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Pi Lambda Phi (ΠΛΦ or Pi Lam) is a college social fraternity founded by Frederick Manfred Werner,...

Pi Lambda Phi (ΠΛΦ or Pi Lam) is a college social fraternity founded by Frederick Manfred Werner, Louis Samter Levy, and Henry Mark Fisher at Yale University in 1895. It was founded as the first non-sectarian fraternity, "a fraternity in which all men were brothers, no matter what their religion; a fraternity in which ability, open-mindedness, farsightedness, and a progressive, forward-looking attitude would be recognized as the basic attributes." It currently boasts 35 chapters and four colonies in the United States and one chapter in Canada. The fraternity founded the Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity Educational Foundation and sponsors the March of Dimes as its national benefactor. Pi Lambda Phi was founded in 1895 by three German Jewish students at Yale University who disliked the religious and racial limits of other fraternities. Chapters at other universities started soon after. While non-sectarian, it was predominately Jewish until the end of World War Two. "Joining a fraternity means nothing. But when you have really worked for it, sweated for it, cursed it, and loved it, as well as the men in it, you have something." – Brother Alfred "Koko" Kovner, PA Alpha Delta, Temple University