Phi Epsilon Kappa was founded in 1913 and describes itself as a “national professional fraternity for persons engaged in or pursuing careers in physical education, health, recreation, dance, human performance, exercise science, sports medicine and sports management.” Washington State College’s branch was organized during the 1931-1932 school year as Phi Epsilon, and became officially affiliated with Phi Epsilon Kappa as the Alpha Gamma chapter in late 1933. WSU’s chapter seems to have gone inactive circa 2002 or so.
The majority of the collection consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, and other documents related to the organization of the campus branch, and to events it hosted or participated in. Also included are membership lists, annual reports, and sets of mostly unlabeled and undated photographs. The bulk of the materials date from the 1970s and early 1980s.
The collection is organized alphabetically by subject. The majority of the materials are correspondence and meeting minutes; these form the only series within the collection and are ordered chronologically by school year.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
[Item Description] Phi Epsilon Kappa (Alpha Gamma Chapter) Records, 1952-1985 (Archives 384)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The records of the Alpha Gamma chapter of the Phi Epsilon Kappa honorary society were transferred to the Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) on July 26, 2018 by Jeanne Therrien of WSU’s College of Education, and retained as UA 2018-08.
The collection was processed in August of 2018 by University Archivist Mark O’English. Materials were extensively reorganized during processing.
The original accession of materials was somewhat varied – oversized maps, plans, and drawings of Camp Larson were moved to collection Archives 215, and photographs from Camp Larson were processed as PC 172.
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