Three lifelong friends at the College of Charleston founded Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in 1904. They based the foundation of their new fraternity on the principles of scholarship, leadership, service, and brotherhood. Pi Kappa Phi grew quickly and became very popular and influential in Charleston. Pi Kappa Phi grew at a rate of two new chapters per year and became in 1970 the fastest growing fraternity in America in terms of members. In 2001, Pi Kappa Phi had 140 chapters across the United States.
One of these chapters was the Omicron chapter. In 1917, a group of young men at the University…
