He was also a member of the Board of Managers of the Columbia Community Branch of the YMCA. For eight years, he conducted a successful catering business in Philadelphia he organized and served as Vice President and Secretary of the Mutual Emergency Union, a mutual aid company in Philadelphia. Vocationally, he was engaged in several enterprises. He helped organize, and for several years was president of, the Fairview Gold Club, the first Negro Golf Club in Pennsylvania. His battery enjoys the unique distinction of having been the first battery of Negro Artillerymen ever to open fire upon an enemy. He enlisted in the 349th Field Artillery in March of 1918 and served overseas as a First Class Sergeant and Gunner. He later became a student at Temple University (1915) but was compelled to leave school because of a death in the family. John Milton Lee, born in Danville, Indiana, September 7, 1890, was graduated from the Danville High School in 1910 and entered the University of Indiana and there completed three years of pre-medical work. Diggs was instrumental in having the Indiana Constitution amended to permit Negro enlistment in the Indiana National Guard.

After European service with the 368th Infantry, he became a captain in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Upon America’s entrance into World War I, Diggs resigned his principalship to enter the Nation’s first Officer’s Training Camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was commissioned a lieutenant. After his death on November 8, 1947, the name of the school where he taught was changed to the Elder Diggs School in his memory. For this and other outstanding contributions to the Fraternity, he was awarded the Fraternity’s first Laurel Wreath in December, 1924.Īn educator by profession, he taught in the public schools of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was elevated to a principalship. He served as Grand Polemarch for the first six consecutive years of the Fraternity’s existence. We hold a multitude of events on campus each year to raise money for our international and local philanthropies.Elder Watson Diggs (circa 1883-1947), born in Christian County, Kentucky, was a graduate of Indiana State Normal (now Indiana State Teachers College) and Indiana University, the birthplace of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. As well as our international philanthropies, we have our local philanthropy, which is the Susan G. We have three international philanthropies that we pride ourselves on: The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders and the Delta Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation. It was founded on Rowan’s campus on March 2, 1992. Sisterhood, Scholarship, Self, Service, and Socialĭelta Phi Epsilon is an international sorority founded on March17, 1917 at New York University School of Law. As an organization we have identified five areas of development and personal growth among members, which cultivate well rounded and balanced women: Delta Phi Epsilon embraces women through our founding principles of justice, sisterhood, and love. Please see Unrecognized Groups for more information.ĭelta Phi Epsilon’s vision as a sorority is setting the standard for sisterhood in an ever changing world.

Psi Sigma Phi Multicultural Fraternity, Inc.Īlpha Phi Omega (Co-ed Service Fraternity)

National Pan-Hellenic CouncilĬhi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority, Inc. The following tables list each chapter by which council they belong to, as well as link to their ProfLink page, as well as website for their national organization.

All Fraternity & Sorority Organization ChaptersĪll organizations are open for any individual interested in Fraternity and Sorority Life regardless of race, color, religion or national origin. Kappa Alpha Psi was founded January 5, 1911, at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana and its opposition to hazing or unlawful or anti-social conduct of any kind has been continuous since its founding, implicit in its founding precepts and explicit in its declaration first published in the year 1949 stating that hazing in any form is illegal.

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