But their names will long be remembered by every Phi Dex: Charles Edward Bond, Franklin Herbert Frazee, Llewellyn Hall Gardner, Calvin Pomeroy Godfrey, Adolph Gustave Hoffman, Arthur Gilliam Hopper, Charles F.
The forward-looking young men who banded together in 1883 to form the association that grew into today's Phi Delta Chi are all deceased. Our early records note: "Both students and faculty recognized that such an organization would bring students of pharmacy together for the discussion of scientific questions pertaining to pharmacy and its sister sciences." At that time, there were several literary societies at Michigan, but our founders believed something should be organized exclusively for the College of Pharmacy. On November 2, 1883, 11 men at the University of Michigan formed our Fraternity using the name Phi Chi. It was in this period that our Fraternity, the first professional fraternity of pharmacy founded by pharmacy students, formed. Professional societies likewise existed many years ago, but the first Greek-letter societies appeared in the United States in the decade of 1875-85.
Although established as a general fraternity, and as such expanded to Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth, Phi Beta Kappa soon became a Scholarship Honor Fraternity, and it has maintained this purpose. Establishment of Greek-letter societies in the United States began in 1776, when Phi Beta Kappa organized at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia, on December 5. The history of literary societies, honor societies, and Greek-letter organizations goes back hundreds of years.
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