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This collection contains material which may be restricted related to personnel matters, student records, or other reasons.
A Special Collections Research Center staff member must review the collection for restricted material before any researchers
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with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations,
such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code
of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records.
If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally
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Mary assumes no responsibility.
Custodial History:
A portion of this collection was previously part of the University Archives Publications Collection.
Preferred Citation:
Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter Records, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Acc. 1982. 029 was transferred on May 10, 1982. A photostatic copy of a fragment of a manuscript relating to Phi Beta Kappa,
found beneath the floor of the Carter-Saunders House in Williamsburg on March 1, 1938, (Mss. Acc. 1938-185) was received on
April 9, 1938. The portion of the collection that was formerly part of the University Archives Publications Collection was
collected from various sources. Information about acquisitions received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special
Collections Research Center staff member.
Processing Information:
A portion of this collection was rehoused and arranged by Kelsey Kavanaugh, SCRC staff, from July-December 2010. Acc. 2010.511
minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2010. Acc. 2010.511 was further processed
and added to the exsiting collection by Kelsey Kavanaugh, SCRC staff, from January-June 2011. Acc. 2012.158 accessioned and
minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in May 2012.
The records of the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at the College of William and Mary include minutes, business records, addresses
and speeches, poems, correspondence, publications, membership cards, and other records.
The University Archives Artifact Collection (UA 13); Robert Morton Hughes Papers (UA 5.013); Phi Beta Kappa Records of John
Lesslie Hall and Charles Washington Coleman (UA 6.022); Office of the President, various accessions; Margetta Hirsch Doyle
Papers (UA 5.005); University Archives Photograph Collection (UA 8); University Archives Audiovisual Collection (UA 58); Robert
Hunt Land Papers (UA 6.012).
Artifacts transferred to the UA Artifact Collection include: Phi Beta Kappa Key of J. Meriwether Hurt (2010.511.01), Phi
Beta Kappa Key of M. Del. Jenkins (2010.511.02).
Artifacts transferred to the UA Artifact Collection include: Phi Beta Kappa Key of J. Meriwether Hurt (2010.511.01), Phi Beta
Kappa Key of M. Del. Jenkins (2010.511.02).
Due to the fragile nature of the early portions of the records in this collection, researchers must use microfilm or any other
reproductions available in place of the original documents.
This series includes committee files, minutes of meetings, bylaws, correspondence, and other administrative material from
the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of the College of William and Mary.
Mixed Materials box: 1 id71897
Box 1
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id72904
By-Laws
1894 June-1955 November
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id74156
Committees
1942 December-1950 December
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id74411
Correspondence
December 1959-1960 May
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id74413
Handbook
1996
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id74414
Empty
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id74416
Marshall's Correspondence
1946 October-1947 December
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id74417
Marshall's Correspondence
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id74418
Marshall's Correspondence
1949 January-1951 October
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id74420
Member Selections
1997 September-2005 November
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id74421
Membership Lists - Honorary Members
1899-1956
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id74422
Minutes
1776 December-1781 January
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id76686
Minutes
1875 July -1905 June
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id76687
Box 2
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id76688
Minutes
1905 November-1928 March
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id76691
Minutes
1927 December-1953 December
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id76694
Minutes
1984-1985
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id76702
Minutes
1992 April- 2001 January
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id76703
Minutes (Hand-Written Copy)
1776 December- 1780 July
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id76704
Minutes (Photostatic Copies)
1776 December-1781 January
Mixed Materials Box: 3 id76708
Box 3
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1 id76709
National Meetings at William and Mary
1946 September
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2 id76711
National Meetings at William and Mary
1976 December
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3 id76712
Resolutions
1928
Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 4 id76715
Secretary's Correspondence
1877 May- 1901 December
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5 id76717
Secretary's Correspondence
1902 January- 1905 December
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6 id77012
Secretary's Correspondence
1906 January-1908 December
Mixed Materials Box: 4 id77026
Box 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1 id77021
Secretary's Correspondence
1909 November-1913 December
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2 id77031
Secretary's Correspondence
1914 June-1915 December
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3 id77038
Secretary's Correspondence
1916 August-1918 December
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4 id77551
Secretary's Correspondence
1919 June- 1920 December
Mixed Materials Box: 5 id76705
Box 5
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1 id77579
Secretary's Correspondence
1921
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2 id77582
Secretary's Correspondence
1935 September-1967 December
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3 id77657
Secretary's Correspondence
1922 February -1923 March
