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29 Cards in this Set
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What is the lifeblood of this Pi Kappa Alpha.
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Rush
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What are the underlying strength of Pi Kappa Alpha.
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Alumni
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what is one of Pi Kappa Alpha’s most recognizable symbols and where did it come from?
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the fire truck and It came from Gamma Nu Chapter
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what are the Fraternity Colors?
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garnet and old gold
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what is the Fraternity Flower?
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White lilly of the valley
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who was elected Honorary Lifetime President of Pi Kappa Alpha. Founded the Shield and Diamond magazine.
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Robert Adger Smythe
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what is the highest award the Headquarters of Pi Kappa Alpha can bestow upon a chapter.
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Robert Adger Smythe award
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who was the inventor of Pyrolene?
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Howard Bell Arbuckle
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who served as a Pastor in Senatobia, Mississippi.
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John Shaw Foster
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who was the leading spirit in the Re-Founding of the Fraternity.
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theron hall rice
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who were the junior founders and what chaper were they apart of?
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a. Theron Hall Rice Alpha Chapter
b. John Shaw Foster Theta Chapter c. Howard Bell Arbuckle Iota Chapter d. Robert Adger Smythe Lambda Chapter |
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when and where was the Only National Convention ever held in Mississippi.
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1970 Biloxi
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when and where was the Decision to move North past the Mason-Dixon line was adopted.
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1909 New Orleans
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when and where was the Re-Founding of the Fraternity, Room 50 Cushing Hall; the Junior Founders were present (with the exception of Robert Adger Smythe who missed due to an illness).
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1889 Hampden-Sydney
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when and where were Inter-fraternity relations were established.
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1871 Richmond
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what are the first ten chapters, where were they founded, and when?
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a. Alpha University of Virginia 1868
b. Beta Davidson College 1869 c. Gamma William & Mary 1871 d. Delta Birmingham Southern 1871 e. Epsilon Virginia Polytechnic 1873 f. Zeta University of Tennessee 1874 g. Eta Tulane 1878 h. Theta Southwester Presbyterian College at Memphis 1878 i. Iota Hampden-Sydney 1885 j. Kappa Transylvania College 1888 |
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At Alpha Chapter meeting nights, one of the members of the chapter went to the East Lawn to give the Call of the Locusts. An answer would be returned from the opposite end of campus – West Range. At the Locusts call, the members assembled from various areas and directions and met at “The Castle”.
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Call of the Locusts
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who was Pi Kappa Alpha’s first initiate and who brought him to the founders?
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12. Augustus Washington Knox and fedrick southgate taylor
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where were the second and third meetings held?
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Lover’s Rock and Room 45 West Range Cove.
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who was the youngest of the Founders. He worked for Equitable Life Insurance Co. Alexander designed the Badge.
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William Alexander
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who was elected the first President of Pi Kappa Alpha. He carried an autograph picture of his co-Founders in his wallet his entire life.
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robertson howard
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who died a bachelor at the age of 35. He was elected the what?
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james benjamin sclater jr. and the first secretary of pi kapp alpha
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who was the color bearer at the Battle of New Market and led the V.M.I. cadets in the Shenndoah Valley to stop the Yanks.
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Julian Edward Wood
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who adopted the name of his grandfather (the governor of Virginia) who had no male heir.
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Littleton Waller Tazewell (Bradford)
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who was the leading spirit in the Founding of Pi Kappa Alpha. He gave the Fraternity its what?
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fedrick southgate taylor and its name and motto
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who were present at the first meeting.
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Frederick Southgate Taylor, Littleton Waller Tazewell (Bradford), James Benjamin Sclater, Jr. and Robertson Howard
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The first meeting took place at where and whose room was it in?
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room 47 west range cove and it was Frederick Southgate Taylor and Littleton Waller Tazewell (Bradford).
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where was pi kappa alpha founded?
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University of Virginia on Sunday evening, March 1, 1868.
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who founded the University of Virginia.
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thomas jefferson
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