Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ; also pronounced D-K-E or "Deke") is a fraternity founded at Yale College in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class part of whom hadn't been invited to join the two existing societies (Alpha Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon) among others who had been invited to join. They therefore formed their own fraternity to establish a fellowship "where the candidate most favored was he who combined in the most equal proportions the gentlema...
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Date founded:
- Jun 22, 1844
Founders:
- George Foote Chester ,
- Henry Case ,
- Frederic Peter Bellinger, Jr. ,
- Thomas Isaac Franklin ,
- William Woodruff Atwater ,
- Edward Griffin Bartlett ,
- John Butler Coyngham ,
- Elisha Bacon Shapleigh ,
- Thomas Du Bois Sherwood ,
- William Boyd Jacobs
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