The fraternity has eliminated Hell Week, personal duties by pledges, and hazing. Alpha Kappa Lambda became a senior member of NIC in 1954. Expansion resumed with an aggressive plan in 1950. The Great Depression and World War II disrupted the geographic expansion of the fraternity until 1949 when it hired its first full-time employee. After the war, active members and alumni focused on expansion, establishing Beta chapter at Stanford, followed by chapters at several Midwestern universities. However, its growth was put on hiatus by World War I. The fraternity contemplated an early expansion program and adjusted its operational model into a more permanent fraternal association model. The club adopted its Greek letter name Alpha Kappa Lambda on April 22, 1914. They formed Los Amigos in January 1907, a house club named from the Spanish translation of "The Friends." Shortly after, seven more men joined Los Amigos. Its birth, however, dates back to 1906 when a group of friends, the Los Amigos Club, discussed the "need of Christian men for a place to live and study that was within their means." These eleven men celebrated as the Fraternity's founders, were:Īfter assisting in the cleanup of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, four of the group re-addressed their desire to organize a house club during a YMCA conference in Pacific Grove, California. Today, it operates 25 active chapters and has approximately 28,000 living-initiated members.Īlpha Kappa Lambda was founded on April 22, 1914, by a group of young men attending the University of California, Berkeley.
Yellow Rose - Souvenir de Claudius PernetĪlpha Kappa Lambda ( ΑΚΛ), commonly known as AKL or Alpha Kapp, is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1914.
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