Pi Upsilon Rho

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Pi Upsilon Rho
ΠΥΡ
The crest of Pi Upsilon Rho.png
Founded1876; 146 years ago (1876)
Hahnemann Medical College
TypeProfessional
AffiliationIndependent
EmphasisHomeopathy; medical
ScopeNational (US)
PublicationThe Torch
Chapters7 installed
Members1,194 (1879) lifetime
Headquarters
US

Pi Upsilon Rho (ΠΥΡ) was a United States-based professional fraternity for homeopathy students established at Hahnemann Medical College in 1876 under the name Ustion. It changed its name to Pi Upsilon Rho in 1909.[1][2]

By 1920 it had five active chapters.[2] It has been credited as one of the United States' oldest medical fraternities.[3] The fraternity's governing body, the Supreme Corpus, would meet annually at the convention of the American Institute of Homeopathy.[2][4]

Symbols and traditions[]

  • The badge of the society is in the form of a diamond lozenge, with the Greek letters Π, Υ and Ρ across the middle. Above this are three torches and below this are two crossed bones. An image of the badge is at the center of the Fraternity's crest.
  • The quarterly periodical of the fraternity was the Torch.
  • Chapters were named "Vertebrae", and were designated by Latin numerals.

Officers were named thusly:

  • Encephalon (President)
  • Medulla Oblongata (Vice-president)
  • Calamus Scriptorius (Secretary)
  • Optic Thalamus (Treasurer)
  • Torcular Herophili (Inductor)

Chapters[]

City and State School Chapter Status Installed Date and Range Reference
Chicago, IL Hahnemann Medical College Prima Dormant 1876–19xx
Columbus, OH Ohio State University Tertia Dormant 1893–19xx
Philadelphia, PA Hahnemann Medical College Quarta Dormant 1901–>1943
Denver, CO Denver Homeopathic Medical College Quinta Dormant 1902–1906
Detroit, MI Detroit Homeopathic Medical College Sexta Dormant 1903–19xx [5]
Valhalla, NY New York Medical College (NY Homeopathic Medical College) Septa Dormant 1905–19xx
Ann Arbor, MI University of Michigan Octa Dormant 1906–19xx

References[]

  1. ^ "Pi Upsilon Rho". Banta's Greek Exchange. 12 (4): 376. October 1924.
  2. ^ a b c Baird, William Raimond (1920). Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities. James T. Brown. p. 532.
  3. ^ Becker, Barbara (25 April 2020). "How a skeleton became part of our family". Salon. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Pennsylvania". Journal of the American Institute of Homœopathy. 3: 661–662. 1910.
  5. ^ Merged with the Michigan chapter.
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