0503S.03C
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SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 110
AN ACT
To amend chapter 9, RSMo, by adding thereto one new
section relating to Kappa Alpha Psi Day in Missouri.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 9, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto
one new section, to be known as section 9.409, to read as
follows:
9.409. 1. January fifth of each year shall be known
and designated as "Kappa Alpha Psi Day" in Missouri. The
citizens of this state are encouraged to observe the day
with appropriate activities and events to commemorate the
founding of the fraternity.
2. Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on January 5, 1911, at
Indiana University, in Bloomington Indiana by Elder Watson
Diggs, Byron Kenneth Armstrong, Guy Levis Grant, Marcus
Peter Blakemore, Ezra Dee Alexander, John Milton Lee, Henry
Tourner Asher, Edward Giles Ir vin, George Wesley Edmonds,
and Paul Waymond Caine.
3. Founding member Henry Tourner Asher was an educator
and instructor at Lincoln Institute, now known as Lincoln
University of Missouri, in Jefferson City.
4. Kappa Alpha Psi is the second oldest existing
collegiate historically Black Greek -letter fraternity and
the first intercollegiate fraternity incorporated as a
national body. The fraternity has over two hundred fifty
thousand members with seven hundred undergraduate and alumni
chapters in nearly every state of the United States, and
thirteen international chapters in Nigeria, South Africa,
Bermuda, Bahamas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Panama, United
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Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, Dominican Republic, Abu
Dhabi, Canada, and Japan.
5. Through its worldwide prominence, Kappa Alpha Psi
has had a global impact on events that affect our local
communities and places around the globe. Local chapters of
Kappa Alpha Psi participate in community outreach activities
to feed the homeless, provide scholarships to young people
matriculating to college, serve as mentors to young men,
participate in blood drives, and serve as hosts of seminars
for public health awareness, to name a few. Nationally,
Kappa Alpha Psi has provided summer enri chment camps and
funds for St. Jude Medical Research Center to assist in the
fight against childhood catastrophic diseases by raising
more than one million dollars. Internationally, Kappa Alpha
Psi members have answered the call to service by proudly
serving our military in wars since WWI and raising funds to
assist those in need following natural disasters worldwide,
including hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, and earthquakes.
6. Kappa Alpha Psi proudly boasts members who
epitomize the essenc e of "Achievement in Every Field of
Human Endeavor". Some of these members include Ralph
Abernathy, Wilt Chamberlain, Montell Jordan, Benjamin
Jealous, Oscar Robertson, Cedric the Entertainer, Arthur
Ashe, Mike Tomlin, Gayle Sayers, Adrian Fenty, Robe rt S.
Abbott, Bennie Thompson, Donald Byrd, Johnnie Cochran, Ed
Gardner, Smokie Norful, John Singleton, Tom Bradley, Bob
Johnson, John Conyers, Alcee Hastings, Lerone Bennett, Jr.,
Kwame Jackson, Bill Russell, Tavis Smiley, and Marvin Sapp.