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.

The Purpose of Delta Sigma Pi, is our mission statement. It serves each chapter and individual brother as a reminder of our ultimate goal as we endeavor to achieve excellence in the business community and in our personal lives.

Our History

It was not a single spectacular event that brought about the creation of Delta Sigma Pi over 100 years ago, but the association of five students at New York University who, coincidentally, used a common path to their homes following classes. These five men were motivated by the same forces that have caused others to organize fraternities, namely, common goals and the desire to pursue these goals together.

Plans were made by these five men in the Spring and Summer of 1907 to form a social club composed of students in the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University, which at that time conducted classes in the evening. Regular sessions of this nucleus were held at one of the ice cream parlors in Central Park, which concession was operated by the father of one of the five men. When Fall came, the time set for the formal launching of this club, one of the five members accepted the pledge of a Greek letter organization at New York University and dropped from the group. This incident changed the thinking of the remaining four and the existing plans for a club were abandoned in favor of a Greek letter fraternity.

Thus, Delta Sigma Pi was created on November 7, by Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello, Henry Albert Tienken and Harold Valentine Jacobs. Delta Sigma Pi continues to expand each year not only in the number of chapters and members, but also in its scope of activities and influence in the world of business.