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Alpha Kappa Psi

Alpha Kappa Psi - ΑΚΨ
The Coat of Arms of Alpha Kappa Psi
Founded October 5 1904 (1904--) (age 103)
New York University, New York, NY
Type Professional
Scope International
Flag of the United States United States
Flag of Canada Canada
Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Mission Statement Alpha Kappa Psi is recognized as the premier developer of principled business leaders
Colors Navy Blue and Old Gold
Symbol Phoenician Galley
Flower Yellow Rose
Jewel Blue Sapphire
Publication The Diary of Alpha Kappa Psi
Chapters 317 chartered, 207 active
Members 9,978 students (6,001 initiated in 2006-2007) currently
241,000+ total lifetime
Badge Akpsi-badge.png
Headquarters 7801 East 88th St
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Homepage Alpha Kappa Psi Website

ΑΚΨ (Alpha Kappa Psi) is a co-ed professional business fraternity. The Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity was founded on October 5, 1904 at New York University, and was incorporated on May 20, 1905. It is currently headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

History

The story of Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity begins at New York University, Washington Square, New York. After the passage of the Certified Public Accountants Act of 1896 in New York State, an increasingly urgent demand arose for adequate education in all branches of higher accountancy. There also developed an important calling known as the profession of administration. To meet this double need for higher commercial education and for a college of accountancy, the Council of New York University decided to establish a school on a broad basis of advanced instruction in political economy, accounting, and commercial law.

On July 28, 1900, the Chancellor of New York University, Henry Mitchell MacCracken, authorized the opening of the new evening School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance on the same basis as the seven other traditional schools and colleges of the university. The Financial Record for September 12 1900 asserted "the new school raises accounting from an avocation to a profession and places the accountant on the same plane as the lawyer and the physician." The school's establishment on October 2 1900 was directly traceable to forceful insistence on the part of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants for university instruction in the sciences immediately connected with practical life. The October 13 1900 issue of the New York Post indicated that the setting up of this school is "generally regarded as one of the most significant signs of the times...It is recognized that a specialized higher education...is inevitable, because more and more demanded."

The official announcement of the School of Commerce stated its objects, "to elevate the standards of business education and to furnish a complete and thorough course of instruction in the higher professional accountancy." At first there was a roster of 62 matriculates. Study extended over a two year period, with classes held from 8 to 9 and 9 to 10 o'clock Monday through Friday evenings for eight months a year. At the outset it was uncertain whether a university degree would accompany the diploma offered by the school. Then the School of Commerce at New York University became the first to offer a degree in a night school in business.

Prime movers behind the school included Charles Waldo Haskins, senior member of Haskins and Sells and President of the State Society of Certified Public Accountants; Leon Brummer, Secretary of that Society; and Dr. Charles Ezra Sprague, President of the Union Dime Savings Bank. All three men joined the faculty of the school. Haskins was appointed its first dean, but he lived only long enough to see the institution fairly well established on the road to success. At the beginning, the school was burdened with the manifold problems of organization. Fourteen courses were offered to the enrolled students by the faculty of fourteen members. Proper college textbooks as known today had not yet been written.

In the fall of 1902, after the university had awarded the first of the new degrees in business, a stronger basis for instruction was introduced, more faculty members were added, and the curriculum was enlarged and correlated anew. The group that entered in 1902 was the first three-year class working toward the Bachelor of Commercial Science degree. Then all students took the same subjects. The first year had demonstrated the need for a strong administrator to concentrate his full time and energy on the development of the school. The man chosen for this position was Joseph French Johnson; previously he had for eight years been Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In 1901 he accepted the post of Secretary of the Faculty at the NYU. School, and in 1903 he became its second Dean and Professor of Political Economy and Finance. At this critical time, some members of the Class of 1905 came forward to reassure the new Dean that they had complete faith in his policies and that they would, in every way possible, endeavor to promote the success of the school, to work to make the new degree respected and valued.

These same eager, serious-minded students later were to become the founders and the first elected members of Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity. From the start the group had firm support from the Dean; in addition, Cleveland F. Bacon, Professor of Law at the School of Commerce, acted as their attorney and legal advisor. The students occupied the same seats in class five nights a week in the eighth floor classrooms of the new University Building on Washington Square. Since they all worked by day and had school work too, they had little time for any school social activities, but the early members managed to get together on Friday nights and have a social time, spent mostly in talk of the school. It was only natural that, without any apparent design or effort the Four should meet each night after classes to take advantage of the quietness of lower Broadway to walk south for twenty-five minute to City Hall and thence across the Brooklyn Bridge to their homes. They talked over their mutual problems. They soon acquired a new name and were widely heralded as the Brooklyn Four.

But too little has been said and not enough generally known about two other outstanding men of the Class of 1905 who likewise exercised and talked over their various problems while walking from class but in the opposite direction, north, toward midtown Manhattan. They were Robert Stuart Douglas and Daniel Vincent Duff.

