Phi Delta Kappa (fraternity)

Not to be confused with Phi Delta Kappa, a modern-day professional organization for educators.
Phi Delta Kappa
ΦΔΚ
Founded 1874[1]
Washington & Jefferson College
Washington, Pennsylvania
Type Social
Dissolved 1881[1]

Phi Delta Kappa (ΦΔΚ) was an American collegiate fraternity.

History

It was founded in 1874 at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania when a chapter of Iota Alpha Kappa resolved to continue after Iota Alpha Kappa's dissolution.[1] Chapters were founded at Western University in 1876, Thiel College in 1876, Lafayette College in 1876, and the University of Louisiana in 1878.[1] By 1880, all of the chapters except for Washington & Jefferson College had become extinct.[1] That chapter sought to survive by joining another fraternity.[1] In 1881, the Washington & Jefferson College chapter joined Phi Gamma Delta, taking the designation of Alpha chapter, a designation that had belonged to the founding chapter of Phi Gamma at Jefferson College.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 William Raimond Baird (1898). "Phi Delta Kappa". Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (5th ed.). G. Banta Co. pp. 344–345.


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