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Triangle Fraternity

Triangle Fraternity is a fraternity for male students majoring in engineering, architecture, and the physical, mathematical, biological, and computer sciences. It is the only member of the North American Interfraternity Conference to limit its membership recruitment to these majors.

Triangle Fraternity

April 15, 1907 (1907-04-15)
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

NIC

Active

National

Latin: Veritas Omnia Vincit
(Truth Conquers All)

  Old Rose
  Gray[1]

Engineers' transit

Triangle Review

38

4

1,200+ collegiate
26,000+ [2] lifetime

120 South Center St
Plainfield, Indiana 46168
United States

Triangle Fraternity organized at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the fall of 1906 and was incorporated by the state of Illinois on 15 April 1907, which is celebrated each year as Founders' Day.


As of February 2020 there are 39 chapters and six colonies of Triangle Fraternity active in the U.S.[2] The headquarters is located in Plainfield, Indiana in a historic building erected as a Carnegie library in 1912.[3]


Triangle Fraternity is one of three active national fraternities not to use Greek letters for its name, the others being Acacia and FarmHouse.

Colors: Old Rose and Gray

Coat of Arms: The crest consists of a rising sun beneath a Triangle T. Beneath is an esquire helmet in profile. At the center of the Coat of Arms is the fraternity's shield and a ribbon containing the organization's motto "Veritas Omnia Vincit" (Truth Conquers All). Surrounding the shield is a mantling.

Flower: White

Chrysanthemum

Flag: The Coat of Arms on a T with Gray field.

Yellow

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Professional fraternities and sororities

Triangle Education Foundation