Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha

{{Infobox Fraternity
|letters     = {{lang|grc|ΔΣΡ-ΤΚΑ}}
|name        = Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha
|crest       = File:The_pin_of_DSR-TKA_society.png
|image_size  = 160px
|founded     = {{start date and age|mf=yes|April 13, 1906}} (ΔΣΡ)<br>{{start date and age|mf=yes|May 13, 1908}} (ΤΚΑ)<br>{{start date and age|mf=yes|1963|8|18}} (Combined)
|birthplace  = [[Chicago, Illinois]] (ΔΣΡ)<br>[[Indianapolis, Indiana]] (ΤΚΑ)
|affiliation = [[Association of College Honor Societies|ACHS]] (former)
|type        = [[Honor Society]]
|emphasis    = [[Public speech|Forensics]]
|scope       = National
|mission     =
|motto       = ''Oratory, the key to power''<br> and ''Honor for merit''
|colors      = Historic colors:<br>{{lang|grc|ΔΣΡ}}: {{color box|#800000}} [[Maroon]] and {{color box|#000000}} [[Black]]<br>{{lang|grc|ΤΚΑ}}: {{color box|#D8BFD8}} [[Purple|Light Purple]] and {{color box|#800080}} [[Shades_of_purple#Purple_(HTML/CSS_color)_(patriarch)|Dark Purple]]
|symbol      = 
|flower      = 
|publication = ''[http://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/all_issues.html Speaker and Gavel]'' (Formerly the ''Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho'' and the ''Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha'')
|chapters    = 17
|members     = 
|lifetime    = 60,000
|address     = c/o Mike Edmonds<br>Colorado College<br>14 E Cache La Poudre 
|city        = [[Colorado Springs, Colorado|Colorado Springs]]
|state       = [[Colorado|CO]]
|ZIP code    = 80903
|country     = USA
|homepage    = <!--{{official site|http://www.dsr-tka.org/}} website no longer controlled by group-->
|footnotes   = <ref name=worldcat/><ref name="ACHS1989">{{cite book|author=Association of College Honor Societies (U.S.)|title=Booklet of Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UBlZAAAAYAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Council of the Association of College Honor Societies}}</ref>
}}

'''Delta Sigma Rho- Tau Kappa Alpha''' ('''{{lang|grc|ΔΣΡ-ΤΚΑ}}''') is a collegiate honor society devoted to the promotion of [[public speaking]] (forensics).

==History==

Both Delta Sigma Rho and Tau Kappa Alpha were founded as honorary forensic societies.<ref name=worldcat/>
[[File:Delta Sigma Rho, Cap and Gown 1915 University of Chicago yearbook (page 124 crop).jpg|thumb|327x327px|Delta Sigma Rho image from 1915 University of Chicago yearbook]]

===Delta Sigma Rho===
Delta Sigma Rho was founded in Chicago on April 13, 1906.<ref name=worldcat>[http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6256j2z From the description of Delta Sigma Rho--Tau Kappa Alpha archives, 1939-1974. (Butler University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 43964512]</ref> The founders at the organizing convention included representatives from [[University of Michigan]], [[University of Minnesota]], [[University of Iowa]], [[University of Wisconsin]], [[University of Illinois]], [[University of Nebraska]], [[University of Chicago]] and [[Northwestern University]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Speaker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X9c4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA198|volume=III|number=3|year=1908|publisher=Pearson Brothers|pages=198–199}}</ref> The call for the meeting was issued by Professor Eugene E. McDermott of the [[University of Minnesota]] after several years correspondence with the heads of the departments of public speaking at the other seven schools during which the idea was fully discussed and approved. The idea of the society came out of the simultaneous conception of the idea by Professor McDermont and Professor H. E. Gordon of [[University of Iowa]].<ref name=1920DSR>{{cite book|title=Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2iErAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA621|year=1920|publisher=Alcolm Company|pages=621–624}}</ref><!--1920 so not in copyright any more-->

The Purpose of the society was "to encourage sincere and effective public speaking". As of 1920, the constitution provided that charters shall only be granted to those institutions which have for at least five years participated in intercollegiate contests per year.

The society had more than 80 chapters by 1956.<ref name=worldcat/>

Delta Sigma Rho had for its emblem a diamond shaped key on which the Greek letters Delta Sigma Rho and the date of the organization of the society (1906) appear in relief.

Colors were maroon and black.

===Tau Kappa Alpha===
Tau Kappa Alpha was organized May 13, 1908, at Indianapolis, Ind., primarily through the efforts of Oswald Ryan, a student at [[Butler University]]<ref name=worldcat/> and [[Hugh Thomas Miller]], Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, assisted by James J. Boyle, G. Claris Adams, Herbert R. Hyman, William Heilman and Roger W. Wallace. The principal qualification for membership is participation in an Intercollegiate oratorical or debating contest. Members are elected by the several State Councils in their respective States, and Alumni of accredited institutions may also be elected. The scheme of organization was a peculiar one. Charters were not granted to institutions of learning as such, but to eligible persons in each State upon the petition of students from a representative institution or institutions in such State and expansion within that State was entrusted to the charter members of the State Chapter. The purpose of this plan was to enable the election of desirable men from colleges not large enough or perhaps not strong enough to warrant the installation of or to maintain a separate chapter. It was found to be impracticable and at a convention held in 1914 the society was reorganized and chapters given an independent existence in the usual way.<ref name=1920TKA>{{cite book|title=Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2iErAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA621|year=1920|publisher=Alcolm Company|pages=668}}</ref><!--1920 so not in copyright any more-->

The professional fraternity, [[Phi Delta Gamma (professional)|Phi Delta Gamma]] merged into Tau Kappa Alpha in 1935.

