Kappa Pi Kappa (), also known as Pi Kap and formerly known as Kappa Kappa Kappa (colloquially as Tri-Kap) and briefly as Kappa Chi Kappa, is a local men's

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. The fraternity was founded in 1842 and is the second-oldest fraternity at Dartmouth College.

History

Kappa Kappa Kappa was founded on July 13, 1842 by

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The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage
The society was based on the principles of democracy, loyalty to Dartmouth, and

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. Originally a literary and debate society, Pi Kap officially became a social society in 1905 and has remained so ever since, making it the oldest extant local fraternity in the country. Due to the similarity of the society's Greek initials with the Latin/English initials of the unaffiliated

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, Kappa Kappa Kappa changed its name to Kappa Chi Kappa () for a period from April 1992 to October 1995, at which point the name changed back to Kappa Kappa Kappa. Following a period of consensus-building among the brotherhood's alumni, on May 18, 2022, Kappa Kappa Kappa again changed its name, this time to Kappa Pi Kappa ().

Symbols

Kappa Pi Kappa's motto is '. Its color is Dartmouth Green. Its nickname is Pi Kap.

Chapter house

The fraternity was the first student society at Dartmouth with its own meeting place, a building called The Hall, which was originally where the

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is today. Opened on July 28, 1860, the Hall served as Tri-Kap's home until the society moved into the Parker House in 1894. Parker House was where the modern-day Silsby Hall is. In 1923, the society moved into 1 Webster Avenue in Hanover, where it resides to this day.

Notable members

Graduating class in parentheses *

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, (1898) American astronomer, director

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* Alex M. Azar (1988), Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services * Henry Moore Baker (1863), member of the New Hampshire House, New Hampshire Senate, and the United States House of Representatives * John Barrett (1889), diplomat and first director general of the Bureau of American Republics (predecessor to

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) * Charles Henry Bell (1844),

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and

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* Nelson P. Brown (1899), judge

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* Henry Eben Burnham (1865), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire *

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(1894), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire *

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(1891), founding director of

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(1847), President of the

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(1889-1891) *

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(1901),

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May 1921 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Kappa Kappa Kappa Celebrates 75th Anniversary
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(1896), justice of the

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* John Franklin Crowell (1883), president of (1887-1894) Trinity College (predecessor

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) * Irving Webster Drew (1870), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire * Edwin G. Eastman (1874), first

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(1882),

* Michael Fisch (1983), Chair of Board of Trustees

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and founder of

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* John M. Gile (1887), member

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1911-1913 * Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (1843) U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts *

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(1884),

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* Frank A. Haskell (1854), Colonel 36th Wisconsin Volunteers, author of famous first-hand account of the

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(1842), Democratic politician, Union Army officer during the American Civil War, founder Kappa Kappa Kappa *

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(1884), missionary, journalist, linguist, and Korean independence activist. *

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(1978),

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player and three-time

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kicker * Andrew Marshall, football player and Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts * Samuel Walker McCall (1874),

* Stephen Gordon Nash, namesake and funder of

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, founder Kappa Kappa Kappa * James E. Odlin (1881), member

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(1953), professor at the Tuck School *

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(1842), superintendent of

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(1962), Foreign Minister of Thailand and former Thai ambassador to the United States * Ambrose A. Ranney (1844), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts *

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(1979), White House speechwriter for President

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* David Rosenbaum (1963), ''

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'' journalist * Bob Smith (1902), co-founder of

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(1963), U.S. Congressman from PennsylvaniaAugust 2011 Newsletter class of 1962
/ref> * Myron E. Witham (1904), football player, coach of football and baseball, and mathematics professor * Thomas W. D. Worthen (1872), Dartmouth professor and member New Hampshire Public Service CommissionFebruary 1912 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Kappa Kappa Anniversary
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Honorary alumni

* Hugh M. Alcorn State's attorney in Hartford County, Connecticut * Joseph M. Bell New Hampshire and Massachusetts lawyer, abolitionist, and politician *

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, Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and presidential nominee * Robert N. Chamberlain, Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and as an Associate Justice and later as the second Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court *

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(1819), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts * Daniel Clark (1834), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire * Sidney Fay American historian specializing in World War I. * Benjamin Franklin Flanders (1842), Governor of Louisiana * Charles Brickett Haddock, New Hampshire educator, author, politician and civil servant. Founding advisor Kappa Kappa Kappa *

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, American diplomat and

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* Ira Perley, Chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature 1855–1859 and 1864–1869 *

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(1809),

, U.S. Senator,

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, and

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justice

References

External links

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