Presidents List

[33girl]

Originally posted by SAEactive:
Okay here's some corrections and additions:

James K. Polk - Mason AND Kappa Alpha (the original KA which is now extinct)

You mean there was ANOTHER KA besides KA Order and KA Society? This is confusing!!

I had to remind myself that the Adlai Stevenson who ran for President in the 50's was Adlai Jr.



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[Seminole Pike]

Reference Kappa Alpha. Yes, Kappa Alpha Society was founded in 1825 at Union College in New York, one of three national fraternities founded there. Kappa Alpha Order, inspired by the character and life of Robert E. Lee, was founded in 1865 (I think). I was not aware that Kappa Alpha Society had no chapters and no longer existed. It may still have a few chapters.

[PsiU1833]

Um....there should be 2 psi u presidents on that list. And for Clinton the Secertary of defense was a Psi U

[SAEalumnus]

Originally posted by Seminole Pike:
Reference Kappa Alpha. Yes, Kappa Alpha Society was founded in 1825 at Union College in New York, one of three national fraternities founded there. Kappa Alpha Order, inspired by the character and life of Robert E. Lee, was founded in 1865 (I think). I was not aware that Kappa Alpha Society had no chapters and no longer existed. It may still have a few chapters.

That's actually not the one to which I was referring. From Baird's Manual (1963ed., page 722), "KAPPA ALPHA - the first Kappa Alpha - was founded in 1812 at the University of North Carolina by four members of Phi Beta Kappa whose identity has been lost. Its constitution, ritual, and secrets were so similar to those of the original Phi Beta Kappa as to indicate strongly that it was a descendant of one of the community branches chartered by Phi Beta Kappa before its dissolution at William and Mary in 1781."

After Kappa Alpha's secrets were exposed in 1855, several KA chapters (called circles) reorganized in 1858 at the University of South Carolina under the new name of Phi Mu Omicron. No chapter of either organization survived the Civil War and "an attempt to revive the circle at Emory and Henry in 1879 resulted in several of the Kappa Alpha and Phi Mu Omicron alumni joining Kappa Sigma, which was revived there. (page 728)"

"Kappa Alpha Order is the outgrowth of a fraternity organized as Phi Kappa Chi at Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, in December, 1865." (page 263)

"Kappa Alpha Society is the oldest secret brotherhood of a social and literary character which has had a continuous existance in American colleges, and is the forerunner of the present vast system of American college fraternities... These nine founders held their first formal meeting on November 26, 1825, at which the organization was perfected, the name of the novel society decided upon, and a constitution adopted. (page 267)"

There were actually three different groups called Kappa Alpha. Kappa Alpha Order and Kappa Alpha Society still exist today. Kappa Alpha, also known as Kuklos Adelphon, no longer exists.

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[Corbin Dallas]

Originally posted by Seminole Pike:
Dan Quayle was DKE and on the varsity golf team. Don't remember the school; it wasn't Butler or Wabash, but like one of those.

Was it Hanover? I think that's where he's from anyway.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.