Founding Date

Sep 23rd, 1884

The St. Lawrence University was chartered April 3, 1856, for the purpose, as stated in the act of incorporation, “or establishing, maintaining, and conducting a college in the town of Canton, St. Lawrence County, for the promotion of general education, and to cultivate and advance literature, science, and the arts; and also to establish and maintain a theological school and department, in Canton aforesaid.” Today, it is a private, four-year liberal arts college in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2400 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female. The second Upsilon chapter of Delta Gamma was installed at St. Lawrence University on September 23, 1884 by members of the Psi-Lewis and Phi-Franklin chapters. Twelve women became the founding members of the chapter. By November of the same year, the chapter began to experience the first of its problems. As was common for the era, there were few women attending college, making the small pool of potential Delta Gamma women that much smaller. In their first recruitment period, the women of Upsilon II were only interested in one woman whom they did not pledge. There is little more information about the second Upsilon chapter, but it is likely this membership problem that led to the closure of the chapter in 1887.