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PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY HOUSE SITE

The president submitted to the Board an application by the Phi Delta Theta Social Fraternity
for a site on University property on which to build a new house. He stated that the application
had been approved by the Committee on Fraternities at its meeting on 4 December 1958. The
President noted that the University Long Range Planning Committee in its report to him had
recommended that fraternity sites be made available along Route 29 at Copeley Hill. Since that
time, however, the question of the location of a field house on Copeley Hill had been raised
and a study of this matter was under way. The President had therefore written to the Phi Delta
Theta Fraternity that until the site for a field house is chosen and the number of acres needed
is determined, no action could be taken on a final location for the fraternity house. After
discussion, the President was authorized to seek a suitable site not in conflict with the field
house development for the Phi Delta Theta house and to make a final determination before the next
meeting of the Board of Visitors if emergency action was required