Our house is a very very very fine house.

The Phi Delt House

This week, the Kansas Epsilon Chapter of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity (Emporia State) celebrates it's 40th Anniversary during the annual White Carnation Formal (Founder's Day).  It's not just any celebration.  Oh no!  The festivities include the dedication of the new chapter house, upon the same corner lot of the Chapter's first home at 14th and Highland Streets.  After twenty years in a 19th Century Victorian, it was time for brand new digs.  Of course, landscaping will follow soon.  At this time, the yard is nothing but dirt.  Since I cannot be present for the events, I've been very appreciative of Flyover People for documenting the build.
I was a freshman during the Chapter's 25th Anniversary during the 1993-1994 school year.  I just dated myself, didn't I?  There will be another celebration, later this year, when the entire brotherhood commemorates it's 160th anniversary; founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in December 1848.

"Here's to Phi Delta Theta.  Long shall we honor her name.  With true zeal and deepest fervor.  Bound until death, we'll serve her.  Here's to our loyal brothers, Phi Delta Theta men.  Honor is theirs, every brother who wears a Phi Delta Theta pin!"