On July 4 of that year, a group of chiropractic students representing those schools held an Independence Day picnic at Credit Island.

On July 13, 1913, the first meeting of the fledgling organization took place, which is now the celebrated birth of the legacy of Delta Sigma Chi.

[1] Its twelve charter members included:[1] At that meeting, the founder completed plans for a Greek letter professional chiropractic fraternity by electing temporary officers and appointed a committee to draft a constitution and bylaws.

[3] Today, the fraternity has a membership of several thousand individuals all around the globe, who continue to guard the sacred trust of chiropractic.

[5] The fraternity's pledge pin is a blue and gold inverted pentagram with the Greek letters ΔΣΧ above a Wyvern, a mythical creature.

[6] The wyvern was incorporated in the Palmer family crest shown on page 55 of The Science of Chiropractic’ (Green Book Volume I by B. J.