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Outside the Zeta Omega House during Golden Anniversary Reunion Weekend .
The Zeta Omega of Kappa Alpha Psi Celebrates 50 Years of Achievement By Kirk Alan Jones and Aaron S. Williams
O n April 14, 2023, the Zeta Omega Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi celebrated the 50th anni- versary of its chartering. Based in Norman, OK, at the University of Oklahoma (OU), the chapter held a weekend-long celebration that brought Zeta Omega initiates from the charter members to the most recent initiates and every- one in between.
CHAPTER HISTORY Initial efforts to bring Kappa Alpha Psi to the OU campus began in the early 1970s with the estab- lishment of a Zeta Theta Colony. The Zeta Theta Colony members repre- sented Kappa Alpha Psi for a short time before an offi- cial undergraduate chapter was established. The colony had approximately 10 to 15 members during those years
and, including OU graduate student Dunn Cumby (Beta Psi 1970). George Hender- son (Alpha Beta 1951), who was OU’s first black-tenured professor, was instrumental in helping to establish a chapter on the OU campus. The weekend celebration saw the return of Herman Robbins (Zeta Theta 1972), Michael Pierce, Brian Nich- ols (Zeta Theta 1973), and Dr. Dunn Cumby (Beta Psi
1970) to the campus, where they helped to establish the chapter. Before the chapter’s chartering in 1973, several brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi had made their way to campus while others entered Kappa Alpha Psi via chapters located nearby, such as Epsilon Gamma (University of Central Oklahoma) or Zeta Theta (Oklahoma State
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