HISTORY OF MOTHER CHAPTER
Pi Gamma Mu was founded in 1924 by Dean Leroy Allen from Southwestern College in Kansas and Dean William A. Hamilton of the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Seventeen founding chapters were organized simultaneously. The Society was incorporated under the name “The National Social Science Honor Society, Pi Gamma Mu, Inc.” on April 5,1929, as a non-profit corporation in Colorado. To acknowledge its chapters outside the U.S., the Board of Trustees took action in 1980 to change the name of the Society to “Pi Gamma Mu, International Honor Society in Social Science”.
The official journal, Social Science, was established in 1925. In 1982, the name of the journal was changed to International Social Science Review. The present constitution provides for International triennial conventions. They are preceded by an election of the Society officers, with each chapter casting one vote. In 1993, the Society moved its headquarters in Winfield, Kansas to the Carnegie Building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings.
Pi Gamma Mu is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies, on whose council it has a representative. It is also affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which classifies Pi Gamma Mu as a constituent organization of Section K-Social, Economic, and Political Sciences.
Click here to visit the Pi Gamma Mu International Website.
The official journal, Social Science, was established in 1925. In 1982, the name of the journal was changed to International Social Science Review. The present constitution provides for International triennial conventions. They are preceded by an election of the Society officers, with each chapter casting one vote. In 1993, the Society moved its headquarters in Winfield, Kansas to the Carnegie Building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings.
Pi Gamma Mu is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies, on whose council it has a representative. It is also affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which classifies Pi Gamma Mu as a constituent organization of Section K-Social, Economic, and Political Sciences.
Click here to visit the Pi Gamma Mu International Website.