GRAND POLEMARCH’S MESSAGE
Guide Right is Just Right
summarizes that Guide Right encom- passes many of our youth-oriented programs such as mentoring, college preparatory programs, and tutoring. However, the Flagship Initiative is the Kappa Leadership Development League or simply, Kappa League. The current national Guide Right pro- gram Chair is Brother Kevin Burnett and its objectives are: • To Create the Next Generation of Leaders via Leadership Develop- ment, • Prepare students for college, • Mentor students to college gradu- ation, • To positively impact youth through mentoring and training, • To prepare youth for academic success in middle school, high school, and college, and • To learn by interaction and group dynamics The following are Guide Right’s Core Initiatives: STEM: Activities include getting involved with NSBE, Jr, STE Career Fair, Utilize code.org for free programming training. Microsoft Retail stores offer free STEM training. College Success: Mentoring for col- lege. 90% Graduation Rate. Facilitate Undergrad/Alumni partnership for the mentoring College Prep Series Na- viance an online tool to assist students
in preparing for college; Diamonds in the Rough webinars (DITR); FAFSA Awareness; College Signing Day, recognizing graduating high school seniors going to college. Positive Video Reporting: Brother John Marshall Jones spearheads Kappa League TV and promotes posi- tive video recordings of Guide Right achievements. Enhanced Initiatives & Partnerships are: • College Tours, • College Conversations, • Online Leadership Conference, • STEM Drone Competition & Hack- athons, • Diamonds in the Rough Webinars, • National Kappa League Confer- ence, and
• Financial Literacy program Brother Leon W. Steward is the
Reuben A. Shelton III, Esq. Grand Polemarch I n July 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri, the Fraternity celebrated the cen- tennial of one of its most cherished programs, Guide Right. It is the only community service program mandated by our Constitution and Statues and it fully embodies the Fraternity man- tra of leadership development and achievement in every field of human endeavor. Grand Chapter’s official web page
founder of the National Guide Right movement of Kappa Alpha. Psi. It was conceived in 1922 and at the twelfth Grand Chapter Meeting of Kappa Alpha Psi, it became the fraternity’s national service program. Soon after the St. Louis (MO) Alumni Chapter was chartered in 1921, Brothers Steward and J. Jerome Peters were assigned to research possible programs that would assist in devel- oping the youth of the Black commu- nity and to devise a “meaningful and
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