Beta Gamma Sigma Celebrates Founder's Day

February 19, 2008 marks the 96th anniversary of Beta Gamma Sigma Founder's Day. This is the day that fellow members and collegiate chapters of the world's largest Business Honor Society are encouraged to celebrate the founders and beginnings of BGS. A group of commerce students attending college at University of Wisconsin got together to form BGS in 1907.

The first inductees formed Beta Gamma Sigma at the University of Wisconsin in 1907. The name of the Society came from the initials of three of it's members: D. Earle Burchell, (B) Stephen W. Gilman, (G) William A. Scott. Fayette H. Elwell, also pictured above as a junior, became the Society’s first president when it became a national organization in 1913 upon the merger of business clubs at University of Illinois (Delta Kappa Chi), University of California (The Economics Club) & the aforementioned University of Wisconsin.