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Lambda Theta Phi, Fraternidad Latina, Inc. was founded on December 1, 1975 at Kean College in Union, New Jersey.

From September to November of 1975, a group of students, from which would eventually come the Founding Fathers of Lambda Theta Phi, met to find the solution to uniting the different Latino groups on campus.

These meetings were initiated by Founding Father Garcia, who had already spearheaded a important breakthrough for Latino students by becoming the first Latino elected to the Kean College student government. The major topics of discussion at these meetings were the need to become politically conscious and active as Latino students and the unification of all Latinos, since at the time "Latin Unity" was not a common occurrence amount Latino students of different national origins.


At a meeting on November 11, 1975, Founding Father Garcia proposed the idea of founding a fraternity. Having become familiar with the workings of the college administration and student government he recognized that a fraternity could promote Latin unity through brotherhood. He also understood that fraternities were a organizational structure that college administrators acknowledged and one with which they were accustom to working. Lambda Theta Phi was founded as a Latin Fraternity, which was specifically stated in its original constitution, making it the first "Latino" fraternity in the United States.