A Few Facts about Phi Kappa Psi

MISSOURI ALPHA FACTS

• The Missouri Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi was the first fraternity at the University of Missouri and was founded on June 12, 1869.

• Phi Kappa Psi has the oldest fraternity house on the University of Missouri campus. The Grasslands was built in 1878, by George Bingham Rollins, the son of the founder of the University of Missouri - Columbia.

• The Missouri Alpha Chapter claims almost 1,500 alumni and is among the top chapters in "most initiated members" within Phi Kappa Psi.

• The Missouri Alpha Chapter Scholarship Fund currently contains more than $80,000. This allows the alumni corporation to award more than $4,000 in scholarships to chapter members every year.

• Phi Kappa Psi begain it's annual "PHI PSI 500" in 1961, which was the first philanthropy at the University of Missouri. It continues to raise thousands of dollars for local charities every year.

• The Missouri Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi has won the Thomas Cochran Campbell Ritual Exemplification Award (for performing the ritual the best of any chapter of Phi Kappa Psi) more than any other chapter of Phi Kappa Psi.

• The Missouri Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi has won the Director's Cup at the University of Missouri three times in just the last four years.

• For the past three years, a member of Phi Kappa Psi have been selected for the Cecil B. Keisler Award, otherwise know as the "Greek Man of the Year Award."

PHI KAPPA PSI NATIONAL FRATERNITY FACTS

• Phi Kappa Psi is the 17th Oldest Fraternity; Founded in 1852.

• Phi Kappa Psi has more than 100,000 members in its almost 150 years of existence. There are currently almost 90 chapters of Phi Kappa Psi nation-wide and more than 60 alumni associations and clubs.

• Phi Kappa Psi was the first fraternity founded with the intent to expand across the nation and has never merged with any other national fraternity.

• Phi Kappa Psi established one of the first endowment funds in the nation and awards over $150,000 each year in scholarships to Phi Psi students. Our four-year cost of membership is below the average for the National Men’s Fraternities and includes benefits that are not included in the fees of some other fraternities. Once initiated, there are no additional fees or dues required to remain in good standing as an alumnus of the Fraternity.

• Phi Kappa Psi’s government is majority undergraduate, helping it to be in tune with the needs and concerns of students.

• Phi Kappa Psi was a charter member of the National Interfraternity Conference (NIC).

• Phi Kappa Psi has the fourth oldest publication in the interfraternity world, THE SHIELD, which between 1933 and 1961 set an all-time record of 100 issues with all Chapters sending in newsletters.