2010 KAPPA LEAGUE APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED!!!
Are you a Sophomore, Junior, or Senior Male interested in variety of seminars, lectures, field trips, community service and workshops which are all geared toward improving such characteristics as your cultural awareness/diversity, academic achievement, and personal development?
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The Fraternity
Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on the campus of Indiana University on January 5, 1911. The Fraternity's fundamental purpose is achievement.
Early in this century, African-American students were actively dissuaded from attending college. Formidable obstacles were erected to prevent the few who were enrolled from assimilating into co-curricular campus life. This ostracism characterized Indiana University in 1911, thus causing Elder W. Diggs, Byron K. Armstrong, and eight other black students to form Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, which remains the only Greek letter organization with its 1st Chapter on the University's campus.
The founders sought a formula that would immediately raise the sights of black collegians and stimulate them to accomplishments higher than they might have imagined.
Fashioning achievement as it's purpose, Kappa Alpha Psi began uniting college men of culture, patriotism and honor in a bond of fraternity.
THE WASHINGTON (DC) ALUMNI CHAPTER
“It makes sense to pause after 75 years to review your past and even proclaim yourself the Flagship of the Fraternity…We salute you and pray that your barns will continue to be filled with plenty and your presses burst with new wine…”
Grand Historian Crump
Washington (DC) Alumni, the second chapter in the Nation’s Capitol, was the second alumni chapter and the third chapter established within the Eastern Province.
Imitating the model developed by the Chicago (IL) Alumni Chapter, the charter members sought out men of status and influence in the local community. Its early initiates included George E.C. Hayes, the legendary civil rights lawyer, Armond W. Scott, the third African American DC Municipal Court Judge, and Louis Rothschild Mehlinger, a civil rights pioneer who helped establish the Terrell Law School and the Washington Bar Association.
Its membership roster has included brothers whose contributions to society helped reshape the landscape of a nation, including Julian Dugas, George E.C. Hayes, and John Scott, who were all involved with the legendary Brown v Board of Education et al case.
The chapter has hosted Grand Chapter meetings in 1926, 1936, 1954, and 1985, and will host the 2009 meeting. It has hosted Eastern Province gatherings in 1934, 1946, 1950, 1951, 1957, 1959, 1967, 1974, and 1999.
It has been home to four Grand Polemarchs, the 8th Grand Keeper of Records & Exchequer, a Grand Historian, the 3rd Kappa Journal Editor, the 5th Executive Secretary, and numerous national committee chairmen & members. eight laurel Wreath (the highest award received within the fraternity) Wearers and ten Elder Watson Diggs (the second highest award of the fraternity) Awardees.
Within the Eastern Province, seven of the 22 Polemarchs and two of the Pillar of the Province awardees have been affiliated with the Washington DC Alumni Chapter. Known throughout the Fraternity as the Flagship of the Fleet, it is a chapter with a rich tradition of achievement and community service.
The Washington D.C. Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated was chartered on October 15, 1924.
