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[[Image – fraternity crest inside a circle; the following words surround crest: KAPPA ALPHA PSI FRATERNITY, INC. Founded 1911]]
FACTS
OFFICERS ELECTED AT THE 59th GRAND CHAPTER MEETING

*Grand Polemarch □ Dr. Elbert E. Allen, Shreveport, Louisiana
*Senior Grand Vice Polemarch □  Randall Bacon, Culver City, California
*Junior Grand Vice Polemarch □ St. Elmo W. Crawford, Jr., Howard University School of Dentistry
*Grand Keeper of Records and Exchequer □ Atty. H. H. Holloway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Grand Historian □ Dr. William L. Crump, Washington, D.C.
Grand Strategus □ Cass F. L. Teague, Jr., Tennessee State University
Grand Lieutenant Strategus □ DeWayne Armstrong, Tennessee State University

*Member Grand Board of Directors

For additional information contact:
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
2320 N. Broad St., Phila., PA 19132
Executive Secretary □ Earl A. Morris
Assistant Executive Secretaries □
A. F. Moultrie □ Earl S. Clanton III/Development

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BRIEF HISTORY OF KAPPA ALPHA PSI
Early in this century, black students were actively dissuaded from attending college. Formidable obstacles were erected prevent the few who enrolled from assimilating into co-curricular campus life. This social ostracism characterized Indiana University on January 5, 1911 and caused Byron K. Armstrong and Elder W. Diggs, joined by 8 black students, to form Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity which remains the only Greek letter organization with its Alpha 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 its purpose, Kappa Alpha Psi began uniting college men of culture, patriotism and honor in a bond of fraternity. Chapters spread in succession to the University of Illinois, the University of Iowa and Wilberforce University campuses. By 1919, Kappa Alpha Psi activity had generated serious interest among black college degree holders to form Alumni Chapters. As graduated chapters multiplied, the Fraternity began Guide Right, a national social out-reach program, three years after the first Alumni Chapter was formed. In 1924, the Fraternity established the Laurel Wreath Award to honor members for extra meritorious achievements, and added the Elder Watson Diggs Award to its honors 33 years later.

FOUNDERS
Elder Watson Diggs*
John Milton Lee*
Dr. Byron K. Armstrong
Dr. Guy L. Grant*
Henry T. Asher*
Dr. Marcus P. Blakemore*
Edward G. Irvin
Dr. Ezra D. Alexander*
Paul Caine*
George W. Edmonds*

*Deceased
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THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS EARNED THE LAUREL WREATH AWARD
Elder Watson Diggs, Founder
Robert Sengstake Abbott, Journalism
Atty. T. Giles Nutter, Politics
Archie A. Alexander, Civil Engineering
Atty. J. Ernest Wilkins, Academic
Dr. Byron K. Armstrong, Founder
Judge Armond W. Scott, Judiciary
Lionel F. Artis, Journalism
Dr. Clarence Leon Wilson, Medicine
W. Ellis Stewart, Business
C. C. Spaulding, Insurance
Dr. R. J. Jones, Medicine and Insurance
Atty. Leon A. Ransom, Profession
Atty. Earl B. Dickerson, Insurance
Atty. George E. C. Hayes, Profession
Percy H. Lee, Fraternity
Dr. Jesse M. Tinsley, Civil Rights
Atty. Donald L. Hollowell, Civil Rights
C. Roger Wilson, Fraternity
Dr. Ellison B. Henderson, Medicine
Dr. W. Henry Green, Fraternity
Atty. Thomas Bradley, Politics
James J. Henderson, Finance

Under the theme, Training for Leadership, Kappa Alpha Psi promotes a style of intellectual and aesthetic evaluation for more than 50,000 college men. Rooted in a genuine concern for human development, the Kappa Gestalt exhorts its members to stretch themselves in all directions while holding fast to a sustaining principle of achievement.

A mini-list of the Fraternity's achievers includes L. A. Mayor Tom Bradley; General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. USAF; O.I.C. founder, Rev. Leon H. Sullivan; U.S. Congressmen John Conyers, Michigan and Louis Stokes, Ohio; Lt. Gov. Mervyn M. Dymally of California; Lt. Gov. George L. Brown of Colorado; U.S. Judge Wade H. McCree; Pro Football Players, Gayle Sayers and Willie Davis; Detroit Judge George W. Crockett Jr.; Tennis Pro Arthur Ashe; TV's Sanford and Son regular "Grady (Whitman Mayo) Wilson"; college presidents, Dr. Vivian Henderson, Clark; Dr. Benjamin L. Perry, Jr., Florida A & M; and Dr. Harold M. McNeill, West Virginia State; NBC newsman and former Mayor of Cleveland, Carl B. Stokes; and Universal Life Insurance President A. Maceo Walker.

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More than 1,500 members are initiated annually.
Collegiate chapters are located on more than 200 campuses
Alumni chapters are functioning in some 200 cities in the United States and two foreign countries.
The Fraternity maintains:
• Active Chapter Housing
• Scholarships and grants
• Job Placement service
• Chapter Administration Seminars
• Social Action conduits

National Guide Right programs aimed at reaching pre-college youngsters on the local levels are:
• Kappa League (leadership training)
• Little League Sports
• Pop Warner football
• Soap Box Derby
• Prep school tutorial program

PROVINCE POLEMARCHS
North Eastern □ Irving L. Biddell, Jr. Philadelphia, PA
Eastern □ Dr. James B. Abram, Jr. Hampton, VA
Middle Eastern □ David L. Thompkins Winston-Salem, NC
South Eastern □ J. A. Johnson Columbia, SC
Southern □ Dr. Ullysses McBride Atmore, AL
Northern □ Robert L. Gordon Ann Arbor, MI
North Central □ Dr. Floyd V. Campbell Glendale, WI
East Central □ George N. Charlton Pittsburgh, PA
South Central □ William J. Gupton Nashville, TN
Middle Western □ Art S. Williams Tulsa, OK
South Western □ Henry W.Flowers Jackson, MS
Western □ Atty. Robert L. Harris Richmond, CA

GRAND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Oliver Gumbs
Mobile, AL
William M. Blakeney
Charlotte, NC
C.B. Davis
Houston, TX
William Tell Robinson
Tennessee State University
Ronald Sweeney
UCLA
Arthur L. Carter, Sr.
Indianapolis, IN