<p>Anyone familiar with the Henry Parmington Foundation?? I’d be interested to hear what people know of it. If nothing… I’ll give a few more details.</p>
<p>TEP frat@ Dartmouth, changed name to H Parmington Foundation in '69, then Delta Psi Delta in 1981. Dissolved 10 years later.</p>
<p>Okay okay so I looked it up. It IS interesting though. Alright my turn: What’s one dance every Dartmouth pre-frosh learns on the outing trip before school starts?</p>
<p>Oh, man, I totally forgot the name, but it’s in the viewbook with the steps narrated.</p>
<p>(Auuuuugh why do I love Dartmouth so much? I should have applied ED. I know that if I get in here and at some other place like Swarthmore and Harvard, the decision is going to kill me.)</p>
<p>Very good, Raspberry. If memory serves me correctly, TEP lost it’s charter, which led to the name change-- I’ve forgotten who Henry Parmington was. Anyone know?? I think he was someone who got kicked out, but that may just have been folklore. This was the era of the Dartmouth students who wrote Animal House, and most likely the model for it.
By the way, where did you look this up?? Pray tell, where is such trivia found?</p>
<p>Actually, it was the Harold Parmington Foundation, which turned into Delta Psi Delta. Delta Psi Delta went co-ed because their numbers were falling, but it didn’t work out and they folded.</p>
<p>The former Delta Psi House is 15 Webster Avenue.</p>
<p>Which, incidentally, is the house that my sorority (Epsilon Kappa Theta) is now located in. It’s a very nice house! Some Delta Psi alums still come to walk around and look at it.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about the Harold Parmington Foundation, but I think they were just like a regular frat without Greek letters.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ekt/history.html[/url]”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ekt/history.html</a></p>
<p>For a history of those houses, if you are curious.</p>
<p>Tha Dance is the Salty Dog Rag,</p>
<p>You will come home singing other weird songs also</p>