
Phi Kappa Psi founders William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore
Phi Kappa Psi (ΦΚΨ), also called "Phi Psi", is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania on February 19, 1852.[1] There are over a hundred chapters and colonies at accredited four year colleges and universities throughout the United States.[2]
More than 112,000 men have been initiated into Phi Kappa Psi since its founding, and many have achieved recognition in their field.[2] Phi Psis in public service include U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Woodrow Wilson, over a hundred members of Congress (including 18 senators and Speaker of the House Warren Keifer), three-term New York City Mayor and Bloomberg L.P. founder Mike Bloomberg, over a dozen state governors, two directors of the Peace Corps, and "Wild Bill" Donovan, the founding director of the Office of Strategic Services (the Central Intelligence Agency's predecessor) and recipient of the Medal of Honor and of the Freedom Award.[3] Academian Phi Psis include over a dozen university presidents (among these are Priestley Medal recipient Edgar Fahs Smith, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Detlev Bronk), Rhodes scholars, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frederick Jackson Turner. Amidst the Phi Psis who have served in the military are dozens of generals and admirals, including "Father of the U.S. Air Force" Billy Mitchell, World War I Army Chief of Staff Tasker Bliss, National Security Agency director Kenneth Minihan, and three Judge Advocate Generals.[4] In the arts, Phi Psis have received Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, Grammys, and Tony Awards. Journalist Sy Hersh has won the Pulitzer Prize, Orwell Award and George Polk Award. Phi Psi businessmen include Bank of America founder Orra E. Monnette, Dow Chemical founder Herbert Dow, PIMCO founder Bill Gross, and Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang. Three Phi Psis have served as presidents of the American Bar Association. Sportsmen include Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick, Olympic gold medalists including 7-time gold swimmer Mark Spitz, "Father of College Basketball Coaching" Phog Allen, NFL visionary Tex Schramm, and Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick.[5]
An active member of the fraternity is a full-time enrolled student at his chapter's host institution at the undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate level; all others, including members who have graduated or transfer to a school without a Phi Psi chapter, are considered alumni.[6] Men may be initiated into Phi Kappa Psi either by an active chapter, or as part of a colony that is being installed as a chapter. Members typically join Phi Kappa Psi when a chapter extends an offer to enter into a probationary period known as pledgeship, which lasts for six weeks and concludes with initiation.
Membership is normally only granted to men who are enrolled as full-time students at a chapter's host institution.[6] There have been three exceptions to this:
1. Alumni of a colony which became a chapter after their graduation, and for two years after.
2. Men who have been of service to a chapter, but not students at the institution.
3. Honorary membership extended to men of prominence, a practice that was banned in 1885.
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Detlev Bronk
Leverett S. Lyon
Edgar Fahs Smith
Frederick Jackson Turner
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Arts, entertainment, and journalism
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Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Roy Scheider
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Sy Hersh
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James Thurber
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Paul Winter
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Echo Bay, New Rochelle by Reynolds Beal
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Herbert Dow
Jerry Yang
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Government, law, and public policy
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Woodrow Wilson
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Cabinet and cabinet-level positions
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Mark Filip
Stephen Hadley
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Members of the United States Congress
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Evan Bayh
George E. Chamberlain
Paul Coverdell
Charlie Dent
Joseph B. Foraker
French Hill
J. Warren Keifer
William S. Kenyon
Thomas Kuchel
Charles Sumner
James Eli Watson
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United States Supreme Court
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Pierce Butler
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U.S. governors and lieutenant governors
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James Goodrich
William C. Sproul
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Mike Bloomberg
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State and local legislators
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Tracy Stafford
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Herbert Powell
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John W. Davis
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William Donovan
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Tasker Bliss
Kenneth Minihan
Billy Mitchell
David Taylor
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Robert Lowry
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Scott Forstall
Elliott See
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Jerry Colangelo
Ford Frick
Taj Gibson
Nile Kinnick
Mark Spitz
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- ^ Dulles, Allen W. (1993). "William J. Donovan and the National Security". Langley, Virginia: Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on January 9, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
- ^ Byrd, Michael (2008). "The father of the U.S. Air Force". Cheyenne, Wyoming: F.E. Warren AFB. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
- ^ "Forrest C. "Phog" Allen". Springfield, Massachusetts: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 2009. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
- ^ Norwick, Robert (1982). The Shield of Pfi Kappa Psi (PDF). Compolith Graphics. p. 45. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
- ^ Phi Kappa Psi Foundation (2010). "Foundation Trustees". Archived from the original on May 3, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
- ^ Day Trading on NYSE (2009). "Bill H. Gross". Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
- ^ USC Trojan Family Magazine (Winter 2000). "In Support: A New Engineering Home". Archived from the original on April 22, 2001. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
- ^ Green, George N. "Thompson, Ernest Othmer (1892–1966)". Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Archived from the original on July 18, 2022. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ "Who is Luigi Mangione, suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing?". Washington Post. 2024.
