Kappa Pi Kappa fraternity. Dartmouth College
Biography
Kappa Pi Kappa was founded as Kappa Kappa Kappa (later known as Tri-Kap), a local fraternity at Dartmouth College in 1842. It is the oldest local fraternity in the United States and the second-oldest fraternity at Dartmouth. Tri-Kap was founded as a literary and debating society by students Harrison Hobart, Stephen Gordon Nash, and John Dudley Philbrick after a debate over leadership in the United Fraternity literary society. Tri-Kap officially became a social society in 1905.
Tri-Kap, the first social organization at Dartmouth to have its own building, occupied "The Hall," located at the present site of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, from 1860 to 1894. The organization moved to Parker House, at the present site of Silsby Hall, in 1894. Tri-Kap has been located at 1 Webster Avenue since 1923.
In 2022 Kappa Kappa Kappa changed their name to Kappa Pi Kappa.
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Kappa Pi Kappa Fraternity at Dartmouth College records
The records of Kappa Pi Kappa fraternity (formerly Kappa Kappa Kappa (Tri-Kap)) contain meeting minutes, membership registers, pledge books, officer manuals, correspondence, accounts, invitations, alumni directories, materials relating to 100th anniversary celebrations, scrapbooks, photographs, realia, and archived websites. In 2022 Kappa Kappa Kappa changed their name to Kappa Pi Kappa.