Hodges, a four-star general and commander of the US First Army in Europe. In WWII, 15,000 of its 33,000 active members served, including General Courtney H. In WWI, one out of every six members of the fraternity served in uniform. Pi Kappa Alpha members have supported the nation's armed conflicts in large numbers. Pi Kappa Alpha was not originally organized as a sectional fraternity however, by constitutional provision it became so in 1889, and for twenty years would only open chapters south of the Mason-Dixon Line. The four delegates to the Hampden–Sydney Convention are referred to as the Junior Founders. Theta chapter is the longest continual running chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, having been founded in 1878. John Shaw Foster, a junior founder from Theta chapter, helped to reestablish Alpha chapter at the University of Virginia. Theta chapter, at Rhodes College, took over the responsibilities of Alpha chapter, granting chapters for a short period before this duty was taken over by an administrative office. This marked the start of a new wave of prosperity and substantial growth and the end of almost a decade of decline. Ī call for a national convention was sent out, and delegates of three of the four active chapters met in what would become the "junior founding" of the fraternity at what they called the Hampden–Sydney Convention, held in a dorm room at Hampden–Sydney College. This period of early growth slowed though, and by 1889 only four chapters remained active. Its Gamma chapter was placed at William and Mary just two years later, and a total of seven chapters formed in the first decade. Expansion was considered early in the fraternity's history on March 1, 1869, exactly one year after the Alpha chapter at the University of Virginia was formed, the Beta chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha was founded at Davidson College. One had been a Union hospital officer, another a Confederate veteran, and a third, a repatriate. Three of the Founders had been former cadets, having served on both sides of the recently concluded Civil War. Pi Kappa Alpha was founded on March 1, 1868, in Room 47 in West Range ( The Range) at the University of Virginia by six graduate students:
Pi Kappa Alpha at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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