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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.
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]
Ellis Loew, fictional District Attorney in James Ellroy's novels The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A. Confidential, is a member and he shows his key several times. Thomas Crown, title character of the movie The Thomas Crown Affair, toys with his golden Phi Beta Kappa key which he is wearing on a chain. It is stated that he is an alumnus ...
Its student magazine, The Beta Journal, was established in September 1934. [24] There were 75 clubs in four states by the end of 1935. [24] The Beta Club established a loan program that helped 1,500 members attend college before replacing the program with scholarships. [1] In 1961, the Junior Beta Club was formed for middle school students. [1]
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 ...
In 2013 and 2014, sorority women from multiple chapters at the University of Alabama – including Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, and Phi Mu – alleged that either active members or some of their alumnae had prevented them from offering membership to black candidates because of ...
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.
Kappa Delta 1935–1937: Harriet Tuft: Beta Phi Alpha 1937–1939: Violet Gentry: Alpha Delta Theta 1939–1941: Beatrice Moore: Theta Upsilon 1941–1943: Juelda Burnaugh: 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 ...