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Beta Kappa

Beta Kappa (ΒΚ) was a Social Fraternity founded at Hamline University in 1901, which merged with Theta Chi in 1942.

History

Beta Kappa was formed at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota on October 15, 1901 with the name The Knights of Beta Omicron Sigma Kappa. Eventually this somewhat unwieldy name was colloquially shortened to Beta Kappa (date?), maturing into a local fraternity that continued for twenty-one years before beginning a period of rapid expansion.

Founders honored by the fraternity are

In 1922, Beta chapter at the University of Washington was formed, and in quick succession it established over 40 chapters with a total membership of over 5,000.[2][3][4]

During the height of WWII the fraternity merged with Theta Chi, on April 14, 1942 with three exceptions released to join other national groups. The mother chapter at Hamline University was granted the chapter name, Beta Kappa chapter to honor its rank as a former Alpha chapter. The merger added seventeen new chapters to Theta Chi, and two Beta Kappa chapters were merged into existing chapters.

The fraternity became a Junior Member of the NIC in 1926, and a full member in 1928. It continued as a member until the merger with Theta Chi in 1942.

Symbols and traditions

The fraternity's colors were Purple and Gold. Its flower was the Red Templar Rose. Its badge was in the shape of a diamond in black enamel, longer from top to bottom, with 24 pearls on its perimeter. It held a small, white circular disk in the center, on this a coiled serpent above a lamp and below were two crossed swords. On the sides of the disk were the Greek letters Β and Κ.

The fraternity's magazine was The Journal of Beta Kappa [5]

