ΦΚΨ (Phi Kappa Psi) occurs as U.S. national college fraternity.

History
Phi Kappa Psi was founded within 1852 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, on the campus of Jefferson College by William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore. Across yearn nights of treating a upchuck friend when you took an eruption of disease, the founders grew to appreciate their service, & decided to form an organization that would ensconce these ideals, & on the dreary nighttime of February 19, 1852, the brotherhood of Phi Kappa Psi was natural.

Creed
A creed of Phi Kappa Psi was a symptom of efforts by John Henry Frizzell (Massachusetts Alpha, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1898) and Kent Christopher Owen (Indiana Beta, Indiana University, 1958). It was adopted per Grand Arch Council within 1964. It reads when follows:

We guess that Phi Kappa Psi occurs as brotherhood of honorable men, gracious & cultivated, world health organization pledge throughout their passes to become generous, condole with, & truehearted comrades;

We imagine that We come honor attached to strive manly for intellect, moral, & spiritual excellence; to help & forgive our Brothers; to discharge promptly completely only debts; to give help & sympathy to everthing world health organization are less fortunate;

We think that We are honor attached to strengthen our character & deepen the integrity; to guidance & prescription the Brothers world health organization stray from either their obligations; to respect & emulate the Brothers world health organization practice moderation in their manners & lesson; to exist as ever aware that loyalty to our Fraternity should non break down loyalty to our college, however like increase devotion thereto, to the united states & to our God;

''We think that to a lot I personally personally personally personally meet, wherever I last, I represent non single Phi Kappa Psi, however indeed a spirit of 100% fraternities; therefore I must ever conduct myself so when to bring respect & honor does'nt to myself alone, however likewise to our Fraternity;

To the fulfilment one beliefs, one ideals, in the noble perfection of PhI personally Kappa Psi, I pledge our life & our sacred honor.

Written by John Henry Frizzell, Massachusetts Alpha 1898, & Kent Christopher Owen, Indiana Beta 1958. Adoptive per 1964 Grand Arch Council.

Symbols
the fraternity flag is in the proportions of eight & of these-half feet wide by captain hicks feet high; a colors come a official fraternity colors; the project is triad vertical stripes of equal breadth, a green midmost, flanked in either side by a red stripe.

A official swallow of Phi Kappa Psi is "Quimgambuli", this a distortion of the earliest title Quimbambuli, which comes from either the German ingest Krambabuli. A "gam" around Quimgambuli is within honor of the Wisconsin Gammthe chapter, which prepared a description of the formula & history of the swallow & attendant song.

Notable alumni
Note: Season enrolled is season of initiation into fraternity at a school enrolled. Government
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (Virginia Alpha, University of Virginia, 1879) U.S. Senator Paul Coverdell (Missouri Alpha, University of Missouri, 1959) U.S. Senator Evan Bayh (Indiana Beta, Indiana University, 1975) United States National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley (New York Alpha, Cornell University, 1966) Pennsylvania Governor Raymond P. Shafer (Pennsylvania Beta, Allegheny College) New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Maryland Alpha, Johns Hopkins University, 1961) Georgia State Senator David Shafer (Georgia Alpha, University of Georgia) Georgia State Representative Earl "Butch" Ehrhart (Georgia Alpha, University of Georgia)

Arts & entertainment
Author James Thurber (Ohio Delta, Ohio State University, 1918) Actor/Band Leader Charles "Buddy" Rogers (Kansas Alpha, University of Kansas, 1923) Actor Peter Graves (Minnesota Beta, University of Minnesota, 1946) Actor John Astin (Pennsylvania Alpha, Washington and Jefferson College, 1949) Actor Roy Scheider (Pennsylvania Eta, Franklin and Marshall College, 1954) Actor Edward Herrmann (Pennsylvania Gamma, Bucknell University, 1965) Olympian Mark Spitz (Indiana Beta, Indiana University, 1969) Actor Zach Braff (Illinois Alpha, Northwestern University, 1997)

Business
Yahoo!'' co-founder Jerry Yang (California Beta, Stanford University, 1987) Excite co-founder Benjamin Lutch (California Beta, Stanford University, 1991) Ticketmaster founder Jerry Nelson (California Epsilon, UCLA, 1948)

Miscellaneous
John F. Kennedy Jr. (Rhode Island Alpha, Brown University, 1979) Astronaut Owen Garriott

Endowment Fund
Rather numbers of fraternal organizations a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity diarrhea an independent endowment for the training benifit of its members. This endowment, organized around 1914, occurs as 501(hundred)(Terzetto) non-profit-making, public training foundation. When of December 31st, 2004 a endowment got nett plus of $18,928,712. Around 2004 a endowment spent $1,085,515 in scholarships, grants & more training activities for the fraternity's brothers.

Altough established inside 1914 it was non until 1994 that a fraternity's endowment began to flurish. Therein season nett plus totaled the mere $620,503. Ten years late that ammount grew to about $19 million. Inside 2004 under a leadership of Tom Pennington, director even even of development for a fund, & Wayne Wilson, probate lawyer & chairperson of a fund, the Phi Kappa Psi endowment became the big endowment of any Our contries or International collegial fraternity or sorority. Generous returning by loaded alumni like Jerry Nelson & Bruce McMahan keep close at hand helped Phi Kappa Psi email this goal. A fund as well relies heavy in little contributions to its "Chapter Scholarship Foundation" program, whereby 90% of the donation may be ear-marked for the benifit of the specific chapter. This has spurred rendering among people world health organization have a heavy connection using a chapter at their collegial alma matter. A Phi Kappa Psi chapter at USC (University of Southern California) has a big chapter scholarship fund by using $1.Three million inside 2004.

