The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-28
LOCAL KAPPA ALPHAs ROPE TO
LAND BIG FRATERNITY
CONVENTION.
PROVINCE COUNCIL ON
AFTER WELCOME BY MAYOR AND
LETTER MEN PREPARE FOR
ENTERTAINMENT FEATURES.

Richmond. Norfolk. Washington or
Baltimore will probably be chosen as
the place for the next biennial meet
ing of the National Convestion of
! Kappa Alpha Fraternity. If resolu-
tion which 10 to DO presented at this
mornings session OF the Division
Council o. this college order, held in
Murphys Hotel rs adopted. The last
meeting of the national convention of
the fraternity held In Richmond was in
1901 and the time that Richmond is
getting another OF these big college
meetings Ia nearing.
Kappa Alpha members in the States
of Virginia, West Virginia. Maryland
and the District of Columbia, with rep
resentatives from one college in Dcia-
ware, are now having the sessions of
their biennial council for this district
in Richmond. Their session will close
tonight after the banquet to be had
In the Flemish Room of the Jefferson
Hotel beginning at $50 This after
! noon in the Jefferson auditorium the
dansant will be had from to {.
BEGINNING with the meeting in the
parlor of Murphy's Hotel annex at ii
/ o'clock with the address Of welcome
/ by Mayor George Ainslie, the sessions
( tI tilH 'FdtVIiiA9 Np"HN''
were busy ones. Rev. Or. r. II. Pitt
offered the Invocation Immediately at
ter w. r Riedler. of Baltimore. Coun-
ell commander. had called the body to
order.
Several Addresses Heard.
The annual message OF the knight
commander OF the fraternity was next
received. after which the committee
on credentials made it's report.
Addresses by Colonel r. T. Neon
nell. II. H. Miller, Colonel 10 Lane
Stern and ]. II. stubbs. president Of
Richmond alumni. closed the morning
session
The afternoon session saw the APP
rointment Of the committees whose
REPORTS will be made at todaT's meet
Ing. kilograms of eongratulation and
good wishes were received from Grand
Historian w r. Crawford, Of Kissir
nee. Fla; Judge i. c. Fullilove, OF
shrevep port. Ala. and White Province
Council. which is now in session al
New orleaNs white Province en-
braces the states OF MISSISSIPPI, LOUIS
lana and Texas.
Elect Onicers To-day.
Much business will he locked after
at this mornings session in Murphy's
! and this afternoon the body will elect
its officers and select the place fol
meeting in 1915.
\ resolution asking that the Mex
meeting Of the National Council h'
held in this province. without desig
. mating the city. will be introduced a
D the afternoon session. The cities II
n this province in which the Nationa
a Convention may be held are Richmond
Norfolk, Baltimore and Washington
The NEXT national meeting will mari
the senli-centennialw Of the organiza
/, ton and viii be begun on Decempe
y u. 1915 Local Kappa Alphas enter
tain strong hopes that Richmond WI
J be selected.
Today's social functions VIII be
4 the dansant st the Jefferson whicl
Il acme 200 members OF the fraternit
II will attend and the banquet at S;J
} in the Flemish Room of the Jefferson
over which colonel 10 Lane stern
Richmond, will preside. One huncre
= and thirty-hve delegates registere
J. yesterday.
j. Colleges represented al the mee'in
q are Washington and Lee. Richmon
n COLLEGE, Randolph Macon. Universlt!
n az yfrainia, Rampden- Sidney, Georg
2 Washington University. Cniverst- @
West virginia, Delawar" college an
y MARYLAND Agricultural College,