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captain of the varsity foot- ball team, receiving several athletic scholarship offers to play college football. Sam would graduate fifth in his class and receive induction into the National Honor Society. He began his college tenure at Clark College (now Clark Atlanta Univer- sity) in 1961. Knick-named “The Bull” by his Clark College Panther football teammates, Hamilton earned All-City and all SIAC honors as the team Captain and fullback. Hamilton’s headshot and reference appeared in a Kappa Sports article in the December 1963 Kappa Alpha Psi Jour- nal issue, which featured members of the fraternity who played collegiate athletics at that time. Sam would letter four years in football and track & field while at Clark. Samuel C. Hamilton is a fall 1963 initiate of the Clark/Atlanta University chapter, the Gamma Kappa Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He served the chapter as its Polemarch and Keeper of Exchequer. Sam graduated with honors from Clark with a degree in History, and a fellow- ship to Carnegie Mellon University. Although Sam departed Atlanta in 1965,
his administration when he was elected the 30th Grand Polemarch.” 57th Laurel Wreath Lau- reate Carl Ware (Gamma Kappa 1965) shared that Grand Polemarch Hamilton was his Dean of Pledges. “As I reflect on Sam’s life I think about ‘Kappa Royalty,’ for just as the founders of Kappa Alpha Psi, Sam dedicated his entire adult life to fulfilling the dreams and aspirations for a noble fraternity and a better society. When we talk about Sam as a human being you see a great man with a regal-like bearing guided by down to earth personality, common touch, and a genuinely sincere man.” Ware would further assert, “Sam understood that our humanity is bound inextricably together. He knew that God created us as a delicate network of human relationships. Over the years I have known Sam; I have observed him always doing good things wherever he was. He was born for goodness, he was a leader of leaders, he knew instinctively what all great leaders know, that together through collaboration our efforts can change the world. In fact, Sam was a big reason I wanted to become a Kappa man”
Hamilton during his playing days at Clark College, 1963.
he left a lifetime of impres- sions among those who were in his company during his years in that city. “I was Polemarch at Gamma Kappa in Atlanta at Clark College when we initiated Sam into the Chapter. We recognized before he was initiated that Sam was an exceptionally special person.” stated Ernest E. Moore (Gamma Kappa 1961). “Sam was a star football player for Clark College, and I played baseball for
Morris Brown College. We enjoyed the excitement of college life. After our initiation into Kappa Alpha Psi, we frequently scheduled our fraternity meetings together (Beta Delta and Gamma Kappa),” stated E. Kenneth Jackson (80th Elder Watson Diggs Awardee & 1963 Beta Delta initiate). “After college, Sam soared and achieved in every field of human endeavor. It was my plea- sure and good fortune to serve along with my son in
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