Everything
has a past, but not all are as interesting as that of the Phi Kappa Psi
Fraternity and its founding. Unlike most other fraternities that started
as local clubs, Phi Kappa Psi was started as a national fraternity from
the very beginning.
The founding of Phi Kappa Psi can be traced back to Canonsburg, Pennsylvania where the campus of Jefferson college was hidden in the hills. The two men credited for the founding of the wonderful Fraternity were Jefferson College Students Charles Page Thomas Moore and William Henry Letterman. They were working together to help nurse fellow friends that were stricken by typhoid fever. Through their work and experience helping others, they grew interested in serving and helping others.
Their interest sparked the desire to call a meeting with some friends. Unfortunately, due to poor weather conditions, no one else was able to be in attendance. At this meeting, they discussed forming a brotherhood on the foundation of the great joy of serving others. The results on the night of February 19, 1852 was the formation of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.
Phi Kappa Psi currently has over 85 chapters in 32 states and the District of Columbia. Each chapter is founded on the ideas of Phi Kappa Psi's founders. Phi Kappa Psi strives to maintain a high standard of academic standards while serving several college campuses and the communities that surround them. Due to the ability of thousands of men over the past century and a half to maintain the highest of ideals and standards of the Fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi continues to stand as an organization of honorable men forming a strong, never-ending brotherhood.
The founding of Phi Kappa Psi can be traced back to Canonsburg, Pennsylvania where the campus of Jefferson college was hidden in the hills. The two men credited for the founding of the wonderful Fraternity were Jefferson College Students Charles Page Thomas Moore and William Henry Letterman. They were working together to help nurse fellow friends that were stricken by typhoid fever. Through their work and experience helping others, they grew interested in serving and helping others.
Their interest sparked the desire to call a meeting with some friends. Unfortunately, due to poor weather conditions, no one else was able to be in attendance. At this meeting, they discussed forming a brotherhood on the foundation of the great joy of serving others. The results on the night of February 19, 1852 was the formation of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.
Phi Kappa Psi currently has over 85 chapters in 32 states and the District of Columbia. Each chapter is founded on the ideas of Phi Kappa Psi's founders. Phi Kappa Psi strives to maintain a high standard of academic standards while serving several college campuses and the communities that surround them. Due to the ability of thousands of men over the past century and a half to maintain the highest of ideals and standards of the Fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi continues to stand as an organization of honorable men forming a strong, never-ending brotherhood.