Nationally, Kappa Psi is divided into eleven provinces, which the majority meet biannually and is divided as follows: The Central Office of Kappa Psi is located in Richardson, Texas. Today there are 111 active collegiate chapters and 73 graduate chapters across the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas, and over 80,000 people have been initiated into the fraternity since its inception. In 1977, Kappa Psi first welcomed women into the fraternity. Kappa Psi Fraternity would later incorporate under the name of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity. A single chapter carries on the Theta Kappa Psi name today. Theta Kappa Psi later struggled it would go on to merge with Phi Beta Pi in 1961, but this union was again dissolved in 1992. īy mutual agreement, in 1924, the fraternity split into Kappa Psi, which retained its pharmacy component, and Theta Kappa Psi, which became strictly a medical fraternity. In 1903 the Society incorporated as a national fraternity, operating jointly as both a medical and pharmaceutical fraternity. īy 1902 the young organization had formed six chapters and already held four conventions.
A third group of advancing students formed the Beta chapter at the University College of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia, in 1900. Others, who had opted for the study of pharmacy, formed a Gamma chapter at the College of Pharmacy at Columbia University in that same year. These men, reforming the organization as Kappa Psi Fraternity chartered its first collegiate chapter, Delta, at the University of Maryland in the fall of 1898 when former members of the Hillhouse chapter entered that school in the study of medicine. Representatives, now alumni without an active chapter from these three early prep school chapters formed a grand chapter called Alpha chapter on December 10, 1895, deeming it an essential step for rebuilding the fraternity and for expansion nationally.
īut the founders of these chapters, many having graduated and entered college and still students themselves, sought a collegiate level re-establishment of the order. Hillhouse too, died as a chapter on 30 June 1895. While these two early units failed, another chapter formed at Hillhouse Academy of New Haven, Connecticut in 1894. It quickly created an additional chapter, at the Cheshire Military Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut in 1879. The Society named as its founder Franklin Harvey Smith. The Society of Kappa Psi was founded on at the Russell Military Academy in New Haven, Connecticut as an academic society for college preparatory schools. 4.4 Discontinued collegiate pharmacy chapters.
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