Special Collections Research Center
Kappa Alpha, Alpha Zeta Chapter Records
UA 7.001
/repositories/2/resources/8662
1.50 Linear Feet
1915-2008
1948-2008
The register and the scrapbook pages are very fragile, handle with care.
English
Scope and Contents
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.
Historical Note:
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: .
Conditions Governing Access:
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.
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.
Preferred Citation:
Kappa Alpha, Alpha Zeta Chapter Records, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
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.
Related Materials:
University Archives Subject File Collection (UA 9); University Archives Photograph Collection (UA 8); University Archives Poster Collection (UA 12); Wayne Fulton Gibbs Papers (UA 6.020); Herbert L. Ganter Papers (UA 6.068); Robert Edward Bruce Stewart, Jr. Papers (UA 5.043); Leonard L. Born Scrapbook (UA 5.048)
Conditions Governing Use:
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.
Photographs
Scrapbooks
College of William and Mary--Students
Student Activities--Dances
Fraternities--Social--Kappa Alpha
Photographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/611826KA sweetheart Kathy Hollingsworth with others at a danceid11079/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507151966111KA sweetheart Kathy Hollingsworth dressed up for KA's Southern Ballid11082/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507161966112Unidentified KA and KA sweetheart at Southern Ballid11083/repositories/2/archival_objects/350717undated113KA Charles Scofield and 1948 KA sweetheart Evelyn Jean Myersid11084/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507181948114Evelyn Jean Myers, 1948 KA sweetheartid11085/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507191948115Unidentified KA and KA sweetheartid11086/repositories/2/archival_objects/350720undated116Evelyn Jean Myers, 1948 KA sweetheartid11087/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507211948117KA officer Robert A. Doll and 1948 KA sweetheart Evelyn Jeanid11088/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507221948118The inside of the KA lodgeid11089/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507231965 September119Unidentified KA and 1948 KA sweetheart Evelyn Jean Myers on the porch of the KA Lodgeid11090/repositories/2/archival_objects/35072419481110Bill "Champ" Wilson, Ken Bruchey, Ed Aubin, Lew Lepperid11091/repositories/2/archival_objects/35072519481211Edwin Brockenbrough, Kappa Alpha's 1952 secretary posing in front of the Kappa Alpha Lodgeid11092/repositories/2/archival_objects/35072619521212Unidentified Kappa Alpha's posing in front of the Kappa Alpha Lodgeid11093/repositories/2/archival_objects/35072719521213Unidentified Kappa Alpha's in front of the Kappa Alpha Lodgeid11094/repositories/2/archival_objects/350728undated1214Unidentified Kappa Alpha's posing in front of the Kappa Alpha Lodgeid11095/repositories/2/archival_objects/35072919521215A group of KA's posing by the back porch of the KA Lodgeid11096/repositories/2/archival_objects/35073019521216Unidentified KA's posing by the back porch of the KA Lodgeid11097/repositories/2/archival_objects/350731undated1217Unidentified KA group picture by the fireplace in the Kappa Alpha Lodgeid11098/repositories/2/archival_objects/350732undated1218Kappa Alpha's on the back porch of the KA Lodgeid11099/repositories/2/archival_objects/35073319511219KA group picture inside the KA Lodgeid11100/repositories/2/archival_objects/35073419511220KA group picture in the KA Lodgeid11101/repositories/2/archival_objects/35073519511321KA's doing yardwork around the KA Lodgeid11102/repositories/2/archival_objects/350736undated1322KA picnic during Old South Weekid11103/repositories/2/archival_objects/35073719531323Old South Week festivitiesid11104/repositories/2/archival_objects/35073819511324Old South Week festivitiesid11105/repositories/2/archival_objects/35073919511325The Kappa Alpha march through Colonial Williamsburg during Old South Weekid11106/repositories/2/archival_objects/350740undated1326KA's raising the Stars and Bars during Old South Weekid11107/repositories/2/archival_objects/35074119511327The KA march during Old South Weekid11108/repositories/2/archival_objects/35074219601328Unidentified