University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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Boyd Condict Culbreath Davis, G. E. Davis, R. E Dunkle Evans Forth Freeze Gallentine Gordon Hardy Harvey Hill Hodges Howard Huff Ienninqs Miller Minear Moore Pace Parrarnore Partridge P: per Persons Pyle Rice Rinqdahl Roberts Shirley Sparrowhawk Wade Walters Weaver Wylse

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Kappa Alpha OFFICEBS President - - - IOHN A. BECKMAN Vice President - - B. KEN MUSGBAVE Secretary - - .LESLTE IOUCfl-HN Treasurer - - BAPHAEL BENTSCHNEB THE Kappa Alpha Order, largest of southern fraternities, was founded at Washington and Lee University on December Ql, l8B5, under the guidance of General Bobert E. Lee. The Order consists of B7 chapters all below the Mason-Dixon Line. K. A. was one of the first fraternities on the Florida campus, and was with the school when it was located at Lake City, Florida. Beta Zeta Chapter of Kappa Alpha was well represented in athletics dur- ing the current session, with seven men on the Varsity Football team including Angus Williams, Iunior Dupree, Sid Vaughn, Henry Brown, Don Davidson, Horace Drew, and Weldon Wright. Bill Atkinson was K. Afs contribution to the Varsity Basketball team. The Chapter, represented by Auturo Hughes, Otto Lee Henderson and Bill Atkinson, also won the lntramural Boxing Tour- nament. Talmadge Murray represents K. A. in Florida Blue Key and was also selected to be listed in 'lWho's Who in American Universities and Collegesf while Frank T. McCoy represents the Chapter in Phi Beta Kappa. A most successful social year, including Homecoming, Fall Frolics, and Spring Frolics was highlighted by the annual Plantation Ball at which the Kappa Alpha Bose for i946 was selected. At this gala affair hoop-skirted Southern Belles danced beneath fluttering Confederate flags and were toasted by uniformed Colonels, while Cnon-alcoholic? mint juleps were served on the veranda.

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S . Kappa 1gI'II'l.G. CFFICERS President A - FRANK F. FORTH Vice President - - TCHN B. HARVEY Secretary - - ,ELMER C. HlLL Treasurer - - HENRY W. EVANS KAPPA SlGMA traces its ancestry to the University ot Bologna, ltaly, where, in the year MOU, students organized a society as protection against the evil governor, Cossa. Atter spreading to other European universities, the ideals ot the traternity finally were brought to the United States when Kappa Sigma was tounded at the University of Virginia in l869. The expansion oi Kappa Sigma in this country was very rapid. lt was the tirst Southern traternity to place a chapter in the North, and it is now, with l2U chapters in this country, one ot the two largest social organizations in the World. Delta Delta, the local chapter, became one ot the iirst national organiza- tions established on the campus when a charter was granted to the Delta Rho local in l922. Since that time the chapter has produced three presidents ot the student body and many other leaders ot campus activities. Prominent Kappa Sigma alumni in the state include Governor Millard Caldwell, States Attorney, Keith Black, Assistant Attorney General, Cecil T. Farringon, Royall P. Terry, past chairman oi the State Board ot Control, and lohn Fahs, banker and mayor ot Leesburg. Kappa Sigma, always in the ioretront socially with such tunctions as its annual llHobo Hop , is also a leader in other campus activities. Members prominent at the University include H. Miller, Gator iootball team captain, Doug Sanders, Vice President ot the Glee Club, Donald Gallentine, President ot Benton Engineering Society, Frank Forth, Vice President oi the Forestry Club, Dick Wylie, member oi Honor Court, and many others.