Blue Key Honor Society

This article is about the national honor society. For the similarly named local Florida honor society, which withdrew from the national Blue Key Society in the 1930s, see Florida Blue Key.

Blue Key Honor Society is an American national honor society for college upperclassmen. Blue Key has over 50 chartered collegiate chapters within the United States.

Blue Key Honor Society
Founded	November 27, 1924 (1924-11-27) University of Florida
Type	Honor society
Affiliation	Independent
Status	Active
Scope	National
Chapters	39 active
Headquarters	101 College Drive, Station 61 Livingston, Alabama 35470 United States
Website	www.bluekey.org

History

Blue Key Honor Society was founded as Blue Key National Honor Fraternity at the University of Florida on November 27, 1924. The UF chapter separated from the national Blue Key organization during the 1930s and has been known since as Florida Blue Key. The oldest extant chapter of Blue Key is located at Emory and Henry College and was founded in 1925.

In 2003, the organization's name was officially changed to Blue Key Honor Society.

Chapters

Main article: List of Blue Key Honor Society chapters

Blue Key has over 50 chartered collegiate chapters within the United States.

Notable members

• Ted Howard, deputy general secretary for FIFA's CONCACAF
• Athena McNinch, model who was Miss Universe Guam 2018,
• Horace Elmo Nichols, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
• George Schollenberger, sports coach inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame
• Lowell C. Smith, president of Nichols College
• Hugh Wilson, director, writer and actor

See also

• Florida Blue Key
• Honor society
• Honor cords