- Founders
Edwin B. Adams
Wilbur G. Burroughs
Stanley G. Cutler
Ruby O. Harder
Theron R. Howser
Robert Emmett Keough
Thomas E. Lowry
Milton H. McCoy
Meryl S. Morgan
Ernest B. Nettleton
Raymond C. Pierce
Franklin N. Ropp
Arthur Schwerin
Charles M. Slaymaker
Charles E. Waterhouse
Emil A. Weber
Standing left to right: Slaymaker, Morgan, Pierce, Harder, Howser, Keough, Schwerin, and Nettleton, Seated: Ropp. Lowry, McCoy, Weber, Adams, and Cutler. Not pictured: Burroughs and Waterhouse.
- National Organization
April 15 is historic in the annals of Triangle Fraternity, the annual Founders Day. On that date in 1907, the band of 16 students constituting the Founders obtained incorporation papers from the State of Illinois. Before the incorporation papers could be applied for, however, there had to be some kind of organization. The Founders, all junior civil engineering students at the University of Illinois, for the most part had known each other since they were freshmen. In the fall of 1906, four students—Stan Cutler, Milton McCoy and Meryl Morgan, and Emil Weber—started discussions about establishing a Civil Engineering club. As the group developed and added members over the next few months, they decided to become a fraternity with plans to rent a house and live together during their senior year, 1907-1908. Just ten years after Triangle’s formation, Founder Arthur Schwerin was looking through his college mementos and found a picture that brought the beginnings of Triangle vividly to his memory:
“This is a flashlight that was taken March 8, 1907, and is, as far as I know, the only picture that was ever taken of the original charter members of TRIANGLE…Our constitution was adopted the latter part of February, 1907, and the meeting at which this picture was taken was held in McCoy’s room for the purpose of selecting a name and also for the election of officers.
A large number of names had been suggested, but Transiters, Eads, Transit and Level, and Triangle seemed to meet with the most favor. Finally it narrowed down to a choice between Eads and Triangle, and the latter won out. It was decided to call the Illinois Chapter “Eads”, because even at that time, we had visions of a fraternity which was to extend beyond the horizon of our own school, and take in all of the large engineering schools of the country.
Shortly after this meeting three additional men were taken in as charter members. Borden left soon after this picture was taken, and never signed the constitution, thus leaving sixteen men, as stated in our history, as the charter members.”
Triangle’s beginnings came from the desire of some congenial college friends to extend their friendship, not only through college, but also for life. It was in the fall of 1906 that sixteen civil engineering juniors at the University of Illinois began the association that became Triangle Fraternity. These Founders based their organization on the principles of honor, friendship, character, brotherhood, courage, and ideals. They developed their plans quickly, and on April 15, 1907, incorporated Triangle in the State of Illinois. The date of incorporation has been designated as Founders’ Day, and Triangle appropriately celebrates it every year at each chapter.
