Founding Date

Jan 28th, 2017

In 1856, the Iowa General Assembly enacted legislation to establish the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm. Iowa State University was officially established on March 22, 1858 by the General Assembly. Story County was selected as a site on June 21, 1859, and the original farm of 648 acres was purchased for a cost of $5,379. The Farm House, the first building on the Iowa State campus, was completed in 1861. The institution was coeducational from the first preparatory class admitted in 1868. In 1898, reflecting the school's growth during his tenure, it was renamed Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, or Iowa State for short. On July 4, 1959, the college was officially renamed Iowa State University of Science and Technology. The establishment of Eta Psi chapter in the fall of 2016 included events led by Collegiate Development Consultants Sarah Gilbert, Eta Sigma-Charleston and Shea Hermann, Epsilon Phi-Loyola, who were assigned to support the chapter. They held “infoviews” for potential members, Fraternity staff and volunteers, and a preference event with sisters from Lambda-Minnesota. The establishment events culminated in September of 2016 with the pledging of the charter members of Eta Psi-Iowa State and a Bid Day celebration. Since Bid Day, the chapter elected their first president, Amy Huynh, has participated in Homecoming Week, held a roller-skating themed twin reveal, welcomed 30 mew members at COB Bid Day on January 22, 2017, and will hold their first Anchor Splash® on February 18, 2017. Eta Psi chapter and its charter members join the sisterhood of over 230,000 living members with their January 28, 2017 Initiation and Installation. This day Eta Psi celebrates becoming Delta Gamma’s 199th chapter since 1873, and the 149th active chapter of Delta Gamma on college campuses today. Beginning in the fall of 2017, the Eta Psi chapter will be housed at 313 Lynn Avenue in Ames.