Phi Psi is not primarily a service fraternity but has a history of service. Some years after the fraternity was founded many years ago the fraternity Manual referred to the founders having gotten the idea for forming the association when nursing some friends in a typhoid or flu epidemic. This story may be apocryphal, but service has been a growing tradition in the fraternity-a phrase often heard is "The great joy of serving others." In 2002 Phi Kappa Psi embarked on a national service initiative titled The Phi Psi 500 which calls for each chapter to put forth 500 man hours of hands-on service, or equivalent, per year. 

Sometimes you will participate in collaboration with sororities or other fraternities. Here are Here are a couple of pictures of the Delta Gamma philanthropy event we did during the beginning of the year. What's going on here? (It's the Delta Gamma Anchor Splash event to raise money for Women's Protective Services.)

We help out the Boys and Girls Club of America. Around 2004 the national fraternity partnered with them with the idea of chapters providing support. In the fall of 2006 we provided a local chapter with a 60" TV. Weekly some of the brothers go to the club and interact with the kids, maybe playing some games.

From time to time we take on unique service projects. Over the past two years

• We have taken kids to football games several times on Tech's Take A Kid To The Game Day.
• We have participated in the Greek Treat Halloween program the last couple of years.
• Each year we collect and donate clothing, canned goods, etc. to the Salvation Army / Goodwill Industries / Food Bank.
• One morning In April of 2005 the chapter helped a young disabled woman and her two daughters get their yard cleaned up.

Ms. Ivey and her daughter stand with the brothers as the job nears completion.