Product code: Phi Kappa Psi pre 1898 store fraternity badge pin
This pin belonged to my great grandmother‘s brother Dr. Arthur M. Clapp of Northampton, MA (1876 to 1917), class of 1898 Amherst College, Amherst, MA. Dr. Clapp was an early user of x-ray machines, and died of electrocution from a coil in an x-ray machine in his Springfield, MA office in 1917. The Amherst College chapter of the fraternity was suspended by the national organization in 1948, because they offered membership to Thomas W. Gibbs the first African-American to join a social store fraternity at Amherst College. The fraternity became a local fraternity Phi Alpha Psi.
This pin belonged to my great grandmother‘s brother Dr. Arthur M. Clapp of Northampton, MA (1876 to 1917), class of 1898 Amherst College, Amherst, MA. Dr. Clapp was an early user of x-ray machines, and died of electrocution from a coil in an x-ray machine in his Springfield, MA office in 1917. The Amherst College chapter of the fraternity was suspended by the national organization in 1948, because they offered membership to Thomas W. Gibbs the first African-American to join a social store fraternity at Amherst College. The fraternity became a local fraternity Phi Alpha Psi.