Phi Kappa Psi

In the fall of 1850, a typhoid fever epidemic hit Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Many students left school, but two brave young men who remained were William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore. They chose to care for their classmates who were stricken with the contagious disease, and a strong bond was formed. In the following school year, Letterman and Moore, not satisfied with the existing organizations on campus, decided that a society was needed based on "the great joy of serving others,” and on February 19, 1852, they founded the brotherhood of Phi Kappa Psi (Phi Psi).