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| Our 10 Founders |
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| Elder Watson Diggs, born in Christian County, Kentucky, was a graduate of Indiana State Normal and Indiana University, the birthplace of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He served as Grand Polemarch for the first six consecutive years of the Fraternity's existence. For this and other outstanding contributions to the Fraternity, he was awarded the Fraternity's first Laurel Wreath in December, 1924. An educator by profession, he taught in the public schools of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was elevated to a principalship. After his death on Nov. 8 1947, the name of the school where he taught was changed to the Elder Diggs School in his memory. Upon America's entrance into World War I, Diggs resigned his principalship to enter the Nation's first Officer's Training Camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was commissioned a lieutenant. After European service with the 368th Infantry, he became a captain in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Diggs was instrumental in having the Indiana Constitution amended to permit Negro enlistment in the Indiana National Guard. |
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| Ezra Dee Alexander was born in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1892. During the fall of 1910 he entered Indiana University where he later earned the A.B degree in 1917. He received his M.D. degree from the Medical School of Indiana University in 1919. He practiced medicine in Indianapolis. Alexander served several terms as a member of the Grand Board of Directors. |
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| Born in Westfield, Indiana, Armstrong entered Indiana University where he studied philosophy, mathematics and sociology. After finishing Indiana University he earned his Master's degree at Columbia University in 1913, and subsequently the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Michigan. He held teaching positions in Florida, Indiana, Kansas and Oklahoma. During World War I he served as an investigator for the Department of Labor. He was awarded the Laurel Wreath (the Fraternity's highest award) in 1935. |
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| Atty. Henry T. Asher, born in Woodburn, Kentucky in 1892, was a graduate of Bloomington High School in 1910. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University in 1914 and the next year was an instructor at Lincoln Institued at Jefferson City, Missouri. He received the degree of LL.B. at the Detroit College of Law in 1928. |
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| Marcus Peter Blackemore, born in Franklin, Indiana in 1889, attended common and high school in Anderson, Indiana. He was graduated from High School in 1909 and entered the University of Indiana the following year. After leaving the University, he organized the Electric Engineering Company, which he operated until he enlisted in World War I. He later entered the Dental School of the University of Pittsburgh, from which he was graduated in 1923. At the time of his death in October 1959, he was residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he maintained his practice of dentistry. |
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