BRIEF HISTORY of KAPPA ALPHA PSI, FRATERNITY INC.

 

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Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated was founded on Jan. 5th 1911 on the campus of Indiana university, Bloomington Indiana. Being incorporated by the state of Indiana April 15, 1911, it was first known as Kappa Alpha Nu. In 1915 it was later changed to Kappa Alpha Psi. The efforts of three men; Elder Watson Diggs, Byron Kenneth Armstrong, and John Milton Lee were outstanding in the early development of the fraternity.

 

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KAPPA CHAPTER HISTORY

 

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Kappa Chapter was established at Meharry Medical College Feburary 19, 1919, due primarily to the efforts of R. A. Braxton of Delta Chapter. Five of the initiates were members of the medical and dental faculties ad sixteen were students. R. E. Clark and L. R. Breedlove led the senior medics in scholarship. R. L. Jackson, the Chapter's first Polemarch, was cited for excellence in the Department of Pathology. H.D. Goode, O. W. Phillips an C. M. Alston shone brightly in the Department of Dentistry. Among the Chapter's faculty members in 1919 were Doctor J. H. Hale, surgeon; J. A. McMillan, surgeon; J. R. Martin, dental surgeon; and L. A. Fisher of the Venereal Disease Clinic.