The Educational Trust Centennial Exhibit

Chi Psi’s Educational Trust was built through a campaign that stretched across more than two years, but the idea reached back earlier to Edward Cassius Swift’s conviction that the Fraternity needed a permanent endowment. By 1926, that long effort had become a formal undertaking of the whole Fraternity, and letters, broadsides, pledge cards, and honor rolls carried the appeal into mailboxes across the country. Brothers were asked to think not only about money, but also about duty, memory, standards, and the future of Chi Psi itself. In 1928, the campaign entered its decisive final push, gained federal recognition for tax-deductible giving, and crossed the half-million-dollar goal. This exhibit follows that campaign as Chi Psi told the story to its own members, in its own words.