Kappa Alpha, Alpha Zeta Chapter Records

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

The collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Kappa Alpha, Alpha Zeta Chapter Records, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
1.50 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Kappa Alpha, Alpha Zeta Chapter Records, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes photographs, fliers, scrapbooks, a dance card, programs, miscellaneous material, and a guest register of the Kappa Alpha, Alpha Zeta Chapter fraternity at the College of William and Mary. The fraternity is also known as Kappa Alpha Order. Many of the photographs document the fraternity's Old South Week and Old South Ball and are from the 1950s-1970. The earliest item in the collection is a dance card from 1915. The collection also includes three issues of the chapter's newsletter The News from 1929-1930. The most recent material from the chapter is event fliers.

Invitation to Annual Banquet (transferred from College Papers)

Memo by Leroy S. Boyd, Feb 13, 1931, concerning the origin of the K.A. Fraternity. One page with logo.

The original Kappa Alpha, by Leroy S. Boyd. Reprinted from Banta's Greek Exchange, Sept 1919. 12 pages

Black and tan album pages featuring newspaper article clippings and photographs pertaining to the membership and activites of Kappa Alpha.

Loose scrapbook pages from "Scrapbook II." The pages are labeled 1-7.

Biographical / historical:

The Kappa Alpha Order was founded in 1865 at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia. Kappa Alpha, Alpha Zeta Chapter at the College of William and Mary was founded in 1890.

Additional information about the chapter is available at http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/kalpha/azkahome. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Acquisition information:
Acc. 1983.50 received 9/30/1983 from an unidentified source.
Custodial history:

Portions of this collection were previously part of the University Archives Publications Collection and later the Student Organizations Collection.

Processing information:

Arranged and described by an unidentified staff member prior to 2001. Material formerly part of the University Archives Publications Collection and later the Student Organizations Collection added in January 2009 by Amy C. Schindler.

Material specific details:
The register and the scrapbook pages are very fragile, handle with care.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard