THETA XI

FRATERNITY

Louisiana State University

THETA XI at LSU

FOUNDING OF THE ALPHA ALPHA CHAPTER

The Alpha Alpha Chapter of Theta Xi Fraternity was chartered on April 23, 1921 at Louisiana State University. It was the Fraternity's first Southern chapter, and the founders' dreams had been realized. Theta Xi Fraternity had become a national orgainzation.


The founders of the LSU chapter were:  Jefferson T. Bryant, Jr.,  AA1; Fomby Walker Coleman, AA2; Newton Smith Hoffpauir, AA3; Col. S. Van Meter, AA4; and Alfred A. Moresi, AA5

OUR HISTORY

1921

 

April 23, 1921 the Alpha Alpha Chapter was founded at Louisiana State University.

1939

Just 18 years after the local founding, the LSU chapter was awarded the National Fraternity's highest award for a chapter, the Memorial Trophy, for being the fraternity's most outstanding chapter.  It would win this award three times and became the first chapter to retire a Memorial Trophy in the Fraternity's history.

1945


Construction began on the current house centrally located on LSU's original fraternity row.

1975

The LSU Chapter set a new Theta Xi record with 178 members. This trend has been maintained and consistantly been Theta Xi's largest chapter. 

2021

This year we are celebrating our 100th Anniversary on the LSU Campus.


There have been over 2,400 young men initiated into membership in Theta Xi at LSU. The chapter has produced members of the LSU Board of Supervisors, State Supreme Court Justices, many judges and attorneys, national and local business leaders, priests and ministers, doctors and dentists, architects and constructors, military leaders and heroes, scientists and educators, artists, publishers, agrarians, writers, historians, campus leaders, and still honoring its frounders with a large number of engineers. 


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