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Kappa Alpha Order (ΚΑ), commonly known as Kappa Alpha, KA, or simply The Order, is a social fraternity and a fraternal order founded in 1865 at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. As of December 2015, the Kappa Alpha Order lists 133 active chapters, five provisional chapters, and 52 suspended chapters. [ 2 ]
Kappa Alpha Order is a social fraternity and a fraternal order founded in 1865 at Washington and Lee University. [1] Chapter names were often reused in the early decades of the fraternity, and the final successor group normally goes by the shortened name, for example Mu chapter at Tulsa is the fourth to carry that name. [1]
Alpha Kappa Omega: 1928 Houston: Texas Active [73] Alpha Lambda Omega: 1929 Charlotte: North Carolina Active [74] Alpha Mu Omega: February 16, 1929: Indianapolis: Indiana
Michael Beck (Alpha Mu) – actor; Pat Boone (Gamma Lambda) – actor and recording artist; Marty Brennaman (Zeta) – announcer for the Cincinnati Reds; Zac Brown (Zeta Kappa) – lead vocalist with the multiple Grammy-winning country group the Zac Brown Band; Michael Brun (Sigma) – DJ and producer; Thomas Dixon, Jr. (Tau) – author, playwright
Alpha Omega: Mayor of Cleveland, first black mayor of a major US city [5] Louis Stokes: Alpha Omega: First African-American Congressman from Ohio; civil rights lawyer; 51st Laurel Wreath Laureate [39] John F. Street: Philadelphia (PA) Alumni: Mayor of Philadelphia [34] Danny Tabor: Mayor of Inglewood, California [44] Bennie Thompson: Gamma Rho
Kappa Alpha Pi (ΚΑΠ) founded was in 1904 in Chicago, Illinois. Omega Eta Tau (ΩΗΤ), formed as Torch and Dagger in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1859, was the first known high school fraternity. The fraternity existed with lapses from 1861 to 1866 and again from 1880 to 1893. In 1900, it was renamed Omega Eta Tau and began expanding nationally.
The founding members of the NPHC were Alpha Kappa Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Delta Sigma Theta, and Zeta Phi Beta. The council's membership expanded as Alpha Phi Alpha (1931), Phi Beta Sigma (1931), Sigma Gamma Rho (1937), and Iota Phi Theta (1996) later joined. [ 5 ]
Alpha Chi Omega, better known as "AXO," founded the Zeta Lambda chapter at UVA in 1980. [2] Alpha Delta Pi (ΑΔΠ) April 16, 1977: ISC Alpha Delta Pi, or "ADPi," established its UVA chapter, Zeta Xi, in 1977. [2] Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) Not residential February 9, 1974: NPHC Alpha Kappa Alpha is the oldest historically Black sorority.