The History of Theta Chi
Theta Chi Xi Chapter - University of Virginia
The Xi Chapter History
Theta Chi co-founders Arthur Chase [left] and Frederick Norton Freeman [right]
April 10, 1856, 9 P.M. [Thursday evening] - Theta Chi Society founded in Old South Barracks [below] at Norwich University, Norwich, Vermont, at nine o'clock on Thursday evening, April 10, 1856. Arthur Chase elected first president, Frederick Norton Freeman elected first secretary; Lorenzo Potter and Edward Bancroft Williston elected members. Alpha Chapter inactive 1960.
Old South Barracks, Norwich University, Norwich, VT - 1856
September 8, 1881 - Theta Chi reduced to one undergraduate member, James Michael Holland.
February 22, 1908 - Grand Chapter of Theta Chi organized at Boston, Massachusetts. J. Albert Holmes elected first national president.
January 26, 1914 - Xi Chapter installed at The University of Virginia.
September 14, 1929 - Wirt Peebles Marks, Jr., Xi Chapter, elected National President.
Fall 1968 - Xi Chapter of Theta Chi moves from Carr's Hill to current residence at 600 Preston Place.