60th Anniversary of the CRWLC

COMMEMORATING 60 YEARS OF CRWLC: 1961- 2021

bers at previous Grand Chapter Meet- ings of Kappa Alpha Psi.

The 1961 Undergraduate Leadership Conference summarization by Brother Dr. Harland L. Randolph was not lost on our Fraternity for 1) the revelation continues to exist in that there is a large number of Kappamen with leadership potential in Second Century Kappa (2021), 2) Undergraduate Leadership Conference is an effective Grand Chap- ter program for this potential (Both the Undergraduate Leadership Institute (ULI) and LEAD Kappa bear this fact as fraternity-sponsored programs today and, 3) direction for critical analysis and effective planning, addressing and underscoring group achievement, chapter-brother welfare, providing a list of suggested programs for evaluation/ implementation for undergraduate lead- ership, this was evident in the very first Undergraduate Leadership Summit in 2019 during the 14th National Found- ers’ Day in Tampa, Florida. History is essential to understand- ing, tradition, and distinctiveness and it facilitates the Bond of Fraternity noting from whence we came. The following chronological list below illustrates the C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Confer- ence Committee Chairman from 1961 to the present 34th Administration of Kappa Alpha Psi ® Fraternity, Incorpo- rated in 2021.

Ebony/Jet Magazine features the service of the Omicron Chapter.. Omicron Queen circa 1957. Omicron Scrollers circa 1957. Used by permission from author.

C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference Southwestern Province 1986 and 2016 respectively.

faculty were very diligent, I felt we were contributing something to the cadre of undergraduate brothers, it was a great experience, we tried to make it the kind of thing that would be remembered, I felt the conference was great for Kappa Alpha Psi as well as the young men in Bloomington, Indiana at that time, …we enjoyed what we did at the Undergradu- ate Leadership Conference, the confer- ence was extremely remarkable.” Enter 2019! Then something hap- pened in December 2019 which change the course of humanity on the planet. The world stage was gripped by the CO- VID-19 pandemic. It reshaped how our Fraternity convenes, works, and engages

its members.

Zoom (virtual platform) is now a perennial a buzz word in terms of how the world works today and it is also synonymous with platforms like Webex, GoToMeeting, Google Hangouts, Cisco and Microsoft Teams. So much so, post-December 2019, Kappa Alpha Psi led its virtual Inaugural National 2020 C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Confer- ence on October 10, 2020, and it was a real game-changer. The cost-free virtual Inaugural National 2020 C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference netted a Sea of Kappa Men which included a record breaking 4,200 members which surpassed some official attendance num-

C. Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference Chairman 1961-2021

• Dr. Cleo W. Blackburn, 1961 • Dr. Harland L. Randolph, 1961-65 • Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, 1965-66 • Ernest H. Davenport, 1966-67 • Herbert Q. Hibler, 1967-73 • Dr. I. W. E. Taylor, 1973-76 • Dr. Carl E. Anderson, 1976-77 • James “Biff” Carter, Jr., 1977-82 • Dr. Oscar L. Mims, Sr., 1982-85 • Dr Jesse L. Rancifer, 1985-88 • Cleophus Thomas, Jr., Esq., 1988-91 • Sheldon L. McAlpin, 1991-93

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