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4 id77662
Sesquicentennial
1925 May- 1927 January
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5 id81173
Membership Lists
1776-1946
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6 id81174
Roll Book
Mixed Materials Box: 15 id93452
Box 15
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 1 id94578
Association of College Honor Societies
1994-1995
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 2 id94609
Carter-Saunders House - PBK Papers
1938 March-April
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 3 id94610
Chapter History - Professor Johnson's File
1945-1957
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 4 id94612
Correspondence - 200th Anniversary
1976
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 5 id94614
Correspondence - Anniversary Celebration
1976
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 6 id94615
Correspondence - Bronze Tablets for PBK Hall
1935-1936
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 7 id94629
Correspondence - Davis, Donald
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 8 id94630
Correspondence - Davis, Donald regarding Captain Graves
1930
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 9 id94631
Correspondence - Davis, Donald with Nationals
1928-1930
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 10 id94632
Correspondence - Davis, Donald with Nationals
1930-1936
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 11 id94633
Correspondence - Dean of Faculty
1940-1960
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 12 id94634
Correspondence - Hall, Leslie
1921-1926
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 13 id94635
Correspondence - History of Alpha Chapter
1919
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 14 id94636
Correspondence - Honorary Membership (Dr. Hall)
1923-1927
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 15 id94653
Correspondence - Initiation
1910-1927
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 16 id94654
Correspondence - Johnson, Ludwell
1981
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 17 id94655
Correspondence - Johnson, Ludwell
1981-2001
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 18 id94670
Correspondence - Johnson, Ludwell
1988-1995
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 19 id94671
Correspondence - Johnson, Ludwell
1989-2003
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 20 id94672
Correspondence - Johnson, Ludwell
1997-2001
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 21 id94673
Correspondence - Johnson, Ludwell
2003-2004
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 22 id94674
Correspondence - Members-Elect
1937-1947
Scope and Contents
Restricted
Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 23 id149777
Correspondence - Members-Elect
1995-1996
Mixed Materials Box: 16 id94675
Box 16
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 1 id149778
Correspondence - Members-Elect
1996-1997
Scope and Contents
Restricted
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 2 id149779
Correspondence - Members-Elect
1998-1999
Scope and Contents
Restricted
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 3 id149780
Correspondence - Members-Elect
2000-2008
Scope and Contents
Restricted
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 4 id94677
Correspondence - Members Elect, Alumni, and Honorary Members
1936-1947
Scope and Contents
Restricted
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 5 id95248
Correspondence - Miscellaneous
1782-1852
Scope and Contents
Photocopies
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 6 id94676
Correspondence - Miscellaneous
1938-1956
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 7 id94678
Correspondence - Miscellaneous
1992
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 8 id94691
Correspondence - Replies to Invitations
1923-1925
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 9 id94692
Corresponding Secretary's Papers
1994-2001
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 10 id94693
Dedication of New PBK Hall
1956-1957
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 11 id94705
Dedication of New PBK Hall
1957 May
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 12 id94719
Election Ballots
1935-1947
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 13 id94720
Election Ballots
1948-1962
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 14 id94721
Election Ballots
1963-1973
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 15 id94722
History - Alpha Chapter
1968
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 16 id94723
Honorary Degrees - W. Bruce Lincoln
2000
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 17 id94724
Honorary Membership Nominees
1925-1941
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 18 id94725
Korean President's Visit
1989
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 19 id94726
Meetings
1999-2000
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 20 id94727
Meetings - Agendas
1943-1974
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 21 id94728
Membership Lists
1927-1935
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 22 id94729
Membership Lists
1939-1947
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 23 id94730
Minutes
1896-1932
Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 24 id94731
Minutes
1927-1942
Mixed Materials Box: 17 id94734
Box 17
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1 id94732
Minutes
1954-1963
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 2 id94733
Minutes
1963-1975
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 3 id94735
Minutes
1994
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 4 id94736
Minutes
1995-2002
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id94737
Minutes
2003-2004
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 6 id94738
Minutes
1976-1978
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 7 id94739
Minutes - Secretary
1954-1975
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 8 id94740
Minutes - Secretary
1984-2008
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 9 id94741
Miscellaneous
1976-2000
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 10 id94742
Nominating Committee
1959-1975
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 11 id94759
Nominations
1998-1999
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 12 id94760
Nominations for Honorary Members
1930-1935
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 13 id94761
Officers and Committees
1929-1975, 1991-1999
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 14 id94762
Phi Theta Kappa Honors Institute (Phi Beta Kappa?)
