It wasn’t a single event that brought about the creation of Delta Sigma Pi more than 115 years ago, but the association of five students at New York University who, coincidentally, used a common path to their homes following classes. These five men were motivated by the same forces that have caused others to organize fraternities, namely, common goals and the desire to pursue these goals together. Plans were made by these five men in the spring and summer of 1907 to form a social club composed of students in the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance at New York University, which at the time conducted classes in the evening. Regular sessions were held at one of the ice cream parlors in Central Park, a concession operated by the father of one of the five men. When fall came, the time set for the formal launching of this club, one of the five members accepted the invitation of a Greek letter organization at NYU and left the group. This incident changed the thinking of the remaining four and the existing plans for a club were abandoned in favor of a Greek letter fraternity. Thus, Delta Sigma Pi was created on November 7, by Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello, Henry Albert Tienken and Harold Valentine Jacobs.