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Richard Sumner, the main character of the movie Desk Set (1957), is mentioned as a member when Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) reels off Sumner's character's accomplishments and says that he's a graduate of M.I.T. with a Ph.D. in Science and a Phi Beta Kappa, although he doesn't wear his key, which means either that he's modest or he lost it.
Number [a] Chapter Charter date and range Institution Location Status Reference 1: Alpha of Virginia: December 5, 1776 –1780, 1851–1860, 1893: College of William & Mary ...
The Phi Beta Kappa Society publishes The Key Reporter, [22] a newsletter distributed quarterly to all contributing members and biannually to all other members, and The American Scholar, a quarterly subscription-based journal that accepts essays on literature, history, science, public affairs, and culture.
The Phi Beta Kappa society had a rudimentary initiation and maintained an uncertain level of secrecy. Those secrets were exposed in the mid-1830s by students at Harvard University acting under the patronage of John Quincy Adams. Since the 1840s, Phi Beta Kappa has operated openly as an academic honor society.
Phi Kappa Phi is an international collegiate honor society. Following is a list of some notable members of Phi Kappa Phi. William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Beta Kappa (Charter member: Kappa Chi) U.S. House of Representatives member from Virginia [32] James Perkins, Jr. Gamma Phi: First African-American Mayor of Selma, Alabama [38] Edward J. Perkins: Alexandria-Fairfax (VA) Alumni: US Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations, and Australia [39] Kwame Raoul: Theta Zeta
The following members of the National Panhellenic Conference have a chapter at Michigan State. [1] Alpha Chi Omega; Alpha Omicron Pi; Alpha Phi; Alpha Xi Delta; Chi Omega; Delta Gamma; Gamma Phi Beta; Kappa Alpha Theta; Kappa Delta; Kappa Kappa Gamma; Pi Beta Phi; Sigma Delta Tau; Sigma Kappa; Zeta Tau Alpha
Because of the circumstances, Bouchet was not the first African American elected to Phi Beta Kappa, as many historical accounts state; that honor belongs to George Washington Henderson (University of Vermont). Bouchet was also among the first 20 Americans (of any race) to receive a Ph.D. in physics and was the sixth to earn a Ph.D. in physics ...