KA and date during Old South Weekid11109/repositories/2/archival_objects/35074319601329KA Bob Hamel during Old South Weekid11110/repositories/2/archival_objects/35074419521330KA's on the march during Old South Weekid11111/repositories/2/archival_objects/350745undated1331KA's on march through Colonial Williamsburg during Old Southid11112/repositories/2/archival_objects/350746undated1332KA's on march through Colonial Williamsburg during Old Southid11113/repositories/2/archival_objects/350747undated1333KA's on march through Colonial Williamsburg during Old Southid11114/repositories/2/archival_objects/350748undated1334KA's in front of the Capitol in Colonial Williamsburg during Old South Weekid11115/repositories/2/archival_objects/350749undated1335KA's during Old South Weekid11116/repositories/2/archival_objects/350750undated1336KA's at Southern Ballid11117/repositories/2/archival_objects/350751undated1337KA's marching through Colonial Williamsburg during Old South Weekid11118/repositories/2/archival_objects/350752undated1338Unidentified KA during Old South Weekid11119/repositories/2/archival_objects/35075319601439KA's at Southern Ball in the Campus Center Ballroomid11120/repositories/2/archival_objects/350754undated1440KA Robert Vanarsdall and his date at Southern Ballid11121/repositories/2/archival_objects/350755undated1441KA's Peter Schirmeier, Robert Vanarsdall, Kenneth McTagueid11122/repositories/2/archival_objects/350756undated1442KA's Robert Vanarsdall, Garnett Woolwine, Gray Lynn, and othersid11123/repositories/2/archival_objects/350757undated1443James O'Grady, Robert Hamel, Vernon Bonney, and othersid11124/repositories/2/archival_objects/35075819501444Unidentified KA and dateid11125/repositories/2/archival_objects/350759undated1445Unidentified womenid11126/repositories/2/archival_objects/350760undated1446A KA formal danceid11127/repositories/2/archival_objects/350761undated1447Peter Schirmeier, Robert Vanarsdall; Kenneth McTague, and anotherid11128/repositories/2/archival_objects/35076219601448The band at KA's Black and White Ballid11129/repositories/2/archival_objects/35076319481449KA's and dates on a beachid11130/repositories/2/archival_objects/350764undated1450KA's Ray O'Connor, Dixon Foster, Cory Wampler, and girlsid11131/repositories/2/archival_objects/35076519481451Unidentified KA's in the basement of the KA houseid11132/repositories/2/archival_objects/350766undated1452KA pledgesid11133/repositories/2/archival_objects/35076719481453KA's 1964 pledge classid11134/repositories/2/archival_objects/35076819641454KA pledge class blindfolded before initiationid11135/repositories/2/archival_objects/350769undated1455General papers/repositories/2/archival_objects/611827Songsheetsid47689/repositories/2/archival_objects/350770undated156News Clippingsid47690/repositories/2/archival_objects/350771circa 1940s-1970s157The Newsid47691/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507721929-1930158Invitations, Programs, Tickets, Miscellaneousid47694/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507731915-circa 1970159Fliersid47695/repositories/2/archival_objects/350774circa 1940's-2008160Invitation to Annual Banquet, 1891id100954/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507931891 June 30161Scope and ContentsInvitation to Annual Banquet (transferred from College Papers)
Memo concerning origin or K.A. with logoid100957/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507941931 February 13162Scope and ContentsMemo by Leroy S. Boyd, Feb 13, 1931, concerning the origin of the K.A. Fraternity. One page with logo.
Booklet on the original Kappa Alpha by Leroy S. Boydid100959/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507951919 September163Scope and ContentsThe original Kappa Alpha, by Leroy S. Boyd. Reprinted from Banta's Greek Exchange, Sept 1919. 12 pages
Kappa Alpha guest registerid11136/repositories/2/archival_objects/3507751926 January 6- 1939 August 142Kappa Alpha scrapbook pages/repositories/2/archival_objects/6118531 Linear Feetca. 1925-19482Scope and ContentsBlack and tan album pages featuring newspaper article clippings and photographs pertaining to the membership and activites of Kappa Alpha.
Kappa Alpha scrapbook II pages/repositories/2/archival_objects/6118541 Linear Feetca. 1948-19542Scope and ContentsLoose scrapbook pages from "Scrapbook II." The pages are labeled 1-7.