Finding aid of the Phi Kappa Phi records 5328
Jacqueline Morin
USC Libraries Special Collections
2018
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Phi Kappa Phi records
creator:
Phi Kappa Phi. University of Southern California Chapter
Identifier/Call Number: 5328
Identifier/Call Number: 1790
Physical Description:
0.42 linear foot.
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1924-2002
Abstract: Phi Kappa Phi is an academic honor society that recognizes and promotes academic excellence in all fields of higher education
and engages the community of scholars in service to others. This small group of records consists of bylaws, correspondence,
rosters, newsletters, meeting minutes, award program information, Daily Trojan clippings, and other ephemera pertaining to
USC's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi.
Container: 1
Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1897 at the University of Maine by 10 seniors, 2 faculty members and the University's president.
They envisioned a new kind of honor society, one that recognized excellence in all academic disciplines. Under the leadership
of student Marcus L. Urann, the group formed the Lambda Sigma Eta Society, later renamed Phi Kappa Phi from the letters of
the Greek words forming its motto, Philosophía Krateítõ Phõtôn, "Let the love of learning rule humanity." Today, Phi Kappa
Phi recognizes and promotes academic excellence in all fields of higher education and engages the community of scholars in
service to others. [From the Phi Kappa Phi website, https://www.phikappaphi.org/about/mission-and-history]
This small group of records consists of bylaws, correspondence, rosters, newsletters, meeting minutes, award program information,
Daily Trojan clippings, and other ephemera pertaining to USC's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Societies -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Bylaws (administrative records)
Clippings
Correspondence
Ephemera
Newsletters
Minutes
Phi Kappa Phi. University of Southern California Chapter -- Archives