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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORING THE 114th YEAR FOUNDERS DAY OF KAPPA ALPHA PSI FRATERNITY, INC
WHEREAS, On January 5, 1911, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., originally known as Kappa Alpha Nu, was founded with the vision to connect men of culture, patriotism, honor, and leadership through a bond of fraternity; and,
WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is the second oldest historically Black Greek letter fraternity and the first intercollegiate fraternity incorporated as a national body; and,
WHEREAS, the fraternity is the first Greek letter organization to establish its first chapter on Indiana University's campus; and,
WHEREAS, the fraternity has grown to a population of over 250,000 members with 700 undergraduate and alumni chapters nationwide and thirteen international chapters in Nigeria, South Africa, Bermuda, Bahamas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Panama, United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, Dominican Republic, Abu Dhabi, Canada, and Japan; and,
WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. invokes outreach that affects local communities and places by feeding the homeless, providing scholarships to college students, mentoring boys and young men, participating in blood drives, and serving as hosts of seminars for public health awareness; and,
WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi's members have proudly served in the military since WWI while raising funds to assist those in need following natural disasters worldwide, including hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, and earthquakes; and,
WHEREAS, of its ever-growing membership, some of the few notable members include Dr. Elbert Frank Cox, first African American to earn a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, Dr. John Silvanus Wilson, eleventh president of Morehouse College and former executive director of the White House's Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tavis Smiley, talk show host and political commentator, Jim Vance, author and news anchor for the NBC affiliate WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., Roger Wilkins, ...
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