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Phi Beta Kappa was originally founded in 1776 at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. Three years later Elisha Parmele, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1778, secured charters to extend the society to both Harvard and Yale. Finally on September 5, 1781, the Alpha of Massachusetts...
One summer day in 1948 William C. Chance, an aging Negro high-school principal, got aboard an Atlantic Coast Line railway coach in Philadelphia, bound for his home in Parmele, N.C. When the train crossed into Virginia, the conductor asked Principal Chance to move into a Jim Crow car for...
Singles--Gaines (P) defeated Ager (H), 6-2, 6-1; Bullard (H) defeated Raleigh (P), 3-6, 7-5, 6-2; Parmele (P) defeated Ames (H), 6-2, 6-4; Blair (P) defeated Hughes (H) 6-1, 6-2; Bucknell (P) defeated Frey (H), 7-5, 4-6, 7-5...
William and Mary's chapter didn't last long, though. It dissolved with the approach of Cornwallis' British troops after four years and 67 meetings. But one Elisha Parmele, a Harvard graduate, received characters for branch chapters at Yale and Harvard before the original Phi Bota Kappa went into extinction...
But before this date in 1779 Elisha Parmele, a Connecticut Yankee who had become one of the fifty original members returned to the North taking with him a charter for Harvard, voted on the third anniversary of the founding of the Society, and another for Yale, granted five days later...