Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Incorporated was founded in 1879. With more than ninety one thousand members, it is the oldest and largest professional pharmacy fraternity in the world.  The Beta Gamma Chapter was founded in 1910 at the University of California, San Francisco.

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The objectives of Kappa Psi include:

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• 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.