Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-16
KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY
TO MEET HERE THIS MONTH
Biennial Council of Famous Greek
Letter Organization Opens
November p.
LARGE ATTENDANCE EXPECTED
Was Founded at Washington and
Lee In 1865, and Now Spreads All
Over United States, With Many
Prominent Members.

The biennial council OF the S. H.
Ammen Province. of the Kappa Alpha
Fraternity will be held In Richmond
OIL November 81 and IS The Kappa
Alpha Fraternity is Creek letter col
leGe secret society which was organ
lied In December. 1868. at WashinGt ton
and Lee University. and now has forty
eight active college chapters and forty
two alumni chapters
The order has the distinction Of be-
ing the only purely Southern college
secret society In the United States
and has always stood for those char
actcristics for which the South is ne
culiarly noted. The alumni chapters
from ithaca, y. Y. to the Canal Zone
and from points on the Eastern coast
TO san Francisco, and arc for the pur-
pose OF Keeping up interest in tho fra
ternity after the departure of its mem
bcrs from colleges having active chap
ters ands for aiding the active chap
ters. One OF the outstanding features
OF the organization Is the close rela-
ton between Its active and alumni
members. The total membership Is
now between 10000 and 10000.
PROVINCE INCLUDES
TWELVE ACTIVE CHAPTERS
The chief officer Of tho order Is the
knight commander. elected by tho gem
eral convention, at which every active
and alumni chapter is represented. and
which Is held every two years. For the
purposes Of administration the terri
tory embraced by the fraternity Is di-
vlded into seven provinces. each pre-
sided over by province commander,
who hold province councils biennally in
the years In which there is no general
convention and discuss province bust
ness and make recommendations to the
general convention.
This province includes twelve active
chapters In the states Of Virginia, West
Virginia. Delaware. Maryland and the
District of Columbia and eleven alumni
chapters. Several Of the alumni chap
tcrs are composed OF students at the
prominent Eastern universities. In
Guiding Yale, Harvard and Cornell
The Richmond Council will elect Of
tcers for terms lasting until the next
council and transact other important
province business. The present Prov
ince commander Is w. IT. Biedler, of
!rivonce is Wilson l. Townsend, Of
Washington. ID. c. Therl arc many
members of the order who are promi-
ncnt In the business and professional
life OF Richmond who will take promi-
nent parts on the council. 4 full busi-
ness and social program Will be ar
ranged.
INCLUDES MANY NOTED
MEN IN MEMBERSHIP
The fraternity includes among its
members noted mon through the South,
among them being several members of
Congress and United States Senator
Morris Sheppard, Of Texas II is par
tcularly strong in Virginia, having in
this state active chapters at the fol-
lowing universities and colleges
Washington and Lee, University Of
Virginia, Randolph Macon, Richmond
College, William and Mary, Iampden-
Sidney. and large alumni chapters Vat
Richmond and Norfolk, This fact
coupled with tho Virginia North Caro-
lina game at Richmond on Thanksgiv-
ing Day, is expected to cause Il large
attendance on the Council