Perhaps it was in their first year, but surely not later than their second, that Frederic R. Leach suggested the organization of a fraternity. The idea met with unanimous approval. Leach and the other members of the Brooklyn Four mulled over the idea of fraternity for some time. In the winter, during the 1903-04 school year, much further spadework was accomplished. At the beginning, several meetings of those students who were the founders of Alpha Kappa Psi were conducted in a somewhat informal manner in conjunction with banquets held at various hotels in Manhattan. By late April plans had assumed definite shape; at the close of the academic year a date was set for a meeting in the Hotel St. Denis.

On June 9,1904, Douglas, Camp, Duff, Wright, Rachmil, Lane, Leach, Bergen, and Jefferson met at this hotel. All the men were strongly in favor of forming a fraternity, and many points thought worthy of being incorporated into a constitution were suggested. The men realized that the B.C.S. degree then was of relatively little or no commercial value in the community. They firmly believed, however, that it could be made to be of as much significance as the C.P.A. and that this change could be accomplished through the united efforts of men of strong character from the school. They were convinced that higher education for businessmen was a vital need in America, and they were willing to dedicate themselves to assist in encouraging such college training.

The group appointed the Brooklyn Four to draft an acceptable constitution to be presented the next time they gathered. After agreeing to meet on an excursion trip during the summer, they parted. The committee conferred several more times, embodying their ideas into a tentative constitution which they were then ready to report on at a meeting held on July 16, 1904, at Sea Cliff, Long Island. The trip there was made by steamer, but owing to several absences from the city because of vacations and other unforeseen events, only five of the men were present: Douglas, Lane, Rachmil, Leach, and Bergen. The constitution as submitted was read, and new plans were also suggested and considered.

Nothing more was accomplished until after school reopened in the fall. The plan of organization, though, was still quite alive, and on October 5, 1904, the charter members met in the Assembly Room, 32 Waverly Place; all ten were there. They decided to set up a professional fraternity at once, along the lines of the constitution which had been presented by the Brooklyn Four Committee, and to choose a president, secretary, and treasurer in accordance therewith, these officers to assume similar positions under the constitution when it was finally adopted. On written ballots, R. S. Douglas was elected President; H. M. Jefferson, Secretary; Nathan Lane, Jr., Treasurer; W.O. Tremaine, Vice-President; and Morris S. Rachmil, Financial Secretary, a choice made unanimous by acclamation. A committee of three, Rachmil, Tremaine, and Camp, was appointed to study the constitution draft, criticize and revise it, and report recommendations as soon as possible. This marked the founding date of the Fraternity, October 5,1904.


International Expansion into Canada

Alpha Kappa Psi became an international fraternity on Saturday, April 18, 1931 when the Beta Kappa Chapter was installed at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. The ceremony was held at the Hotel London, and it was conducted by Grand President O. Arthur Kirkman, Grand Secretary-Treasurer J.D. Sparks, District Councilor J.R. Gabell, and members of from Phi Chapter of the University of Michigan, Beta Theta Chapter of Detroit College, and Beta Iota Chapter of Buffalo.

Women in AKΨ

In June of 1972, Title IX of the "Education Amendments Act of 1972" prohibited sex discrimination in federally assisted educational programs and amended parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Professional fraternities were included in Title IX. Around this time, the brothers of the Delta Chi Chapter at Clarkson University introduced legislation to amend Alpha Kappa Psi's Constitution to include women as brothers. Though supported by several other chapters, the proposed amendments were easily defeated. In the fall of 1973, the Delta Chi chapter admitted four women into their Chapter and soon granted females full rights and privileges. Delta Chi went on to elect a female president and attempted to send her to the national convention as their voting delegate. As a result, Alpha Kappa Psi revoked the charter of the Delta Chi Chapter.

In December of 1973, a complaint was filed with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare against thirteen colleges and universities which recognized chapters of a professional business fraternity. In 1973, the Fraternity Alliance for Inalienable Rights, a seventeen member organization which included Alpha Kappa Psi, was formed to oppose Title IX as it applied to professional fraternities. In October 1975, Alpha Kappa Psi initiated a fund drive to combat Title IX. A write-in campaign was also started as an attempt to sway legislators. At the national convention, the Committee on Female Membership moved that the fraternity should bar women, advocating a continuance of the struggle to secure legislation. Such a law was later introduced in Congress in May, but it was defeated. The convention voted the Board of Directors the authority to change Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution by deletion of the words "must be men and." When it became apparent that legislation would not be approved, the Board of Directors voted, August 7, 1976, to admit women into the fraternity.

At the 54th Chapter Congress in Washington, DC, the Fraternity elected its first female president, Andrea Nemeth, for the 2007-2009 term. She had previously been the first Executive Vice President of Alpha Kappa Psi.

