Phi Gamma Delta

The international fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (also known as FIJI) is a collegiate social fraternity with 120 chapters and 20 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and its headquarters are located in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Phi Gamma Delta is a member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference and, along with the Fraternity of Phi Kappa Psi, forms the Jefferson Duo. In 1803 only a small percentage of Americans attended college. Those who did had relatively few choices, especially in what was then the frontier lands of western Pennsylvania near Canonsburg. There a Presbyterian clergyman named John A. M'Millan (1752–1833) had just arrived from the College of New...