Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc. was founded on May 30, 1879 by F. Harvey Smith on the campus of Russell Military Academy in New Haven, Connecticut. The Southwest Province of Kappa Psi is comprised of 12 collegiate chapters and 7 graduate chapters in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado.

 

The objectives of Kappa Psi include:

• To conduct a professional fraternal organization for the mutual benefit of its members;

• To develop industry, sobriety, and fellowship;

• To foster high ideals, scholarship, and pharmaceutical research;

• To support all projects which will advance the profession of pharmacy and to actively participate in them;

• To inspire in its members a deep and lasting pride in their Fraternity and in the profession of pharmacy;

• To render such other services to its members and its profession feasible and in accordance with the constitution and bylaws of the Fraternity.