Rutgers Education Club Records 

For more than two years before the installation of the Alpha Club Chapter of Kappa Phi Kappa, there had existed on the Rutgers a campus an “Education Club.” This club was organized among the undergraduate students of the School of Education for the purpose of presenting and discussing problems of an educational nature and for the fostering of the spirit of educational leadership. On December 22, 1933, the active members of this club decided to submit their petition to Kappa Phi Kappa for the issuance of a charter for a chapter and to that end they had the support of five members of the faculty, one of them already a Kappa Phi Kappan, Dr. J. Albert Blackburn, an initial of the Pennsylvanian Lambda Chapter. This organization was founded at Rutgers University on May 16, 1934. It remained active for five years until World War II caused the deactivation of the chapter. A charter remained during this period of inactivity and the Alpha Chi chapter of Kappa Phi Kappa, a professional education fraternity, was reactivated on May 16, 1952, led by Dr. William S. Sterner, Assistant Professor of Education at Rutgers. Alpha Chi remained active for the next few years; however, documentation contained within this collection indicates that by November 12, 1957, the chapter was “not active” and had “no advisor” as of that date. A handwritten request was included to file this documentation with the Kappa Phi Kappa records.