Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity
Kappa-Omega Zeta
at Georgetown College
Chapter History

The League and Covenant of Theta Kappa Nu

The League and Covenant of Theta Kappa Nu (the League) was written at the founding of the national fraternity in Springfield, MO, in June 1924. It expresses the tenants of the fraternity and unites its signatories in the bond of brotherhood. Each chapter was presented with its own hand-written copy when installed. Signing the chapter's League was part of the fraternity's initiation. Sometime after the Union occurred, Kentucky-Alpha's League was sent to LCA headquarters and stored away for almost fifty years. Perhaps the books were "confiscated" from each chapter shortly after the Union in 1939, or perhaps our chapter's League was sent along with ritual books at the time chapter operations ceased in 1942.

In about 1988 headquarters mailed Kentucky-Alpha's League to Kappa-Omega, and it has remained in the chapter's archives ever since. It is a simple lined, blank notebook with the text of the Covenant hand-written followed by the numbered signatures of the initiates. The first 38 signatures are those of the Charter Members who signed at the installation on May 19, 1928.

The book is in very delicate shape and easily damaged when handled, so images of the pages are provided here for members to view. (Or just click on the cover to the right to enter)

League List compared to the current roster

The signatures are listed and numbered in the order that initiates signed the book at their initiation. The numbers are almost always different from the Zeta numbers assigned in 1939 or later. In the case of four charter members, their names do not appear on our current chapter roster and they apparently were never assigned a Zeta number, though their own signature proves they were initiated in 1928. In the case of E.G. Traylor (#50), his name was apparently lost from the roll in the 30's, but added to the list as Zeta #606 a few decades later. [NOTE: at this point, I am unsure of this...#606 may have been another brother named Traylor...still investigating]

The hand-written numbers also may not be the same as those officially assigned to initiates by QKN headquarters: brother Joe Stone always said he was #12; but he signed 25th and was assigned Zeta #13. Perhaps he was simply mistaken about his own number, something completely understandable for brothers of the 1920's and 30's.

Another "mix up" that brothers heard about from Tim Juett at homecoming on many occassions, well into the 1980's: Zeta numbers 109, 110, and 111 were accidentally "skipped." When the mistake was discovered, Juett and two other brothers were assigned the skipped numbers, making them appear older than they actually were (though only by a couple of years!) Its unfortunate the names of four of the "lost charter members" weren't discovered and placed there at that time.

Name QKN# Zeta#
C W. Reiley 1 5
T. H. Kingsten 2 1
Claude Ammerman 3 29
Loren Jorders (Borders) 4 32
Weldon Wallace 5 35
Robert Gatten 6 6
Robert Proctor 7 2
Gordon Lewis 8 34
Warren Jones 9 27
Clarence Richardson 10 30
Thomas Cochran 11 28
Ira Porter 12 4
James Lewis 13 31
James Lewis 14 33
Freeman Showalter 15 3
J. E. Dean 16 --
Homer Lewis 17 7
Claude Shouse 18 9
William Ward 19 10
James Showalter 20 8
William T. Griffin 21 11
Ralph Chapman 22 12
Henry Allen 23 15
Ralph Eckler 24 16
Joe S. Stone 25 13
Lee Wilson 26 14
Homer Kemp 27 17
Frank Denton 28 20
John Vergil Lewis 29 18
Robert Meyer 30 19
Henry Byrnside 31 26
Morgan Christian 32 --
Harry Hargis 33 24
Edmund Keith 34 23
Oliver Carlock 35 21
William Sleadd 36 --
William Slusher 37 --
W G. Keightley 38 25
Ralph Richardson 39 22
Rillie Mullins 40 38
David Rice 41 36
Everett Hall 42 37
Albert Fisher 43 39
C. B. Foster 44 42
Paul A. Cundiff 45 41
Newton Hustead 46 86
James Coursey 47 40
Larue Roberts 48 87
Russell Howard 49 85
E G. Traylor 50 606
Herbert Smith 51 43
Virgil Day 52 44
Lucien Whitlock 53 45
Charles Hood 54 47
Ogden Huff 55 88
Paul Redhead 56 49
Wallace Turner 57 89
Vincent Vaughan 58 48
C F. Huff 59 46
Dudley B. Glass 60 50
Wilson Lewis 61 51
Clarence Daves 62 90
Brutus Taylor 63 54
James (Lloyd) Rogers 64 52
Howard Monroe 65 53
Dean Parrish 66 92
Robert Lake 67 91
S M. Foley 68 56
Gerald P. Eckler 69 55
William Anderson 70 57
William Kirtley 71 58
Edward Sam Amerson 72 59
George Wilson 73 60
John Clore 74 61
Ancel Cook 75 93
Robert Clore 76 84
Henry Bennett 77 96
Maurice J. Lewis 78 62
William Balof 79 95
Harry McGuire 80 94
Edwin Wheeler 81 97
Harold Miller 82 63
William Copeland 83 98
John Anderson 84 64
Murray Cranford 85 99
Karl Lusk 86 65
John T. Anderson 87 66
Henry Hensley 88 67
Malcolm Hart 89 68
Douglas Harris 90 69
Truman Damyon (Damron) 91 100
David William Siria 92 70
Curtis Siria 93 101
S. T. Stevens 94 71
Neil R. Maxey 95 72
Jeter Grimsley 96 73
Ralph Parker 97 102
Chester Stevens 98 76
Reuben Allen 99 75
Marvin Risen 100 74
Ennis W. Waldemayer 101 103
William Kington 102 78
Clinton Smith 103 104
Frank Smith 104 77
Maurice Anderson 105 79
Thomas Sellers 106 106
Salin Baker 107 80
Robert Prather 108 81
Samuel S. Hughes 109 105
Dudley Pomeroy 110 82
Henry Beach 111 107
Byron Johnson 112 108
William R. Tabb 113 83
Forest Smith 114 114
Albert Farley 115 115
Luther Gilley 116 112