Chapter Housing

The Living Space

The house has a capacity of 86 men in 2 and 3-man bedrooms located on the second and third floors. The bedrooms are furnished (bed, closet, desk, chair) and are attached to a furnished common suite (couch, refrigerator, chairs, table) in 2, 4, and 6-man arrangements.

The AGR Chapter house also holds a formal and informal living area, commercial kitchen and dining area, chapter meeting room, dedicated study rooms, and in-house laundry.

Members are served 14 meals throughout the week, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Proximity

The proximity of the Chapter House is one of the perks of living in. Sitting on Washington St, AGR is within walking distance of several restaurants and other Greek Houses. It is only a quarter-mile walk to the Student Union and a half-mile walk to Agriculture Hall. Even on OSU Game days, the walk to Boone Pickens Stadium is only 1 mile from the house. Members who live in the Chapter House are truly a part of the walkable community of campus and surrounding areas of Stillwater.

Contract Info

Members who are initiated into the Pi Chapter of Oklahoma State University, are asked to sign a six-semester contract to live in the Chapter House. After the contract is finished, members can live in for additional semesters or will find off-campus housing.

Many members tend to live with a variety of brothers throughout their time in the Chapter House. Additionally, members tend to live with one another in off-campus housing.

The House Mother

In 1923, Ms.Nellie Morpheus became the first housemother of Pi Chapter. Since then, a total of 23 women have served as a mom away from home for the Pi Chapter.

Ms. Karen Roper became the House Mother in the Fall of 2017. She was raised in Eastern New Mexico along the Llano Estacado cap rock on a cattle ranch and wheat farm. She learned to drive a tractor before a car and attended a rural school for elementary. She graduated from Melrose, New Mexico along with 27 classmates. While in high school, she participated in class plays, showed sheep, played volleyball, and basketball, and ran track. She continued her education and basketball career at Eastern New Mexico University.

Mom has 3 beautiful, tough, and remarkable daughters who have given her 10 of the most talented, gorgeous, funny, and entertaining grandchildren alive!

She currently lives in Perkins and has been working at an Oil Terminal in Cushing with NGL Energy Partners. She attends and is active in her church, Lost Creek United Methodist Church. She has been involved with children’s ministry for years and has traveled to many regions in mission work. She believes that our lives on the good Earth are a mission. Our mission is to help someone and maybe someone, in turn, will help you.

Throughout her time as the house mother, she has loved creating and fostering relationships among the active members of AGR. She can’t wait to continue this tradition of being the house mother and spending time with the men of AGR.

Karen Roper, Current House Mother of the Pi Chapter

Pi Chapter House Through the Years

AGR I
Pi Chapter lived at 312 West Elm Street from September to November 30, 1921.
AGR II
Pi Chapter lived at 311 Duncan from December 1921-1922. This house, the 2nd house that Pi Chapter lived in, is still standing.
AGR III
Pi Chapter lived at 403 or 401 Knoblock from 1922-1923.
AGR IV
Pi Chapter lived at 205 Knoblock from 1923-1926.
AGR V
Pi Chapter lived at 124 North West from 1926-1928.
AGR VI
Pi Chapter lived at 302 South Knoblock from 1928-1929 and again in 1930-1931. This house remains 84 years later, next to Chris’s University Spirit.

The second time this house became a rental for the fraternity was in 1946. The Alumni then purchased the house in the fall of 1947, sold it in the fall of 1948, and rented it until December 31, 1949
AGR VII
Pi Chapter lived at 901 College Avenue from 1931-1943. This was the home of Pi Chapter for 12 years. It was in 1943 that the University tool over all fraternity housing until the end of World War II.

This house has since been torn down and is now the parking lot adjacent to the Sigma Nu Fraternity.
AGR VIII
224 South Washington
AGR VIII
The house looked like this from 1950 to the 1964 renovation. This was the new home of Pi Chapter starting January 1, 1950.
AGR VIII
224 South Washington from the 1964 renovation to 2013. This is the original house completed in 1950 after it was renovated in 1964 to provide space for fifty-five (55) men and more adequate Chapter and social activities. The house underwent a renovation in the 1970s and again in 1997. This home of Pi Chapter served the men of AGR for 63 years.
AGR IX
Pi Chapter lived at 424 North Washington from May 2013 to February 2015, while the house at 224 South Washington was demolished and rebuilt.
AGR X
The members of Pi Chapter moved into AGR X on February 8, 2015. The house accommodates 86 men and includes over 37,000 square feet of living space.