DSP Initiation Test Questions with Correct Answers Already Passed
1. Of the four types of college fraternities, which one is Delta Sigma Pi? - Answers Professional fraternity.
2. Of which national interfraternal association is Delta Sigma Pi a prominent member? - Answers
Professional Fraternity Association.
3. What is the purpose of Delta Sigma Pi as stated in the Preamble of our Bylaws? - Answers Delta Sigma
Pi is a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage
scholarship, social activity and the association of students for their mutual advancement by research
and practice; to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce,
and to further a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture and the civic and commercial welfare
of the community.
4. Give the date and place of the founding of Delta Sigma Pi. - Answers November 7, 1907, at the School
of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University, New York, New York.
5. Give the complete names of the four Founders of Delta Sigma Pi. - Answers Alexander Frank Makay,
Alfred Moysello, Henry Albert Tienken and Harold Valentine Jacobs.
6. What is Delta Sigma Pi?s ?Central Office? and how is the Central Office staff different from the
national Board of Directors? - Answers -The Central Office is the national administrative headquarters
-The Executive Director is in charge of the Central Office
-paid full time staff
-The Board of Directors is a group of elected, unpaid volunteers
-serve as governing body (executive, legislative and judicial)
-The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors.
7. Who established the Central Office and served as its director for 31 years? - Answers H. G. "Gig"
Wright
8. In what city was the Central Office established? Where is it located today? - Answers Chicago; 330
South Campus Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 45056.
9. Name the Fraternity's supreme governing body. Where and when does it next meet? - Answers The
Grand Chapter
August 7-11, 2013
Seattle, Washington.
, 10. Name the current Grand President, Past Grand President, Vice President-Organizational
Development, Vice President- Finance and National Collegians of the Year. - Answers Current Grand
President ? Mark Chiacchiari;
Past Grand President ? Mitch Simmons;
Vice President-Organizational Development ? Joe Ward;
Vice President-Finance ? Shane Borden;
National Collegians of the Year ? Cody Silva (2011) and Taylor (Cody) Candee (2012)
Current Grand President ? - Answers Mark Chiacchiari
Past Grand President ? - Answers Mitch Simmons;
Vice President-Organizational Development ? - Answers Joe Ward;
Vice President-Finance ? - Answers Shane Borden;
National Collegians of the Year ? - Answers Cody Silva (2011) and Taylor (Cody) Candee (2012)
11. Who are your Provincial Vice President and Regional Vice President? - Answers Provincial - Paul
Carpinella;
Regional - Patrick Johnson
Provincial VP - Answers Paul Carpinella;
Regional VP - Answers Patrick Johnson
12. What are the names of your province and region - Answers Province : Northeastern; Region: New
England;
what are the names of the active collegiate chapters, alumni chapters, and colonies in your region? -
Answers Active collegiate chapters: BU (Gamma), Bentley (Lambda Tau), Umass Boston (Xi Phi), Roger
Williams (Nu Sigma), Bryant (Xi Psi), Uconn (Theta Iota), Umass Amherst (Pi Rho)
13. Who appoints a District Director? Name your District Director. - Answers The Regional Vice
President; Tom Skinner
14. Name your Chapter Advisor. Who may serve as a Chapter Advisor and how is he or she elected? -
Answers Micheal Schurter, must be a faculty + member of Fraternity or member of the school's faculty
or administration, elected by a majority vote of the chapter and reported to the Central Office.
15. Name at least six services provided, and/or publications produced, by the Fraternity's Central Office
staff. - Answers MAINTAINS membership records, mailing lists, the www.dspnet.org website
1. Of the four types of college fraternities, which one is Delta Sigma Pi? - Answers Professional fraternity.
2. Of which national interfraternal association is Delta Sigma Pi a prominent member? - Answers
Professional Fraternity Association.
3. What is the purpose of Delta Sigma Pi as stated in the Preamble of our Bylaws? - Answers Delta Sigma
Pi is a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage
scholarship, social activity and the association of students for their mutual advancement by research
and practice; to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce,
and to further a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture and the civic and commercial welfare
of the community.
4. Give the date and place of the founding of Delta Sigma Pi. - Answers November 7, 1907, at the School
of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University, New York, New York.
5. Give the complete names of the four Founders of Delta Sigma Pi. - Answers Alexander Frank Makay,
Alfred Moysello, Henry Albert Tienken and Harold Valentine Jacobs.
6. What is Delta Sigma Pi?s ?Central Office? and how is the Central Office staff different from the
national Board of Directors? - Answers -The Central Office is the national administrative headquarters
-The Executive Director is in charge of the Central Office
-paid full time staff
-The Board of Directors is a group of elected, unpaid volunteers
-serve as governing body (executive, legislative and judicial)
-The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors.
7. Who established the Central Office and served as its director for 31 years? - Answers H. G. "Gig"
Wright
8. In what city was the Central Office established? Where is it located today? - Answers Chicago; 330
South Campus Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 45056.
9. Name the Fraternity's supreme governing body. Where and when does it next meet? - Answers The
Grand Chapter
August 7-11, 2013
Seattle, Washington.
, 10. Name the current Grand President, Past Grand President, Vice President-Organizational
Development, Vice President- Finance and National Collegians of the Year. - Answers Current Grand
President ? Mark Chiacchiari;
Past Grand President ? Mitch Simmons;
Vice President-Organizational Development ? Joe Ward;
Vice President-Finance ? Shane Borden;
National Collegians of the Year ? Cody Silva (2011) and Taylor (Cody) Candee (2012)
Current Grand President ? - Answers Mark Chiacchiari
Past Grand President ? - Answers Mitch Simmons;
Vice President-Organizational Development ? - Answers Joe Ward;
Vice President-Finance ? - Answers Shane Borden;
National Collegians of the Year ? - Answers Cody Silva (2011) and Taylor (Cody) Candee (2012)
11. Who are your Provincial Vice President and Regional Vice President? - Answers Provincial - Paul
Carpinella;
Regional - Patrick Johnson
Provincial VP - Answers Paul Carpinella;
Regional VP - Answers Patrick Johnson
12. What are the names of your province and region - Answers Province : Northeastern; Region: New
England;
what are the names of the active collegiate chapters, alumni chapters, and colonies in your region? -
Answers Active collegiate chapters: BU (Gamma), Bentley (Lambda Tau), Umass Boston (Xi Phi), Roger
Williams (Nu Sigma), Bryant (Xi Psi), Uconn (Theta Iota), Umass Amherst (Pi Rho)
13. Who appoints a District Director? Name your District Director. - Answers The Regional Vice
President; Tom Skinner
14. Name your Chapter Advisor. Who may serve as a Chapter Advisor and how is he or she elected? -
Answers Micheal Schurter, must be a faculty + member of Fraternity or member of the school's faculty
or administration, elected by a majority vote of the chapter and reported to the Central Office.
15. Name at least six services provided, and/or publications produced, by the Fraternity's Central Office
staff. - Answers MAINTAINS membership records, mailing lists, the www.dspnet.org website
