Kappa Pi Kappa

Kappa Pi Kappa ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), also known as Pi Kap<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and formerly known as Kappa Kappa Kappa (colloquially as Tri-Kap) and briefly as Kappa Chi Kappa, is a local men's fraternity at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The fraternity was founded in 1842 and is the second-oldest fraternity at Dartmouth College.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

Kappa Kappa Kappa was founded on July 13, 1842 by Harrison Carroll Hobart and two of his closest companions, Stephen Gordon Nash, and John Dudley Philbrick, all Class of 1842.<ref name="Baird's Manual Online">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} The main archive URL is The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage.</ref><ref name="corp863">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The society was based on the principles of democracy, loyalty to Dartmouth, and equality of opportunity. 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.<ref name="corp863" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Due to the similarity of the society's Greek initials with the Latin/English initials of the unaffiliated Ku Klux Klan, Kappa Kappa Kappa changed its name to Kappa Chi Kappa ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) for a period from April 1992 to October 1995, at which point the name changed back to Kappa Kappa Kappa.<ref>Halls, Tombs and Houses: Student Society Architecture at Dartmouth - Appendix A</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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 ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref>Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity changes name to Kappa Pi Kappa, The Dartmouth (5/19/22)</ref>

Symbols

Kappa Pi Kappa's motto is {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. Its color is Dartmouth Green. Its nickname is Pi Kap.

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Chapter house, 1 Webster Avenue

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 Hopkins Center for the Arts 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name="corp863" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Notable members

Graduating class in parentheses

• Walter Sydney Adams, (1898) American astronomer, director Mount Wilson Observatory<ref><July 1956 Dartmouth Magazine Deaths</ref><ref name="kkk100">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Alex M. Azar (1988), Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<ref>Orthopedics this week - Trump Nominates Drug Executive Azar as HHS Head</ref>
• Henry Moore Baker (1863), member of the New Hampshire House, New Hampshire Senate, and the United States House of Representatives<ref name=70th/><ref>November, 1912 - Class of 1863</ref><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• John Barrett (1889), diplomat and first director general of the Bureau of American Republics (predecessor to Organization of American States)<ref name="s187">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Charles Henry Bell (1844), U.S. Senator and Governor of New Hampshire<ref name=Bairds1879>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Lewis Boss (1870), astronomer and director of Dudley Observatory<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Nelson P. Brown (1899), judge Massachusetts Superior Court<ref name=75th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Henry Eben Burnham (1865), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Sherman Everett Burroughs (1894), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Walter Tenney Carleton (1891), founding director of NEC Corporation<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Charles Carroll Colby (1847), President of the King's Privy Council for Canada (1889-1891)<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Channing H. Cox (1901), Governor of Massachusetts<ref name=75th>May 1921 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Kappa Kappa Kappa Celebrates 75th Anniversary</ref><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Louis Cox (1896), justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• John Franklin Crowell (1883), president of (1887-1894) Trinity College (predecessor Duke University)<ref>November 1931 Dartmouth Magazine Deaths</ref><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Irving Webster Drew (1870), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Edwin G. Eastman (1874), first Attorney General of New Hampshire<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Samuel D. Felker (1882), Governor of New Hampshire<ref name="s627">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Michael Fisch (1983), Chair of Board of Trustees Princeton Theological Seminary and founder of American Securities<ref>Pillar Summer 1991</ref>
• John M. Gile (1887), member Executive Council of New Hampshire 1911-1913<ref name=70th/><ref name=75th/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (1843) U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Winfield Scott Hammond (1884), Governor of Minnesota<ref>February 1916 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Class of 1884</ref><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Frank A. Haskell (1854), Colonel 36th Wisconsin Volunteers, author of famous first-hand account of the Battle of Gettysburg<ref>Haskell, Franklin Aretas, 1828-1864</ref><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Harrison Carroll Hobart (1842), Democratic politician, Union Army officer during the American Civil War, founder Kappa Kappa Kappa<ref name="DLAM" /><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Homer Hulbert (1884), missionary, journalist, linguist, and Korean independence activist.<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Nick Lowery (1978), National Football League player and three-time Pro Bowl kicker<ref>Fall 2006 Pillar</ref>
• Andrew Marshall, football player and Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Samuel Walker McCall (1874), Governor of Massachusetts<ref name=70th/><ref name=75th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Stephen Gordon Nash, namesake and funder of Gordon-Nash Library, founder Kappa Kappa Kappa<ref name=DLAM/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• James E. Odlin (1881), member Massachusetts House of Representatives<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Paul Donnelly Paganucci (1953), professor at the Tuck School<ref>Dartmouth Alumni Magazine March 1972 Associate Dean at Tuck</ref>
• John Henry Patterson (1867), industrialist and founder of National Cash Register, now NCR Corporation<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• John Dudley Philbrick (1842), superintendent of Boston Public Schools, founder Kappa Kappa Kappa<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp<ref name=DLAM>Kappa Pi Kappa fraternity. Dartmouth College | Dartmouth Libraries Archives & Manuscripts</ref>
• Nitya Pibulsonggram (1962), Foreign Minister of Thailand and former Thai ambassador to the United States<ref>Wilbraham & Monson Academy</ref>
• Ambrose A. Ranney (1844), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Peter Robinson (1979), White House speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan<ref>August 2010 Newsletter for Class of 1998</ref>
• David Rosenbaum (1963), New York Times journalist<ref>May-June 2006 Dartmouth Magazine Deaths</ref>
• Bob Smith (1902), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Douglas Walgren (1963), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania<ref>August 2011 Newsletter class of 1962</ref>
• Myron E. Witham (1904), football player, coach of football and baseball, and mathematics professor<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Thomas W. D. Worthen (1872), Dartmouth professor and member New Hampshire Public Service Commission<ref name=70th>February 1912 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Kappa Kappa Anniversary</ref><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp

Honorary alumni

• Hugh M. Alcorn State's attorney in Hartford County, Connecticut<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Joseph M. Bell New Hampshire and Massachusetts lawyer, abolitionist, and politician<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Lewis Cass, Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and presidential nominee<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• 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<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Rufus Choate (1819), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Daniel Clark (1834), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Sidney Fay American historian specializing in World War I.<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Benjamin Franklin Flanders (1842), Governor of Louisiana<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Charles Brickett Haddock, New Hampshire educator, author, politician and civil servant. Founding advisor Kappa Kappa Kappa<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• George Perkins Marsh, American diplomat and philologist<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Ira Perley, Chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature 1855–1859 and 1864–1869<ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Daniel Webster (1801), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, U.S. Congressman, U.S.Ambassador to France, and U.S. Secretary of State<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp
• Levi Woodbury (1809), Governor of New Hampshire, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and U.S. Supreme Court justice<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>Template:Rp

See also

• Campus of Dartmouth College
• Dartmouth College fraternities and sororities
• List of social fraternities

External links

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• Kappa Kappa Kappa – Dartmouth Office of Residential Life
• Halls, Tombs and Houses: Student Society Architecture at Dartmouth