HR 9023

1	House Resolution
2	A resolution recognizing March 23, 2011, as the second
3	annual "Kappas at the Kapitol Day" in Florida.
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5	WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., is a public
6	service organization founded on January 5, 1911, by ten great
7	men at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where its
8	grand objective was to unite college men in a bond of
9	fraternity, and
10	WHEREAS, during Kappa Alpha Psi's 100-year history, its
11	members have vowed to make great achievements in all fields of
12	human endeavor, and
13	WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., is a brotherhood
14	of college-educated men committed to executing the fraternity's
15	ideals through its Guide Right programs: GLAD (Greeks Learning
16	to Avoid Debt), Sunday of Hope, iKare (International Kappa
17	Action Relief Effort), the Piney Woods School, the Kappa Alpha
18	Psi Foundation, political awareness programs, and international
19	awareness and involvement, and
20	WHEREAS, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., recently
21	celebrated its centennial anniversary of exemplary service and
22	support to local communities, leading dialogue on public policy
23	issues, supporting quality education, and producing new projects
24	to stimulate current and future economic growth, and
25	WHEREAS, with over 100,000 college-educated men initiated
26	since the fraternity's founding in 1911 and over 400
27	undergraduate chapters and 391 alumni chapters worldwide,
28	members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., are clearly focused
29	and visible as corporate and civic leaders, respected public
30	officials, acclaimed academicians, and activists in their own
31	right, and
32	WHEREAS, on March 23, 2011, members of Kappa Alpha Psi
33	Fraternity, Inc., representing Florida and the Bahamas, will
34	converge on Tallahassee to conduct the second annual "Kappas at
35	the Kapitol Day," and
36	WHEREAS, Justice James E.C. Perry of the Florida Supreme
37	Court; Senator Oscar Braynon II, Representatives Dwight M.
38	Bullard, Perry E. Thurston, Jr., and Alan B. Williams; and
39	former Representatives Edward B. "Ed" Bullard, Josephus
40	Eggelletion, Jr., Edward L. "Ed" Jennings, Jr., Daryl L. Jones,
41	and Matthew J. "Matt" Meadows are esteemed members of Kappa
42	Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., NOW, THEREFORE,
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44	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
45	Florida:
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47	That March 23, 2011, is recognized as the second annual
48	"Kappas at the Kapitol Day" in Florida in recognition of the
49	many contributions that the members of Kappa Alpha Psi
50	Fraternity, Inc., have made to this state.

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