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The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) [a] is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was founded at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, in December 1776. [ 4 ] Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences, and to induct outstanding students of arts and sciences at ...
Representatives of Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi attended its preliminary meeting held on October 2, 1925. When ACHS was officially established on December 30, 1925, its founding members were Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi. [2]
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.
The Honor Society Caucus is an umbrella organization that represents several prestigious collegiate honor societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Omicron Delta Kappa. The caucus is a coordinating organization of four of the oldest independent honor societies, including three of the original six founding members of the ...
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 Flat Hat Club is the popular name of a collegiate secret society and honor fraternity founded in 1750 at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.. The fraternity, formally named the F.H.C. Society, was founded at the College on November 11, 1750.
Beta Sigma Omicron 1943–1945: Helen Cunningham: Phi Omega Pi 1945–1947: Amy Onken: Pi Beta Phi 1947–1949: L. Pearle Green: Kappa Alpha Theta 1949–1951: Edith Crabtree: Kappa Kappa Gamma 1951–1953: Margaret Hutchinson: Alpha Phi 1953–1955: Helen Byars: Delta Gamma 1955–1957: Beatrice Hogan: Gamma Phi Beta 1957–1959: Rosita ...
In 1957, Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall opened its doors and became the first building on the College’s "new campus." [1] PBK Hall was originally in a different building on campus but had burned down in a fire in 1953. The name comes from Phi Beta Kappa society, which was the first academic honor society created in the United States. It was ...