Phi Delta Kappa (fraternity)

Phi Delta Kappa (ΦΔΚ) was an American collegiate fraternity.

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

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] Chapters were founded at Western University in 1876, Thiel College in 1876, Lafayette College in 1876, and the University of Louisiana in 1878.[1] By 1880, all of the chapters 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]

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