ALPHA PSI
Presbyterian College

FOUNDED ON
5.12.1928

LOCATION
Clinton, NC

HISTORY
Presbyterian College was established as Clinton College in 1880. It changed its name to Presbyterian College in 1890. Phi Delta Tau was organized at Presbyterian College by nine men including D.S. Blankenship, Presbyterian ‘28 in the Fall of 1926. On May 12, 1928, the group was installed as Eta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Pi by National President Wilson Hall. When chartered, the chapter had nine undergraduate members, six alumni members, and five new members. First meeting rooms were in the Adair Building, 304 W. Main Street. Upon the merger of Alpha Kappa Pi and Alpha Sigma Phi, the chapter was re-designated Alpha Psi. The chapter won seven scholarship awards from the Fraternity in the 1950’s and 60’s. In 1975 the chapter added a deck to its lodge. Brad Bryant, Presbyterian ‘73 supervised the undergraduate brothers in constructing the deck. The chapter awards an outstanding senior award, The Geoff Hall Award, named after an Alpha Psi brother who later served as President of the Beta Delta Chapter while a graduate student at Marshall University. The chapter won the Alpha Gamma Upsilon Award for 1995-96.

The chapter newsletter is The Open Book. Evin Varner, Presbyterian ‘58, served as Grand Senior President of Alpha Sigma Phi from 1984 to 1985, on the Grand Council from 1978 to 1986, and as Editor of The Tomahawk from 1974 to 1986. He received the Distinguished Service Award, and after his death it was renamed the Evin C. Varner Jr. Distinguished Service Award in his honor. David S. Blankenship, Presbyterian ‘28, served as National President of Alpha Kappa Pi and on the Grand Council of Alpha Sigma Phi. Ben Collins, Presbyterian ‘48, William Prickett, Presbyterian ‘62, E.G. Lassiter ‘68, Blankenship, and Varner, have received Delta Beta Xi keys. Other notable alumni include Clarence Hugh Holman ‘34, author, founding co-editor of the Southern Literary Journal, and former vice president of the National Humanities Center, Captain Charles Brown MacDonald ‘39, Army veteran of WWII, famed WWII historian, and former Deputy Chief Historian for the US Army, Major General George Lafayette Mabry, Jr. ‘39, US Army veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor for valor in WWII, Major General Christian Price Patte ‘53, former Director of Logistics for NATO and former staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brigadier General Roscoe Lindsay, Jr. ‘57, US Army (retired), and William Bradley Bryant ‘73, attorney and former superintendent of public schools for the state of Georgia (2010-2011).

CHAPTER AWARDS
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INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
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