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Phi Kappa Psi, New York Alpha chapter records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 37-4-1122

Scope and content

Includes fund raising correspondence and other papers of adviser Walter Bruska; and two pamphlets relating to Phi Kappa Psi, 1920 and 1929. Also, t-shirts from the 1979, 1981, and 1983 Phi Psi 500, footraces involving beer drinking at Collegetown taverns and a 1980 Phi Psi 500 poster featuring Budweiser and Coca-Cola. Also photographs of early fraternity members.

Dates

1920-1983.

Creator

Phi Kappa Psi. Cornell Chapter (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

The New York Alpha chapter of Phi Kappa Psi was established at Cornell University in 1869. The Irving Literary Society, a student society formed in 1868, became the New York Alpha chapter in 1869.