Chapters

The chapters of Beta Kappa were as follows. Chapters noted in bold were active at the time of the merger, with dormant chapters in italics. A few chapters that were active but did not merge (with ΘΧ) are also in bold:[2][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Billy Graham Center -Ephemera of Daniel Paul Rader - Collection 38
  2. ^ a b William Raimond Baird; Carroll Lurding (eds.). "Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities (Baird's Manual Online Archive)". Student Life and Culture Archives. University of Illinois: University of Illinois Archives. Retrieved 18 December 2021. The main archive URL is The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage.
  3. ^ Anson, Jack L.; Marchenasi, Robert F., eds. (1991) [1879]. Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (20th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Baird's Manual Foundation, Inc. p. VIII–4–5. ISBN 978-0963715906.
  4. ^ The Rattle of Theta Chi. Vol. 30, no. 5. Theta Chi Fraternity Inc. April–May 1942. pp. 42–. UOM:39015006968690.
  5. ^ Beta Kappa chapter of Theta Chi
  6. ^ William Raimond Baird (1957). Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities. G. Banta Company. p. 84.
  7. ^ Pre-merger initiates, 374. This chapter originated as "Beta Omicron Sigma Kappa" (local), remaining so for 21 years when it determined to become national in scope. Its ΘΧ name is a nod to its role in starting its national fraternity.
  8. ^ Pre-merger initiates 143. This chapter originated as a colony. It died out prior to the merger. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter was already present on the campus.
  9. ^ Pre-merger initiates 122. This chapter originated as Sigma Gamma Xi (local). It died out prior to the merger. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter was later placed on this campus in 1949.
  10. ^ Pre-merger initiates 111. This chapter originated as the Oricum Club (local). It died out prior to the merger. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter was already present on this campus by 1913.
  11. ^ Pre-merger initiates 183. This chapter originated as Chi Kappa Mu (local) in 1921. At the dissolution of the small national Beta Psi, in 1934, it gained additional members.
  12. ^ Pre-merger initiates 243. This chapter originated as Sigma Delta Pi (local) in 1913.
  13. ^ Pre-merger initiates 120. This chapter originated as Phi Theta Sigma (local). It died out prior to the merger. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter was later placed on this campus in 1947.
  14. ^ Pre-merger initiates 123. This chapter originated as Beta Tau (local). It died out prior to the merger. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter was later placed on this campus in 1957, absorbing another local with the name Beta Chi (local).
  15. ^ Pre-merger initiates 175. This chapter originated as Phi Gamma (local) in 1922.
  16. ^ Pre-merger initiates 244. This chapter originated as Alpha Phi Omega (local) in 1920, no apparent relation to the national service fraternity of that name that emerged on the Illinois campus in 1932. Just prior to the ΘΧ merger, in 1940, the Beta Kappa chapter absorbed another small group, the Alpha chapter of a regional fraternity, Delta Alpha Epsilon, formed in 1923, whose three daughter chapters had died in the 1930s. (Baird's Archive, dormant groups).
  17. ^ Pre-merger initiates 160. This chapter originated as Theta Epsilon (local) in 1919.
  18. ^ Pre-merger initiates 55. This chapter originated as Beta Sigma Pi (local) in 1924. It died out prior to the merger. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter had earlier been placed on this campus in 1918.
  19. ^ Pre-merger initiates 100. This chapter originated as Alpha Delta Mu (local) in 1925. It died out prior to the merger. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter was later placed on this campus in 1948.
  20. ^ Pre-merger initiates 148. This chapter originated as Phi Alpha Kappa (local) in 1922.
  21. ^ Pre-merger initiates 91. This chapter originated as Phi Omega Delta (local) in 1923. It died out prior to the merger. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter had previously been placed on this campus in 1907.
  22. ^ Pre-merger initiates 246. This chapter originated as Xi Gamma Delta (local) in 1915.
  23. ^ Pre-merger initiates 245. This chapter originated as Pi Mu Epsilon (local) in 1919.
  24. ^ Pre-merger initiates 133. This chapter originated as Kappa Phi (local) in 1921.
  25. ^ Pre-merger initiates 137. This chapter originated as Delta Kappa Sigma (local) in 1921. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter had previously been placed on this campus in 1919.
  26. ^ Pre-merger initiates 80. This chapter originated as Omicron Sigma (local) in 1924. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter was later placed on this campus in 1948.
  27. ^ Pre-merger initiates 96. This chapter originated as Psi Nu (local) in 191x (?).
  28. ^ Pre-merger initiates 58. This chapter originated as Alpha Phi Epsilon (local) in 1921. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter had previously been placed on this campus in 1915.
  29. ^ Pre-merger initiates 109. This chapter originated as Kappa Alpha Chi (local) in 1926.
  30. ^ Pre-merger initiates 101. This chapter originated as Phi Delta Tau (local) in 1922. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter had previously been placed on this campus in 1912.
  31. ^ Pre-merger initiates 76. This chapter originated as the Varsity Club (local) in 1901. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter had previously been placed on this campus in 1921.
  32. ^ Pre-merger initiates 58. This chapter originated as Phi Sigma Alpha (local) in 1914.
  33. ^ Pre-merger initiates 143. This chapter originated as Chi Beta Sigma (local) in 1927.
  34. ^ Pre-merger initiates 144. This chapter originated as Delta Sigma Tau (local) in 1926.
  35. ^ Pre-merger initiates 92. This chapter originated as Phi Gamma Psi (local) sometime prior to 1929. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter was formed soon after the merger, and placed on this campus in 1941. That chapter came from a different local, called Delta Sigma Lambda, formed in 1930.
  36. ^ Pre-merger initiates 95. This chapter originated as Chi Alpha Nu (local) in 1925.
  37. ^ Pre-merger initiates 55. This chapter had originated in 1924 as the Epsilon chapter of Chi Tau, a small fraternity that disbanded by 1929.
  38. ^ Pre-merger initiates 98. This chapter had originated as Rho Alpha Sigma (local) in 1927.
  39. ^ Pre-merger initiates 93. This chapter originated as Phi Kappa Epsilon (local) in 1926.
  40. ^ Pre-merger initiates 125. This chapter originated as Omega Tau (local) in 1922.
  41. ^ Pre-merger initiates 71. This chapter originated as Pi Alpha Sigma (local) in 1927.
  42. ^ Pre-merger initiates 78. This chapter had originated as Psi Chi (local) sometime in the 1920s. (No connection to the national honor society for Psychology, also named Psi Chi.)
  43. ^ Pre-merger initiates 117. This chapter had originated as Sigma Tau Delta (local) in 1909.
  44. ^ Pre-merger initiates 6. This chapter originated as Psi Rho Lambda (local) in 1926.
  45. ^ Pre-merger initiates 40. This chapter originated as Chi Beta Sigma (local) in 1923.
  46. ^ Pre-merger initiates 56. This chapter originated as the Zodiac Club (local) in 1904. In 1934, several dislocated members of the Delta Alpha chapter of ΒΨ, whose small national had disbanded, joined Zodiac. At the same time, Zodiac was in search of a national affiliation, but its planned absorption by ΒΚ was "unsuccessful" according to the chapter's history, and the chapter withdrew to merge into the older ΑΤΩ chapter on campus.
  47. ^ An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter had earlier been placed on this campus in 1912.
  48. ^ Pre-merger initiates 68. This chapter originated as Sigma Delta Phi (local) in 1924. It appears to have died out just prior to the merger. An unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter was placed on this campus in 1947, via a colony formed in 1946.
  49. ^ Pre-merger initiates 70. This chapter had originated as Omega Sigma Phi (local) in 1928.
  50. ^ Pre-merger initiates 141. This chapter had originated as Chi Theta Tau (local) in 1921.
  51. ^ Pre-merger initiates 63. This chapter had originated as Sigma Chi Alpha (local) in 1921.
  52. ^ Pre-merger initiates 94. This chapter originated as the Phylean Club (local) in 1911.
  53. ^ Just prior to the merger, an unaffiliated ΘΧ chapter had been placed on this campus in 1939.
  54. ^ Pre-merger initiates 43. In 1938 this chapter, previously the Beta chapter of small national Phi Lambda Theta formed in 1923, joined ΒΚ with the dissolution of its original fraternity.
  55. ^ Pre-merger initiates 36. In 1938 this chapter, previously the Epsilon chapter of small national Phi Lambda Theta formed in 1928, joined ΒΚ with the dissolution of its original fraternity.