Kappa Psi

Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Incorporated, (ΚΨ) is the largest professional pharmaceutical fraternity in the world with more than 6,000 student members and more than 87,000 alumni members. It was founded in 1879 at Russell Military Academy in New Haven, Connecticut as the Society of Kappa Psi.
History.
The Society of Kappa Psi was founded on 30 May, 1879 at the Russell Military Academy in New Haven, Connecticut as an academic society for college preparatory schools. The Society named as its founder F. Harvey Smith. It quickly created an additional chapter, at the Cheshire Military Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut in 1879. While these two early units failed, another chapter formed at Hillhouse Academy of New Haven, Connecticut in 1894. Hillhouse too, died as a chapter on 30 June, 1895. 
But the founders of these chapters, many having graduated and entered college "and still students themselves", sought a "collegiate level" re-establishment of the order. Representatives, now alumni without an active chapter from these three early prep school chapters formed a grand chapter called "Alpha chapter" in 1896, deeming it an essential step for rebuilding the fraternity and for expansion nationally. These men, reforming the organization as Kappa Psi Fraternity chartered its first collegiate chapter, "Delta", at the University of Maryland in the fall of 1898 when former members of the "Hillhouse chapter" entered that school in the study of medicine. Others, who had opted for the study of pharmacy, formed a "Gamma chapter" at the College of Pharmacy at Columbia University in that same year. A third group of advancing students formed the "Beta chapter" at the University College of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia, in 1900. 
By 1902 the young organization had formed six chapters and already held four conventions. In 1903 the Society incorporated as a national fraternity, operating jointly as both a medical and pharmaceutical fraternity. 
By mutual agreement, in 1924, the fraternity split into Kappa Psi, which retained its pharmacy component, and Theta Kappa Psi, which became strictly a medical fraternity. Theta Kappa Psi later struggled; it would go on to merge with Phi Beta Pi in 1961, but this union was again dissolved in 1992. A single chapter carries on the Theta Kappa Psi name today.
Kappa Psi Fraternity would later incorporate under the name of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity. 
In 1977, Kappa Psi first welcomed women into the fraternity.
Today there are 113 active collegiate chapters and 82 graduate chapters across the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas, and over 80,000 people have been initiated into the fraternity since its inception. 
The Central Office of Kappa Psi is located in Richardson, Texas. 
Provinces.
Nationally, Kappa Psi is divided into eleven provinces, which the majority meet biannually and is divided as follows:
International officers.
At the 59th Grand Council Convention held in Washington, D.C. in July 2019, the following Brothers were elected as international officers of the Fraternity:
The office of Executive Director is appointed by the International Executive Committee.
List of chapters.
 Kappa Psi consists of 113 collegiate and 82 graduate chapters organized into 11 regional provinces.
Active collegiate chapters.
The active collegiate chapters are:
Dormant collegiate chapters.
"These are dormant chapters at schools of pharmacy, and the school is still active." "Note that the early "Beta chapter" and the three early college preparatory chapters all went to Theta Kappa Psi by agreement." 
Discontinued collegiate pharmacy chapters.
"These chapters at schools of pharmacy where the pharmacy school no longer exists."
Grand Council Convention.
Kappa Psi holds its international convention biennially. The 59th Grand Council Convention took place from July 17-21 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC and the 60th Grand Council Convention will be held at the Arizona Grand Resort and Spa in the summer of 2022. 
Below is a list of the Grand Council Conventions (along with the year, location, and number of attendees) dating back to the first Grand Council Convention in 1900 in New York City.