Scarab (fraternity)

Scarab was a professional fraternity in the field of architecture. It was founded in 1909 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the first group of its type for architecture.

History

Scarab was founded on February 25, 1909, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Its members were students of architecture, landscape architecture, or architectural engineering.
Annually, each chapter held an exhibition of its best work. Chapters also issued a bronze or silver medal annually for excellence in architectural design in a competition that was open to any student at it institution. The national fraternity sponsored the annual Scarab National Competition.
The fraternity was governed by a supreme council that met during the annual convention. Its publication was The Hieratic. It also published the Scarab Bulletin twice a year.
Archival materials related to Scarab are housed at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Archives, and the University of Illinois Archives.
It is unknown when most chapters ceased operations; The mother chapter, at Illinois, ceased activity circa 1971.

Scarab's chapters were called temples. A list of its temples follows.

Temple	Charter date and range	Institution	Location	Status
Karnak	1909–	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Urbana and Champaign, Illinois	Inactive
Ipsamboul	1914	Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis County, Missouri	Inactive
Edfou	1915	Illinois Institute of Technology	Chicago, Illinois	Inactive
Thebes	1916	Pennsylvania State University	University Park, Pennsylvania	Inactive
Philae	1920	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Inactive
Luxor	1921–	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Inactive
Abydos	1921	University of Kansas	Lawrence, Kansas	Inactive
Ammon	1926	George Washington University	Washington, D.C.	Inactive
Khons	1926	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Inactive
Isis	1927	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, California	Inactive
Hathor	1928	University of Virginia	Charlottesville, Virginia	Inactive
Osiris	1929	University of Cincinnati	Cincinnati, Ohio	Inactive
Horus	1932	Washington State University	Pullman, Washington	Inactive
Khufu	1932	Auburn University	Auburn, Alabama	Inactive
Anubis	1954	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	Pomona, California	Inactive
Amenkotep	1955	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Troy, New York	Inactive