Phi Kappa Psi

Founded over 150 years ago, Phi Psi boasts a rich history at many of the nation's top colleges and universities.

William H. Letterman and Charles P.T. Moore founded Phi Kappa Psi in the little college town of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, when they were nursing their stricken friends during an epidemic of typhoid fever at their college. It was through these long night vigils that an appreciation of the great joy of serving others came into their lives.

Calling a number of others to join them, a Brotherhood was founded on February 19, 1852.  It flourished, and gradually extended to other colleges and universities throughout the country. Idealists all, these founders of Phi Kappa Psi taught a new fraternity - a Fraternity that would complement the work of the university by cultivating those humanities without which the educated man fails of his greatest usefulness.

Ohio Mu Chapter

The Ohio Mu Chapter was colonized on March 28th, 2004 with fifteen founding fathers. In a year, the chapter received the Greenest Organization award, nearly doubled in size to 29 brothers, and to culminate the year the chapter received its Charter on April 9th, 2005, making Ohio Mu one of the fastest chapters to ever be set up. Ohio Mu is now one of the top 10 chapters in the country and continues to push itself and its brotherhood of leaders to grow and set higher standards. 

In 2009 the Ohio Mu won the Grand Chapter award, the highest honor the national fraternity can bestow on any chapter. We continue to look into the future, planning new events, raising even more for charity, and looking for more men to call by the simple name, “brother.”

At the time of our founding, Jefferson College was considered one of the "Big Three" in what was known as the "Jeffersonian Cradle." The other two institutions comprising this group, Harvard and Princeton, were of very nearly equal size and equal high esteem. These institutions all graduated predominantly ministers, lawyers and physicians from an academic curricula based in classical literature, religious doctrine and basic sciences.