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Founded
SPJ is founded as Sigma Delta Chi on the DePauw University campus, Greencastle, Ind., April 17, 1909, by a group of 10 students interested in journalism careers and upholding high standards in the profession. -
Expansion
Campus chapters are founded at Kansas (Beta chapter, founded Feb. 10), Michigan (Gamma, March 18) and the University of Denver (Delta, Nov. 25). Over the next two years, chapters are created at the University of Denver, Washington University, the University of Virginia, Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. -
First National Convention
Held on the DePauw campus in Greencastle, with meetings and events taking place in Meharry Hall and several Greek fraternity houses. "Talent, Truth and Energy" is the official fraternity motto. The conference program includes business meetings, a banquet at the Sigma Chi house and a "journalistic comedy" staged at the Phi Psi house. -
Change from honorary to professional fraternity
"... If the sovereign power in America is public opinion, and if the great organ of public opinion is the newspaper press, should the press be in the possession of weak men? Emphatically no." — From an early Sigma Delta Chi pamphlet -
First code of ethics
Sigma Delta Chi's first Code of Ethics was borrowed from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. SDX would adopt its own Code of Ethics in 1973. -
Fifty year convention held
Indianapolis -
New code of ethics
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Code of ethics revised
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Code of ethics revised again
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New Code of ethics adopted
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Code of Ethics revised