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3 unusual facts about Kappa Alpha


Kappa Alpha

Kappa Alpha Society, an American college Greek-letter fraternity, founded 1825 at Union College, Schenectady, New York.

Kuklos Adelphon, known as "Old Kappa Alpha", an American college Greek-letter fraternity, founded 1812 at the University of North Carolina.

Kappa Alpha Order, an American college Greek-letter fraternity, founded 1865 at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia.


LeRon Ellis

LeRon Ellis made local headlines at the start of his sophomore year when became the first African American inducted into the University of Kentucky's Kappa Alpha fraternity.


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Jackson Scholz

Born to Susan and Zachary Scholz in Buchanan, Michigan, Jackson Scholz, A.K.A. "The New York Thunderbolt," competed for the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri (where he joined Kappa Alpha Order), and later the Newark Athletic Club.

Kappa Alpha Order

Kappa Alpha Order was originally founded as Phi Kappa Chi on December 21, 1865, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

The Kappa Alpha Order Administrative Office is located at Mulberry Hill, in Lexington, Virginia.

Kappa Alpha Order on other campuses, including Auburn, Centenary College and the University of Georgia had already ceased to wear Confederate uniforms in public following complaints from black students.

Kappa Alpha Pi National Fraternity

KAΠ (Kappa Alpha Pi) was a high school fraternity founded in 1904 at Englewood High School in Chicago, Illinois.

Samuel Hannaford

George B. Cox House, one-time home to renown Cincinnati political boss George Barnsdale Cox, and later the longtime home to the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity at the University of Cincinnati.