Phi Alpha Gamma


Phi Alpha Gamma, was founded at the New York Homeopathic Medical College, March 25, 1894, by Thomas D. Buchanan, Thomas F. Davies, Edmund M. De Vol, Robert M. Jones, Brooks DeF. Worwood, Arthur B. Smith and Harry S. Willard. Beta chapter was founded at the Boston University School of Medicine, November 26, 1896. In January, delegates from these chapters met delegates from a similar society called KT, which had been established the month before at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, and the societies were joined under the name of ΦΑΓ. The Minnesota and Iowa chapters were formed from the two chapters of a fraternity called ΠΚΤ, established with the view of confining it to homeopathic schools of medicine.
ΦΑΓ had active chapters in New York and Philadelphia in 1947. Preliminary details of amalgamation between Phi Alpha Gamma and Phi Chi Medical Fraternity had been worked out by Dr. Albert Saunders of Phi Chi and these the Phi Chi National Convention of 1947 approved with instructions to the Executive Trustees to complete the merger.
The Phi Alpha Gamma merger was completed on February 21, 1948, when Phi Alpha of Phi Chi at New York Medical College and Phi Alpha Gamma at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia were installed. At the annual Founders' Day Banquet of the Phi Chi Alumni Association in New York, with members from Alpha Mu, Rho Delta and Upsilon sigma attending, 48 charter members of Phi Alpha were initiated by Dr. Jacob E. Reisch. At that same time, seven members of the then existing Gamma chapter of Phi Alpha Gamma traveled to New York to be initiated into Phi Chi. This event ceremonially completed the merger of Phi Alpha Gamma and Phi Chi, which had been agreed upon by the official bodies of each Fraternity.
The ΦΑΓ Fraternity consisted of the following chapters before merging with ΦΧ:
ChapterLocationDatesFate
ANew York Homeopathic Medical College1894–1948Became Phi Alpha of Phi Chi
BBoston University School of Medicine1896-1921Became Beta Upsilon of Phi Chi
ΓHahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia1897-1948Became Phi Alpha Gamma of Phi Chi
ΔUniversity of Minnesota1897-1909School Closed
EUniversity of Iowa1897-1900School Closed
ΖΘOhio State University1897-1922School Closed
HChicago Homeopathic Medical College1897-1900United with Λ 1900
ΘPulte Medical College of Cincinnati1899-1901Charter revoked
IHomeopathic Medical College of Missouri1899-1909School Closed
KUniversity of Michigan1900-1922School merged with U of M Medical School
ΗΛHahnemann Medical College of Chicago1900-1918School Closed
MHahnemann Medical College of the Pacific1906-1915School merged with U of California
INKansas City Hahnemann Medical College1906-1916School Closed

The Phi Alpha Gamma Quarterly- annual publication begun in 1902
The badge of the fraternity is a middle phalanx of the little finger of a human hand, mounted in gold, with the letters ΦΑΓ in gold upon a field of black enamel. The color of the fraternity is violet, and its flower is the violet.

Links