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Beta Theta Pi FraternityΒΘΠ
Motto:
Nickname: Beta
The Coat of Arms
Founded:	August 8, 1839 atMiami University, (Oxford, Ohio)
Founders	John Reily Knox 1839 Samuel Taylor Marshall 1840 David Linton 1839 James George Smith 1840 Charles Henry Hardin 1841 John Holt Duncan 1840 Michael Clarkson Ryan 1839 Thomas Boston Gordon 1840
Members	187,000 Alumni,6,500 Undergraduate
Scope	International
Official Colors:	Delicate shades of Pink and Blue.
Official Flowers:	Roses of the "June" or "Queen of the Prairie" variety
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity Website

Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ) is a social collegiate fraternity that was founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it's part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi. Beta, as it's nicknamed, was the first college fraternity to be founded west of the Allegheny Mountains, and has over 131 chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada. More than 187,000 members have been initiated world-wide, with over 130,000 of those living. Beta Theta Pi currently has more than 5,000 undergraduate members. |}

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Astronauts===

Joseph P. Allen	DePauw 1959	Former Astronaut; Space Flight Executive; Senior Scientist Astronaut; Mission Specialist for STS-5 mission aboard Columbia and STS-51A mission aboard Discovery
Kenneth D. Cameron	MIT 1971	Management Astronaut; Naval Aviator-Astronaut; Colonel, USMC (Ret); Pilot for STS-37 mission aboard Atlantis (STS-37); Commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission abaord Atlantis; currently Deputy Director for Safety, NASA Engineering & Safety Center, Langley Research Center, Virginia
Bill Nelson	Florida 1964/Yale 1965	Former astronaut; former United States Congressman (D-FL), currently the senior United States Senator from Florida (D-FL); NOTE: Not a career astronaut. Flew single mission (STS-61C) as a Payload Specialist aboard Columbia while serving as a U.S. Congressman and Chairman of the House Space Science and Applications Subcommittee
Paul J. Weitz	Penn State 1954	Former astronaut; Naval Aviator-Astronaut; Captain, USN (Ret); Pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); Commander for STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; former Deputy Director, Johnson Space Center

===Other Prominent Betas===

Walter P. Chrysler	Dartmouth 1933	Philanthropist
Robert O'Carroll	Mississippi 1999	Philanthropist
Ovid R. Sellers	University of Chicago 1904	Old Testament Scholar and Biblical Archaeologist

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