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William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem Library
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Williamsburg, Virginia
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Administrative Information
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.
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.
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.
Acquisition Information:
Acc. 1983.50 received 9/30/1983 from an unidentified source.
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.
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: .
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.
Related Material
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)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- College of William and Mary--Students
- Fraternities--Social--Kappa Alpha
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
- Student Activities--Dances
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 1 id11079
KA sweetheart Kathy Hollingsworth with others at a dance1966
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 2 id11082
KA sweetheart Kathy Hollingsworth dressed up for KA's Southern Ball1966
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 3 id11083
Unidentified KA and KA sweetheart at Southern Ballundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 4 id11084
KA Charles Scofield and 1948 KA sweetheart Evelyn Jean Myers1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 5 id11085
Evelyn Jean Myers, 1948 KA sweetheart1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 6 id11086
Unidentified KA and KA sweetheartundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 7 id11087
Evelyn Jean Myers, 1948 KA sweetheart1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 8 id11088
KA officer Robert A. Doll and 1948 KA sweetheart Evelyn Jean1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 9 id11089
The inside of the KA lodge1965 September
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 object: 10 id11090
Unidentified KA and 1948 KA sweetheart Evelyn Jean Myers on the porch of the KA Lodge1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 11 id11091
Bill "Champ" Wilson, Ken Bruchey, Ed Aubin, Lew Lepper1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 12 id11092
Edwin Brockenbrough, Kappa Alpha's 1952 secretary posing in front of the Kappa Alpha Lodge1952
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 13 id11093
Unidentified Kappa Alpha's posing in front of the Kappa Alpha Lodge1952
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 14 id11094
Unidentified Kappa Alpha's in front of the Kappa Alpha Lodgeundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 15 id11095
Unidentified Kappa Alpha's posing in front of the Kappa Alpha Lodge1952
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 16 id11096
A group of KA's posing by the back porch of the KA Lodge1952
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 17 id11097
Unidentified KA's posing by the back porch of the KA Lodgeundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 18 id11098
Unidentified KA group picture by the fireplace in the Kappa Alpha Lodgeundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 19 id11099
Kappa Alpha's on the back porch of the KA Lodge1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 20 id11100
KA group picture inside the KA Lodge1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 21 id11101
KA group picture in the KA Lodge1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 22 id11102
KA's doing yardwork around the KA Lodgeundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 23 id11103
KA picnic during Old South Week1953
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 24 id11104
Old South Week festivities1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 25 id11105
Old South Week festivities1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 26 id11106
The Kappa Alpha march through Colonial Williamsburg during Old South Weekundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 27 id11107
KA's raising the Stars and Bars during Old South Week1951
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 28 id11108
The KA march during Old South Week1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 29 id11109
Unidentified KA and date during Old South Week1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 30 id11110
KA Bob Hamel during Old South Week1952
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 31 id11111
KA's on the march during Old South Weekundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 32 id11112
KA's on march through Colonial Williamsburg during Old Southundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 Folder: 33 id11113
KA's on march through Colonial Williamsburg during Old Southundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 34 id11114
KA's on march through Colonial Williamsburg during Old Southundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 35 id11115
KA's in front of the Capitol in Colonial Williamsburg during Old South Weekundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 36 id11116
KA's during Old South Weekundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 37 id11117
KA's at Southern Ballundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 object: 38 id11118
KA's marching through Colonial Williamsburg during Old South Weekundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 39 id11119
Unidentified KA during Old South Week1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 40 id11120
KA's at Southern Ball in the Campus Center Ballroomundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 41 id11121
KA Robert Vanarsdall and his date at Southern Ballundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 42 id11122
KA's Peter Schirmeier, Robert Vanarsdall, Kenneth McTagueundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 43 id11123
KA's Robert Vanarsdall, Garnett Woolwine, Gray Lynn, and othersundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 44 id11124
James O'Grady, Robert Hamel, Vernon Bonney, and others1950
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 45 id11125
Unidentified KA and dateundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 46 id11126
Unidentified womenundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 47 id11127
A KA formal danceundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 48 id11128
Peter Schirmeier, Robert Vanarsdall; Kenneth McTague, and another1960
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 49 id11129
The band at KA's Black and White Ball1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 50 id11130
KA's and dates on a beachundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 51 id11131
KA's Ray O'Connor, Dixon Foster, Cory Wampler, and girls1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 52 id11132
Unidentified KA's in the basement of the KA houseundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 53 id11133
KA pledges1948
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 54 id11134
KA's 1964 pledge class1964
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 object: 55 id11135
KA pledge class blindfolded before initiationundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 56 id47689
Songsheetsundated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 57 id47690
News Clippingscirca 1940s-1970s
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 58 id47691
The News1929-1930
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 59 id47694
Invitations, Programs, Tickets, Miscellaneous1915-circa 1970
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 60 id47695
Flierscirca 1940's-2008
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 61 id100954
Invitation to Annual Banquet, 18911891 June 30Scope and Contents
Invitation to Annual Banquet (transferred from College Papers)
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 62 id100957
Memo concerning origin or K.A. with logo1931 February 13Scope and Contents
Memo by Leroy S. Boyd, Feb 13, 1931, concerning the origin of the K.A. Fraternity. One page with logo.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 63 id100959
Booklet on the original Kappa Alpha by Leroy S. Boyd1919 SeptemberScope and Contents
The original Kappa Alpha, by Leroy S. Boyd. Reprinted from Banta's Greek Exchange, Sept 1919. 12 pages
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 id11136
Kappa Alpha guest register1926 January 6- 1939 August 14
- Mixed Materials Box: 2
Kappa Alpha scrapbook pages1 Linear Feetca. 1925-1948Scope and Contents
Black and tan album pages featuring newspaper article clippings and photographs pertaining to the membership and activites of Kappa Alpha.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2
Kappa Alpha scrapbook II pages1 Linear Feetca. 1948-1954Scope and Contents
Loose scrapbook pages from "Scrapbook II." The pages are labeled 1-7.