi Beta Phi – April 1951

This Week in UO Greek History – 4.01.24

Alpha Tau Omega 1964

Alpha Tau Omega in a pyramid in 1964

This Week in UO Greek History – 3.18.24

“KA. Theta’s Celebrating With Soda Pop”
(caption)
1908 or 1909

"KA. Theta's Celebrating With Soda Pop" (caption) 1908 or 1909

This Week in UO Greek History – 3.11.24

Fraternity Chapter Presidents – 1930

This Week in UO Greek History – 3.04.24

Chi Omega 1926

This Week in UO Greek History – 2.26.24

Canoe Fete – Spring 1923
Caption Reads: “No. 9 – ‘Smilin’ Thru’ – Delta Gamma and Sigma Nu.
Seated – Gordon Bennett, Standing – Margaret Powers”

Beginning in the early 1900’s, Canoe Fete became a popular UO tradition, consisting of swimming races and nighttime parades with decorated canoes.

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 2.19.24

Chi Psi – Date Unknown

This Week in UO Greek History – 2.12.24

Phi Gamma Delta – 1907

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 2.05.24

Pi Beta Phi – Homecoming 1945

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 1.29.24

Sigma Chi – Date Unknown

This Week in UO Greek History – 1.18.24

Beta Theta Pi – First Charter at UO

This Week in UO Greek History – 1.08.24

“Delta Gamma Christmas Ball Committee”
12/14/1931

This Week in UO Greek History – 11.27.23

Phi Gamma Delta
1966

This Week in UO Greek History – 11.20.23

“30 Years Later Phi Kappa Psi Continues Its Long Tradition of Golfing in Eugene”

This Week in UO Greek History – 11.13.23

FSL November Soirée
November 1976 (Chapters Unknown)

This Week in UO Greek History – 11.06.23

Delta Delta Delta Formal
November 1913

This Week in UO Greek History – 10.30.23

Halloween 1983
Gamma Phi Beta + Chi Psi Halloween Philanthropy for Disabled Children

This Week in UO Greek History – 10.24.23

FSL Olympics 

1988

This Week in UO Greek History – 10.17.23

Sigma Nu Party

1986

This Week in UO Greek History – 10.09.23

Sigma Chi & Kappa Delta Dance

1936

This Week in UO Greek History – 10.02.23

Phi Kappa Psi – Oregon Alpha

1920s

This Week in UO Greek History – 09.25.23

“Ugly Man Contest”
Unidentified Sorority Members
Fall Recruitment 1966 

This Week in UO Greek History – 09.18.23

The Brothers Sigma Phi Epsilon
Late 70s

This Week in UO Greek History – 09.11.23

The Brothers of Sigma Nu
Late 70s

This Week in UO Greek History – 06.12.23

Greek Olympics 1984

This Week in UO Greek History – 06.05.23

Alpha Chi Omega Sisters

In the dorm at Hendricks Opening Letters from Home

1942

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.30.23

Greeks at the Prometheus Statue
Sorority and Fraternity members pose on the Prometheus stature in the early 1980s

“Prometheus” (1958) is located north of the Schnitzer Museum of Art. This sculpture commemorates Gamma Phi Beta’s 50th anniversary on the UO campus.  It was created by Czech-born artist Jan Zach (1914-86), who taught sculpture at the UO from 1958-79.

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.22.23

Greek Week 1963
Sorority members strategize on a play during a flag football competition as part of Greek Week.

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.15.23

Gamma Phi Beta Banquet
April 2nd, 1932

 

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.08.23

Delta Tau Delta on Mother’s Day
May 1937

Delta Tau Delta on Mother's Day May 1937

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.01.23

FIJI House

June, 1980

This Week in UO Greek History – 04.24.23

PHC & IFC Executives

1982

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 04.17.23

Kappa Alpha Theta 

1966

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 04.10.23

Pi Sigma

1930
National Political Science Honor Society

This Week in UO Greek History – 04.03.23

Phi Delta Theta 

New Members and Full Chapter 
Spring 1958

This Week in UO Greek History – 03.27.23

Blasts From ATO Past

This Week in UO Greek History – 03.20.23

Lambda Chi Alpha Installation 1918

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 03.13.23

PHC & IFC EXECUTIVES

EARLY 80s

This Week in UO Greek History – 03.06.23

Kappa Kappa Gamma & Beta Theta Pi

Canoe Fete – 1982

This Week in UO Greek History – 02.28.23

Alpha Tau Omega Freshman

04.07.1954

This Week in UO Greek History – 02.20.23

Kappa Kappa Gamma 
1975-76

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 02.13.23

In Honor of Their Recent Installation 
Phi Delta Theta Debating Team – 1937

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 02.06.23

Junior Weekend Float – ΔΤΔ x ΓΘΒ 2nd Place
1947
(Thank you to DTD President Andrew Coskey for the submission)

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 01.30.23

1969

This Week in UO Greek History – 01.23.23

The caption on the back reads, “Betas in the snow 1908 or 9”
The Beta Rho Colony of Beta Theta Pi was founded on December 4th, 1909. 
We believe this photo depicts some of the founding members.Beta Theta Pi in the Snow 1909

This Week in UO Greek History – 01.16.23

Sweethearts of Sigma Chi 1956-57

Kay Brunsen ’60 Pi Beta Phi

Sigma Chi Sweethearts

This Week in UO Greek History – 01.09.23

Generations of Theta Chi

Theta Chi Chapter House – January 1938

This Week in UO Greek History – 12.05.22

Delta Gamma – Finals Week 1986
Delta Gamma 1986 Finals Week

This Week in UO Greek History – 11.28.22

Theta Chi Library – Date Unknown
The inscription reads “The library of Theta Chi a the University of Oregon is well–full books, its own and others selected from the special collection to house by the University Library”Theta Chi Library

This Week in UO Greek History – 11.21.22

Phi Delta Theta – Kappa Alpha Theta
Literal ‘Barn Dance’ 1920sBarn Dance

This Week in UO Greek History – 11.14.22

IFC Council – 1938

This Week in UO Greek History – 11.07.22

Chi Omega – Pyramid 1976

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 10.31.22

UO FSL Halloween Throwbacks – 1930s, 1940s, 1950s

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 10.24.22

Lambda Chi Alpha, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa Gamma – Halloween

October, 31st 1984

Halloween 1984

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 10.17.22

Alpha Tau Omega Chapter House

1925

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 10.10.22

Greek Week Millrace Floats

1987

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 09.26.22

Greek Toga Party in the EMU

1950

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 09.19.22

The Brothers of Sigma Nu – Gamma Zeta Chapter 

1907

This Week in UO Greek History – 06.27.22

Delta Gamma Philanthropy

Summer 2012

This Week in UO Greek History – 06.13.22

Gamma Phi Beta 100 Years Ago

1922

This Week in UO Greek History – 06.06.22

Delta Zeta #ThrowBackThrusday (On a Monday)

Circa Early 2022

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.30.22

Greek Jog-A-Thon Philanthropy 2003

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.23.22

Football Newsletter From 1949

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.16.22

“Delts” Shamrock Charity Basketball Game
Early 2000s

Kappa Delta and Delta Tau Delta teamed up to raise money for charity in the early 2000s at the annual Shamrock Basketball Game at South Eugene HS.

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.09.22

IFC and PHC Presidents Discuss Housing Issues

1949

The Caption Reads: University of Oregon student leaders discuss campus tempest, “deferred living”, in informal session. They are, from left: seated, Art Johnson, student body president; standing, Vic Fryer, Inter-Dormitory council President; Dorothy Orr, Heads of Houses president; Fred Van Horn, Inter-Fraternity council President, and Frances Robson, President of the          Pan Hellenic council.

The “deferred living” stipulation was passed with the help of student involvement and the policy remains in place to this day.

