Honor Societies

Shelf 26 (housed with 00142-00160)

Copper key and staff belonging to Mervin Grant Filler as a member of Omicron Delta Kappa in 1927.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00141

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00142 - AC 00160)

Subject: Key, Honor Societies

Format: Pins/Buttons

Pewter Cup, 1988

Pewter cup with no handles, engraved with college seal and “The John Dickinson Society 1988.”

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00517

Location: Shelf 27 (housed with AC 00592)

Subject: Honor Societies

Format: Miscellaneous

Phi Beta Kappa Key Award

Phi Beta Kappa key awarded to Mabel B. Kirk.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00420

Location: Shelf 25 (housed with AC 00418-00422, AC 00448-00449, AC 00484, AC 00488, AC 00541)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Pins/Buttons

Phi Beta Kappa Key Necklace, 1904

James T. Jarrell's Phi Beta Kappa key suspended on a gold chain.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00595

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141-00160)

Subject: Fraternity Key, Key, Honor Societies

Format: Jewelry

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1868

Copper key inscribed with name of Alexander Dallas Bache Smead as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1868.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00151

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Miscellaneous

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1883

Copper key inscribed with Bradford Oliver McIntire as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1883; also inscribed “Wesleyan.”

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00150

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Miscellaneous

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1893

Copper key inscribed with name of Mervin Grant Filler as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1893.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00149

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Miscellaneous

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1895

Copper key and pin inscribed with name of Amy Fisher as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1895.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00142

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Pins/Buttons

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1897

Copper key inscribed with name of Edgar Rohrer Heckman as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, 1897.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00148

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Pins/Buttons

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1898

Copper key inscribed with name of Walter Wesley Rice as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1898.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00152

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Miscellaneous

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1898

Large copper key inscribed with name of Leon Cushing Prince as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1898.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00146

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Pins/Buttons

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1898

Copper key inscribed with name of Montgomery Porter Sellers as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1898.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00147

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Pins/Buttons

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1905

Gold key inscribed with name of James M. Green who was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1905. (Green graduated in 1878, before the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Dickinson had been established.)

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00145

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Pins/Buttons

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1907

Copper key inscribed with name of Florence Irene Ralston as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1907.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00144

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Honor Societies, Key

Format: Pins/Buttons

Phi Beta Kappa Key, 1919

A small gold metal necklace charm of a Phi Beta Kappa key with “Beatrice Carmitchel, Dickinson ’19, December 5, 1776” engraved on the back. Given by donor’s mother (Beatrice Earle Carmitchell) to donor (her daughter) at her graduation from Dickinson in 1951.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00770

Location: Shelf 25 (housed with AC 00771, AC 00776 and AC 00794-795)

Subject: necklace charm, Honor Societies

Format: Jewelry

Phi Beta Kappa key, 1982

Copper key inscribed with name of Lisa Kirifidesas a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1982.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00143

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00141 - AC 00160)

Subject: Key, Honor Societies

Format: Pins/Buttons

Phi Beta Kappa plaques, 1956-1971

Three wooden plaques featuring scholarship award winners for 1956 to 1971.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00121

Location: Shelf 16

Subject: Honors and Awards, Honor Societies, Commemorative Plaque

Format: Plaques/Trophies

Pocket Watch and Pocket Knife, 1917

This 12K gold pocket watch is engraved with the monogram H.L.P. The watch is attached by a chain to a Phi Beta Kappa key with the fraternity letters on one side with "Henry L. Price Dickinson 1917" and "December 5, 1770," the fraternity's founding, on the other. It is also attached to a monogrammed pocket knife kit.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00844

Location: Shelf 25

Subject: Watch, Knife, Honor Societies

Format: Miscellaneous

Raven's Claw Engraving Blocks

Two copper plates attached to blocks, with the two part Raven's Claw emblem on them.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00311

Location: Shelf 25 (housed with AC 00309 - AC 00310)

Subject: Printing, Honor Societies

Format: Artwork/Photography

Raven’s Claw Cap, 1935

Raven's Claw cap belonging to George Shuman, Jr. This cap would have been work by Shuman to represent his affiliation with the honor society.  Raven's Claw is made up of seven senior Dickinson males.  

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00052

Location: RR 01 (housed with 00053, 00460-00461)

Subject: Honor Societies

Format: Hats

Raven’s Claw Hat, 1930

This hat belonged to Raven's Claw member John Christian Arndt III, Class of 1931 and was worn to symbolize his affiliation with the honor society. Raven's Claw is an all male senior honor society that admits seven male members of the Dickinson campus.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00601

Location: RR 01 (housed with AC 00606, AC 00708, AC 00675)

Subject: Honor Societies

Format: Hats

Raven’s Claw Hat, 1943

Raven's Claw cloth hat with insignia, belonging to James Prescott, III, class of 1944. Prescott wore the hat to show his affiliation with the honor society.  Raven's Claw is an honor society consisting of seven senior Dickinson males. 

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00577

Location: RR 01 (housed with AC 00456, AC 00548, AC 00578)

Subject: Honor Societies

Format: Hats

Raven’s Claw pin, 1937

Gold Raven’s Claw symbol featuring “7” and “1937,” which belonged to George Shuman, Jr.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00163

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00161 - AC 00180)

Subject: Honor Societies

Format: Pins/Buttons

Union Philosophical Society pin, c.1860

Gold pin shaped like Union Philosophical Society symbol which belonged to Samuel Bean as a member.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00180

Location: Shelf 26 (housed with AC 00161 - AC 00180)

Subject: Honor Societies, Pins

Format: Pins/Buttons

Wheel & Chain Ribbon Pin, 1976

A blue and yellow ribbon pin for a tapped Wheel and Chain member.

Artifact/Collection Number: AC 00928

Location: Rehousing

Subject: Honor Societies

Format: Pins/Buttons

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