List of Gamma Sigma Delta chapters

This Chapter and Colony Roll of the Honor Society of Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta, a co-ed honor society for agriculture students and those in the related sciences, is complete through 2012. Inactive chapters are shown in italics.

List of chapters

These first six chapters began as Delta Theta Sigma chapters. Where several of these six had closed, at refounding, they have been installed subsequently as a Gamma Sigma Delta chapter with a later chartering date.

Name Chartered Institution Location Status Notes Reference
Ohio State Dec 1, 1905 Ohio State Columbus, OH Inactive
See Ohio State 2		 [1]
Iowa State Apr 9, 1907 Iowa State Ames, IA Active
Penn State 1 Mar 30, 1908 Penn State State College, PA Inactive
See Penn State 2		 [2]
Missouri Nov 23, 1908 Missouri Columbia, MO Active
Utah State Mar 30, 1909 Utah State Logan, UT Inactive
Oregon State Apr 13, 1909 Oregon State Corvallis, OR Inactive
See Oregon State 2		 [3]

The following chapters were installed as Gamma Sigma Delta chapters.

Name Chartered Institution Location Status Notes Reference
Kansas State Jun 25, 1914 Kansas State Manhattan, KS Active
Auburn Apr 1916 Auburn Auburn, AL Active
Minnesota Jun 4, 1917 Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Active [4][5]
Nebraska May 25, 1918 Nebraska Lincoln, NE Active
Penn State 2 Oct 10, 1922 Penn State State College, PA Active [6]
Illinois Nov 17, 1923 Illinois Champaign-Urbana, IL Active
Washington, DC alumni Nov 11, 1924 Washington, DC Inactive [7]
Ohio State 2 Nov 12, 1928 Ohio State Columbus, OH Active [8]
Puerto Rico May 24, 1938 Puerto Rico Mayagüez, PR Active
Arkansas May 17, 1954 Arkansas Monticello, AR Active
Connecticut May 26, 1954 Connecticut Storrs, CT Active
Kentucky Jan 14, 1955 Kentucky Lexington, KY Active
No. Carolina St. Apr 28, 1955 North Carolina State Raleigh, NC Active
Florida Apr 29, 1955 Florida Gainesville, FL Active
Clemson May 16, 1957 Clemson Clemson, SC Active
Philippines Oct 24, 1957 Philippines Los Baños,
Laguna, Philippines		 Active
Arizona Mar 26, 1958 Arizona Tucson, AZ Active
South Dakota May 27, 1958 South Dakota Vermillion, SD Active
West Virginia May 8, 1959 West Virginia Morgantown, WV Active
Wyoming Jan 19, 1961 Wyoming Laramie, WY Active
Louisiana State Aug 3, 1961 LSU Baton Rouge, LA Active
Georgia Dec 1, 1961 Georgia Athens, GA Active
Colorado Jun 20, 1963 Colorado Boulder, CO Active
Mississippi State Feb 25, 1964 Mississippi State Starkville, MS Active
Tennessee Jun 4, 1964 Tennessee Knoxville, TN Active
Texas A & M Jul 1, 1965 Texas A&M College Station, TX Active
Nevada Mar 25, 1966 Nevada, Reno Reno, NV Active
California - Pomona Apr 6, 1967 Cal State, Pomona Pomona, CA Active
Wisconsin May 9, 1967 Wisconsin Madison, WI Active
Hawaii Oct 25, 1968 Hawaii Mānoa, HI Active
VPI & SU Mar 9, 1970 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA Active
Purdue Apr 11, 1972 Purdue West Lafayette, IN Active
Texas Tech Jun 15, 1972 Texas Tech Lubbock, TX Active
Idaho May 2, 1973 Idaho Moscow, ID Active
No. Carolina A&T Oct 22, 1974 North Carolina A&T Greensboro, NC Active
New Mexico State Oct 12, 1979 New Mexico State Las Cruces, NM Active
Oregon State 2 Oct 22, 1981 Oregon State Corvallis, OR Active
California - Riverside Mar 15, 1982 California, Riverside Riverside, CA Active
Maryland Feb 23, 1984 Maryland College Park, MD Active
Texas A&I May 11, 1984 Texas A&I Kingsville, TX Active
Oklahoma State May 15, 1984 Oklahoma State Stillwater, OK Active
Tuskegee Oct 25, 1985 Tuskegee Tuskegee, AL Active
Cornell May 20, 1986 Cornell University Ithaca, NY Active
Washington State Jun 16, 1987 Washington State Pullman, WA Active
Michigan State May 25, 1988 Michigan State East Lansing, MI Active
Honduras Oct 28, 1989 Honduras El Zamorano,
Francisco Morazán, Honduras		 Active
Florida A&M Apr 12, 1997 Florida A&M Tallahassee, FL Active
California - Davis Nov 16, 2000 California, Davis Davis, CA Active
Langston University Apr 23, 2002 Langston Langston, OK Active
Arkansas - Pine Bluff Apr 4, 2005 Arkansas-Pine Bluff Pine Bluff, AR Active
Western Kentucky Apr 28, 2005 Western Kentucky Bowling Green, KY Active
North Dakota State Nov 1, 2005 NDSU Fargo, ND Active
Massachusetts Mar 25, 2014 UMass Amherst, MA Active

The creation of chapters continued after the 2012 History was written, with the 2014 establishment of a chapter at Massachusetts according to the fraternity's website. Information about one early chapters was not available at the time this page was created, namely, that there was no specific date for the induction of the Auburn chapter.

References

Chapter list provided in the Gamma Sigma Delta History,[9] and on the fraternity's website.

  1. Continues as the Alpha chapter of Delta Theta Sigma, as of 1913, with no legal connection with Gamma Sigma Delta. Two decades later, a chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta was founded on the Ohio State campus.
  2. Refounded in 1922 after demise of this earlier chapter
  3. Refounded in 1981 after demise of this earlier chapter
  4. See also the 1915 local, The Agricultural Honor Society of America, at Minnesota. Merging with of Gamma Sigma Delta on June 4, 1917, the combined Society met for first time under new name of "The Honor Society of Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta" on this date.
  5. Local contact information for the Minnesota chapter, accessed 26 Sept 2018.
  6. Refounded after demise of earlier chapter
  7. Establishment of this chapter was approved Dec. 27, 1923 with 16 members present. There is no further reference to this chapter in minutes of any Biennial Conclave.
  8. This chapter was established on the same campus as the original founding chapter. That previous group, which had remained Delta Theta Sigma, had thus essentially reverted to local status.
  9. "Gamma Sigma Delta History" (PDF). Gamma Sigma Delta. pp. 4–6. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
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