Brotherhood is a term that defies definition, yet each of us can talk for hours about it. Brotherhood is intangible, yet is so often used in evaluating our chapters. Brotherhood cannot be measured by a gauge or a scale, but our members seem to know when it is evident, and when it is not. - The Manual of Theta Chi Fraternity
In 1997 Missouri State (then Southwest Missouri State) wanted to bring a fraternity to it's Campus that would return Fraternity Life to it's roots - academics, brotherhood, and integrity. In that year, an Intertest Group for Theta Chi Fraternity was formed on the MSU campus that would change Missouri State Fraternity Life.
A total of eleven members began the intial effort for Theta Chi on the Missouri State Campus, including our first recruit Seth Acock. Over the next two and half years with solid recruitment and administrative leadership, the Iota Beta Chapter of Theta Chi was truely formed, and finally Chartered on November 14, 1999.
On June 1, 2000 the Iota Beta Chapter aquired it's first house at 927 S. Kimbrough. It wasn't in the best shape, but it was a place to call home. In that house, we had our first formal recruitment, as well as our first alumni barbeque in the next Spring. Iota Beta moved into it's current place of residence, 1043 E Cherry, on June 1, 2003. Larger than our previous two houses combined, it became the central point of our brotherhood.