![]() Chapters Ĭhapter information from Baird's Manual (20th), which at that time reported approximately 6,000 members. The quarterly publication is The Phi Psi Quarterly. The Greek letters Φ and Ψ are in the center, rendered in gold. The official badge is described as a diamond-shaped emblem with a gold border and four perpendicular gold bars on a black face. The fraternity flower is the Yellow Tea Rose. Ĭhapter naming traditions may have diverged: the Gamma chapter at Lowell Tech may have inserted the Gamma from its name into its national name, calling itself the Phi Gamma Psi fraternity. Yet the Alpha chapter of Phi Psi continued independently on the campus, remaining active today. In what appears to be a friendly schism, a majority or all of its members formed a separate organization from Phi Psi, their original professional fraternity, on Novemwhen they were accepted as the Pennsylvania Omicron chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Members from the Fraternity's Alpha chapter began a search for a national social fraternity to join. A total of ten collegiate chapters were formed, and twelve alumni chapters. With this, chapters were opened in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Alabama. The nation's textile industry center, previously in New England, shifted to the southern states. The fraternity's first alumni chapter was established in 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts. Its Beta chapter was formed at Southeastern Massachusetts (at Dartmouth, Massachusetts), and Gamma chapter at Lowell Tech, just a year ( 1904) after its national founding. The fraternity quickly expanded to several Massachusetts textile schools, then the center of textile manufacturing in the US. to assist, by every honorable means, the advancement of its members. ![]() to encourage high standards in textile work and,.to promote fellowship among men of textile colleges and universities with textile departments.Its five Founders were:Įstablished at the turn of the 20th Century, Phi Psi had three aims: Phi Psi was established as a professional textiles fraternity on Maat the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Phi Psi ( ΦΨ) is a professional fraternity in the field of textile arts and manufacturing engineering. Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. For the national social fraternity with a similar nickname, see Phi Kappa Psi. This article is about the professional fraternity with emphasis on textile arts.
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