Alpha Mu Sigma
# Alpha Mu Sigma

Alpha Mu Sigma (ΑΜΣ) was an historically Jewish fraternity founded in March 1914 at Cooper Union. It disbanded in 1963.

## History

Alpha Mu Sigma was founded at Cooper Union on March 21, 1914. According to Baird's (20th), "The original plan was to limit membership to men of the Jewish faith and the first expansion was limited to similar engineering institutions."

Its Founders were:

| Irwin S. Chanin Henry Charles Dinney Irving H. Fisher Edward D. Fox | Henry I. Gilbert Theodore F. Haynes Julius Liebing Benjamin Rothstein | Saul Shaw Samuel H. Solodar Jonas I. Speciner Joseph Spies |
| - | - | - |

Baird's goes on to further describe that, "With the prosperity of the 1920s expansion took place quickly, but many of the chapters did not survive the [G]reat [D]epression."

### Demise

The national fraternity disbanded in 1963, with the remaining four chapters becoming inactive or being absorbed by other, larger Jewish fraternities. Alpha chapter at Cooper Union functioned until 1971.

Total membership in 1945, 1,500.

### Symbols

* Publication: The Shield.

## Chapter List

These were the chapters of Alpha Mu Sigma. Active chapters that withdrew or merged into other organizations shown in bold; dormant chapters shown in italics.

| Name | Chartered | Institution | Location | Status |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Alpha | March 21, 1914–1971 | Cooper Union Institute of Technology | New York, NY | Dormant |
| Beta | 1917–1930, 1948–1963 | City College of New York | New York, NY | Dormant |
| Gamma | 1917–1925, 1935–1938 | Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (Tandon, NYU) | Brooklyn, NY | Dormant |
| Delta | 1919–1926 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Dormant |
| Epsilon | 1920–1921 | Columbia University | New York, NY | Dormant |
| Zeta | 1921–1940 | New York University | New York, NY | Dormant |
| Eta | 1922–1923 | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Dormant |
| Theta | 1922–1923 | Bellevue Hospital Medical College (Grossman, NYU) | New York, NY | Dormant |
| Iota | 1922–1923 | Yale University | New Haven, CT | Dormant |
| Lambda | 1923–1925 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | Dormant |
| Mu | 1925–1926 | University of Maryland | College Park, MD | Dormant |
| Nu | 1925–1926 | University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | Withdrew (ΤΕΦ) |
| Omicron | 1926–1927 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Dormant |
| Xi | 1927–193x ? | Union College | Schenectady, NY | Dormant |
| Rho | 1927–1928 | University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | Dormant |
| Pi | 1928–1956 | Long Island University | Brooklyn, NY | Withdrew (ΤΔΦ) |
| Tau (1) | 1928–1930 | Roanoke College | Salem, VA | Dormant |
| Kappa | 1929–1930 | Boston University | Boston, MA | Dormant |
| Sigma | 1930–1931 | Lewis Institute (IIT) | Chicago, IL | Dormant |
| Tau (2) | 1937–1938 | George Washington University | Washington, DC | Dormant |
| Upsilon | 1937–1960 | Brooklyn College (CUNY) | Brooklyn, NY | Dormant |
| Phi (1) | 1939–1963 | St. John’s University | Queens, NY | Dormant |
| Phi (2) | 1958–1962 | Pratt Institute | Brooklyn, NY | Withdrew (ΤΕΦ) |
