From The President

100 Years Never Looked So Good

One hundred years ago, our fraternity's six founders sat around a table, and created what we now know as Phi Mu Delta.

Through what I am sure was both a lengthy and turbulent, but respectful and well-intended conversation, the founders left that meeting having made something that would last well beyond their lifetimes and well beyond your lifetime and mine.

The first order of its kind to hold democracy as a key value, Phi Mu Delta has always believed in the good will and positive nature of the men who join our ranks--that brotherhood need not be proven, but that strong character and a desire to redefine fraternity and develop as a leader was qualifier enough to join the fraternity.

I say all of this because these past 100 years have not been easy, by any measure. Phi Mu Delta has traveled the long, hard road from its founding in the northeast, and has been in the deepest of valley--structurally, financially, and membership-wise. Our brotherhood has faced great struggles--the loss of amazing fraternal leaders we called brothers, financial debts, and the strenuous fight to keep Phi Mu Delta?s doors open, so that we might change another man?s life through our brotherhood. Through it all, we remained strong, and we depended on one another because the future of our fraternity depended on just that--one another.

As members, either collegiate or alumni, we make up the backbone of the organization which our founders worked so hard to create 100 years ago.

If only Clarence, Arthur, Robert, Charles, Otis, and Lloyd could see us now, I have great hope that they would be proud of where we have been, what we have overcome, where we are now, and what is to come in the future.

I assure you that being a good fraternity man is not easy, and our founders knew that; but the result is just half of the story? the journey is a tale all of its own and I can say with the utmost appreciation for the men and women who have gotten us to this milestone in our history, that 100 years has never looked so good and to those who have battled and fought to keep us alive and well, we thank you.

Fraternally,

Ryan Grogan

National President