Phi Beta Kappa
Initiation 2017
With initiates and their guests assembled under the Gerberding bell tower, chapter President Norm Arkans explains the significance of the Phi Beta Kappa engravings on the tower wall.
Processing across Red Square, led by the gonfalonier holding aloft the chapter’s PBK gonfalon.
Checking in at Kane Hall.
Chapter President Norm Arkans leads the initiation ceremony. Prof. Debra Glassman explains the iconography of the Phi Beta Kappa key.
New initiates take the oath and officially join Phi Beta Kappa.
New initiates sign the official register book …
… and receive congratulations from Executive Board members.
Professor Victoria Lawson delivers the Initiation Address.
Post-ceremony photographs
Photographs courtesy Bryan Nakata