PHI SIGMA KAPPA
Phi Deuteron Chapter at University of Kentucky
Mission Statement
Phi Sigma Kappa is a lifelong brotherhood dedicated to the betterment of the individual, the university community, and our world, by giving its members opportunities to develop leadership skills, participate in service to others, achieve academic excellence, experience cultural diversity and practice personal integrity.
Phi Sigma Kappa Cardinal Principles
To Promote Brotherhood.
Justice, harmony, and brotherly love are essential to the spirit of fraternity. We promise to set an example of true brotherhood not only in our relations with each other, but in our association with people everywhere.
To Stimulate Scholarship.
Wisdom comes with learning. Complementing the mission of higher education, we seek to help our members to combine formal and informal learning experience; to more fully appreciate the importance of both theoretical and practical knowledge; and, by broadening their understanding of human relationships, to produce men of wisdom who will be better prepared to make positive contributions to society and all mankind.
To Develop Character.
Honor is the basis of fraternal relationships. We resolve to instill in each member a devotion to those values which will guide him to ends that are noble and right, so that in all that he represents and in all that he does, he shall be known as a man of honor who inspires others by his example and thus wins admiration and respect for himself and for Phi Sigma Kappa.
Chapter History
Way back around 1920, Arthur Atchison (who later became the grand president of Phi Sigma Kappa) left his home in Calhoun, Kentucky and enrolled at the University of Kentucky. No fraternity seemed interested in pledging “Atch,” so he gathered together a few Owensboro and Calhoun area freshmen and founded a fraternity of his own! The half-dozen or so boys rented a house, moved in and called their fraternity Chi Sigma Alpha!
Chi Sig did rather well, and by 1923, had a dozen or so members. The local fraternity moved into a larger house near campus on Graham Avenue. Along about 1925, the members of Chi Sig decided to seek a connection with a national fraternity which might be interested in establishing a chapter at UK.They found that one of the “name nationals” not having a chapter at UK was Phi Sigma Kappa. Time was most important, so they quickly drafted a petition and raised money to send a member to the grand national convention which was being held that summer. Brother Charles S. Milliken, secretary of Chi Sig at the time, traveled to the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia.
After many days of meeting and debate, a delegate from Tennessee exited the secret meeting session and approached Milliken with some encouraging news – he said that delegates proposed the petition from Kentucky be approved, that it be made Phi Deuteron Chapter, and that the members of Chi Sig be brought in to go through the initiation ceremonies! The proposal was approved – UK was in!
The installation ceremony at the Phoenix Hotel was well organized with many parents, advisors, and UK faculty in attendance. Phi Sig was a top national fraternity, and UK was honored to have a chapter.
Today, our chapter has enjoyed eighty-five years of uninterrupted success on the University of Kentucky's campus. With a newly renovated house, a thriving order of quality men, and a unity unsurpassed on our campus, the brothers of the Phi Deuteron Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa look forward to eighty-five more years of promoting brotherhood, stimulating scholarship and developing character.
