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Students hold the Key of Phi Beta Kappa at Duke University. The symbol of the Phi Beta Kappa Society is a golden key engraved on the obverse with the image of a pointing finger, three stars, and the Greek letters from which the society takes its name. On the reverse are found the initials "SP" in the script.
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.
Edward Alexander Bouchet (September 15, 1852 – October 28, 1918) was an American physicist and educator and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale University in 1876. On the basis of his academic record he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 1874 ...
Phi Beta Kappa: ΦΒΚ: Liberal Arts December 5, 1776: December 30, 1925 (ACHS founder) December 15, 1937 Resigned [9] Phi Kappa Phi: ΦΚΦ: All Fields March 15, 1897: December 30, 1925 (ACHS founder) 2006 – 2007: Sigma Xi: ΣΞ: Scientific Research November 1886 [10] December 30, 1925 (ACHS founder) 1933
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Golden Key National Honour Society was founded by James W. Lewis at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1977. [2] The original intent of the society was to create a new academic honor organization that was the equal of longstanding honor societies such as Phi Beta Kappa, but which did not carry the same perceived elitism of older institutions, operating more strictly on merit ...
The Student Government Association was organized to represent the "consensus of opinion of the whole student body", and to encourage individual responsibility, integrity, and self-government. Wheaton received authorization to establish a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1932, twenty years after achieving college status.
He discussed the possibility of a career as a comedian with Jerry Lewis, [2] but then decided to study journalism and history at the University of Southern California as an undergraduate where he was editor-in-chief of the Daily Trojan from 1962 to 1963. [3] At USC he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. [4]