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About Delta Kappa Epsilon, Chi Rho Chapter, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

The Chi Rho Chapter of DKE was founded on February 16, 1991 at Penn State. This Chapter was started for many different reasons. Each founding Father had their own reason for wanting to start a new chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon. They wanted something new, different, fun, exciting, and challenging. The founding fathers are: Joseph NaHas Jr., Sean Madden, Tim Seitz, Jay Gallagher, Joe Pinto, David Maxwell, Kevin Rokuski, Steve Eldred, Steve Laudenslager, Mark Lamb, Jeff Ulinoski, Dave Roney, Craig Dammon, Carol Edwards, Chris Pagotto. After a period of declining numbers, the chapter lost their charter and was almost lost. The few remaining brothers struggled to revive the fraternity until receiving a pledge class of six new brothers in the fall of 2000. Since then, the national office has returned their charter. Recently, DKE has returned to the Bloomsburg Campus as a recognized fraternity. The brothers of Delta Kappa Epsilon currently have the highest GPA for a fraternity on campus and continue to increase their numbers, with 19 active brothers out of a total 143 for the chapter since its formation. The brothers of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Chi Rho Chapter are an outstanding example of the motto of their fraternity, “friends from the heart forever.” They also continue to live up to their beliefs in trust, unity, respect, and loyalty as invaluable members of the college community. But don’t get us wrong, we are not merely scholars, we are also gentlemen and we are most certainly jolly good fellows. As a brother, each individual has contributions and assets to bring to the group. Our talents become the fraternity’s and vice versa. And besides being involved in Delta Kappa Epsilon alone, in recent years members of the fraternity have been involved and taken leadership roles in other organizations such as:

Future Business Leaders of America
Inter-fraternal Council
Community Government Association
Water Polo Team
Lacrosse Team
US Marines
O.W.L.’s (Orientation Workshop Leader)
Student Tutorial Services
Student Concert Committee Student
Athletic Advisory Committee
Kappa Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society
Intramural Sports
B.U. Radio Station
US Air Force
Residence Life
Geosciences Club
Model United Nations
R.O.T.C.
Upward Bound Tutor/Councilor
Tennis Team
National Communications Association
Film Society
Youth Football Referee
Gamma Sigma Alpha- Greek Honor Society
Roller Hockey Team
Student Art Association
The Voice – Student Newspaper
Democracy Matters/American Democracy Project
Board of Governor
Resident Hall Council
B.U. Iron Club
Swim Team

National History

Each year at Yale University during the 1840’s, certain members of the sophomore class were elected to two junior societies, Alpha Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon. In the spring of 1844, due to undergraduate politics and a division in the sophomore class, a number of men of high character and scholastic attainment did not receive bids from the two societies. So unfair, in fact, were the selections that some men who did receive bids promptly rejected them. On Saturday, June 22, 1844, fifteen Yale sophomores, rejecting the status quo, met and formed a new junior society which they called Delta Kappa Epsilon. Very quickly DKE became more than just another junior society. Its predecessors’ criterion of academic distinction, while still highly respected, was expanded to include the qualities of good fellowship and compatible tastes and interests and thus attracted a wider range of prospective members. More fraternal than its rival societies, DKE proceeded to recruit men who combine “in equal proportions the gentleman, the scholar, and the jolly good fellow” — criteria which have remained unchanged to this day. We are proud of our fraternity and the more than 70,000 men who have become our brothers since DKE was founded in 1844. Dekes come from every walk of life. Many have gone on to distinguish themselves in politics, the arts, sciences, sports, education, and the humanities. Delta_Kappa_Epsilon Five U.S. Presidents have been Dekes, the most of any fraternity. The first man to reach the North Pole was a Deke and a Deke has carried our flag to the moon. In every corner of the world you will meet fellow Dekes, but whatever their background or station in life, all are united by the shared experience of membership in DKE. View DKE’s prominent alumni.