Phi Beta Kappa

The University of Nebraska

Lincoln

Miss Adelloyd Whiting

Notification of election to Phi Beta Kappa—
addressed and signed by my sister, May C.
Whiting, Secretary of the Nebraska Alpha Chapter

Nov 29 1951

P.B.K.s Plan
175th Year
Celebration

Nebraska's chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa will mark the 175th an-
niversary of the national organ-
ization's founding next Wednes-
day evening at a dinner in the
University of Nebraska Student
Union.

Speaker of the eveing will be
Dr. Louise Pound, nationally-
known scholar, writer and educa-
tor. She will address the group
on "American English After Two
World Wars."

Founded Dec. 5, 1776, at Col-
lege of William and Mary in Wil-
liamsburg, Va, the fraternity hon-
ors graduating seniors with high
scholarship. The first recorded
meeting of the Nebraska chapter
was Nov. 19, 1895, although it
was not until Feb. 13, 1896, that
a charter was awarded

Charter and N.U. members (both
faculty and student include: