{{Short description|Local fraternity at Dartmouth College, U.S.}} {{about|the Dartmouth fraternity|the Indiana sorority|Tri Kappa}} {{Infobox Fraternity | name = Kappa Pi Kappa | letters = {{lang|grc|ΚΠΚ}} | crest = Kappa Pi Kappa Seal.jpg | image_size = 200px | alt = The Kappa Kappa Kappa Seal | status = Active | type = Social fraternity | scope = Local | motto = ''{{lang|la|Tui Filii Dartmuthensi Tuoque Honori Fidelis}}'' | colors = {{color box|#00693E}} Dartmouth Green | birthplace = Dartmouth College | affiliation = Independent | founded = {{start date and age|1842|7|13}} | chapters = 1 | lifetime = | publication = | address = 1 Webster Avenue | city = Hanover, New Hampshire | ZIP code = 03755 | country = United States | coordinates = {{Coord|43.70628|N|72.29004|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=it}} | nickname = Pi Kap | free_label = | free = | homepage = {{URL|https://kappapikappa.org/}} }}
'''Kappa Pi Kappa''' ('''{{lang|grc|ΚΠΚ}}'''), also known as Pi Kap<ref>{{Cite web |title=When the Bubble Pops |url=https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/08/when-the-bubble-pops |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=The Dartmouth}}</ref> and formerly known as '''Kappa Kappa Kappa''' (colloquially as '''Tri-Kap''') and briefly as '''Kappa Chi Kappa''', is a local men's fraternity at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The fraternity was founded in 1842 and is the second-oldest fraternity at Dartmouth College.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://students.dartmouth.edu/greek-life/organizations/greek-chapters-undergraduate-societies-and-senior-societies/greek-chapters | title=Greek Chapters | date=9 August 2016 }}</ref>
==History== Kappa Pi Kappa was founded on July 13, 1842, by Harrison Carroll Hobart and two of his closest companions, Stephen Gordon Nash, and John Dudley Philbrick, all Class of 1842.<ref name="Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities">{{cite Almanac FS|section=institutions|subsection=D|organization=Dartmouth College|access-date=15 May 2021}}</ref><ref name="corp863">{{cite web | url=https://archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu/agents/corporate_entities/863 | title=Kappa Pi Kappa Fraternity. (Dartmouth College) | Dartmouth Library Archives & Manuscripts }}</ref> The society was based on the principles of democracy, loyalty to Dartmouth, and equality of opportunity. Originally a literary and debate society, Pi Kap officially became a social society in 1905 and has remained so ever since, making it the oldest extant local fraternity in the country.<ref name="corp863" /><ref>{{Bairds06|url-page=370|section=K. K. K. (Tri-Kap)|pages=346-347}}</ref>
Due to the similarity of the society's Greek initials with the Latin/English initials of the unaffiliated Ku Klux Klan, Kappa Kappa Kappa changed its name to Kappa Chi Kappa ('''{{lang|grc|ΚΧΚ}}''') for a period from April 1992 to October 1995, at which point the name changed back to Kappa Kappa Kappa.<ref>[https://www.dartmo.com/halls/hallsappendix.html Halls, Tombs and Houses: Student Society Architecture at Dartmouth - Appendix A]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Loback |first=Erin |date=October 24, 1995 |title=Kappa Chi votes to rename itself |url=https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/1995/10/kappa-chi-votes-to-rename-itself |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=The Dartmouth |language=en-US}}</ref>
Following a period of consensus-building among the brotherhood's alumni, on May 18, 2022, the fraternity again changed its name, this time to Kappa Pi Kappa ('''{{lang|grc|ΚΠΚ}}''').<ref>[https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/05/kappa-kappa-kappa-fraternity-changes-name-to-kappa-pi-kappa Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity changes name to Kappa Pi Kappa, The Dartmouth (5/19/22)]</ref>
== Symbols == Kappa Pi Kappa's motto is ''{{lang|la|Tui Filii Dartmuthensi Tuoque Honori Fidelis}}''. Its color is Dartmouth Green. Its nickname is Pi Kap.right|thumb|Chapter house, 1 Webster Avenue
== Chapter house == The fraternity was the first student society at Dartmouth with its own meeting place, a building called The Hall, which was originally where the Hopkins Center for the Arts is today. Opened on July 28, 1860, the Hall served as Pi-Kap's home until the society moved into the Parker House in 1894.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Halls, Tombs and Houses: Student Society Architecture at Dartmouth. VI. View [index.html] for frames version |url=https://www.dartmo.com/halls/hallscontent6.html |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=www.dartmo.com}}</ref> Parker House was where the modern-day Silsby Hall is. In 1923, the society moved into 1 Webster Avenue in Hanover, where it resides to this day.<ref name="corp863" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Halls, Tombs and Houses: Student Society Architecture at Dartmouth. VII. View [index.html] for frames version |url=https://www.dartmo.com/halls/hallscontent7.html |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=www.dartmo.com}}</ref>
