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2016 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 109
BY SENATOR CARTER
SENATE. Recognizes Kappa Alpha Psi New Orleans Alumni Chapter upon the occasion
of its 80th anniversary.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To commend the New Orleans Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi upon the occasion of its
3 eightieth anniversary.
4 WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity was founded on January 5, 1911, at Indiana
5 University and the Kappa Alpha Psi New Orleans Alumni Chapter was chartered on May
6 12, 1936, at Dillard University; and
7 WHEREAS, early in the twentieth century, African-American students were often
8 actively dissuaded from attending college and many campuses established substantial
9 obstacles to prevent the few who did enroll from taking an active part in extracurricular
10 campus life; and
11 WHEREAS, the exclusion experienced at Indiana University led eleven
12 African-American undergraduates to found a fraternal organization that would afford those
13 so often ostracized an opportunity to fully experience campus life beyond the classroom; and
14 WHEREAS, the vision of these young men to establish an organization to provide
15 the entire collegiate experience has developed into a national fraternal organization that
16 remains strong nationwide and continues to focus on its original purpose of achievement in
17 every human endeavor more than a century after its founding; and
18 WHEREAS, KAØ moved from this single chapter in 1911 to a national fraternal
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1 organization available to and enjoyed by college men and alumni throughout the country
2 regardless of their color, religion or national origin; and
3 WHEREAS, ÊÁØ members are proud that the constitution of this organization has
4 never contained any clause that seeks to exclude or that suggests the exclusion of young men
5 on any discriminatory basis; and
6 WHEREAS, in an oak-lined area of New Orleans known as Gentilly, the New
7 Orleans Alumni chapter of ÊÁØ, the first graduate chapter in Louisiana, came into being
8 in 1936 on the campus of Dillard University; and
9 WHEREAS, the charter members of this ÊÁØ alumni chapter included two
10 physicians, two dentists, the principal of Southern University Training School, the dean of
11 Dillard University, a journalist and history professor, a pharmacist, a recent graduate of
12 Dillard and a senior at Dillard; and
13 WHEREAS, with achievement in every human endeavor as their fraternity's goal,
14 the New Orleans Alumni chapter of ÊÁØ celebrates and recognizes achievement annually,
15 honoring brothers, including community leaders, who embody the spirit of achievement; and
16 WHEREAS, the ÊÁØ chapter in New Orleans is included in the fraternity's
17 Southwestern Province, one of twelve nationwide, and it includes Arkansas, Southern
18 Mississippi, New Mexico, and Texas; and
19 WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi has maintained a history of community involvement
20 and service at the local, regional and provincial levels; and
21 WHEREAS, the New Orleans Alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity has
22 spent the last eighty years promoting, encouraging and recognizing the achievements of its
23 brothers in all areas of human endeavor and today moves toward a tomorrow of promise,
24 productivity, and influence.
25 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
26 does hereby commend the New Orleans Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity on
27 the occasion of its eightieth anniversary.
28 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
29 president of the New Orleans Alumni Chapter of KAØ, Brother John A. Brown Sr.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Mary Dozier O'Brien.
DIGEST
SR 109 Original 2016 Regular Session Carter
Commends the New Orleans Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity on the occasion
of its 80th anniversary.
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