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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The North Central Province Chapters of Kappa Alpha
3 Psi Fraternity, Inc. are sponsoring their annual legislative
4 visit to the Illinois State Capitol; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., was founded in
6 1911 on the campus of Indiana University by African-American
7 college men; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is an
9 international organization with over 200,000 undergraduate and
10 alumni members; and
 
11     WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is an
12 organization committed to promoting honorable achievement in
13 every field of human endeavor; and
 
14     WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi members who have distinguished
15 themselves individually include Johnny Cochran, Jr., Reginald
16 Lewis, Bill Russell, Gale Sayers, Ralph Abernathy, Leon
17 Sullivan, Samuel Proctor, Tavis Smiley, Percy Sutton, John
18 Jacob, Lerone Bennett Jr., William Johnson, John Singelton,
19 Cedric the Entertainer, Thomas Bradley, Ed Gardner, John
20 Conyers, Louis Stokes, Oscar Robertson, Donald Byrd, Arthur
21 Ashe, General Daniel "Chappie" James, C. Vernon Mason, Wilt

 

 

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1 Chamberlain, Sanford Bishop, R. Eugene Pincham, Walter
2 Fauntroy, and Montell Jordan; and
 
3     WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi members who have distinguished
4 themselves in the Illinois General Assembly include Senator
5 James Clayborne, Jr., Senator Kwame Raoul, Representative Will
6 Davis, Representative Will Burns, Representative Eddie
7 Jackson, Senator Richard Newhouse, and Illinois Secretary of
8 State, and former Representative, Jesse White; therefore, be it
 
9     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
10 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, in recognition of
11 the achievements of the members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
12 Inc., and the values for which they strive, proclaim March 25,
13 2009, as Kappa Alpha Psi Day in the State of Illinois; and be
14 it further
 
15     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
16 presented to Mike Owens, North Central Province Polemarch of
17 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.