The International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, is a college-based fraternity founded in 1848 at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, by John Templeton McCarty, Samuel Beatty Wilson, Naaman Fletcher, Daniel Webster Crofts, James Elliott, Jr. and Ellis Bailey Gregg. With chapters on nearly 130 college and university campuses in the United States and Canada, Phi Gamma Delta has approximately 5,000 Undergraduate and over 90,000 Graduate Brothers spread throughout the world. It is the basis of our brotherhood. Because of it we accomplish far more than we do as individuals.
Friendship is the sweetest influence.
It is the key to a fuller, richer life. We gain it through education, the harmonious development of the powers of the individual. We have the ability, the opportunity, and the duty to serve our fellow human beings. Our reward is the satisfaction that comes from serving. As gentlemen of quality we must do what is right as individuals and as a group.