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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.
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.
Phi Beta Sigma founders: A. Langston Taylor, (first row, center), Leonard F. Morse (first row; third from right) and Charles I. Brown (first row; third from left) with charter members of Phi Beta Sigma; Alpha Chapter in 1914. A. Langston Taylor, Esq. (January 29, 1890 - August 8, 1953) was the first international president of Phi Beta Sigma.
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
Phi Kappa Phi is an international collegiate honor society. Following is a list of some notable members of Phi Kappa Phi. Academia. Presidents Joseph E ...
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.
Editor of Phi Sigma Kappa's magazine for members, The Signet, national secretary and author of the Fraternity's first history, Phi Sigma Kappa, a History. The theater at the University of Massachusetts was named in his honor. [108] J. Ben Robinson Eta , 1914 President of dental schools at both West Virginia University and at Maryland.
Throughout the years, notable individuals such as George Washington Carver and Carter G. Woodson were speakers at conclaves. Phi Beta Sigma's first conclave was held on December 28 and 29, 1916 in Washington, D.C. It was attended by 200 members from three collegiate chapters: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma.