Phi Kappa Tau, Fraternity 1906 Inc. Epsilon Delta Chapter of Virginia Wesleyan College.

	History	Creed
	Timeline	Mission Statement
	Insignia	Service and Philanthropy

Chapter History

Epsilon Delta Chapter
Virginia Wesleyan University
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Chartered as Phi Kappa Tau, December 10, 1988

In September 1986, a group of men who belonged to the local fraternity Sigma Chi Delta petitioned Phi Kappa Tau to become a colony of the fraternity. The petition was approved, and the group became an official colony. By the end of 1987, the group had grown to thirty-three members and associates. Advisor Dave Kennedy and dean David Buckingham helped the colony fulfill the chartering requirements.

The Epsilon Delta charter was signed and presented on December 10, 1988. Thirty-two men participated in the signing in the Virginia Wesleyan chapel along with National President John Cosgrove and executive director John M. Green. The installation banquet and dance was held at the beach front Holiday Inn in Virginia Beach.

National History

Phi Kappa Tau was founded in the Union Literary Society Hall of Miami University's
Old Main Building in Oxford, Ohio on March 17, 1906.

The four honored founders were:

- Taylor Albert Borradaile
- Clinton Dewitt Boyd
- Dwight Ireneus Douglass
- William Henry Shideler

Founded as the Non-Fraternity Association to give Miami's non-fraternity men a voice in campus political affairs, the organization changed its name to Phrenecon on March 6, 1909 because the name Non-Fraternity Association seemed too negative.

Phrenecon became "national" in 1911 when a second chapter was formed at Ohio University. Additional Phrenecon chapters were established at Ohio State University, Centre College (Danville, KY), Mount Union College (Alliance, OH) and the University of Illinois. At Miami, Phrenecon began to have difficuly retaining members by the early 'teens. Often, men joined Phrenecon, then later dropped their membership and joined Greek-letter fraternities. In fact, the Miami chapters of Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon were founded by Phrenecon members. For that reason, the Miami Chapter of Phrenecon withdrew from the National Phrenecon and adopted the name Phi Kappa Tau on March 9, 1916. The rest of the chapters agreed to the name change in December of that year and invited Miami to return to the national organization as the Alpha chapter of Phi Kappa Tau.