== Notable members == Graduating class in parentheses *Walter Sydney Adams, (1898) American astronomer, director Mount Wilson Observatory<ref><[https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1956/7/1/deaths July 1956 Dartmouth Magazine Deaths]</ref><ref name="kkk100">{{cite web | title=K.K.K. : history of the society and general catalog / compiled by James P. Richardson | website=HathiTrust | date=2024-07-21 | url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000948350v&seq=144 | access-date=2025-01-02}}</ref>{{rp|175}} *Alex M. Azar (1988), Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<ref>[https://ryortho.com/breaking/trump-nominates-drug-executive-azar-as-hhs-head/ Orthopedics this week - Trump Nominates Drug Executive Azar as HHS Head]</ref> *Henry Moore Baker (1863), member of the New Hampshire House, New Hampshire Senate, and the United States House of Representatives<ref name=70th/><ref>[https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1912/11/1/class-of-1863 November, 1912 - Class of 1863]</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|147}} *John Barrett (1889), diplomat and first director general of the Bureau of American Republics (predecessor to Organization of American States)<ref name="s187">{{cite book | last=Richardson | first=J.P. | title=K.K.K.: History of the Society and General Catalog | publisher=Kappa Kappa Kappa | year=1942 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzXAfsaBnnYC | access-date=2025-01-01 | page=169}}</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|169}} *Charles Henry Bell (1844), U.S. Senator and Governor of New Hampshire<ref name=Bairds1879>{{Bairds01|section=Kappa Kappa Kappa|pages=137-138}}</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|136}} *Lewis Boss (1870), astronomer and director of Dudley Observatory<ref>{{cite web | title=The Aegis 1868 | website=Internet Archive | date=2016-10-23 | url=https://archive.org/details/aegis6872hano/page/n7/mode/2up | access-date=2025-01-01|p=5}}</ref><ref name="r877">{{cite web | title=Dartmouth alumni magazine November 1912-August 1913| website=Internet Archive | date=2016-10-23 | url=https://archive.org/details/dartmouthalumnim13dart/page/100/mode/2up| access-date=2025-01-01|p=100}}</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|153}} *Nelson P. Brown (1899), judge Massachusetts Superior Court<ref name=75th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|176}} *Henry Eben Burnham (1865), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|149}} *Sherman Everett Burroughs (1894), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|172}} *Walter Tenney Carleton (1891), founding director of NEC Corporation<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|138}} *Charles Carroll Colby (1847), President of the King's Privy Council for Canada (1889–1891)<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|138}} *Channing H. Cox (1901), Governor of Massachusetts<ref name=75th>[https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1921/5/1/kappa-kappa-kappa-celebrates-75th-anniversary May 1921 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Kappa Kappa Kappa Celebrates 75th Anniversary]</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|178}} *Louis Cox (1896), justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|174}} *John Franklin Crowell (1883), president of (1887–1894) Trinity College (predecessor Duke University)<ref>[https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1931/11/1/deaths November 1931 Dartmouth Magazine Deaths]</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|164}} *Irving Webster Drew (1870), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|153}} *Edwin G. Eastman (1874), first Attorney General of New Hampshire<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|157}} *Samuel D. Felker (1882), Governor of New Hampshire<ref name="s627">{{cite book | last=Fifield | first=J.C. | title=The American Bar | publisher=J.C. Fifield Company | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tXO7dAk3kUC&pg=PA570 | access-date=2025-01-01 | page=570}}</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|164}} *Michael Fisch (1983), Chair of Board of Trustees Princeton Theological Seminary and founder of American Securities<ref>[https://kappapikappa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Pillar-Summer-1991.pdf Pillar Summer 1991]</ref> *John M. Gile (1887), member Executive Council of New Hampshire 1911-1913<ref name=70th/><ref name=75th/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Former Councilors |url=https://www.council.nh.gov/history-executive-council/former-councilors |access-date=January 1, 2025 |website=State of New Hampshire Executive Council}}</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|167}} *Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (1843) U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|142}} *Winfield Scott Hammond (1884), Governor of Minnesota<ref>[https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1916/2/1/class-of-1884 February 1916 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Class of 1884]</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|165}} *Frank A. Haskell (1854), Colonel 36th Wisconsin Volunteers, author of famous first-hand account of the Battle of Gettysburg<ref>[https://archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu/agents/people/1835 Haskell, Franklin Aretas, 1828-1864]</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|142}} *Harrison Carroll Hobart (1842), Democratic politician, Union Army officer during the American Civil War, founder Kappa Kappa Kappa<ref name="DLAM" /><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|135}} *Homer Hulbert (1884), missionary, journalist, linguist, and Korean independence activist.