Fraternities Combine

Two Dartmouth fraternities, Alpha Chi Rho and Phi Kappa Sigma, voted on May 19 to return their charters to their national organizations and to combine as a new local fraternity to be called Gamma Delta Chi. The merger was adopted at simultaneous meetings of the two houses, following negotiations of several weeks among their respective graduate trustees.

Plans are under way to build a new house on the present Phi Kappa Sigma site on North Main Street. The combined organization will have $20,000 in cash, largely obtained from the sale of the Alpha Chi Rho house to the Church of Christ last year, and a drive will be inaugurated for the additional funds necessary.

The merger will bring together an alumni group of nearly 500 and an undergraduate chapter of over 50 members, Gamma Delta Chi, the name chosen for the new fraternity, is a combination of the traditional name of the local chapter Gamma Delta Epsilon, which preceded Phi Kappa Sigma, and the name Alpha Chi Rho.

In announcing the union of the two houses, the presidents of Alpha Chi Rho and Phi Kappa Sigma made the following joint statement: "We believe that by thismerger, to form the local fraternityGamma Delta Chi, we shall function withincreased advantages for our members, andshall be in a position to act immediatelyin relation to prospective changes in thesocial life, of Dartmouth College." Gamma Delta Chi will be the second local fraternity at Dartmouth, Kappa Kappa Kappa being the only one at present.