Miss Ohio

Alpha Kappa, Miami University

I had a fun time visiting Miami because there is so much fraternity and sorority history on campus. I had visited briefly a year and a half ago on my Greek Alternative Spring Break trip with UConn so I had been looking forward to revisiting some of the history and learning about AEPhi's history on campus.

The sorority quad that houses all the suites

While I was on campus I attended Shabbat with the president and advisor. It was actually my first Shabbat service since being at UConn Hillel last year so I enjoyed that. They also served Thanksgiving food and matzoh ball soup that was delicious!

The campus is so pretty and everything is brick. It all looks very old but in a beautiful way. A lot of the fraternity and sorority history at Miami has to do with the fact that five national organizations were founded there. The Miami Triad is made up of three fraternities: Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Chi. All three chapters were founded on campus in the 1800s and each still has their Alpha chapter open today. Then in the very early 1900s, Delta Zeta Sorority and Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity were founded at Miami. These foundings have given Miami University the nickname of the "Mother of Fraternities" and has made it a popular campus for other organizations to charter at. There are also a lot of landmarks on campus donated by Greek organizations because of this.

Kappa Kappa Gamma's centennial memorial (Shout out to my sister, Rachel!)

Delta Zeta' s concrete memorial to commemorate their centennial

Delta Zeta's four other concrete memorials to the Alphas chapters in commemoration of Delta Zeta's centennial

Phi Delta Theta's Elliot Hall plaque marks the dorm room where, in 1848, the secret society was first formed.

Phi Delta Theta's Gates at the historic entrance to the university. It was given to celebrate their 125 year anniversary and their International Headquarters is right across the street.

Beta Theta Pi donated this bell tower to the university in 1939.

Tri Delta's sundial, which tells the exact solar time on four days of the year.

Some other cool landmarks are the Phi Kappa Tau Circle, Alpha Delta Pi's memorial bench and plaque celebrating 150 years, and Alpha Phi's sculpture for their 50th anniversary at Miami.

"To think that in such a place, I led such a life."- Anonymous (Miami University's unofficial motto)

Post title from: Look at Miss Ohio by Gillian Welch, covered by Miranda Lambert