<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|165}} *Nick Lowery (1978), National Football League player and three-time Pro Bowl kicker<ref>[https://kappapikappa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Pillar-Fall-2006.pdf Fall 2006 Pillar]</ref> *Andrew Marshall, football player and Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|178}} *Samuel Walker McCall (1874), Governor of Massachusetts<ref name=70th/><ref name=75th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|157}} *Stephen Gordon Nash, namesake and funder of Gordon-Nash Library, founder Kappa Kappa Kappa<ref name=DLAM/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|135}} *James E. Odlin (1881), member Massachusetts House of Representatives<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|163}} *Paul Donnelly Paganucci (1953), professor at the Tuck School<ref>[https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1972/3/1/associate-dean-at-tuck Dartmouth Alumni Magazine March 1972 Associate Dean at Tuck]</ref> *John Henry Patterson (1867), industrialist and founder of National Cash Register, now NCR Corporation<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|151}} *John Dudley Philbrick (1842), superintendent of Boston Public Schools, founder Kappa Kappa Kappa<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|135}}<ref name=DLAM>[https://archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu/agents/corporate_entities/863 Kappa Pi Kappa fraternity. Dartmouth College {{!}} Dartmouth Libraries Archives & Manuscripts]</ref> *Nitya Pibulsonggram (1962), Foreign Minister of Thailand and former Thai ambassador to the United States<ref>[https://www.wma.us/uploaded/_Redesign_2015/Alumni/Alumni_Showcase/Nitya_Pibulsonggram.pdf Wilbraham & Monson Academy]</ref> *Ambrose A. Ranney (1844), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|136}} *Peter Robinson (1979), White House speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan<ref>[https://1998.dartmouth.org/s/1353/images/gid23/editor_documents/2010-08_classof1998_newsletter.pdf?gid=23&pgid=61&sessionid=7c31ab86-6570-4f52-953d-3deafa9b9ef0&cc=1 August 2010 Newsletter for Class of 1998]</ref> *David Rosenbaum (1963), ''New York Times'' journalist<ref>[https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/2006/5/1/deaths May-June 2006 Dartmouth Magazine Deaths]</ref> *Bob Smith (1902), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|179}} *Douglas Walgren (1963), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania<ref>[https://1962.dartmouth.org/s/1353/images/gid315/editor_documents/2011_newsletters/2011-08.pdf?gid=315&pgid=61&sessionid=7c31ab86-6570-4f52-953d-3deafa9b9ef0&cc=1 August 2011 Newsletter class of 1962]</ref> *Myron E. Witham (1904), football player, coach of football and baseball, and mathematics professor<ref name=70th/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|181}} *Thomas W. D. Worthen (1872), Dartmouth professor and member New Hampshire Public Service Commission<ref name=70th>[https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1912/02/01/kappa-kappa-kappa-anniversary February 1912 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Kappa Kappa Anniversary]</ref><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|156}}
===Honorary alumni=== *Hugh M. Alcorn State's attorney in Hartford County, Connecticut<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|133}} *Joseph M. Bell New Hampshire and Massachusetts lawyer, abolitionist, and politician<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|133}} *Lewis Cass, Governor of Michigan, U.S. Senator, and presidential nominee<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|133}} *Robert N. Chamberlain, Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and as an Associate Justice and later as the second Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|133}} *Rufus Choate (1819), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|133}} *Daniel Clark (1834), U.S. Senator from New Hampshire<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|133}} *Sidney Fay American historian specializing in World War I.<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|133}} *Benjamin Franklin Flanders (1842), Governor of Louisiana<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|135}} *Charles Brickett Haddock, New Hampshire educator, author, politician and civil servant. Founding advisor Kappa Kappa Kappa<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|133}} *George Perkins Marsh, American diplomat and philologist<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|134}} *Ira Perley, Chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature 1855–1859 and 1864–1869<ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|134}} *Daniel Webster (1801), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, U.S. Congressman, U.S.Ambassador to France, and U.S. Secretary of State<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|134}} *Levi Woodbury (1809), Governor of New Hampshire, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and U.S. Supreme Court justice<ref name=Bairds1879/><ref name=kkk100/>{{rp|134}}
==See also== *Campus of Dartmouth College *Dartmouth College fraternities and sororities *List of social fraternities
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|https://kappapikappa.org/}} *{{Blogger|trikap}} *[https://students.dartmouth.edu/greek-life/greek-chapters/overview/interfraternity-council-0/kappa-pi-kappa Kappa Pi Kappa – Dartmouth Office of Residential Life] *[http://www.dartmo.com/halls/ ''Halls, Tombs and Houses: Student Society Architecture at Dartmouth'']
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