1994
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 15 id94763
Poets and Speakers
1979-1992
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 16 id94764
Reports
1999-2004
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 17 id94765
Speakers
1943-1956
Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 18 id94766
Thank You Notes
1992
Mixed Materials Box: 21 id95241
Registration Cards
1946 August
Scope and Contents
Phi Beta Kappa registration cards for conference. Alphabetical within box.
Mixed Materials Box: 22 id95242
Membership Index
1908-1951
Scope and Contents
Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. Alphabetical within box, A-Z.
Mixed Materials Box: 23 id95243
Membership Index
1905
Scope and Contents
Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. Alphabetical within box, A-Z.
Mixed Materials Box: 24 id95245
Membership Index
1925-1975
Scope and Contents
Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. Alphabetical within box, A-Z.
Mixed Materials Box: 25 id95246
Membership Index
1920-1975
Scope and Contents
Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. Alphabetical within box, A-Z.
Mixed Materials Box: 26 id95247
Membership Index
1906-1950
Scope and Contents
Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. Alphabetical within box, A-Z.
Mixed Materials UA Oversize Box 4 Folder: 1 id95239
Blueprints
1936 November
Scope and Contents
Oversize material produced by the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter including two blueprint drawings of plaques, one honoring
the founding members of the society as wells as one honoring the dedication of Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall in 1926.
This series includes expenditure statements, revenue and disbursement ledgers, and fund raising records from the Phi Beta
Kappa, Alpha Chapter of the College of William and Mary.
This series contains speeches, programs, fliers, poems, and other publications produced by either the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha
Chapter or members of the chapter at the College of William and Mary.
Mixed Materials Box: 10 id71859
Box 10
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 1 id79864
Addresses
1853 May- 1899 February
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 2 id79866
Addresses
1903 February-1907 September
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 3 id79868
Addresses
1920 December-1927 December
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 4 id79870
Addresses
1933 December-1936 December
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 5 id79882
Addresses
1945 May-1994 May
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 6 id79883
Addresses
1955 June
Mixed Materials Box: 11 id79874
Box 11
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id79877
Alpha of Virginia: A Brief Sketch
1926 November-1976 December
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2 id79886
Anniversary, 162nd
1938 December 5
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 3 id79887
Announcements
1896 January-1898 February
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id79888
Announcements
1914 December-1940 November
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5 id79889
Announcements
1941 November-1999 December
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 6 id79890
Bibliography - About Phi Beta Kappa
1831-1937
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7 id79891
"Colonel William Lamb and Phi Beta Kappa
1945 May 2
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 8 id79892
Handbook for Members
1973-2006
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 9 id79893
Historical Articles
1899-1950
Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 10 id79894
Historical Articles
1951-1961
Mixed Materials Box: 12 id79895
Box 12
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 1 id79896
Historical Articles
1962-1968
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 2 id79897
Historical Articles - The Fifty Founders of Phi Beta Kappa by Oscar M. Voorhees
1924 March
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 3 id79898
Historical Articles - "Fifty Names on a Bronze Tablet
1960
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 4 id79899
Hughes, Robert Morton - In Memoriam
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 5 id79900
"Humanity Unlimited." Twelve Sonnets by Mark Van Doren
1949 December 5
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 6 id79901
"Hymn of Welcome" by Robert M. Hughes
1933 December 5
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 7 id80150
"In Pursuit of Innocence," by Paul B. Sears
1952 December
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 8 id80151
Initiation
1898 February
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 9 id80152
Initiation
1937 December -1944 December
