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Chapters At UGA |
KAPPA ALPHA PSI
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Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity,
Inc. was founded in 1911
on the campus of Indiana
University. Comprised of
functioning undergraduate
and graduate chapters on major
campuses and in cities throughout
the country, the fraternity is the
crystallization of a dream.
Kappa Alpha Psi is the realization
of a vision shared commonly by 10
founders. It was the vision of the
astute men which enabled them
to sow the seed of a fraternal tree
whose fruit is available to, and now
enjoyed by, college men everywhere,
regardless of their color, religion or
national origin. Kappa Alpha Psi is
justly proud that its constitution has
never contained a clause which either
excluded or suggested the exclusion
of a man from membership merely
because of his color, creed, or national
origin.
The Zeta Iota Chapter of Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated,
was founded April 16, 1971 by
Walter Allen Sr. (from the Gamma
Nu Chapter) and Joseph A. Johnson.
The Zeta Iota chapter was founded
with the aid of our mother chapter,
Gamma Zeta (Fort Valley State
University) and our sister chapter,
Gamma Chi (Savannah State
University). Each Zeta Iota Chapter
line (stemming from the Fall 1971
charter line, “Sadistic Sixteen”), has
continued to carry out the fraternity’s
fundamental purpose of achievement.
The Zeta Iota Chapter has come to
produce lawyers, doctors, politicians,
financial consultants, real estate
agents, CPA’s and even professional
football and basketball players. For
example, Donald Perry (from the
charter line “Sadistic Sixteen”) is the
current V.P. for Chick-Fil-A and was
the originator of the slogan, “Eat
Mor Chikn.”
Dr. Reginald Jackson (from the line
13 N.U.P.E.) is a past Guy Levis
Grant awardee, the highest award an
undergraduate member may receive,
and past Junior Grand Vice Pole
march. His line brother, Damon
Evans is the first Black Athletic
Director for the University of Georgia
and the Southeastern Conference.
Past athletes include notable football
players such as Guy McIntyre, James
Brown, Dale Carver and George
Brewer, as well as basket ball players
including Lamar Heard and Donald
Hartry both off whom were on the
UGA only final four basketball team.
Currently, the Zeta Iota chapter
excels and continues to maintain one
of the NPHC highest GPA’s and
ranks among the best in community
service hours performed. The chapter
volunteers with Big Brother/Big
Sister, voter registration drives, the
Red Cross Bone Marrow Drive, The
Center for Violence Intervention,
the Rites of Passage, the Athens Boys
and Girls Club, Grandview Nursing
Home, Holiday Food Drive, Angel
Project, Thanksgiving can-A-Thon,
Greensboro Dreamers and Alps Road
tutoring. The chapter members are also
involved in many on campus activities
such as the Black Educational Support
Team (B.E.S.T.), Arch Society,
Order of Omega, African American
Choral Ensemble (A.A.C.E.), UGA
track and field, football and rugby.
Furthermore, the Zeta Iota chapter
of Kappa Alpha Psi remains the only
NPHC organization at UGA to have
its own fraternity plot. Thus it is only
fitting that the Zeta Iota Chapter of
Kappa Alpha Psi be the 2004-2005
Southeastern Province chapter of the
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