Chi Psi, Alpha Psi chapter records, 1895-1988
Collection Number: 37-4-1124
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Chi Psi, Alpha Psi chapter records, 1895-1988
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
37-4-1124
Abstract:
Annual reports; histories, including materials on the 1906 fire; correspondence; financial
records; personnel records; pledging materials; and photographs of Chi Psi Fraternity.
Creator:
Chi Psi. Alpha Psi Chapter
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
The Alpha Psi Chapter of Chi Psi Fraternity was established at Cornell University
in 1869. In 1896, the fraternity moved into the McGraw-Fiske Mansion. On December
6th, 1906, the Chi Psi house caught fire, killing four fraternity brothers and three
volunteer fireman.
Annual reports; histories, including materials on the 1906 fire; correspondence; financial
records; personnel records; pledging materials; and photographs of Chi Psi Fraternity.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Chi Psi, Alpha Psi chapter records, #37-4-1124. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Access restricted to active members of Chi Psi or by permission of the University
Archivist.
Names:
Chi Psi -- : Fire, 1906.
Cornell University -- : Societies, etc.
Subjects:
Students\' societies.
Greek letter societies.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Chi Psi fire letters
|
1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2-3 |
Chi Psi letters
|
1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
The Calamity of Alpha Psi
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Chi Psi fire
|
1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6-9 |
Chi Psi fire
|
December 7, 1906 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Chi Psi
|
1908-1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Alpha reports
|
prior to 1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Alpha reports
|
1930-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Alpha reports
|
1940-1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Alpha reports
|
1950-1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Memorial plaque
|
1944-1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Alpha history
|
1948-1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
[Charles] Love Durham Memorial
|
1949-1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
"Chaos Articles"
|
1941-1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
"Chaos Articles," miscellany
|
1952-1958 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Thayer Trophy reports
|
1952-1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Report of Alpha Psi to the Convention of Chi Psi Fraternity
|
1952-1964 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
National Convention - Alpha Psi
|
September 1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Scholarship
|
1954-1961 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
#1's position
|
1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Alpha Psi historian
|
1957-1958 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Fraternity advisors, Cornell
|
1958-1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Student Medical Services
|
1959-1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Interfraternity Council (IFC)
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
House operation
|
1961 |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Alpha history
|
1961-1962 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
121, 122 Annual Convention reports
|
1962-1963 |
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
122nd Convention, Paul E. Reading, Jr. '64
|
September 4-7, 1963 |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Pledges - to be entered in #2's file
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Pledging file
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Pledge training
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Forms for pledges - past
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Past brothers
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Centennial History and Biographical Directory of the Chi Psi Fraternity
|
1941 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Forms for pledges - past
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Employment file
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 3-4 |
Cornell University faculty, officers, and employees
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Alpha Psi of Chi Psi - Local By-Laws; Parliamentary procedure manual
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Work details
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Duties of #1, #2, #3
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Alpha Management Manual
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 9-10 |
Miscellany
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Finance miscellany
|
|
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Principles Underlying Sound Scholarship
|
1939 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
The Purple and Gold
|
June 1895 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
The Purple and Gold
|
February 1904 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
The Purple and Gold
|
February 1907 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
123rd Annual Convention, Chi Psi, Rutgers University - Alpha Rho of Chi Psi 85th Anniversary
|
September 3-5, 1964 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Records of the One Hundred Eighteenth Annual Convention of Chi Psi Fraternity
|
1959 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Records of the One Hundred Nineteenth Annual Convention of Chi Psi Fraternity
|
1960 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Records of the One Hundred Twentieth Annual Convention of Chi Psi Fraternity
|
1961 |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Records of the One Hundred Twenty-Second Annual Convention of Chi Psi Fraternity
|
1963 |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Records of the One Hundred Twenty-Third Annual Convention of Chi Psi Fraternity
|
1964 |
| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
The Cornell Fraternity Self-Study Program: A Report on Some Educational and Social
Aspects of Fraternity Life at Cornell University, 1959-1960
|
1961 |
| Box 2 |
Financial materials - mortgage and bond
|
1898-12-17 | |
| Box 3 |
Photographs
|
||
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Blueprint: Chi Psi Lodge
|
1965 | |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
December 16, 1906 edition of Utica Saturday Globe with story and pictures of Chi Psi
fire and deceased
|
1906 | |
| Mapcase Folder 2 |
Photographs, including several group portraits, aerial photo of Chi Psi house, medical
staff of Harrisburg Hospital (February 13, 1923), unidentified portrait of a man with
mustache
|
||
| Mapcase Folder 3 |
Photo of Sage Chapel with steeple and Chi Psi house in background
|
||
| Mapcase Folder 4 |
Panorama of Chi Psi Fraternity Centennial Convention in Schenectady, NY
|
May 1-4, 1941 | |
| Box 4 |
Sesquicentennial History and Biographical Directory of Chi Psi Fraternity, W.S. Hattendorf, Jr.
|
1992 | |
| Box 4 |
Chi Psi Song Book: A Collection of Representative Songs of the Chi Psi Fraternity
Its Colleges and Universities, collected by Josiah R. Bartlett
|
1936 | |
| Box 4 |
The Man and His College: An Orientation to Chi Psi, Ed. W.S. Hattendorf, Jr.
|
1988 | |
| Box 4 |
The Chi Psi Story, Eds. H. Seger Slifer, Hiram L. Kennicott.
|
1951 | |