ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

SIGMA DELTA CHI RECORDS

COLLECTION: OGL #765

DATES: 1920-1969

SIZE: 2.5 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: The Sigma Delta Chi Records were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by the University of North Dakota Department of Journalism in July 1982 (Acc.#82-1004).

ACCESS: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

HISTORICAL SKETCH

Sigma Delta Chi, an honorary journalistic society, was founded at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, on April 17, 1909. According to its by-laws, the group sought to: "associate journalists of talent, truth, and energy into a more intimately organized unit of good fellowship, and in order to assist the members in acquiring the noblest principles of journalism and to cooperate with them in this field."

The University of North Dakota Chapter was founded on October 23, 1921, expressly for the purpose of joining Sigma Delta Chi. The group, which was first known as Gridiron, was installed by Sigma Delta Chi on April 7, 1922. Early activities of the club included publication of the Dacotah on an annual basis, a change to a twice-weekly publication of the Student, special efforts in establishing journalism as a full professional major and the creation of an autonomous Department of Journalism. The group was also responsible for the creation of the Flickertail Follies, a student variety show, which became a spring tradition on campus into the 1960s.

Today Sigma Delta Chi is known as the Society of Professional Journalists.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Sigma Delta Chi Records include correspondence, constitution and by-laws, annual reports, membership lists, financial reports, news clippings and scrapbooks. Seven photographs were separated and added to the Orin G. Libby Photograph Collection.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1
Folder

1. Correspondence, 1925-1972.
2. Constitution, By-Laws, Initiation Code, 1920-1969.
3. Annual, Semi-Annual Reports, 1924-1969.
4. Membership, 1922-1940.
5. Membership, 1930-1971.
6. Enrollment, Remittance Forms, 1934-1948.
7. Enrollment, Remittance Forms, 1948-1950.
8. Enrollment, Remittance Forms, 1950-1959.
9. Activities, 1924-1949.
10. Financial Materials, 1923-1961.
11. Financial Materials-Treasurer's Reports, 1924-1941.
12. Convention Material- National, 1965.
13. Convention Material- State, 1968-1969.
14. Newspaper Clippings, 1947-1948.
15. Flicker Flashes, 1930-1931.
16. Sigma Delta Chi- Brief History.
17. Miscellaneous
18. Petition to Sigma Delta Chi from the Gridiron U.N.D.

Scrapbook

1. Business Activities, 1922-25.

Box 2
Scrapbook

2. 1938-39 Flickertail Follies.
3. Flickertail Follies, 1948 National Convention, Miscellaneous.
4. 1950-51 School Year Activities
5. 1953 School Year Activities.
6. 1953-55 School Year Activities.
7. 1955-56 School Year Activities.
8. 1957 School Year Activities.
9. Sigma Delta Chi Scholarship.
10. 1958 School Year Activities.

SEPARATIONS RECORD

Seven photographs were separated and added to the Orin G. Libby Photograph Collection.

OGL 765-1 Capital and unidentified building, undated
OGL 765-2 Unidentified group, undated
OGL 765-3 Unidentified group, undated
OGL 765-4 Newspaper Technology semi, Educational Service of the Gannett Newspaper Foundation, undated
OGL 765-5 Unidentified group, undated
OGL 765-6 Unidentified group, undated
OGL 765-7 Unidentified group, undated

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