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Kappa Nu (ΚΝ) was an American college fraternity that was active from 1911 to 1961 when it merged with Phi Epsilon Pi.




History


Kappa Nu was founded at the University of Rochester on November 12, 1911. The founders were:

Joseph Bernhardt
Abraham Levy
Joseph Lazarus
Harold Leve
Morris Lazersohn
Louis Gottlieb
All six were pre-medical or medical students. Their intention was to create a local-only fraternity for Jewish students.
In 1917, five loosely connected groups (U of Rochester and others created by men who had left Rochester) held a convention in Rochester and set up Kappa Nu as a National Fraternity. By the 1918 convention, Kappa Nu had ten chapters. It continued to add chapters through 1931. Its executive offices were in Rochester, New York.
On October 14, 1961, Kappa Nu's thirteen active chapters voted to merge with Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity. Of these, three chapters declined to participate in the merger at campuses where Phi Epsilon Pi already existed. In 1970, Zeta Beta Tau absorbed Phi Epsilon Pi.




Symbols


The badge is a diamond shield displaying a monogram of the Greek letters ΚΝ arranged horizontally along one plane below which is a six-pointed star and above which are קנ (Kuf Nun, the equivalent letters in Hebrew), standing for קשר נעורים or Kesher Neurim ("Ties of Youth").: 54  The jeweled base of the pin is surrounded by twenty pearls with an amethyst set at each of the corners. Its colors were purple and white.
As of 1920, the fraternity had a semi-annual publication called Kappa Nu. It also published a magazine, The Reporter, three times a year.




Chapters


Kappa Nu established 27 chapters.




Notable members


Mel Allen (Pi), play-by-play announcer for New York Yankees
Mortimer Rogoff (Kappa), inventor and businessman




See also


List of Jewish fraternities and sororities




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