Talk:Alpha Delta Mu

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To-do list for Alpha Delta Mu: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2025-09-22 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : This article needs expansion with historic milestones. Maintain : Set a calendar reminder to update the chapter count and otherwise check the article for necessary updates annually. Wikify : For the infobox, there appears to be no national website. Add current number of active chapters and lifetime initiates. Expand the History section.

Rublamb I believe looking at the History that you have improved Fall 1976 from the second reference to October 1976, but I don't see which source has that information. I even pulled out my Baird's 20th edition to look there. I'd like to confirm before I update the ACHS page. (Additionally, this was used as an example of where we have only been able to get season in discussions at Template talk:Date table sorting.Naraht (talk) 17:21, 21 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Looks like Jax MN added October to the infobox in August 2021, before my edits. I will see if I can find this somewhere, but I agree it currently doesn't seem to have a source for October. Rublamb (talk) 17:53, 21 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, the edit was https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alpha_Delta_Mu&oldid=1040525269 . Jax MN, what is the reference for it being October?Naraht (talk) 18:08, 21 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

I am finding missing sources, but so far, nothing indicating October. Will keep working on it. I wonder if October came from an old social media site? It is not uncommon to grab a date, but not source it to Facebook. Rublamb (talk) 18:57, 21 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Gee, that was a full five years ago, on August 24, 2021. My memory is good, but not that good. Nor does my browser history go back that far. But I can tell you my practice has normally been to insert the month when I see a reference for it, and that there were a few situations in that era and before where I 'split the difference' and placed a seasonal-only date into the middle month of that season, in this case, October. --Assuming the founders would need a few weeks to meet each other when school started in September, and for a formation plan to coalesce. That was my thinking at the time. I haven't assumed a month from a season name for several years. If memory serves. Or that month may have come from a wayback page, where I missed citation. Jax MN (talk) 19:19, 21 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

If we don't find a specific October reference, I think we should change it back to Fall. We have a solid reference for that.Naraht (talk) 01:03, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

October removed from Infobox Rublamb (talk) 20:55, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

That's fair. Jax MN (talk) 21:21, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

To keep from colliding with Rublamb...

• Tuskegee University has a chapter, ref: https://www.tuskegee.edu/Content/Uploads/Tuskegee/files/Academics/Registrar/2011-2012_Course_Catalog-Bulletin.pdf
• Providence College has Delta Xi chapter, ref: https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/b/biallen_cv.pdf?dt=022820225
• University of St. Thomas has Beta Epsilon chapter ref: https://www.stthomas.edu/_media-library/_documents/catalog/stthomas-ug-catalog-2010-2012.pdf
• Tennessee State University has Iota chapter ref: https://www.tnstate.edu/library/documents/1980%20Spring%20Commencement.pdf
• East Carolina University has Theta chapter chartered on May 12, 1977. ref: https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/39738
• Valdosta State University has Epsilon Delta chapter. Apparently March 2015 or before. https://valdostadailytimes.com/2015/03/11/vsu-celebrates-social-work-day-hosts-workshop-with-gary-bailey-march-13/

Naraht (talk) 03:13, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

• East Texas State University (then T A&M U-Commerce and then East Texas A&M) is Alpha Sigma chapter and was chartered in spring of 1978: ref: https://www.etamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-BSW-Student-Packet-for-Fall.pdf
• Indiana University is Gamma Epsilon chapter ref: https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199724437_A23608836/preview-9780199724437_A23608836.pdf
• Middle Tennessee State University is Gamma Upsilon chapter ref:https://murfreesborofuneralhome.com/tribute/details/649/Frances-Adams/obituary.html
• Mount Mary University is Alpha Tau chapter ref: https://my.mtmary.edu/ICS/icsfs/CHAPTER5.pdf?target=81f86d61-5ea6-4591-befb-9c774f645613
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign appears to be Alpha Zeta chapter from the google hit for "Alpha Delta M, Alpha Zeta chapter", ref: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/4598166/cost-champaign-county
• Louisiana State University appears to be Gamma Delta chapter from various faculty CVs, not sure how they are as refs ref: https://www.lsu.edu/chse/socialwork/faculty-staff/cvs/allen.docx
• Delaware State University appears to be Delta Epsilon from CV ref: https://wchbs.desu.edu/sites/cehpp/files/document/11/finger_wright.pdf

Naraht (talk) 03:51, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

• Baptist Female University has a chapter ref:https://meredith.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/undergrad-catalogue-2014-15.pdf
• Meredith College is Gamma Zeta chapter ref: https://archive.org/details/studenthandbook1992mere/page/n79/mode/2up
• Delta State University is Gamma Eta chapter ref:https://archive.org/details/broom1991delt/mode/2up
• Texas Tech University is Beta Beta chapter ref: access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/us/texas/brownfield/brownfield-news/1981/08-16/page-10 - Can you tell me the name of the article? I couldn't get behind the paywall Rublamb (talk) 19:09, 22 September 2025 (UTC) - Rublamb "Rebecca Baker enters School of Law at Tech"Naraht (talk) 21:58, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Thanks. The bot was very upset about my citation. I have added more chapters since you worked on this. It is hit or miss on finding one of these oddities with a chapter name, but I keep find more chapters in the process. So you might have more luck. Rublamb (talk) 22:22, 22 September 2025 (UTC)Reply