OUR ALUMNI CHAPTER
The Albany/Upstate New York Alumni Chapter is a group of Delta Sigma Pi alumni in New York's Capital Region who truly show that brotherhood is not just for four years, but it is for a lifetime. The chapter was re-established and franchised in June 2018 and has been active ever since. On average, the chapter hosts an event each month to engage our membership in areas of professionalism, service, and social activity.
CONNECTING WITH COLLEGIATE MEMBERS IN NEW YORK’S CAPITAL REGION
The alumni chapter is conveniently located next to two collegiate chapters: Siena College (Theta Upsilon) and State University of New York - Albany (Zeta Psi). Being nearby the collegiate chapters provides the alumni chapter ample opportunity to network with the future business leaders of our community.
Are you looking to reconnect with your brothers? Are you ready to help us serve our community? Are you excited to mentor our students in business? The alumni chapter provides all of these opportunities for you - inquire today on how to join!
President: Francis Loughran
The President is the chief executive officer of the chapter and presides over its meetings and sees that the chapter officers discharge their duties impartially, accurately, faithfully and promptly.
Vice President-Chapter Operations: Travis Brodbeck
The Vice President-Chapter Operations oversees the administrative functions of the chapter including record keeping, official communications, Central Office reports, and maintaining governing documents.
Vice President-Finance: Travis Longworth
The Vice President-Finance is the chapter’s treasurer performing all accounting and finance functions including paying invoices, collecting revenue, and developing the annual budget.
GET INVOLVED AND GIVE BACK
Serving in a volunteer leadership role in Delta Sigma Pi provides a plethora of benefits including:
opportunities to build new bonds through networking and brotherhood activities;
additional education about the national fraternity, the variety of volunteer leadership opportunities, and the available training for volunteers;
enhance both your technical and soft skills through application in chapter business;
satisfaction in service and giving back;
and, furthering the organization's purpose and ideals as set forth in the preamble of our Bylaws.
DELTA SIGMA PI’S 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.
Our values of professional development, service and scholarship are derived from our purpose and lead to our mission of fostering and supporting a lifelong commitment to excellence in both our personal and professional lives as we seek to make a difference in business, our communities, and the world at large.
Professional Development
Our members enjoy high-quality training, frequent events with business and cultural leaders, opportunities to mentor and be mentored by experts in their fields, and supportive friendships that foster both professional and personal success and fulfillment. Beginning with pledging and continuing throughout a member’s life, Deltasig provides non-stop professional development opportunities.Write your text
Diversity and Ethics
As the nation’s first co-ed business fraternity, we believe that individuals and organizations benefit from a wide range of perspectives. It is for that reason, and so many more, that we cultivate a culture of respect that broadens our viewpoints and makes us stronger and more effective leaders in our fields. Our training and events focus on fostering respect by developing considered, sound ethical standards that are inclusive yet principled.
Service
Service to the community is an integral part of the lives of Deltasigs. Through support of cultural and civic organizations, we seek to impact the lives of individuals and families near and far.
Scholarship
Delta Sigma Pi was founded on the ideals of studying business in universities and members of Delta Sigma Pi are expected to strive to reach their full scholastic potential. Trying to balance college, family, friends, work, and extracurricular activities can be difficult, but Delta Sigma Pi can help. The Fraternity encourages academic excellence through programming and provides financial assistance through scholarship opportunities.
"After fifty-nine years of effort, the ideals of the Founders for a fraternity made of members regardless of race, creed or color has come to pass. As one of the originators of this Fraternity, and the ideals expressed and implied in the original Constitution and Bylaws, I can feel like I have accomplished something in this small world."
Harold Valentine Jacobs
FRATERNITY HISTORY
The Rich Heritage of America’s Foremost Fraternity for Students of Business
In the autumn of 1906, there were only a handful of business schools in the United States. One such school—The School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance—enrolled 300 students as part of New York University. Four members of the Class of 1909—Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello, Henry Albert Tienken, and Harold Valentine Jacobs—started a fraternity for business majors that became what is known today as the International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi.
The response to their idea was positive and immediate. The Fraternity’s constitution was drafted and adopted in the fall of 1907. Then the first officers were elected and November 7, 1907 was declared Founders’ Day. In April of 1908, the name Delta Sigma Pi was adopted and bylaws were approved, with the Fraternity’s badge and colors approved shortly thereafter. By 1911, the Fraternity was publishing a newsletter that evolved into the official publication still in circulation today, The DELTASIG. In 1912, the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key Award was established and continues to the present day. Delta Sigma Pi chartered its second chapter—at the Northwestern School of Commerce in Chicago—in 1914 at its national convention, Grand Chapter Congress.
After two world wars and the Great Depression, Delta Sigma Pi renewed its expansion efforts, establishing a permanent national headquarters to handle administrative services for the organization and a Foundation to support educational endeavors and offer valuable financial support to members through scholarships. Social change in the 1960s and 1970s led the Fraternity to examine its ideals and, in 1975, Delta Sigma Pi became the first business fraternity to initiate women. Since that time, Delta Sigma Pi has continued to expand and refine its operations, determined to equip members for future professional and personal success and is proud of its reputation as the world’s foremost fraternity for business majors.
Today, over 300 universities and colleges in the United States, Canada and Mexico are a part of the Delta Sigma Pi network and history.
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