The Triskelion Grand Fraternity was founded on October 4, 1968 at the University of the Philippines,
in Diliman campus, Quezon City, Philippines. The fraternity was organized by a group of Arts and
Science students who were protesting to the then
existing fraternity system which was plagued by violent hazing and bloody fraternity fights known as
"rumbles".
Amidst turbulence during the late 60's, the rallying U.P. activists, communism on the rise, Philippine government on the brink of martial law, and the worsening fraternity
violence... there rose the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity which was then originally named Order of the
U.P. Triskelions. The group swelled in ranks and gained its recognition when the Greek-Lettered Tau Gamma Phi
was adopted. Few years later, chapters from other college and university campuses in the Philippines were
established.
The fraternity was organized by a group of varsitarian men which were one in the thinking of re-establishing the true essence of "brotherhood"
which was at that time lost and mis-concepted by most. And for this very reason the Tau Gamma Phi conceptualized the so called " Anti- Frat System". With the rampant number of deaths among
neophytes, it was the time that the belief and trust in the fraternity system was
diminishing... hence the Tau Gamma Phi was known as a "Protest
Fraternity".
The Tau Gamma Phi's bylaws, better known to its members as their Tenets and Codes of Conduct, are based on spiritual,
moral and ethical values. The fraternity lives by a balance of three dynamic forces:
Strength, Free Will and Brotherhood, as shown on the fraternity seal Fortis, Voluntas,
Fraternitas.
To date, the fraternity has over half a million active and alumni members all over the Philippines with expatriate
chapters in North America, Europe, Asia and other countries. The Tau Gamma Phi fraternity still continues to grow memberships with
pledges coming from various college degrees - medical/science, law, engineering, business/finance and arts/music.