List of chapters
Alabama Alpha - University of Alabama Beta - Auburn University Arkansas Alpha - University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas (inactive) Arizona Alpha - University of Arizona Beta - Arizona State University California Alpha - University of the Pacific (inactive) Beta - Stanford University (founded December 18, 1891) Gamma - University of California, Berkeley (inactive) Delta - University of Southern California Epsilon - University of California, Los Angeles Zeta- University of California, Santa Barbara (inactive) Eta- California State University, San Luis Obispo Theta- California State University, Northridge (inactive) Iota - University of California, Davis (Recolonization) Kappa - University of California, Irvine Lambda - San Diego State University Mu- University of California, Riverside (Colony) Colorado Alpha - University of Colorado-Boulder Connecticut Alpha - Hartford Delaware Alpha - Newark District of Columbia Alpha - Washington Florida Alpha - Florida State University Beta - University of Florida, Gainesville (Chapter inactive) Georgia Alpha - University of Georgia Beta - Georgia Institute of Technology (founded May 20, 2000) Illinois Alpha - Northwestern University Beta - Chicago Delta - University of Illinois Epsilon - Illinois State University Eta - Edwardsville Gamma - Monmouth Theta - Chicago Zeta - Depaul University Indiana Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity Headquarters - Indianapolis Alpha - DePauw University Beta - Indiana University Delta - Purdue University Epsilon - Valparaiso University [http://www.valpophipsi.org/ Chapter website] Eta - Indiana State University Gamma - Wabash College Zeta - Butler University Iowa Alpha - University of Iowa Beta - Iowa State University Delta - Indianola Gamma - Mt. Vernon Kansas Alpha - Lawrence Kentucky Beta - Lexington Louisiana Alpha - Louisiana State University Beta - Lafayette Gamma - Loyola University Maryland Alpha - Baltimore Beta - Baltimore Massachusetts Alpha - Amherst Beta - Brandeis Michigan Alpha - Ann Arbor Beta - E. Lansing Minnesota Alpha - Northfield [http://www.mnbeta.org Beta] - University of Minnesota [http://www.umdphipsi.com Delta] - University of Minnesota Duluth Gamma - Mankato Mississippi Alpha - University of Mississippi Beta - Clinton Missouri [http://students.missouri.edu/~phipsi Alpha] - University of Missouri-Columbia Beta - Fulton (Inactive) Montana Alpha - Missoula (Inactive) Nebraska Alpha - Lincoln Beta - Omaha New Hampshire Alpha - Hanover New Jersey Alpha - Lawrenceville Beta - W. Long Branch Gamma - Just released Brunswick Delta - A College of Future Jersey (Ewing, NJ) Founded April 21, 1990 Epsilon - Glassboro New Mexico Alpha - Eastern Just released Mexico University New York Alpha - Cornell University Beta - Syracuse University Delta - Geneva Epsilon - Hamilton Eta - State University of Future York-Buffalo Gamma - Just released York Iota - Binghamton Kappa - Oneonta Theta - Rochester Institute of Technology Zeta - Brooklyn North Carolina Beta - East Carolina University Ohio Alpha - Delaware Beta - Springfield Gamma - Wooster Delta - Ohio State University Epsilon - Cleveland Zeta - Brunswick Eta - University of Toledo Theta - University of Ashland Iota - Akron Kappa - Kent [http://www.ohiolambda.com Lambda] - Miami University Mu - Dayton Oklahoma Alpha - Norman Beta - Stillwater Oregon Alpha - Eugene Beta - Corvallis Pennsylvania Alpha - Inl& northwest and Jefferson (number one chapter - founded February 19, 1852 at then Jefferson College) Beta - Meadville Gamma - Bucknell University Delta - Washington Epsilon - Gettysburg Zeta - Carlisle Eta - Lancaster Theta - Lafayette College Iota - University of Pennsylvania Kappa - Swarthmore College (renounced national affiliation in 1960's, changed title to only "Phi Psi") Lambda - State College Mu - Pittsburgh Nu - Indiana Xi - Edinboro Omicron - Bethlehem Pi - Philadelphia Rho - York Sigma - Philadelphia Tau - Altoona Phi - Williamsport Upsilon - Philadelphia Rhode Island Alpha - Brown University Beta - Kingston South Carolina Alpha - Columbia Tennessee Alpha - La Grange Beta - Lebanon Gamma - Nashville Delta - Vanderbilt University Nashville Epsilon - Knoxville Zeta - Memphis Texas Alpha - University of Texas Austin Beta - Texas Tech University Lubbock Gamma - Texas State University San Marcos Delta - Southern Methodist University Dallas Epsilon - Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches Virginia Alpha - Charlottesville Beta - Lexington Zeta - Blacksburg Washington Alpha - Seattle West Virginia Alpha - Morgantown Wisconsin Alpha - University of Wisconsin at Madison (Inactive) Beta - Racine College (Inactive - College There are no Elongated Lives) [http://www.beloit.edu/~phipsi Gamma] - Beloit College