Blue Key Honor Society Explained

Blue Key Honor Society
Birthplace:	University of Florida
Affiliation:	Independent
Status:	Active
Type:	Honor society
Scope:	National
Chapters:	39 active
Address:	101 College Drive, Station 61
City:	Livingston
State:	Alabama
Zip Code:	35470
Country:	United States

Blue Key Honor Society is an American national honor society for college upperclassmen. Blue Key has over 50 chartered collegiate chapters within the United States.

History

Blue Key Honor Society was founded as Blue Key National Honor Fraternity at the University of Florida on November 27, 1924. The UF chapter separated from the national Blue Key organization during the 1930s^[1] and has been known since as Florida Blue Key. The oldest extant chapter of Blue Key is located at Emory and Henry College and was founded in 1925.^{[2] [3]}

In 2003, the organization's name was officially changed to Blue Key Honor Society.

Chapters

See main article: List of Blue Key Honor Society chapters. Blue Key has over 50 chartered collegiate chapters within the United States.^[4]

Notable members

• Ted Howard, deputy general secretary for FIFA's CONCACAF
• Athena McNinch, model who was Miss Universe Guam 2018,
  • Horace Elmo Nichols, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia George Schollenberger, sports coach inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame
• Lowell C. Smith, president of Nichols College
• Hugh Wilson, director, writer and actor

See also

• Florida Blue Key
• Honor society
• Honor cords

Notes and References

1. Web site: History - Florida Blue Key.
2. Web site: What is Blue Key Honor Society? - Blue Key Honor Society.
3. Web site: Honor Societies - Student Life - Emory & Henry.
4. Robson, John, ed. (1963). Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (17th ed.). Menasha, Wisconsin: The Collegiate Press, George Banta Company, Inc. pp. 653-654.