One of three advisors to President Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, medieval historian at Harvard University (1912–1931) President of West Virginia University (1995–2007) Rhodes Scholar (1967) President of the University of Hawaii (1963–1967) President of the State University of New York (1959–1962) Prominent economist of the Austrian School President of the American Economic Association (1913)Ĭhancellor of Washington University (1923–1927) Governor of Missouri (1909–1913) Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1964) a founder (1960) and past President of the World Academy of Art and Science President of Rockefeller University (1953–1968) President of the National Academy of Sciences (1950–1962) President of Johns Hopkins University (1949–1953) credited with formulating the modern theory of the science of biophysics allegedly a member of the Majestic 12ĭod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University (1929–1945) President of the University of Southern California (1903–1921) President of the University of Georgia (1889–1898) President of Franklin & Marshall College (1910–1935) You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. Honorary membership extended to men of prominence, a practice that was banned in 1885.

Men who have been of service to a chapter, but not students at the institution. Alumni of a colony which became a chapter after their graduation, and for two years after. There have been three exceptions to this:ġ. Membership is normally only granted to men who are enrolled as full-time students at a chapter's host institution. Members typically join Phi Kappa Psi when a chapter extends an offer to enter into a probationary period known as pledgeship, which lasts for six weeks and concludes with initiation. Men may be initiated into Phi Kappa Psi either by an active chapter, or as part of a colony that is being installed as a chapter. Īn active member of the fraternity is a full-time enrolled student at his chapter's host institution at the undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate level all others, including members who have graduated or transfer to a school without a Phi Psi chapter, are considered alumni. Sportsmen include Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick, Olympic gold medalists including 7-time gold swimmer Mark Spitz, 'Father of College Basketball Coaching' Phog Allen, NFL visionary Tex Schramm, and Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick. Three Phi Psis have served as presidents of the American Bar Association. Monnette, Dow Chemical founder Herbert Dow, PIMCO founder Bill Gross, and Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang. Phi Psi businessmen include Bank of America founder Orra E. Journalist Sy Hersh has won the Pulitzer Prize, Orwell Award and George Polk Award. In the arts, Phi Psis have received Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, Grammys, and Tony Awards. Air Force' Billy Mitchell, World War I Army Chief of Staff Tasker Bliss, National Security Agency director Kenneth Minihan, and three Judge Advocate Generals. Amidst the Phi Psis who have served in the military are dozens of generals and admirals, including 'Father of the U.S. Academian Phi Psis include over a dozen university presidents (among these are Priestley Medal recipient Edgar Fahs Smith, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Detlev Bronk), Rhodes scholars, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frederick Jackson Turner. founder Mike Bloomberg, over a dozen state governors, two directors of the Peace Corps, and 'Wild Bill' Donovan, the founding director of the Office of Strategic Services (the Central Intelligence Agency's predecessor) and recipient of the Medal of Honor and of the Freedom Award. President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Woodrow Wilson, over a hundred members of Congress (including 18 senators and Speaker of the House Warren Keifer), three-term New York City Mayor and Bloomberg L.P. More than 112,000 men have been initiated into Phi Kappa Psi since its founding, and many have achieved recognition in their field.

There are over a hundred chapters and colonies at accredited four year colleges and universities throughout the United States. 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. Phi Kappa Psi founders William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore

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