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OTHER GREEK-LETTER ORGANIZATIONS OF PHARMACY

Rho Chi
 
The Rho Chi Society is the national scholastic honor society of pharmacy. Like all honor societies, Rho Chi has as its fundamental objective the stimulation and recognition of academic excellence. The Society serves as an instrument for advancing the profession of pharmacy.

Criteria for membership include academic excellence, capacity for achievement in the science and art of pharmacy, and strength of character, personality, and leadership. The Society also provides for graduate student, faculty, alumni, and honorary membership. In 1980, it reached the milestone of having a chapter at every accredited school of pharmacy in the country.

Members of Phi Delta Chi's Alpha Chapter were instrumental in founding Rho Chi in 1922 at the University of Michigan. Phi Dex Brothers served as the Honor Society's first president, H. W. Vahltreich; vice president, G. C. Tasker; and secretary, E. J. Traut.
 
Phi Lambda Sigma
 
Phi Lambda Sigma, the Pharmacy Leadership Society, started at Auburn University in 1965. Brother Charles C. Thomas and nine other Brothers of Phi Delta Chi’s Chi Chapter are among Phi Lambda Sigma’s first 17 members.

The purpose of Phi Lambda Sigma is to recognize people in pharmacy who attained a high standard of leadership by contributing time and effort toward the advancement of pharmacy.
 
Alpha Zeta Omega
 
Initiated membership of >11,000 with >42 collegiate charters since founding. Colors: Blue & white.

Alpha Zeta Omega was founded at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy on December 19, 1919. The fraternity was founded upon the principles of intimate association with one another and practice of the virtues of mutual trust, sympathy, faithfulness, and unselfishness. It was first known as the "Dead Men's Club" and now exists in the United States, Canada, and Israel.
 
Kappa Epsilon
 
Initiated membership of 20,000 with 46 collegiate charters. Colors: Red & white. Flower: Red rose. Motto: Cogito Ergo Sum, “I think, therefore I am."

Kappa Epsilon was founded on May 13, 1921, at the University of Iowa by Zada M. Cooper. Kappa Epsilon had 17 women present at its founding meeting representing the Universities of Minnesota, Nebraska, and Iowa. Alpha Chapter is at the University of Minnesota.

The objectives of Kappa Epsilon are to promote women in pharmacy, stimulate a desire for high scholarship, foster a professional consciousness, and provide a bond of lasting loyalty, interest, and friendship.
 
Kappa Psi
 
Initiated membership of 45,000 with 71 collegiate charters. Colors: Scarlet red & cadet grey. Flower: Red carnation. Motto: "All for one and one for all."

Kappa Psi Fraternity was founded on May 29, 1879, at the Russell Military Academy in New Haven, Connecticut. Initially it was a literary Greek-letter society; as its high school students moved on to college, it evolved into a medical-pharmaceutical fraternity and continued as such until 1924. Kappa Psi’s first pharmacy chapter was not formed until 1898 at Columbia University. In 1924, by mutual agreement, the members of both professions decided to separate into two distinct groups. The medical group became Theta Kappa Psi and the pharmaceutical group retained the name Kappa Psi.
 
Lambda Kappa Sigma
 
Initiated membership of 21,000 with 44 collegiate charters. Colors: Old gold & Columbia blue. Flower: Yellow chrysanthemum. Motto: Esse Quam Videri, "To be, rather than to seem to be."

Lambda Kappa Sigma was founded on October 14, 1913, by Ethel J. Heath at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. The fraternity began as a social luncheon club under the name of the Lambda Kappa Society with eight charter members. On April 28, 1956, Lambda Kappa Sigma became international with the chartering of Alpha Lambda Chapter at Vancouver, British Columbia.

The purpose of Lambda Kappa Sigma is to promote the profession of pharmacy among women and to aid its members in all ways. The object of the fraternity is to further the happiness and usefulness of its members and to create a center of enjoyment, friendship, and culture.
 
Rho Pi Phi
 
Initiated membership of >10,000 with >12 collegiate charters. Colors: Blue & white or blue & gold.

Rho Pi Phi was founded in 1919 at Boston College of Pharmacy (under the name "Ram Bam Society"). The objectives of Rho Pi Phi are to provide a social and professional meeting ground for pharmaceutical students and graduate pharmacists of any ethnic or racial background and without regard to race, creed, color, or sex. Its goal is to provide for a stronger professional image for pharmacy through the provision of continuing education programs.