- ^ "Penn community reacts to arrest of former student Luigi Mangione". The Daily Pennsylvanian. 2024.
- ^ Compton, Lynn D., with Marcus Brotherton (2008). Call of Duty: My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers. Berkley Caliber. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-425-21970-6.
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- ^ a b R. D. Kuhn (1923–24). "Tennessee Delta – Vanderbilt University" (PDF). The Shield. 44: 141. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
- Anson, Jack L.; Marchesani Jr., Robert F., eds. (1991). Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (20th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Baird's Manual Foundation, Inc. pp. III 82–85. ISBN 978-0-9637159-0-6. OCLC 25278937.
- Van Cleve, Charles L. (1902). Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity From Its Foundation In 1852 To Its Fiftieth Anniversary. Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company. OCLC 2140880.
- Campbell, J. Duncan (1952). The Centennial History of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, 1852–1952. Vol. I, 1852–1902. Cleveland: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. OCLC 3519106.
- Gorgas, Harry S. (1952). The Centennial History of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, 1852–1952. Vol. II, 1902–1952. Cleveland: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. OCLC 3519106.
- Keehn, Roy D. (1910). Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (7th ed.). Chicago: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. OCLC 5469453.
- Phi Kappa Psi (1985). Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (12th ed.). White Plains, New York: Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company. OCLC 12695361.
- Phi Kappa Psi (1997). Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (14th ed.). White Plains, New York: Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company. OCLC 324731269.
- Phi Kappa Psi (2009). Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: Harris Connect. ASIN B005JL43AS.
- Harper, Terrence (1989). The Manual of Phi Kappa Psi (15th ed.). Indianapolis: Phi Kappa Psi. OCLC 24765883.
- Bloomberg, Michael (1997). Bloomberg by Bloomberg. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-15545-4. OCLC 36112232.
- Bernstein, Burton (1975). Thurber: a Biography. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. ISBN 0-396-07027-2. OCLC 1247088.
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- Joseph Benson Foraker (1886–1888)
- Robert Lowry (1888–1890)
- John Patterson Rea (1890–1892)
- William Clayton Wilson (1892–1894)
- Walter Lisle McCorkle (1894–1898)
- George William Dun (1898–1900)
- Ernest Milmore Stires (1900–1902)
- Edward Lawrence Fell (1902–1904)
- George Bramwell Baker (1904–1906)
- Charles Frederick Mather Niles (1906–1908)
- David Halstead (1908–1910)
- George Smart (1910–1912)
- Orra Eugene Monnette (1912–1914)
- Sion Bass Smith (1914–1916)
- Henry Hale McCorkle (1916–1918)
- Walter Lee Shephard (1918–1920)
- Dan Gardner Swannell (1920–1922)
- George Duffield McIlvaine (1922–1924)
- Shirley Edwin Meserve (1924–1926)
- Howard Chandler Williams (1926–1928)
- Harold Guyon Townsend (1928–1930)
- Edward Morris Bassett (1930–1932)
- Thomas Aubrey Cookson (1932–1934)
- Harry Lambright Snyder (1934–1936)
- Leverett S. Lyon (1936–1938)
- Charles Edwin Strickland (1938–1940)
- Andrew Gehr Truxal (1940–1942)
- Harry Stewart Gorgas (1942–1946)
- Winston Rousseau Tate (1946–1948)
- Howard Leeman Hamilton (1948–1950)
- Harlan Bovell Selby (1950–1952)
- J. Bart Aldridge (1952–1954)
- Willis Lyle Jones (1954–1956)
- Edward Tyler Sturgeon (1956)
- James Colburn Addison (1956–1958)
- Robert Roy Elliott (1958–1960)
- Webb Morse Mize (1960–1962)
- Louis Damarin Corson (1962–1964)
- Robert Eugene Leber (1964–1966)
- Ralph Rudolph Haney (1966–1968)
- Walter Lee Shephard Jr. (1968–1970)
- Philip Martin Cornelius (1970–1972)
- Mark David Sullivan (1972–1974)
- Thomas Louis James (1974–1976)
- J. Kenneth Potter (1976–1978)
- Robert W. Chamberlain (1978–1980)
- John R. Donnell Jr. (1980–1982)
- John K. Boyd III (1982–1984)
- George W. Humphries (1984–1986)
- David Franklin Hull Jr. (1986–1988)
- John Robert Meserve (1988–1990)
- Robert Ellsworth Lazzell (1990–1992)
- Richard Eugene Ong (1992–1994)
- David Lester Woodrum (1994–1996)
- Gregory Charles Knapp (1996–1998)
- John D. Watt III (1998–2000)
- Steven E. Nieslawski (2000–2002)
- John V. Ciccarelli (2002–2004)
- James R. Blazer II (2004–2006)
- Stephen O'Rourke (2006–2008)
- Paul R. Wineman (2008–2010)
- J. Tryon Hubbard Jr. (2010–2012)
- James L. Miller (2012–2014)
- A. Scott Noble (2014-2016)
- James D. Boyle (2016-2018)
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