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Pi Sigma Epsilon

Pi Sigma Epsilon

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Pi Sigma Epsilon (ΠΣΕ) is a professional fraternity for students and industry professionals in Marketing and Management. It was founded in 1952 at Georgia State University.

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History

Pi Sigma Epsilon was founded at Georgia State University (then Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia) in the fall of 1951.[3] The idea of a professional fraternity for the fields of Marketing, Sales Management, and Selling was proposed by educator and businessman Lloyd Antle and advanced by Henry G. Baker and William G. Harris from the College and Lewis F. Gordon, a founder of the Atlanta Sales Executives Club.

The first organizational meeting was on November 1, 1951 and at that meeting the purpose was set out. Alpha chapter was established at the college on June 2, 1952.[3]

Purpose

As originally set out:

To create a collegiate brotherhood of men who are interested in the advancement of marketing, sales management, and selling as a career and a profession; to promote the study of marketing, sales management, selling and related subjects in colleges and universities; to bring together academically qualified students who express a desire to enter these career fields; to encourage in colleges and universities the establishing of courses preparing men for such careers; to stimulate research and improved methods and techniques in these fields; to install in its members the highest possible ethical standards of the profession.

Chapters

Chapters include the following. * indicates the chapter is active (as of 2009).[3][4]

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References

  1. William Raimond Baird (1977). Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities. G. Banta Company. pp. 756–757.
  2. Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities. Baird's Manual Foundation, Incorporated. 1991. pp. V–49–50.

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