- National Chapters
School |
Chapter |
Date Installed |
Years Active |
Notes |
|
1 |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | ill | April 15, 1907 | 1907–present | founding chapter |
2 |
Purdue University | pur | April 8, 1909 | 1909–present | |
3 |
Ohio State University | os | February 2, 1911 | 1911–present | |
4 |
University of Wisconsin–Madison | wis | February 7, 1913 | 1913–present | |
5 |
University of Kentucky | ky | October 31, 1920 | 1920–1983, 2005–present | |
6 |
University of Cincinnati | cin | August 6, 1921 | 1921–2005, 2014–present | |
7 |
University of Iowa | ia | May 7, 1922 | 1922–1948 | |
8 |
University of Minnesota | minn | October 29, 1922 | 1922–present | |
9 |
Illinois Institute of Technology | ar | May 26, 1923 | 1923–present | originally installed as Armour Institute of Technology |
10 |
University of Missouri | mo | October 25, 1924 | 1924–1933 | |
11 |
University of Michigan | mich | February 21, 1925 | 1925–1971, 1975–1995, 2007–present | |
12 |
University of Kansas | kan | January 8, 1927 | 1927–present | |
13 |
Missouri University of Science and Technology | mom | December 10, 1927 | 1927–present | originally installed as Missouri School of Mines |
14 |
Pennsylvania State University | ps | March 3, 1928 | 1928–present | |
15 |
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | sdm | September 27, 1930 | 1930–present | |
16 |
Northwestern University | nu | May 25, 1935 | 1935–1987 | |
17 |
Marquette University | marq | April 24, 1937 | 1937–present | |
18 |
University of Louisville | lou | March 22, 1941 | 1941–present | |
19 |
Cornell University | cor | April 18, 1942 | 1942–1985 | |
20 |
Michigan State University | msu | January 8, 1955 | 1955–present | |
21 |
Clarkson College | cl | November 16, 1957 | 1957–1970 | |
22 |
University of California, Los Angeles | ucla | December 7, 1957 | 1957–present | |
23 |
University of Nebraska–Lincoln | neb | March 16, 1963 | 1963–2011 | |
24 |
Iowa State University | is | April 25, 1964 | 1964–2011 | recolonizing since 2013 |
25 |
Kansas State University | ks | September 7, 1964 | 1964–present | |
26 |
Oklahoma State University | oks | November 21, 1964 | 1964–1995 | |
27 |
Milwaukee School of Engineering | msoe | January 23, 1965 | 1965–present | |
28 |
Rochester Institute of Technology | rit | February 4, 1967 | 1967–2010 | |
29 |
Colorado State University | csu | May 27, 1967 | 1967–2006, 2012–present | |
30 |
Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology | rose | May 4, 1968 | 1968–present | largest active chapter |
31 |
University of Colorado | colo | April 26, 1969 | 1969–1972 | |
32 |
University of Pittsburgh | pitt | April 4, 1970 | 1970–2001, 2007–present | |
33 |
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | uwm | April 11, 1970 | 1970–present | |
34 |
University of Toledo | tol | May 22, 1971 | 1971–present | |
35 |
Mississippi State University | miss | November 11, 1972 | 1972–1987 | |
36 |
University of Oklahoma | ok | November 18, 1979 | 1979–present | |
37 |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute | vpi | April 19, 1980 | 1980–1996 | |
38 |
University of Connecticut | conn | March 27, 1982 | 1982–1998 | |
39 |
University of Texas at Arlington | uta | September 27, 1986 | 1986–2000 | |
40 |
Texas A&M University | tamu | April 9, 1988 | 1988–1999, 2007–2009 | |
41 |
Michigan Technological University | mtu | April 16, 1988 | 1988–2006, 2012–present | |
42 |
Trine University | tsu | April 15, 1989 | 1989–2008 | originally installed as Tri-State University |
43 |
University of Akron | akr | November 2, 1991 | 1991–1997 | |
44 |
Northern Illinois University | niu | October 9, 1993 | 1993–2006 | |
45 |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County | umbc | June 4, 2005 | 2005–present | |
46 |
University of Houston | hou | April 19, 2008 | 2008–present | |
47 |
University of California, Berkeley | cal | April 24, 2010 | 2010–present | |
48 |
University of California, San Diego | ucsd | February 11, 2011 | 2011–present | |
49 |
University of North Carolina at Charlotte | char | April 30, 2011 | 2011–present | |
50 |
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | cpp | May 7, 2011 | 2011–present | |
51 |
University of California, Irvine | uci | September 29, 2012 | 2012–present | |
52 |
Florida Atlantic University | fau | September 7, 2013 | 2013–present | |
53 |
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College | psb | February 28, 2015 | 2015–present | |
54 |
Virginia Commonwealth University | vcu | April 11, 2015 | 2015–present | |
55 |
University of Utah | utah | April 25, 2015 | 2015–present | possessors of Rattle III |
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