Kappa Alpha Order

The Kappa Alpha Order is a college fraternity.

It is not to be confused with the Kappa Alpha Society.

Kappa Alpha Order was founded in 1865 at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Va. The four founding fathers were influenced by Robert E. Lee, who was the school's president following the Civil War, and formed Kappa Alpha. The Order was kept alive by Samuel Z. Ammen in subsequent years and the chapter spread throughout the South. Up until recent times it remained a distinctly Southern fraternity; there are now chapters in the West and North.

-Robert E. Lee is considered the spiritual founder; he was never a member.

-Kappa Alpha is an Order, not a fraternity. An Order indicates that its members were born KA's and that it is the job of the members to identify uninitiated KA's.