Phi Kappa Tau

One of our nation’s most honored fraternities had its beginnings, oddly enough, as the Non-Fraternity Association, also known as “Phrenocom,” at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. The four honored founders, Taylor A. Borradaile, Clinton D. Boyd, Dwight I. Douglass, and William H. Shideler, wished to give independent, non-fraternity men a voice on campus, and for that purpose, banded together on March 17, 1906. As their fellowship evolved into a national organization, so did the name, and on March 9, 1916, Phrenocom became the fraternity we know today as Phi Kappa Tau (Phi Tau).