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chartering of the Chicago Alumni Chapter on April 6, 1919 marked the
Fraternity's first designated Alumni Chapter and it was named for the
city in which it was located. Being a great metropolitan area
abounding with opportunities, Chicago attracted alumni members in great
numbers.
Byron K. Armstrong one of the
ten founders and Earl Burris Dickerson, Founder of the Beta Chapter,
were the prime movers of the Chicago Alumni Chapter's
establishment. C. Leon Wilson, Hale C. Parker, William J. Prince,
George C. Ellis and Troy Smith worked closely with Armstrong and
Dickerson. Ezra
D. Alexander, W.W. Gibbs and Frank Summers, of Alpha Chapter fame, were
among the membership. William J. Prince from Beta Chapter was the
first Polemarch of the Chicago Alumni Chapter. His administration
marked the transition away from inexperience and sheer idealism to
organizational maturity.
Chicago, a rattling, restless,
fast moving sophisticated city was characteristic of the changing
times. It was already a Mecca for ambitious, aggressive graduates
of colleges and universities throughout the country, graduates dedicated
to the Fraternity Purpose of Achievement. The Chapter's activities
were influenced accordingly, and the administrative and operating arms
of the national Fraternity were the better for it. Among the
city's alumni were Founders Edward G. Irvin, Ezra D. Alexander, Byron K.
Armstrong and Irven Armstrong.
Chicago Alumni
Chapter
Host of six Grand
Chapter Meetings: 8th, 23rd, 32nd, 43rd , 62nd and the "Fine
79"
Original Quarter Century Committee Members:(25
yrs. of membership in Kappa Alpha Psi)
Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Troy Smith, Earl Burris Dickerson, J. Ernest
Wilkins, C. Leon Wilson, Frederick Wayman "Duke" Slater , Cecil Partee,
Henry W. McGee and Dr. E. Albert Dumas.
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Founders:
Byron K. Armstrong
Edward G. Irvin
Ezra D. Alexander
Elder Watson Diggs
Laureate:
Dr. E. Albert Dumas
Kappa Foundation President:
Melvin C. Hopson
Past Province
Polemarchs:
Dr.
Eldridge T. Freeman Jr.
Dr. Daniel Dixon
Michael Hughes
Grand
Strategus:
Michael Hubbard |
Laurel Wreath Wearers:
Charles Rodger Wilson
Earl Burris Dickerson
C. Leon Wilson
Byron K. Armstrong
Edward G. Irvin
J. Ernest Wilkens
Robert Sengstacke Abbott
Past
Grand Polemarchs:
Earl Burris Dickerson
W. Ellis Steward
Theophilus M. Mann
J. Ernest Wilkins
Charles Rodger Wilson
Frank Summers
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