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Delta Chapter Celebrates 110 Years of Service and Achievement
The Brothers of Delta Chapter assembled for their 110th celebratory luncheon, April 5, 2025.
“IT [DELTA CHAPTER] WOULD ALSO HAVE THE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE LAST CHAPTER CHARTERED UNDER THE FRATERNITY’S ORIGINAL NAME, KAPPA ALPHA NU. ”
T he Delta Chapter has an auspicious history, inexorably linked to the institution which a charter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. was granted on its campus. Wilberforce University, founded in 1856, is the nation’s oldest private, historically Black owned and operated university. It is one of three historically Black universities estab- lished before the American Civil War. Correspondingly, history was made with Kappa Alpha Psi® selecting an all-Black school for By Joe David Henley, Jr. & Kevin P. Scott
its fourth undergraduate chapter to reside at Wil- berforce University – the first non-predominantly White institution to hold a charter of the Fraternity, a mere four years after the fraternity’s founding and its incorporation. It would also have the distinction of being the last chapter chartered under the Fraternity’s
original name, Kappa Alpha Nu. Grand Polemarch Elder Watson Diggs personally sent correspondence to several schools, seeking to locate the men of similar character and aspirations as the Fraternity’s ideals. After meeting with Wilberforce students and convincing the administration that Kappa Alpha Nu would reflect
positively upon the uni- versity, the school granted consent for the charter to be established, January 22, 1915. On the occasion of their 110th anniver- sary, the men of the Delta Chapter proudly reflect on their humble beginnings, celebrate their develop- ment, and their continued endurance.
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