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Mission Statement
Phi Gamma Delta exists to promote lifelong friendships, to reaffirm high
ethical standards and values, and to foster personal development in the
pursuit of excellence. Phi Gamma Delta is committed to provide opportunities
for each brother to develop responsibility, leadership, scholarship and
social skills in order to become a fully contributing member of society.
What is a Fraternity
"A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college
days by democratic processes, because of their adherance to common ideals
and aspirations. Out of their association arises a personal relation which
makes them unselfishly seek to advance one another in the arts of life and
to add, to the formal instruction of the college curriculum, the culture
and character which men acquire by contact with great personalities, or
when admitted to partnership in great traditions."
-- Newton D. Baker (Johns Hopkins 1892, Washington and Lee 1894)
About the International Fraternity
The International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, headquartered in Lexington,
Kentucky, is a college-based fraternity founded in 1848 at Jefferson College
in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, by John Templeton McCarty, Samuel Beatty Wilson,
Naaman Fletcher, Daniel Webster Crofts, James Elliott, Jr. and Ellis Bailey
Gregg.
With chapters on nearly 120 college and university campuses throughout the United
States and Canada, Phi Gamma Delta has approximately 5,000 Undergraduate
and over 90,000 Graduate Brothers spread throughout the world.
Membership in Phi Gamma Delta (also known as "Fiji") is premised
on five key VALUES:
We are united by FRIENDSHIP. It is the basis of our brotherhood. Because
of it we accomplish far more than we do as individuals. Friendship is the
sweetest influence.
We promote the pursuit of KNOWLEDGE. It is the key to a fuller, richer life.
We gain it through education, the harmonious development of the powers of
the individual.
We encourage SERVICE. We have the ability, the opportunity, and the duty
to serve our fellow human beings. Our reward is the satisfaction that comes
from serving.
We believe in MORALITY. As gentlemen of quality we must do what is right
as individuals and as a group. Moral behavior is the basis of society's
existence.
We strive for EXCELLENCE. It is attained only when we fulfill our total
potential. Mankind benefits when each of us becomes all that we can be.
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