Scarab (fraternity)
# 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 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.

## Chapter list

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

| Temple | Chartered/Range | Institution | Location |
| - | - | - | - |
| Karnak | 1909–c. 1971 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Urbana and Champaign, Illinois |
| Ipsamboul | 1914 | Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis County, Missouri |
| Edfou | 1915 | Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago, Illinois |
| Thebes | 1916 | Pennsylvania State University | University Park, Pennsylvania |
| Philae | 1920 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Luxor | 1921–c. 1927 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Abydos | 1921 | University of Kansas | Lawrence, Kansas |
| Ammon | 1926 | George Washington University | Washington, D.C. |
| Khons | 1926 | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Isis | 1927 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California |
| Hathor | 1928 | University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Osiris | 1929 | University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Horus | 1932 | Washington State University | Pullman, Washington |
| Khufu | 1932 | Auburn University | Auburn, Alabama |
| Anubis | 1954 | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | Pomona, California |
| | 1955 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York |
