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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: American University of the Caribbean, Dale Alford, David M. Bosworth, David Snell (journalist), Donald Tresidder, Edward R. Annis, Fraternities and sororities at Dalhousie University, Hart Goodloe, Irvin Abell, Jonathan Wright (physician), List of Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Chapters, Omega Upsilon Phi, Phi Alpha Gamma, Phi Beta Pi, Phi Chi Society, Pi Mu Honor Society, Spurgeon Neel. Excerpt: Phi Chi is one of the oldest and largest international medical fraternities of its kind in the world. Phi Chi evolved from the merging of two professional medical fraternities bearing the same name. Phi Chi Society (Phi Chi East) was founded on March 31, 1889, at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. Phi Chi Medical Fraternity (Phi Chi South) was founded on October 26, 1894, at the Louisville Medical College, Louisville, Ky. These two organizations did not know that they shared a similar name when they were founded. On March 5, 1905, in Burlington, Vt., Phi Chi Society and Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, Inc., were consolidated taking the name Phi Chi Medical Fraternity, Inc. Phi Chi has grown to become a co-ed, international, professional medical fraternity with chapters in 5 countries. The Eastern Fraternity was founded by Caleb Wakefield Clark on March 31, 1889, who called to his support Frederick Luther Osgood, Isaac Newton Fox and Alfred Judson Young, all of the class of 1889. According to a letter from Dr. Clark shortly before his death, "Phi Chi was not formed for purely social reasons and indeed, my aim and desire to bring about such an organization was primarily to get together and discuss thing medical and thus get more out of our college course. The new fraternity was to be established to give all possible aid in the dissemination of knowledge and information along medical lines and to broaden and uplift the minds...