Baton Rouge Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
 

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

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2007-2008 Chapter Officers
 
Kenneth W. Wright, Polemarch
Dalton Honore', II, Vice Polemarch
Terrence D. Lockett, Keeper of Records
George Cravins, Assistant Keeper of Records
Lyndon D. Darensbourg, Keeper of Exchequer
Brandon Drexler, Assistant Keeper of Exchequer
Larry J. Weatherton, Jr., Strategus
Darryl Honore', Lieutenant Strategus
Emmett T. Robbins, Reporter
Allen F. Lee, Ph.D., Historian
Frank E. Brown, III, Esq., MOIP Chairman
Larry J. Weatherton, Jr., Guide Right Chairman
Roosevelt J. Stevenson, Reclamation Chairman
Ronnie L. Foster, Scholarship Chairman
Moroni Pointer, Parliamentarian

Willard L. Labrie, Board of Directors
John F. Smith, Board of Directors
Dana Carpenter, Ph.D., Board of Directors

Chapter Membership

Fifty Year Members of Kappa Alpha Psi

Baton Rouge Alumni Polemarchs Past and Present
Ronald Q. Lewis 1991-1993; George E. Sanders 1995-1997; Roosevelt J. Stevenson 1997-1999;
Dana Carpenter 1999-2002; John F. Smith 2002-2004; Willard L. Labrie 2004-2006;
Kenneth W. Wright 2006-Present

Roll Call of Past Polemarchs

The History and Development of Baton Rouge Alumni
    Baton Rouge Alumni Chapter became a reality as the outgrowth of the New Orleans Alumni Chapter.  In 1935, Brothers Leo Butler, A.C. Terrance, W.J.F. Meredith, and W.W. Stewart requested an Alumni Chapter in Baton Rouge in order that Alpha Sigma Chapter of Southern University could be given the guidance necessary for an undergraduate chapter.  This request was denied.  However, in order to show the determination of Kappa men, a request was made for an Alumni Chapter in New Orleans, 89 miles away.  As a result, at the Grand Chapter Meeting in St. Louis with Brothers Butler and Terrance being present as supporters the request was granted.  The Chapter was formally established at the home of Brothers Horance Mann Bond on the campus of Dillard University, May 12, 1936.  Brother C.W. Crump, Provincial Polemarch of the Southwest Province, officiated.

    During the first few years, the majority of the Brothers in the New Orleans Alumni Chapter were from Baton Rouge.  In 1939, a second petition for a Chapter in Baton Rouge was filed by Brothers Meredith and Terrance and the petition was granted at the Grand Chapter Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.  The charter members were made up of ten Baton Rouge and Southern University Brothers along with Brother A.C. Terrance of Opelousas.  Brother Leo S. Butler was elected as first Polemarch and Brother A.A. Hamm was Keeper of Records.  Some of the charter members were Brothers W.W. Stewart, Leonard Israel, A.C. Terrance, and W.J.F. Meredith.

    The Chapter met monthly in the home of the Brothers because of the limited number of members.  What the group lacked in numbers was over compensated for by the seal and true Kappa Spirit, the likes of which has never been witnessed before nor since by Brother Butler.

    Later the charter members were joined by Reverend Gardner C. Taylor, a former     Pastor of the Mount Zion Baptist Church and Greater Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York; Dr. Frank Johnson of Crowley, Louisiana; and Mr. Julis L. Kroft, a former teacher at McKinley High School and one of its renowned football coaches; Mr. Horatio Thompson and Dr. Carlyle Chapman.

    The Baton Rouge Alumni Chapter acclaims Brother William James Flourney as its founder.  He was a dedicated member of Baton Rouge Alumni Chapter.  He was influential in chartering Gamma Eta Chapter at the University of Washington.  He was the Alumni Advisor for the Chapter.

    Baton Rouge Alumni was officially chartered March 15, 1942 and since the organization of the Chapter in 1942, Baton Rouge Alumni has continued to perpetuate the noble doctrine of Kappa Alpha Psi.
 
  

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