CAC Chapter
History
The Chicago Alumni Chapter (CAC) was chartered as the first Alumni Chapter in the Fraternity’s history, on April 17, 1919.
Founder Byron K. Armstrong and Past Grand Polemarch Earl B. Dickerson were prime movers in establishing the Chicago Alumni Chapter. Brothers C. Leon Wilson, Hale C. Parker, William J. Prince, Thomas Mayo, George C. Ellis and Troy Smith worked closely with Armstrong and Dickerson. Founder Ezra D. Alexander, Founder Paul W. Caine and Founder Edward G. Irvin were also members of Chicago Alumni.
Fraternity History
On January 5, 1911, the Fraternity then became known as Kappa Alpha Nu, possibly as a tribute to the Black students of 1903 (the Alpha Kappa Nu Greek Society) who preceded them at Indiana University. These men of vision decided Kappa Alpha Nu would be more than another social organization. It would be the only Greek-letter organization founded with the concept of achievement. Kappa Alpha Nu began uniting college men of culture, patriotism and honor in a Bond of fraternity. Primarily, under the efforts and leadership of the calm, methodical, and philosophical Elder W. Diggs and the critical, and scholarly Byron K. Armstrong, the Kappa Alpha Nu Fraternity was founded. Through their combined labors, the fraternity’s ritual and ceremonial forms, constitution, hymn and motto were created, and insignia and emblems were fashioned.
Our Objectives
- To unite college men of culture, patriotism, and honor, in a bond of fraternity
- To Encourage honorable Achievement in every field of human endeavor.
- To promote spiritual, social, intellectual and moral welfare of its members
- To assist the aims and purposes of colleges and universities
- To inspire service in the public's interest.
Founders
- Elder Watson Diggs
- Byron Kenneth Armstrong
- Ezra Dee Alexander
- Henry Tourner Asher
- Marcus Peter Blakemore
- Paul Waymond Caine
- George Wesley Edmonds
- Guy Levis Grant
- John Milton Lee
- Edward Giles Irvin
Chicago Alumni Chapter Officers
