The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Phi Lambda Alpha Records (1968-1984) include memorabilia documenting and describing the organization's activities and procedural operations.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Phi Lambda Alpha Records (1968-1984) include memorabilia documenting and describing the organization's activities and procedural operations. The records include scrapbooks, stationary, pins, applications, constitutions, business papers, invitation lists, rubber stamps, and charter inventories. The records also include descriptions of initiation procedures and signed initiation papers by students, faculty, and advisors.
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Phi Lambda Alpha is a Latin collegiate social fraternity that aims to "form companionships, cultivate university spirit, socially recreate and to give financial help to its members." The organization was formed on June 11, 1921 in New York City, New York and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas chapter of Phi Lambda Alpha was chartered in 1968.
Sources:
Fi Sigma Alfa. Fraternidad Fi Sigma Alfa. Last modified 2019. http://www.phisigmaalpha.org/historia/.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Phi Lambda Alpha Records, 1968-1984. UA-00032. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were transferred to the University Special Collections and Archives by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Phi Lambda Alpha organization; accession number AC 97; RG 8.4.1.
In 2018, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang revised the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards. In 2019, Joseph Puentes reboxed and added additional materials to the collection and updated information in ArchivesSpace.
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