William Raimond Baird (1848–1917) was the namesake of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities and publisher of its early editions.
William Raimond Baird | |
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| Born | 1848 |
| Died | 1917 |
| Alma mater | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Notable works | Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities |
Biography
editHe was born in 1848 and in 1878 he graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He exhaustively researched other organizations seeking a suitable partner to merge with his own 5-chapter regional fraternity Alpha Sigma Chi.[1] He selected Beta Theta Pi, which absorbed ΑΣΧ in 1879. As no authoritative resource on the subject existed, Baird published his research for the benefit of the public as American College Fraternities. He continued to refine the work, publishing a total of eight editions under his name as author.
In addition to his membership in Alpha Sigma Chi, which the year after his graduation became the Sigma chapter of Beta Theta Pi, Baird was a member of Phi Delta Phi (international legal honor society) and Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society).[2]
Baird died in 1917.
References
edit- ^ UMaine Beta History
- ^ As profiled in a blog post by Fran Becque on "Fraternity History & More", dated June 17, 2012, accessed 31 Jan 2021.
External links
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