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Kappa Kappa Psi

 

Kappa Kappa Psi is an co-educational National Service fraternity centered on student leadership and service in a college or university band. The main goal of Kappa Kappa Psi is to aid the Director of Bands by promoting musicianship and service to the bands. Our other goals are to provide the band not only with organized and concentrated service activities, but also to give our membership valid and wholesome experiences in organization, leadership, and social contacts. The honorary nature of membership is based on our premise that "it is an honor to be selected to serve" this band, its department of music, its sponsoring institutions, and the cause of band music in the nation's colleges and universities. 

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Kappa Kappa Psi was founded as a national honorary society for College Bandsmen. Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Fraternity Incorporated, was founded on November 27, 1919 on the campus of Oklahoma A&M University, now known as Oklahoma State University, with the commitment and dedication of our ten honorable founding members (9 of whom are pictured below):

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• William Alexander Scroggs a.k.a. "The Founder"

• A. "Andrew" Frank Martin a.k.a. "Mr. Kappa Kappa Psi"

• Raymond D. Shannon

• William H. Coppedge

• Clayton E. Soule

• Carl A. Stevens

• Clyde Haston

• Dick Hurst

• George Asher Hendrickson

• Iron Hawthorne Nelson

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These founding members looked to Our Guiding Spirit, Bohumil Makovsky, the Band Director at Oklahoma A&M. Members affectionately refer to him as "Boh." He is remembered for his uncrushed black bow tie and sax shaped pipe. Kappa Kappa Psi would not be the great fraternity it is today without his guidance.