Keyholder Frances Simpson organized other keyholders on campus in 1900 to petition the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa for the right to found a chapter at the University of Illinois. After a seven-year proposal process, the chapter was approved, and initiated its first class of students in 1907.
This page lists members inducted into the Gamma of Illinois chapter of Phi Beta Kappa more than 100 years ago.
Members Inducted in 1907
A R. Crathorne
Members Inducted in 1908
Burt T. Anderson
Helen M. Atkinson
M C. Bates
C Howard Bent
Lucy Chapin
Irving P. De Mott
D R. Enochs
Ivor Harris
Thomas L. Harris
Clarence W. Hughes
Herman G. James
R L. Kegg
Ruth Kelso
W W. Kerch
Rudolph E. Schreiber
Elmer E. Stults
Effie M. Tull
Anna W. Williams
Members Inducted in 1909
Maude L. Alverson
Mary Anderson
Lydia M. Brauer
James M. Cleary
Grace M. Clow
F L. Drew
Hugh J. Graham
Elizabeth L. Hawthorne
N W. Hepburn
Theophil H. Hildebrandt
Albert Kastner
James Piatt Kratz
J W. Maucker
C R. Maxwell
S C. Miner
Lorinda Perry
Robert K. Porter
Frank K. Shrader
Harry G. Squires
Members Inducted in 1910
Alida C. Bowler
Wilbur L. Buchanan
C D. Cain
Simon A. Carlsten
Franklin G. Carnahan
J C M Christianson
Cicily S. Goff
Lola D. McClurg
Ellis McFarland
Ferris Seaman Randall
Elmer R. Stahl
D Alice Taylor
Ralph E. Tieje
Elkan Turk
A E. Zucker
Members Inducted in 1911
Frederick H. Baird
Fred G. Fox
Eva Mcintyre Gauger
Chester I. Hall
Arthur C. Hobble
George B. Lear
E B. Motley
Erna R. Owens
Bart Rice
J F. Wiley
Members Inducted in 1912
Douglas O. Anderson
J B. Beck
Paul E. Belting
P H. Crane
Louis H. Gourley
William F. Gresham
A C. Hanford
C A. Ludwig
W H. Stallings
Members Inducted in 1913
Norman F. Brunkow
George Cook
Gladys Eade
Mildred Felmley
R E. Kennedy
Jessie F. Miller
Harry R. Mirick
Lena J. Myers
Arthur H. Ogle
C C. Probert
A B. Sawyer Jr
Members Inducted in 1914
Otho W. Allen
Nuel D. Belnap
Gordon Burke
H C M Case
Ralph Chapman
Edward A. Doisy
Charles F. Hill
Helen C. Leighton
G Mcneill
Myrtle L. Stahl
Carl G. Stearns
Avis C. Stevens
Mildred Van Cleve
Madge M. Young
Members Inducted in 1915
Harriet J. Berninger
H E. Codlin
Orena Farmer
Elizabeth Fuller
R J. Grimsley
Gertrude Halushka
C E. Holley
George S. Howard
Lillian Dole Kennedy
Haddon S. Kirk
Edith Swank McConnel
George B. Mcmillen
Forest H. Murray
Wilbur O. Pendarris
W C. Ropiequet
Vera O. Ross
Harry Gardner Wood
Members Inducted in 1916
Beulah Agnew
Ira D. Allison
Robert E. Brown
Dwight F. Heath
Olive D. Hormel
Freda S. Kehm
Hilda Croll Koser
Macedward Leach
Leo Gay McAfee
E F. Miller
Kenneth D. Ross
Ruth L. Schachtlie
John J. Schoonhoven
James W. Shoemaker
Members Inducted in 1917
E Lynn Covey
J A. Davenport Jr
William H. Fairbanks
Elizabeth P. Hackley
A Tracy Lewis
Scott Mcnulta
Robert R. Russel
Ethel G. Stephens
William Troutman
Francis W. Turner
Bertha H. Wiles
Otto T. Williams
Members Inducted in 1918
Hubert B. Bramlet
James B. Childs
Grace J. Christy
Grace V. Curl
Mckinley Gardner
Carl A. Gustafson
C R. Hamilton
Flora E. Hottes
Helen I. James
A B. Kelly
Hermon Lebeson
Helen Anatasis McGinnis
Howard B. Mclane
Ethel Stiff
Members Inducted in 1919
Cecile Bell
L K. Davis
Esther C. Fedderson
Lester Krahe
Jane M. Leichsenring
George W. Mattson
Mary Brady Poirot
John H. Powell Jr
Warner G. Rice
W R. Ryan
Robert Stafford
Myron T. Townsend
Members Inducted in 1920
Lois E. Barnes
Harriett A. Fjeld
F T. Gardner
Walther F. Goebel
Charles F. Green
Florence D. Jones
Clarence R. Labier
J N. Rarick
Hans C. Thory
Lola C. Tilly
Members Inducted in 1921
Beulah M. Armstrong
John W. Arnold
Karl C. Baumgardner
Walter P. Blount
Dorothy F. Briggs
Helen I. Buckler
George H. Coleman
Elbridge K. Farrand
Richard Fisher
Sidney E. Glenn
David P. Godwin
Ben S. Harrison
Marion J. Hay
Arthur M. Houser
Lester Plym
Doyle P. Stow
Albert W. Thompson
H C. Yeager