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Phi Delta Kappa (fraternity)

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Phi Delta Kappa
ΦΔΚ
Founded1874; 150 years ago (1874)[1]
Washington & Jefferson College
Washington, Pennsylvania
TypeSocial
Dissolved1881[1]

Phi Delta Kappa (ΦΔΚ) was an American collegiate fraternity which dissolved in 1881.

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] A total of five chapters were formed, but by 1880, four of the five, 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 Delta at Jefferson College.[1]

Chapters

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f William Raimond Baird (1898). "Phi Delta Kappa". Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (5th ed.). G. Banta Co. pp. 344–345.