History of Phi Delta Chi

The Phi Delta Chi Fraternity was founded on November 2, 1883 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Eleven men under the supervision of Albert Benjamin Prescott began a fraternity that would become a nationally known pharmacy organization.  The following names are the eleven men who began it all for Phi Delta Chi.

Charles Edward Bond

Franklin Herbert Frazee

Llewellyn Hall Gardner

Calvin Pomeroy Godfrey

Adolph Gustave Hoffman

Charles F. Hueber

George Pawling Lemon

Arthur Sidney Rogers

Azor Thurston

Albert Tenney Waggoner

Arthur Gilliam Hopper

The Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi Delta Chi at Butler University was founded on December 28, 1955.  The following are the names of the twelve men who founded the Alpha Phi Chapter.

Carl Erdmann

Jay Gibbs

Karl Hunt

George Klein

John Kozar

Charles Poulton

John Rupich

William Schaffer

Loren Toler

Edmund Trojan

Robert Weimer

Robert Wilson