This Week in UO Greek History – 05.02.22

The Women of Delta Gamma Support Take Back The Night Rally 

Early 2000s

This Week in UO Greek History – 04.25.22

Greeks Take a Campus Swim in the Millrace in 1981

This Week in UO Greek History – 04.18.22

House Barn Dance

Late 1950s

This Week in UO Greek History – 04.11.22

Greek Tug of War Across The Millrace: Late 1930s

This Week in UO Greek History – 04.04.22

Original Delta Tau Delta House 1143 Oak Street


This American Craftsman building was initially built for the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity 

This Week in UO Greek History – 03.28.22

Greeks Canoeing on the Millrace in 1915

This Week in UO Greek History – 03.21.22

Greek Awards BBQ on 15th in the Early 2000s

This Week in UO Greek History – 03.14.22

Sigma Alpha Mu Paddle – Pledge Dance 1948

This Week in UO Greek History – 03.07.22

Kappa Kappa Gamma House History

Submitted by Chapter President Cami Hollero

The first Kappa Kappa Gamma house. The inscription on the picture reads, “For 12 years the new Beta Omega Chapter occupied a large house originally leased by the Gamma Delta Gamma group. In 1925, however, the Chapter moved to its own newly built house on the corner of Fifteenth and Alder. With alterations this house has continued to be the chapter house.”

The current KKG house circa 1925 that has been host to only Kappa’s for the past 97 years!

This Week in UO Greek History – 02.28.22

Greek Rooms Twenty Years Ago

4 Fraternity Brothers from Theta Chi in a dorm

Theta Chi Dorm 2001

Sisters from Kappa Delta in 2001

Sisters from Kappa Delta in 2001

 

This Week in UO Greek History – 02.21.22

Campus Greeks at Dads’ Gates in 1945

Work on the ornamental Dads’ Gates began in August 1940.  They were were formally dedicated on February 8, 1941, as part of the 14th annual Dad’s Day celebration weekend. The UO Dads Club was the sponsor and underwriter of the project. The Dads Club was a patron-parent organization established in 1927. The concept for the gates began in 1938 and was supported with funding from the Dads Club with additional support from a PWA program. Abbot Lawrence, a UO architecture graduate and son of Ellis Lawrence, created the design that was executed by metal craftsman Orion B. Dawson.

Orion Benjamin Dawson was a master blacksmith who produced numerous iron works as an employee with the Depression-era Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Dawson’s work in Oregon can be seen at the University of Oregon’s Knight Library and Howe Field, Oregon State University, and Timberline Lodge.

This Week in UO Greek History – 02.14.22

The History of Hendricks Hall

Though not exactly a Greek organization, Hendricks Hall was once a Women’s dormitory that housed many in the Greek community when they were not living in their chapter houses. The hall was run similar to a chapter house with elected officers and house rules.

Construction began on Hendricks Hall dormitory in July 1917 and was completed in February of 1918.  The dormitory formally opened on February 23, 1918. The building was named for T. G. Hendricks, grocer, then banker, who was instrumental in raising funds for Deady Hall’s construction.  It was built to accommodate 112, but lack of sufficient furniture allowed only about 50 to reside in the dorm the first months.  The building was in the “Georgian Colonial” style that Lawrence prescribed for works outside of the main quadrangle. Mary Spiller House was connected to Hendricks Hall through the dining room (Refectory). Spiller House was razed in 1951. The refectory was remodeled in the 1970s to house offices.

Below the photo is a copy of the rules hall residents had to abide by in the early 1940s.

This Week in UO Greek History – 02.07.22

It looks like Delta Tau Delta and Gamma Phi Beta took home the gold in the inaugural
All-Campus Sing. No word on who won this edition held in 1947. 

These sorority ladies model the latest fashion on the ad opposite the All-Campus Sing lineup.

This Week in UO Greek History – 01.31.22

Pledge Class of Sigma Kappa from 1946-1947

*Thanks to UO Archives Photographs, University of Oregon

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