Delta Upsilon International Fraternity is the seventh oldest extant, all-male, college Greek-letter organization in North America. It was founded on November 4, 1834 at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Though historically set at New England private universities, as of 2019 it had 70 chapters and colonies across the United States and Canada. A number of its chapter’s buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Notable members include president of the United States James A. Garfield, Canadian prime minister Lester B. Pearson, Linus Pauling, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Lou Holtz. Forty-two brothers of the fraternity have sat in the United States Congress, three in the Parliament of Canada, one in the Imperial House of Peers of Japan, and six on the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada.
Its members have received seven Nobel Prizes, five Olympic gold medals, one Pulitzer Prize, four Medals of Honor, one Lenin Peace Prize, one Presidential Medal of Freedom, seven investitures into the Order of Canada, and one investiture each into the Order of St Michael and St George, the Order of Merit, and the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Thirty-five brothers have graced the cover of Time Magazine.