International Expansion into the United Kingdom

In March of 2000, the Board of Directors of AKPsi approved expansion of the Fraternity into the United Kingdom. As a result, in 2001, new chapters were installed at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan University. The installations were led by National President M.C. Moore, Chairman of the Board David P. Wendroff, Foundation Vice President R.K. Lee, CEO Gary L. Epperson, and five other brothers. This expansion prompted the creation of the 14th region of the Fraternity. In 2004, UMIST merged with Manchester University, and around the same time, the chapter at Manchester Metropolitan closed, leaving only one college chapter remaining in the UK. As a result, the United Kingdom Region was dissolved and the remaining chapter was moved under the authority of the Mideast Region.

Statistics & Trivia

  • Number of active student chapters: 203 in the United States, 3 in Canada, and 1 in the United Kingdom
  • AKPsi is the only Business Fraternity to have active International Chapters
  • Number of Chapters chartered since founding in 1904: 317
  • New charters granted in 2006-2007 (to date): 2 (University of Maryland, Furman University)
  • Reactivated charters in 2006-2007 (to date): 3 (Duke University, University of South Carolina, University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Initiates in 2005-2006: 5,697
  • Initiates since 1904: more than 235,000
  • Number of current student members: 9,978
  • 2005 Convention attendance (Las Vegas): 805
  • 2006 Success Institute attendance: 2,287
  • Alpha Kappa Psi first admitted women into the fraternity in August 1976.
  • Alpha Kappa Psi membership is now open to all college majors, as of 2005.

Objectives

  1. To further the individual welfare of its members;
  2. To foster scientific research in the fields of commerce, accounts, and finance;
  3. To educate the public to appreciate and demand higher ideals therein;
  4. To promote and advance in institutions of college rank, courses leading to degrees in business administration.

Literature of ΑΚΨ

The Diary of Alpha Kappa Psi

2005 3rd Place CFEA Award Winner for Cover Design
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2005 3rd Place CFEA Award Winner for Cover Design

The official magazine of the Fraternity first appeared on January 1, 1908, as The Alpha Diary. Howard M. Jefferson chaired the editorial committee that published the original four page monthly pamphlet of the Alpha Chapter. The name was changed in 1913 to The Diary of Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity to reflect its new fraternity-wide scope. The format remained the same, although increasing in number of pages, until it became a full fledged magazine, 6 x 9 inches in size, in 1917. The title was also changed that year to The Alpha Kappa Psi Diary. John D. Sparks was appointed editor in 1928, and page size of The Diary was increased to 8½ x 11 inches with two and three column pages and a different two-color cover for each issue. In 1929 under Sparks, the magazine also adopted its current name, The Diary of Alpha Kappa Psi.

The Diary is currently published three times a year in October, February, and June by the Alpha Kappa Psi Foundation. It features information on Fraternity and Foundation news, as well as educational articles focusing on professional development. In recent years, the magazine has earned several College Fraternity Editors Association (CFEA) awards.

  • 2nd place Content and Design award for Annual Report (2006)
  • 3rd place Design Award for Two-Page or Less Layout (2006)
  • 1st place Design Award for Two-Page or Less Layout (2005)
  • 3rd place Design Award for Cover Design (2005)
  • 3rd place Fred F. Yoder Award for Overall Excellence (2005)
  • 2nd place Fred F. Yoder Award for Overall Excellence (2004)
  • 2nd place Banta Total Communications Award (2004)
  • 2nd place Design Award for Critic's Choice Cover (2004)
  • 2nd place Design Award for Logo Design (2004)
  • 3rd place Design Award for Two-Page or Less Layout (2004)

The Pledge Manual of Alpha Kappa Psi

Current edition of the Pledge Manual of Alpha Kappa Psi
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Current edition of the Pledge Manual of Alpha Kappa Psi

The original Pledge Manual was issued in 1934. Several revised editions have been published since its inception. Around 2001, The Pledge Manual departed from its 8½ x 11 inch size to a new 5½ x 8½ inch size, and more recently to a 6 x 9 inch size. A more in-depth, full color, larger, pledge manual will replace the current edition in fall 2007. It is called the PEP - Pledge Education Program

The Handbook of Alpha Kappa Psi

The Handbook of Alpha Kappa Psi is a comprehensive information source and guide for members and officers of the Fraternity. The publication includes topics such as a detailed history of AKPsi, a directory of notable alumni, organizational structure, awards, emblems, alumni information, chapter administration, finances, public relations, ritual, and a great deal of other useful information. The origin of the handbook is traced to 1926 when Ralph L. Power of Nu Chapter, issued a publication titled Handbook of Alpha Kappa Psi, a Manual for Nu Chapter. The handbook was first published Fraternity-wide in 1934, and it has since been followed by several more comprehensive and revised editions. The last edition published was the seventh edition in 1997, edited by Theodore G. Ehrsam. Ehrsam was also working on the eighth edition before he entered Audit Eternal in July 2004. The eighth edition was to be published in fall 2004 as part of the Fraternity's Centennial Celebration.

