Kappa Alpha Order

Kappa Alpha Order (commonly known as Kappa Alpha, KA, or "the Order") is a social fraternity and fraternal order. Kappa Alpha Order has 124 active chapters, 3 provisional chapters, and 2 commissions. The Order boasts more than 149,000 initiated members. Kappa Alpha Order was originally founded as Phi Kappa Chi on December 21, 1865, at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. James Ward Wood, William Archibald Walsh, and brothers William Nelson ... more
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