article_snippet: Members originally planned to keep the fraternity expanding North on in the South.
article_snippet: The initial members visualized 'a bond which would hold The initial members together for all time,' William C. Levere wrote in a 1916 history of the fraternity expanding North. '
article_snippet: But the founders weren't interested in a national presence.
article_snippet: According to William C. Levere, it was the founders intention 'to confine the fraternity to the southern states.'
article_snippet: In the meantime, the fraternity to the southern states had granted the fraternity to the southern states first Northern charter in 1883 to,
article_snippet: just a provincial organization Illinois .
article_snippet: In December 1930, the fraternity to the southern states dedicated the fraternity to the southern states international headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Evanston.