Pennant

Name/Title

Pennant

Entry/Object ID

2003.73.66

Description

Significantly faded green pennant with the word "Vermont" spelled in gold and at the biggest end, a white triangle with the initials AKK around a faded green triangle. AKK stands for Alpha Kappa Kappa, a medical school fraternity founded at Dartmouth College in 1888. There was a chapter formed at the University of Vermont in 1894 called the Delta chapter and the green triangle is the Delta symbol in the Greek alphabet. The fraternity disbanded nationally in the 1960s.

Context

Owned by Charles Willard Phipard of Royalton, Vermont

Acquisition

Accession

2003.73

Source or Donor

Dumville, John P. (b. 1950)

Acquisition Method

Gift

Dimensions

Width

11-1/2 in

Length

29 in

Material

Felt

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Phipard, Charles Willard (1916-2002)

Related Places

Place

Town

Royalton

County

Windsor County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America