Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Baton Rouge Alumni

Guide Right

Kappa Alpha Psi National Service Program

Jay Crosby Award, Outstanding Guide Right Program, Large Chapter 2005, 77th Conclave

The national service program of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is called Guide Right. Guide Right is a Program of the educational and occupational guidance of youth, primarily inspirational and information in character. Its' reaches extend to high school and college. Guide Right is a year-round program, with Concentration Week serving to highlight the year's activities.

Conceived in 1922, and suggested at the Fraternity's twelfth Grand Chapter Conclave, the purposes of the Guide Right Services Program is to place the training experience and friendly interest of successful men at the disposal of youth needing inspiration and counsel regarding their choice of a life’s career, and to arouse the interest of the entire community in the problems of youth as they seek to realize lives of usefulness.
The basic objectives of Guide Right may be summarized as follows:
  • To help youth, especially those of high school graduating classes, in their selection of courses leading to vocations compatible with their aptitudes and personalities.
  • To assist students, while they are in training, to get started in the employment, and to progress successfully in their chosen field.
  • To assist parents in the handling of their children by giving them opportunities to talk over their problems with those who know and are successful in their chosen vocations.
  • To afford the less fortunate youths a respite from the drudgery of the streets, through sponsored trips to ball games, zoological gardens, museums, picnics, hikes, etc.
  • To inform youth of the values of higher education, of assistance available for continued pursuits, scholarship, loans, professional counseling, fellowship, etc., of various occupational and professional opportunities, and of current labor demands and the trends on the effect of these demands and trends on the labor market, i.e., supply rewards, etc.; requirements for obtaining employment, i.e., personal and scholastic.
  • NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:

    Jay Crosby Award, Outstanding Guide Right Program, Large Chapter 2005, 77th Conclave, St. Louis, MO.

    Four Kappa League Members selected as National Kappa Leaguers of the Year

  • 1995 Philadelphia Conclave
  • 1997 Detroit Conclave
  • 1999 Atlanta Conclave
  • 2001 Cleveland Conclave
  • Four Kappa League Members selected as National Student of the Year
  • 1988 Dallas Conclave
  • 1989 Los Angeles Conclave
  • 1999 Atlanta Conclave
  • 2001 Cleveland Conclave
  • Kappa Kamp        Kappa League

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