Kappa Alpha Psi Founders: Elder Watson Diggs, Byron Kenneth Armstrong, John Milton Lee, Henry Tourner Asher, Edward Giles Irvin, Paul Waymond Caine, George Wesley Edmonds, Marcus Peter Blakemore, Ezra Dee Alexander, and Guy Levis Grant
Objectives of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated:
To unite college men of culture, patriotism, and honor in a bond of fraternity
To encourage honorable achievement in every field of human endeavor
To promote the spiritual, social, intellectual, and moral welfare of its members
To assist the aims and purposes of colleges and universities
To inspire service in the public interest
Kappa Alpha Psi, a college Fraternity, now comprised of functioning Undergraduate and Alumni Chapters on major campuses and in cities throughout the country, is the crystallization of a dream.It is the beautiful realization of a vision shared commonly by the late Revered Founders Elder Watson Diggs, "The Dreamer"; John Milton Lee; Byron K. Armstrong; Guy Levis Grant; Ezra D. Alexander; Henry T. Asher; Marcus P. Blakemore; Paul W. Caine; Edwin G. Ervin and George W. Edmonds.
It was the vision of these astute men that enabled them in the school year 1910 - 11, more specifically the night of January 5, 1911, on the campus of Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, to sow the seed of a fraternal tree whose fruit is available to, and now enjoyed by, college men everywhere, regardless of their color, religion or national origin. It is a fact of which Kappa Alpha Psi is justly proud that the Constitution has never contained any clause which either excluded or suggested the exclusion of a man from membership merely because of his color, creed, or national origin. The Constitution of Kappa Alpha Psi is predicated upon, and dedicated to, the principles of achievement through a truly democratic Fraternity. Read More
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Barton A. Fields and Bob Hanna arrived on the main campus of the Pennsylvania State College in September 1950. They had met the previous year and become good friends while attending the Harrisburg branch campus of Penn State as freshmen and had agreed to become roommates when they got to University Park.
When they arrived on campus, they moved into the dormitories. In those days the College extended an unusual courtesy: there was a short transition period during which you could get out of the dormitories if during that time you were able to make other living arrangements. Fields and Hanna decided that they couldn’t afford the dorms and promptly started looking elsewhere for lodgings. They ended up getting a room at the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity house on Atherton Street along with sophomores Roger Sneed and Allen Haile. When asked why they chose to live at the Que House, brother Fields explained that with only fifty or so African Americans on campus and with racial prejudice as rampant as it was, there really weren’t a whole lot of choices. Read More
Delta Theta Chapter Charter Members: Barton A. Fields, W. Roger Sneed, Walter W. Hutchins, Allen C. Haile, James Brewer, Robert J. Hanna Jr., Louis A. Ivey, McKinley Wardlaw, Jr., and Herbert R. Winston
