

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. Philadelphia Alumni Chapter at Founders Day Banquet 2016. Read more about the Founders of Kappa Alpha Psi here.

One day, as one of the Fraternity members, Frank Summers, was running the hurdles. Alpha Kappa Psi Celebrates 111th Founders’ Day Posted On OctoBy akpsi In Articles / 1 INDIANAPOLIS (October 5, 2015) 111 years ago today, Alpha Kappa Psi was brought about from the minds of a few highly ambitious men from New York University. Our annual celebration of our Illustrious Founders and the Founding of our fraternity. 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. COLOR PALLETTE When printing the logo in a color other than black, we suggest that you use the colors presented on this page.These are designated Pantone® colors. Photo of Four of the Ten Founders of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. In 1850, as a typhoid fever epidemic struck Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and many left to escape the spread, Letterman and Moore decided to stay and care. It is the beautiful realization of a vision shared commonly by the late Revered Founders Elder Watson Diggs John Milton Lee Byron Kenneth Armstrong Guy Levis Grant Ezra Dee Alexander Henry Tourner Asher Marcus Peter Blakemore Paul Waymond Caine Edward Giles Irvin and George Wesley Edmonds. Founders Day is a time for Phi Psis around the world to join together to honor Founders William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore. 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.
