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Excerpt from Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity: February 1, 1910 Working under the direction of the Executive Council of the Fraternity since November, 1908, the Editor has prepared and now submits this edition as the Grand Catalogue of the Fraternity. It will be noted in the alphabetical list that the names of members are designated by marks, which indicate as follows: This mark (f)before the name of a brother indicates that the information concerning this member was received from his chapter after he had been written direct and no reply had been received from him, or our mail had been returned, marked Wrong Address, etc. This mark () before the name of a brother indicates that the information concerning this member was supplied from old catalogues and old records, as no response had been received from the member direct and no information could be furnished by his chapter. Names before which no mark appears suggest that the information concerning these members was received direct from the members themselves. It will be noted from this that fully one-half of the members of the Fraternity did not respond to the postal card sent to them when the work was first undertaken, and it is to be regretted that not more than one-half of the members who did receive the cards supplied the Editor with the information sought. It is only fair, therefore, to all concerned, that this explanation be made. Handicapped in this manner, over a year of diligent work has produced the catalogue submitted herewith. The Editor is willing that it shall represent the efforts spent, and he herewith submits it to the Fraternity with the hope that it may be satisfying and gratifying to the membership, to a small degree at least. We are under obligations especially to the alumni associations, to the chapters, and to individual members who have made this work possible. When the work was first undertaken, each chapter was asked for a complete up-todate list of its membership. These lists were used as mailing lists, and to each member a postal card was sent, soliciting information for the catalogue. Later, after no response could be secured from many of the brothers, lists of these were sent to the chapters and each chapter was requested to furnish the Editor with the best information possible concerning these brothers. In such cases where the chapter could not furnish such information, a diligent search was made through all of the old records of the Fraternity. Copy was then prepared for the printer and copies of this copy were sent for correction to all of the alumni associations and to others who had manifested a deep interest in the work. Corrections were made and the copy submitted to the publisher. This corrected copy was then read carefully by Brother Lincoln M. Coy, Treasurer of the Fraternity, and to him especially is the Editor under obligations for an unusual amount of assistance. And without the assistance of the Executive Council, freely and promptly given, this undertaking would have been impossible. Our experience strongly urges us to recommend that the work of this department be assigned to the Secretary, with a sufficient allowance to pay clerk hire to keep up the records from year to year. If this is done, by the time the next catalogue is published, the many brothers whose addresses are unknown at present, should be located and the work of the next Editor should, thereby, be made easy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
