Chi Phi
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Local History
Our chapter traces its earliest roots to a group of WWI veterans at Oregon State College who organized the Oneonta Club in 1920. The club then became a local fraternity under the name of Tau Delta in 1921. A local church pastor at the time, Reverend EJ Harper Pi 1885, became acquainted with some members of Tau Delta. The members of Tau Delta soon learned to love and respect him and he, in turn, thought this group had the qualities necessary for a chapter of Chi Phi. Under his sponsorship, Tau Delta petitioned for several years for a charter as a chapter of Chi Phi and after building a new house they were finally installed as a chapter on March 17, 1931. Financial problems caused the loss of this house in 1936 because of the Great Depression. A dean at Oregon State at the time had a daughter who was in the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma, who bought it and still live there to this day.
From then until the middle of WWII, when all our boys went off to war, they lived in rented quarters. In the fall of 1946 there was a reactivation and to lend stability to this the Oregon State Chi Phi Association was incorporated in 1947 with George Spaur '36 and Merritt W. Truax '33. Under the direction of a committee headed by Elwood McKnight '33 construction on the current house was started in 1958 and Chi Phi moved into their new house in 1959.
In 1982, Brother Truax donated the chapter house to the Chi Phi Educational Trust. In October of 1999 a group of local alumni formed a nonprofit corporation and purchased it back from the Trust in order to preserve it for future generations of Chi Phi's and provide capital for renovation work.
Information provided by Oregon State Chi Phi Website
House
The OSU Chi Phi house is located at 2535 NW Taylor in Corvallis, Oregon. It is the Epsilon Delta Chapter and is just minutes from campus. The house was built in 1959 and incorporated the spacious 15,000 square foot house that included 17 rooms which all held three members in each. Our house also has high speed internet connection which was the first house in Corvallis to obtain this technology. This way you don't need to hassle with getting internet for some other place like the campus labs. The newest renovation to the house was for a front room, this was completed over the months of summer '05 where we repaired the floor, ceiling, and walls. We also got brand new leather furnishings. Everyone takes great pride that lives within this house in keeping it clean and as close to perfect as it can be for a 50 year old house. Guests are always welcome to stop by and tour the house, so stop by and check us out.
More Current News
In 2004, the Epsilon Delta Chapter of Chi Phi received the Ghering Award, given to the Chi Phi chapter of the year. We have a lot of community work with the Boys and Girls Club of Corvallis, and are now reaching out, and volunteering to help the elderly in our community. We have held our own Battle of the Bands over the past couple of years to help raise money for the Boys and Girls Club. We have also participated in many other philanthropies, even winning the annual Sigma Kappa Sideout volleyball event last spring. Intramurals are also a very important part of our house. Not only have we made the playoffs in many of the sports that we have participated in, but have won the All University Soccer Championship two of the last three years.
Officers
Alpha- Alex Craig
Beta- Josh Larson
Gamma- Luke Shindler
Delta- Jacob Dozier
Epsilon- Josh White
Eta- Ian Maarefi
Zeta- Jacob Curtis
Revruitment Chair- Connor Deeks
Social Chair- Chris Townsend
Philanthropy Chair- Ryan Macauley
Members
The following are names and contact information of active members and pledges as of October 2006 (Officers positions are in parenthesis):
Adrian Jensen jensenad@onid.orst.edu
Andrew Hartman thewayofthedude@hotmail.com
Brenden Schild BIZZEL@comcast.net
Cameron Amatore
Casey Barrett theswedish2@aol.com
Chris Fogg foggc@onid.orst.edu
Chris Mann mannc@onid.orst.edu
Dan Keenan prince18ofdarkness@hotmail.com
Drew Andersen andersdr@onid.orst.edu
Grant Farr soccerdude1416@hotmail.com
Greg Gille rochmoninof@hotmail.com
Jake Bartel jake@bartel.net
Jake Christensen jakec023@hotmail.com
James Hill big-jimmy-h@attbi.com
John Drucker johndrucker@comcast.net
Kyle Digmann kalmlikeabomb@yahoo.com
Mark Pearsall pearsalm@onid.orst.edu
Matt McAlpine mccalpine@gmail.com
Mike Moore moorem4@onid.orst.edu
Paul Spangler
Paul Stuart paultstuart@hotmail.com
Pete Lazuran pdlazuran@yahoo.com
Ryan Capen thevwdj@hotmail.com
Spencer Cohen Dups2005@myway.com
Stuart Smith
Tanner Koenig tannerkoneg@yahoo.com
Terry Tappert
Tim Simpson simpsoti@onid.orst.edu
Tom Hathaway pureblackknight@hotmail.com
Trevor Giroux girouxt@onid.orst.edu
Gallery
The gallery contains pictures that shows some events that we have and what our house looks like, so enter if you dare the Chi Phi Gallery.
Contact
Contact us at any time if you have any quesions regarding anything about Chi Phi. You can email any one of us and we would be glad to help answer any queries that you may have, just use the emails that are found on the members part of this page. Or you may also call me at any time my number is (503)866-6096. We are willing to discus anything about Chi Phi and help answer any questions. Other contacts are availible at the OSU Chi Phi website. You can contact me via email at BIZZEL@comcast.net. Hope to hear from you soon.
Chi Phi Links
The following links are provided to give you an even deeper information database about Chi Phi. Please feel free to check out these sites.
OSU Chi Phi - http://www.chiphiosu.com/
Brenden's OSU Chi Phi - http://students.bus.oregonstate.edu/SCHBE071/website/index.html
Chi Phi National HQ - http://www.chiphi.org/
