Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, Alpha Rho Alumni Association
Alpha Sigma Phi and Alpha Rho Chapter History

Letters from Alumni detailing early Alpha Kappa Pi history

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• Wilbur J. Kupfrian, March 23, 1981 -- Briefly recounting history of the founding of Alpha Kappa Pi
• Pete Skurla, July 27, 1981 -- Noted that Alpha Kappa Pi was "the campus leader in all respects"!
• William Van Derbeek, July 31, 1981 -- Notes of first campus house.
• Vernon O. Drake, January 16, 1981 -- Congratulations on rechartering; notes on Phi Delta Zeta.
• David S. Blankenship, May 14, 1982 -- Notes about much history is in The Alpha (magazine of Alpha Kappa Pi). David was too modest to mention that he was Grand President of Alpha Kappa Pi in the 1930's (this update from Bob Kutz, Alpha Sigma Phi National Historian).
• Dr. Frank J. Krebs (Grand Historian of Alpha Sigma Phi), May 14, 1982 -- Detailing additional history of Alpha Kappa Pi and Alpha Sigma Phi, notes on alumni involvement, names of former AKPi officers.
• Walter P. Sarnowski, May 17, 1982 -- Happily retired after a career with the U.S. Navy.
• Erwin J. Muench, May 21, 1982
• Joseph Zyda, May 31, 1982 -- Notes on meeting other AKPi brothers in California.
• Arthur N. Kugler, June 4, 1982 -- Fascinating history of how Phi Nu, a local, started at Stevens Institute of Technology in 1924, where Arthur served as president in 1925. In 1926, with the formation of AKPi, the local Phi Nu at Stevens became the Gamma chapter of AKPi.
• Joseph L. Delahanty, June 28, 1982
• Wilson R. Hull, July 2, 1982
• Arthur N. Kugler, May 18, 1983 -- Follow-up to letter of June 4, 1982
• Vernon O. Drake, June 20, 1983 -- Extensive details on Phi Delta Zeta, and Alpha Kappa Pi at Newark College of Engineering.
• Vernon O. Drake, May 8, 1993 -- Congratulation on flying Alpha Sig flag at South Pole.
• Vernon O. Drake, December 25, 1993 -- Family Christmas letter