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Pi Beta Phi
from The Torch 2023
Tennessee Gamma Chapter
utk.pibetaphi.org
Pi Beta Phi is an international fraternity for women striving to enhance the collegiate experience and to take the friendships we make with us for a lifetime! We stay true to our six core values of integrity, lifelong commitment, honor and respect, personal and intellectual growth, philanthropic service to others, and sincere friendship. As the first fraternity for women, modeled after the male fraternal structure, we work to honor the courage of our twelve founders by empowering all women to achieve their full potential.
The Tennessee Gamma chapter of Pi Beta Phi was founded at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1948. Since then, we have grown to a chapter of over 250 women! No matter if it is at a philanthropy event, cheering on the Vols in Neyland, or in the classroom, the Pi Phi’s at UT are working to enrich the lives of others and contribute to the betterment of society, as Friends and Leaders for Life! Tennessee Gamma is our home away from home, full of women from across the country with different backgrounds and experiences. Our chapter is the place where we come together to learn from each other, and support each other during our time as collegiates and throughout our lives.
Pi Beta Phi is committed to literacy efforts through our international philanthropy, Read>Lead>Achieve. This cause has been important to Pi Beta Phi since 1911 when early Pi Phi’s learned of the literacy challenges in East Tennessee and built a settlement school in a small town that we know today as Gatlinburg. Pi Phi’s efforts in Gatlinburg helped shape it into the city it is today, and Pi Beta Phi Elementary is now a part of the Sevier County school system. Today, we enact literacy efforts through hands-on reading programs with local Knox County elementary schools!