By 1958 it had 90 national chapters, and both men and women were admitted.<ref name=worldcat/>

Colors were light and dark purple.<ref>{{cite book|title=Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities|url=https://archive.org/details/bairdsmanualame01marcgoog|year=1912|publisher=G. Banta Company}}</ref>

===Combined===
The Delta Sigma Rho and Tau Kappa Alpha merged on August 18, 1963.<ref name=worldcat/>

==Chapters ==
Chapters of Delta Sigma Rho at the time of the Merger<ref>[https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=gavel Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho Vol 45 Number 4 May 1963]</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
! Code !! Chapter Name !! Date Founded
|-
| A || Albion || 1911
|-
| AL || Allegheny || 1913
|-
| AM || Amherst || 1913
|-
| AMER || American || 1932
|-
| B || Bates || 1915
|-
| BE || Beloit || 1909
|-
| BK || Brooklyn || 1940
|-
| BR || Brown || 1909
|-
| BU || Boston || 1935
|-
| CA || Carleton || 1911
|-
| CH || Chicago || 1906
|-
| CLR || Colorado || 1910
|-
| COL || Colgate || 1910
|-
| CON || Connecticut || 1952
|-
| COR || Cornell || 1911
|-
| CR || Creighton || 1934
|-
| D || Dartmouth || 1910
|-
| DP || DePauw || 1915
|-
| EL || Elmira || 1931
|-
| GR || Grinnell || 1951
|-
| GW || Georgie Washington || 1908
|-
| H || Hamilton || 1922
|-
| HR || Harvard || 1909
|-
| HW || Hawaii || 1947
|-
| I || Idaho || 1926
|-
| ILL || Illinois || 1906
|-
| IN || Indiana || 1951
|-
| ISC || Iowa State || 1909
|-
| IT || Iowa State Teachers || 1913
|-
| lU || Iowa || 1906
|-
| JCU || John Carroll || 1958
|-
| K || Kansas || 1910
|-
| KA || Kansas State || 1951
|-
| KC || Kings || 1961
|-
| KX || Knox || 1911
|-
| L || Loyola || 1960
|-
| LU || Lehigh || 1960
|-
| MQ || Marquette || 1930
|-
| M || Michigan || 1906
|-
| MSU || Michigan State || 1958
|-
| MN || Minnesota || 1906
|-
| MO || Missouri || 1909
|-
| MM || Mount Mercy || 1954
|-
| MR || Morehouse || 1959
|-
| MU || Mundelein || 1949
|-
| N || Nebraska || 1906
|-
| NEV || Nevada || 1948
|-
| NC || North Carolina || 1960
|-
| ND || North Dakota || 1911
|-
| NO || Northwestern || 1906
|-
| O || Ohio State || 1910
|-
| OB || Oberlin || 1936
|-
| OK || Oklahoma || 1913
|-
| OR || Oregon || 1926
|-
| ORS || Oregon State || 1922
|-
| OW || Ohio Wesleyan || 1907
|-
| P || Pennsylvania || 1909
|-
| PO || Pomona || 1928
|-
| PS || Pennsylvania State || 1917
|-
| PT || Pittsburgh || 1920
|-
| R || Rockford || 1933
|-
| SF || San Francisco State || 1961
|-
| SC || Southern California || 1915
|-
| ST || Stanford || 1911
|-
| SY || Syracuse || 1910
|-
| TE || Temple || 1950
|-
| T || Texas || 1909
|-
| TT || Texas Tech. || 1953
|-
| TU || Tulane || 1960
|-
| UNYF || U. of N.Y. (Fredonia) || 1960
|-
| VA || Virginia || 1908
|-
| W || Washington Univ. || 1922
|-
| WSU || Washington State || 1960
|-
| WA || University of Wash. || 1954
|-
| WAY || Wayne State || 1937
|-
| WES || Wesleyan || 1910
|-
| WICH || Wichita || 1941
|-
| WIS || Wisconsin || 1906
|-
| UWM || Wisconsin-Milwaukee || 1962
|-
| WJ || Washington and Jefferson || 1917
|-
| WM || Williams || 1910
|-
| WO || Wooster || 1922
|-
| WR || Western Reserve || 1911
|-
| WVA || West Virginia || 1923
|-
| WYO || Wyoming || 1917
|-
| Y || Yale || 1909
|}

==References==
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{{Association of College Honor Societies}}
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[[Category:Honor societies]]
[[Category:Student organizations established in 1963]]
[[Category:Former members of Association of College Honor Societies]]
[[Category:1906 establishments in Illinois]]