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Chapter History of Zeta Zeta

The Zeta Zeta Chapter was established toward the close of the year 1876.
Centre College was not thought able to support another fraternity due to
the previous failures of four others. The fraternity did not turn its attention
to Danville until Montgomery May, of Chi, and James W. Skinner, of Beta,
decided that the fraternities then existing at Centre would furnish only a health
rivalry to a properly conducted chapter of Sigma Chi.

The success of the
chapter they founded has completely justified their confidence. Skinner and
May, together with Thomas L. Edelin, Charles T. Thomson,
Samuel E. Curry, John Y. Leming and John P. McCartney, forwarded a
petition to Gamma; supported by Chi and Beta, they secured a charter
from the fraternity on November 25, 1876.

In pursuance of the powers
therein conferred, the petitioners and Glenn H. Putnam and
Benjamin L. Wheat assembled on the afternoon of December 12, 1876
in the southern wing of the old college building, and where formally
organized as the Zeta Zeta chapter by Marcus I. Garrison of Chi.