The Educational Trust Centennial Exhibit
The Idea Begins with Edward Cassius Swift
For Chi Psi, the story of The Educational Trust began with Edward Cassius “Skipe” Swift. A former #7 and longtime leader on the Fraternity’s Executive Council, Swift was remembered as the Brother who first saw the need for permanent endowment and began raising money for it in 1914. Years after his death, Chi Psi still pointed back to him as the man who had “almost single-handed” raised a fund of $40,000. That memory gave the campaign its emotional center: this was not a new idea, but the continuation of work Swift had left unfinished. To give to the Trust was to carry his vision forward into the life of the Fraternity.
