On the cold night of January 10, 1899, students of Illinois Wesleyan University, in the small Midwestern town of Bloomington, had just returned from the Christmas holidays when Joseph L. Settles went to the room occupied by James C. McNutt and Clarence A. Mayer at 504 East Locust Street to discuss the organization of a new society on campus. Joined immediately by Owen I. Truitt and C. Roy Atkinson, these five students created the first set of regulations for the Knights of Classic Lore, a society whose avowed purpose was "to aid college men in mental, moral, and social development."
Fast Forward 109 years to November 22, 2008: Knights of Classic Lore is now Tau Kappa Epsilon, the largest social college fraternity in existence, and the BΩ chapter at Missouri State University is alive once again.
April 20, 2008 - Beta Class Initiated
November 16, 2008 - First "official" 8-week pledge class (Gamma Class) initiated.
November 22, 2008 - BΩ is Chartered by the Grand Chapter
April 5, 2009 - Delta Class Initiated