Creed

Alpha Kappa Psi recognizes that
We live in deeds, not years;
In thought, not breath;
In service, not in figures on the dial.
We count time by heart-throbs,
When they beat for God, for man, for duty.
He lives most who thinks most,
Is noblest, acts the best.

– Dr. D. Shaw Duncan, Beta Chapter

Notable Alumni

Government

U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents

U.S. Senators and Representatives

U.S. Secretaries, Chairs, and Advisors

Federal Judges

State Governors

State Legislators and Civic Leaders

  • James Antonio - Missouri State Auditor, 1978-1984 (Upsilon)
  • W. Haydon Burns - Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1949-1965)
  • Hal Daub - Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska (1995-2001)
  • Richard Lugar Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Neal Randolph Fosseen - Mayor of Spokane, Washington (1960-1967)
  • Robert D. Ray, Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa
  • Oscar Arthur Kirkman - Mayor of High Point, North Carolina (1939-1943); North Carolina House of Representatives (1949-1952); North Carolina State Senator, 17th District (1953-1959)
  • Tom Adams - Secretary of State of Florida (1961-1971)
  • Millard F. Caldwell - Florida House of Representatives (1929-1932)
  • Jim Tullis - Florida State of Representatives, 17th District (1999-Present)
  • Willie F. Logan - Florida House of Representatives, 103rd District (1983-Present)
  • Robert D. Fleming - Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1938-1950); Pennsylvania State Senator (1950-Present)
  • Frank Patton Cooke - North Carolina State Senator, 26th District (1955-1959)
  • Clarence W. Meadows - West Virginia House of Delegates, Raleigh County (1931-1932)
  • Richard Arthur Young - Michigan House of Representatives, 32nd & 33rd Districts (1965-1994)
  • James F. Antonio - State Auditor of Missouri (1979-Present)
  • Kent Hance - Texas State Senate, 28th District (1975–1979)
  • Charles Lake, PhD - Life Member, Business Academic Chair Faulkner State College (1986–present)
  • Frank A. Barrett - Wyoming State Senator
  • Thomas F. Eagleton - Attorney General of Missouri (1961-1965) (Upsilon)
  • Joseph M. Montoya - New Mexico House of Representatives; New Mexico State Senate

State Judges

International

Business and Industry Leaders

Retail

Media

Pharmaceuticals

  • E. Gifford Upjohn, President, Upjohn (Gamma Tau)

Hotels

Aeronautics

Finance and Insurance

Construction and Raw Materials

Food and Beverage

Automotive

Telecommunications and Utilities

Science and Culture

NASA

Foundations, Organizations, and Religion

September 11th Victims and Heroes

Athletics

  • Bill Bradley, Hall of Fame Small Forward for the New York Knicks; Captain of the Gold Medal winning 1964 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team

Infamous Members

  • Alfonso Guzman, Former Sicilian Mafia member

Entertainment

Chapters


Main article: Chapters of Alpha Kappa Psi

Since the Fraternity was established in 1904, more than 300 chapters of Alpha Kappa Psi have been chartered, 199 of which are currently active. AKPsi is actively expanding their number of chapters through the colonization process at various prestigious universities. Current colonies include Binghamton University, The George Washington University, and Boston University.

External links

References

    Professional Fraternities

    Professional Fraternity Association
    Alpha Zeta • Alpha Rho Chi • Alpha Tau Delta • Alpha Phi Omega • Alpha Chi Sigma • Alpha Omega • Alpha Omega Epsilon • Gamma Iota Sigma • Delta Epsilon Iota • Delta Theta Phi • Delta Omicron • Delta Sigma Pi • Zeta Phi Eta • Theta Tau • Kappa Delta Epsilon • Kappa Epsilon • Kappa Kappa Psi • Kappa Psi • Lambda Kappa Sigma • Mu Phi Epsilon • Pi Sigma Epsilon • Rho Pi Phi • Sigma Alpha • Sigma Alpha Iota • Sigma Phi Delta • Tau Beta Sigma • Phi Alpha Delta • Phi Beta • Phi Delta Epsilon • Phi Delta Phi • Phi Delta Chi • Phi Rho Sigma • Phi Sigma Pi • Phi Chi Theta • Omega Tau Sigma
    Independent Professional Fraternities
    Alpha Eta Rho • Alpha Kappa Psi • Delta Phi Epsilon • Kappa Gamma Psi • Phi Gamma Nu
    Professional Fraternities in the North-American Interfraternity Conference
    Alpha Gamma Rho • Sigma Phi Delta • Triangle

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