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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 659 

Congratulating Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., on 98 years of serving 

local communities and enriching the lives of collegiate men throughout 

the Nation. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 17, 2009 

Mr. HASTINGS of Florida (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, 

Mr. CLAY, and Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 

RESOLUTION 

Congratulating Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., on 98 

years of serving local communities and enriching the 

lives of collegiate men throughout the Nation. 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., was founded on 

January 5, 1911, on the campus of Indiana University 

in Bloomington, Indiana, by Elder Watson Diggs, John 

Milton Lee, Byron K. Armstrong, Guy Levis Grant, Ezra 

D. Alexander, Henry T. Asher, Marcus P. Blakemore, 

Paul W. Caine, Edward G. Irvin, and George W. Edmonds; 

Whereas the founders of Kappa Alpha Psi were God-fearing, 

clean living, serious minded young men who possessed 

the imagination, ambition, courage, and determination to 

defy custom in pursuit of college educations and careers 


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during an oppressive time in American history for African-Americans; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi stressed high Christian ideals and 

the importance of achievement in seeking to set the 

sights of African-American youth on accomplishments 

greater than those they otherwise would have imagined or 

realized; 

Whereas, since its founding, Kappa Alpha Psi has matured 

to an organization of over 150,000 college-trained men; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi’s undergraduate chapters are located on more than 360 college and university campuses 

and its alumni chapters are located in 347 cities in the 

United States and 5 foreign countries; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi hosts a biennial Undergraduate 

Leadership Institute, a training and skills enhancement 

program for the Fraternity’s top student leaders; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi has a partnership with Habitat for 

Humanity and builds a home for a local family in conjunction with each of its biennial conventions; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi has a partnership with Memphisbased St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and has 

designated the hospital as the primary benefactor of its 

national fundraising efforts; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi sponsors Kappas on Capitol Hill, 

a four-day conference for its members in the Nation’s 

capitol designed to increase its members’ awareness of 

the political process through workshops, seminars, and 

lectures; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi has emphasized financial literacy 

in its community-based outreach, implementing two 

major programs, Credit Abuse Resistance Education 


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(CARE) and Greeks Learning to Avoid Debt (GLAD) in 

partnership with the National Association of Bankruptcy 

Trustees, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, 

and the National Pan-Hellenic Council; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi, through its Kappa League and 

National Guide Right programs, has provided thousands 

of at-risk youth in communities throughout the Nation 

with role models and mentors that encourage them to 

make positive contributions to, and to take leadership 

roles in, their communities; 

Whereas, since 1990, Kappa Alpha Psi’s Kappa Scholarship 

Fund has provided scholarship grants to over 10,000 

high school graduates to assist in furthering their education; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi’s oldest formal program, its Holiday Food Drive, provides food, clothing, and toys to low 

income citizens in many metropolitan and rural communities throughout the Nation; 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi’s national theme of ‘‘One Kappa, 

Creating Inspiration: A Call to Service’’ has mobilized 

Kappa men across the Nation who are leaders in business, education, government, the humanities, arts and entertainment, science, and medicine to become better servant leaders for their respective families and communities, 

the Nation, and the fraternity at large; and 

Whereas Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., will hold its 79th 

Grand Chapter Meeting in Washington, DC, August 4 

through August 9, 2009: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives con2 gratulates Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., on 98 years 


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1 of serving local communities and enriching the lives of col2 legiate men throughout the Nation. 

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