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Theta Iota Celebrated Its Golden Anniversary, 1975-2025 Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future, and a Legacy of Achievement
By Shaune Allen & Darryl Parson
O n October 3-5, 2025, the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology (MIT) Chapter, the Theta Iota of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., celebrated the 50th anni- versary of its chartering at the Le Méridien Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The chapter’s three-day celebration united chapter members, including seven of the eight Theta Iota charter members, as well as Chi Chapter, Boston (MA) Alumni Chapter, and other regional Kappas. Notable guests included Senior Grand Vice Polemarch, Robert L. Jenkins, Jr., Esq., Northeastern Province Polemarch Theodore R. Sanchious, recently appointed Northern Prov- ince Polemarch Gregory S. Thomas (Theta Iota 1987), the 28th North Central Province Polemarch Korlon L. Kilpatrick II (Theta Iota 1989), the 26th Eastern Province Polemarch Cornelius Hudgins IV;
The Brothers of Theta Iota Chapter assembled for their 50th Anniversary Dinner, October 4, 2025.
and Boston (MA) Alumni Chapter Polemarch, Andre Morgan, Ph.D. (Eta Sigma 1990) Also in attendance were MIT’s Assistant Dean for Fraternities, Sororities & Independent Living Groups, Jessica Ahern, and Tufts University Associate Director of the Africana Center, Kella Narki Merlain-Moffatt.
chartered the Chi of Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity, Inc., on February 15, 1924, as the first undergraduate chapter in New England. Four of the six Chi Chapter Charter Members studied on the Cambridge side of the Charles River. The first Chi Polemarch, Maceo W. Hubbard, was a student at Harvard Law School. Court- ney B. Cooley and John M. Hunter were Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) undergraduates. J. Logan Jenkins graduated from Tufts University. Within a month of its chartering ceremony, Chi
initiated its first member, Clifford A. Crawford, a Tufts University student. Over the next five decades, Chi would stand alone as the only undergraduate chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi in New England. Fifty years later, in early 1974, eight MIT undergraduate students: Frederick Thompson, Philip G. Hampton, II, Bernard H. Robinson, Glenn E. Perkins, Jr., Leonard P. Nethersole, Stanley J. Washington, Samuel Nixon, Jr., and Wil- liam Black had the idea to establish a chapter at MIT. Two of the undergraduate
HONORING THE PAST, INSPIRING THE FUTURE
In October 2025, the Frater- nity’s 101-year presence was recognized.” The Boston University Chapter was
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