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 10 id80153
Initiation
1920 December- 1937 May
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 11 id80154
Initiation
Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 12 id80155
Initiation Programs
1954 December- 2009 May
Mixed Materials Box: 13 id80156
Box 13
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1 id80161
Initiation
1958 December- 1970 May
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 2 id80162
Initiation
1970 December-1975 December
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id80164
Initiation
1976 December- 1986 May
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 4 id80171
Initiation
1986 December-1993 December
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 5 id80173
Initiation
1995 December- 2013 May
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 6 id80176
Original Phi Beta Kappa Records
1776 December-1781 January
Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 7 id80177
Outstanding Facts Respecting Phi Beta Kappa
1976-1977 Winter
Mixed Materials Box: 14 id80887
Box 14
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 1 id80888
Poetry
1860 July- 1897 February
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 2 id80889
Poetry
1903 February-1942 December
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 3 id80890
Poetry
1949 December-1968 December
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 4 id80891
Poetry
1949 December-1980 December
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 5 id80893
"Praise of Comedy," by Henry Rago
1962
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 6 id81170
Rituals
1831-1933
Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 7 id81171
"Song for a Centenary Year," by Armistead C. Gordon
1901 February
Mixed Materials Box: 19 id94812
Box 19
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1 id94813
200th Celebration
1976
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 2 id94816
Alpha of Virginia Newsletter
1995-1998
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3 id94817
Bulletins - Triennial Council Meetings
1986-1994
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4 id94818
Catalogue of Alumni
1866-1932
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id94819
Historical Articles
1935-1940
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 6 id94820
Historical Articles
1994-2001
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 7 id94821
History - Virginia Alpha Chapter
1925-1991
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 8 id94822
History of Virginia Alpha by Fivehouse, J.
1968
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9 id94823
Initiation
1925-1943
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 10 id94824
Invitations
1937-1972
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 11 id94855
The Key Reporter
1962-1970
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 12 id94856
The Key Reporter
1970-1974
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 13 id94870
Miscellaneous
1907-1988
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 14 id94872
Miscellaneous
1944-2004
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 15 id94890
Newsletters
1995-2000
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 16 id94909
Newspaper Articles
1928-1940
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 17 id94910
Newspaper Articles
1975-1999
Mixed Materials Box: 20 id94911
Box 20
Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 1 id94912
Programs
1931-1941
Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 2 id94913
Programs
1941-2002
Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 3 id94914
Programs - Dedication of new PBK Hall
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 4 id94915
William and Mary Magazine
1988-1996
Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 5 id177440
Bicentennial 1976 Programs
1976 December 4-6
Scope and Contents
Two hundredth anniversary of Alpha of Virginia programs; To Form a More Perfect Union: a dramatic oratorio by Martin Robbins
and James Yannatos
This is a temporary series that contains accessions that have not been interfiled into the existing collection.
id125732
Acc. 2011.706
1992-2008
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, publications, and other administrative records pertaining to the Phi Beta Kappa at the College of
William and Mary. The bulk of the correspondence concerns the membership of Phi Beta Kappa. This accession contains material
which may be restricted related to personnel matters, student records, or other reasons. A Special Collections Research Center
staff member must review the collection for restricted material before any researchers may use the collection. Consult a staff
member for assistance.
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