Pi Gamma Mu records

Pi Gamma Mu is the International Honor Society in Social Science. It was founded in 1924 by Dean Leroy Allen from Southwestern College of Kansas, and Dean William A. Hamilton of the College of William and Mary. There were seventeen founding chapters. Many notable people have been members of Pi Gamma Mu, including Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter Mondale, and Margaret Chase Smith. The functions of this Society are to give recognition to good scholarship, and to provide enriching activities, service projects, publications, a scholarship program, and guest lectureship grants to chapters.

There are two publications produced by this honor society: the International Social Science Review and the Pi Gamma Mu Newsletter. The International Social Science Review is published quarterly for members, libraries, and scholars. The Pi Gamma Mu Newsletter is published six times a year and sent to all new members. Pi Gamma Mu members are involved in five core areas of study: history, political science, economics, sociology and anthropology, and international relations. Charters are granted only to schools that will offer students a high-quality education in the social sciences. The Pi Gamma Mu motto is "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."

The Indiana Gamma Chapter was chartered February 20, 1931 at Ball State Teachers College. The Charter Members were: Margaret Jane Bradburn, William Howard Cates, John Clifton Crouse, Grace DeHority, Truman S. Fisher, Ora Evans Harness, Lawrence Hurst, Vera Evelyn Kegerreis, Mary Florence Kitchin, Robert R. LaFollette, Edith Anna Lewis, Ira Robert McClurg, Georgia Rose Miller, Mary Elizabeth Noble, Floy Ruth Painter, Lynn Irwin Perrigo, Lemuel A. Pittenger, Raymond W. Pittenger, William C. Ross, Mark E. Studebaker, and Jessie Trube Worden.