Some images from a century ago.

Edited for additional information found here:

It was on this day 106 years ago, December 31, 1914, that Phi Delta Theta’s 32nd Biennial General Convention, meeting in Birmingham, Alabama from December 28, 1914 – January 1, 1915 approved, on a unanimous vote, the petition from the Amici Fidissimi Society at the University of Utah, and approved a charter for the A.F. Society creating the Utah Alpha Chapter of Phi Delta Theta. The General Convention was the only body authorized to grant charters at that time in the Fraternity’s history. The Amici Fidissimi Society was originally formed at the University of Utah in 1903 in the days when Utah had no fraternities. (Follow the above link for more history).

Amici Fidissimi is Latin for “most faithful friends.”

The A.F. Fraternity House

Two fraternity members take their ease. ^[1]

Fraternity House Billiard Table

Fraternity House Common Room

Bench and Table; notice the signatures of past members.

The Old Wolf has spoken.

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[1] The gentleman on the left coincidentally happens to be my grandfather, Delbert M. Draper, Senior.