An active member of the fraternity is a full-time enrolled student at his chapter's host institution at the undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate level; all others, including members who have graduated or transfer to a school without a Phi Psi chapter, are considered alumni.[6] Men may be initiated into Phi Kappa Psi either by an active chapter, or as part of a colony that is being installed as a chapter. Members typically join Phi Kappa Psi when a chapter extends an offer to enter into a probationary period known as pledgeship, which lasts for six weeks and concludes with initiation.
Membership is normally only granted to men who are enrolled as full-time students at a chapter's host institution.[6] There have been three exceptions to this:
1. Alumni of a colony which became a chapter after their graduation, and for two years after.
2. Men who have been of service to a chapter, but not students at the institution.
3. Honorary membership extended to men of prominence, a practice that was banned in 1885.[7]
Actor famous for his role as Gomez Addams in The Addams Family television series; received an Academy Award nomination for Prelude, a short film that he wrote, produced, and directed
Actor and bandleader; starred in Wings (1927), the first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture; married movie legend and "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford
Television commercial advertising executive; wrote, produced and directed the original Mr. Clean television commercials and composed the "Mr. Clean" advertising jingle
Reuben Award-winning nationally syndicated cartoonist and creator of the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer; pioneered the adventure comic strip genre
Director of the National Park Service (1989–1993); Director of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for eight years before becoming NPS director in April 1989,Vietnam War veteran; he served in the U.S. Army (1966–1969)
U.S. Senator from Ohio (1897–1909); Governor of Ohio (1886–1890); candidate for 1908 Republican presidential nomination; first President of Phi Kappa Psi (1886–1888); founder of Phi Psi's New York Alpha chapter at Cornell University
U.S. Senator from Iowa (1911–1922); justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1922–1933); considered for the 1924 Republican presidential and vice presidential nominations, and for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1930 and 1932
Evan BayhGeorge E. ChamberlainPaul CoverdellCharlie DentJoseph B. ForakerFrench HillJ. Warren KeiferWilliam S. KenyonThomas KuchelCharles SumnerJames Eli Watson
Chief of Homicide Section of United States Attorney for the District of Columbia office, portrayed in “Georgetown (film)” (2019) and NBC News/MSNBC legal analyst.
Grand Army of the Republic Commander-in-Chief (1887–1888); Judge of Probate, Hennepin County, Minnesota (1877–1881); editor of the Minneapolis Tribune (1875–1877); third President of Phi Kappa Psi (1890–1892)
Professor, prominent Baptist minister, and famed 19th-century hymn writer; composed, among others, "Shall We Gather At The River?"; second President of Phi Kappa Psi (1888–1890)
Sometimes known as the "Father of Geochemistry;" credited with determining the composition of the Earth's crust; President of the American Chemical Society (1901), and one of its founders
Former college basketball player and coach; played under Bob Knight (1981–1985); coached at Bowling Green; radio host in Indianapolis on 1070 "The Fan"
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