Kappa Sigma Chapter Histories

Chapter Histories

Reconstructed "Missing" Chapter Histories

In 1995, Patrick Feaster ('93) borrowed a most of the chapter's historical material, with the goal of producing a historical survey of the chapter. He got as far as an analysis of the extant chapter histories at that time before deciding he did not have time to do justice to the project. He also feared that if something happened to him, all of the chapter's historical information would be irretrievably lost, so he returned it. A few months later, he returned to the house and inquired about the files, only to be told they had all been thrown out during the most recent house clean-up session. These files included General Assembly minutes from the formation of the chapter up to the mid-1970's, yearly chapter histories for 1961-1969, the chapter's correspondence from the formation of the chapter through the mid-1970's, the treasurer's files from the 1960's-1980's, most of the programs file, etc. For five years, these files were thought lost. In order to reconstruct what we could, Patrick sent me what he had done in 1995, and I added some notes I had taken when I was chapter historian in 1993-1994. The result was the origin of this webpage. In 2001, it was discovered that the brother who reported that the files had been thrown out was mistaken; everything that was thought to be lost turned up when the actives were doing a particularly thorough house cleaning in preparation for the festivities surrounding the chapter's 40th anniversary.

I have put the histories up here along with as much related information as I can muster, so that Kappa Sigma alumni from all over the world can have easy access to the history of their chapter, and so as to spread this information as widely as possible and hopefully prevent it ever from becoming irretrievably lost. (The one exception to this is any references to fraternity secrets; since this page is open to the public, all such references have been blocked out here. If any brothers want to see such a reference in its original form, either visit the chapter and ask the historian to see the original documents, or contact me.)

As I get the opportunity to comb through the rediscovered historical material, I will expand this page, so that there is at least some history from each decade, if not each year, of the chapter's existence.

Chapter Histories

• A Brief History of Kappa Sigma Chapter, by Joel Hahn (Work in progress)

• 1960-62 -- The History of Kappa Sigma Chapter, by Alan Julseth (Lundberg Administration)
• 1962-63 -- Kappa Sigma 1962-63, author unknown (Maier Administration)
• 1963-64 -- author unknown [Original is incomplete] (Kraemer Administration)
• 1963-64, 1964-65 -- Campus Affairs Report Continued, [1963-64, by Richard Kraemer] (Kraemer Administration); and Kappa Sigma, Chapter Report on Campus Activities [1964-65], author unknown (Martens Administration)
• [No chapter history is known to have survived for 1965-66, if one ever existed] (Wischer Administration)
• 1966-67 -- Chapter History of 1966-67, by Peter Cook (Schnack administration)
• 1967 -- History of the Spring 1967 Pledge Class, by David Keller; and Appendix: PLAN 10 [Note: the accompanying house floorplan should be scanned in sometime Real Soon Now; I do not have any plans at this time to include the accompanying recital program here.]
• 1967-68 -- A Brief History: Kappa Sigma Chapter 1967-68, by Ralph Schmoldt (Schmidt Administration)
• 1968-69 -- History of Kappa Sigma Chapter Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia From March 21, 1968 to March 21, 1969, by David Keller (Springmann Administration)
• 1969-70 -- History of Kappa Sigma Chapter Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia From March 21, 1969 to January 5, 1970, by David Keller (Rider Administration)
• 1969-70 -- The Interregnum (a.k.a. the "1969 Crisis"), December 1, 1969 to January 5, 1970; original documents and excerpts of original documents, compiled by Joel Hahn
• [No official chapter histories are known to have survived for 1970-73, if any ever existed. See below for reconstructions based on surviving GA minutes, correspondence files, and alumni memories.]
• 1973 -- Homecoming 1973: Major Events of Kappa Sigma, April-October, 1973, author unknown (List Administration) [see below for fuller history]
• [No official chapter histories are known to have survived for 1974-90, if any ever existed. See below for reconstructions based on surviving GA minutes, correspondence files, and alumni memories.]
• [No chapter histories were written for 1990-1993]
• 1993-94 -- Kappa Sigma 1993-94, by Joel Hahn (Dobbertein Administration)
• [No chapter histories are known to have survived from 1994-present, if any ever existed. When GA minutes surface for these years, similar reconstructions will be compiled.]

• Excerpts from chapter histories & minutes, with editorial annotations and explanations by Joel Hahn

Unofficial Chapter Histories

(Reconstructed histories for "missing" years, compiled from surviving General Assembly minutes, correspondence files, and alumni memories, as information is available.)

• 1970-71 -- Under Construction: Second Draft Done History of Kappa Sigma Chapter from January 5, 1970 to March 15, 1971, by Joel Hahn (Hahn Administration) [No relation!]
• 1971-72 -- Under Construction: First Draft Done History of Kappa Sigma Chapter from March 15, 1971 to March 1972, by Joel Hahn (Franke Administration)
• 1972-73 -- Under Construction: First Draft Done History of Kappa Sigma Chapter from March 1972 to March 1973, by Joel Hahn (Patterson Administration)
• 1973-74 -- Under Construction: First Draft Done History of Kappa Sigma Chapter from March 1973 to March 1974, by Joel Hahn (List Administration)
• 1974-75 -- Under Construction: First Draft Done History of Kappa Sigma Chapter from March 1974 to March 1975, by Joel Hahn (Friesen Administration)
• 1975-76 -- No info. (Beicke Administration)
• 1976-77 -- Under Construction: First Draft Done History of Kappa Sigma Chapter from March 1976 to March 1977, by Joel Hahn (Unrath Regime)
• 1977-78 -- Under Construction: First Draft Done History of Kappa Sigma Chapter from March 1977 to March 1978, by Joel Hahn (Steck Dynasty)
• 1978-79 -- No info. (?? Administration)
• 1979-80 -- History of Kappa Sigma Chapter from March 31, 1979 to April 9, 1979 [not covered: April 1979 to March 1980] (Carlson Administration) (First Draft Done, as far as is possible. Minutes exist, in barest outline form, for one executive board meeting and one general assembly meeting only. No correspondence file exists.)
• 1980-81 -- ?? (Neumann Administration) (No minutes, but very small correspondence file exists.)
• 1981-82 -- ?? (Clikeman Administration) (No minutes, but very small correspondence/program file exists.)
• 1982-1991 -- No info. (Broadhead, Foos, Heaney, Johansen, Rensner, T. Thress Administrations) (Minutes for one general assembly in 1987 exist, but that's it.)
• 1991-1992 -- Under Construction History of Kappa Sigma Chapter from March 1991 to March 1992, by Joel Hahn (Teske Administration)
• 1992-93 -- ?? (M. Thress Administration) (Minutes still existed for this year as of 1999, but did not turn up when I borrowed the historical files from the actives.)
• [1993-94 -- See official history above]
• 1994-present -- ?? (Boelke, Bornhopp, Chastain, Cobb, Hartwell, Herbon, Klein, Werner Administrations) (Minutes still exist in electronic form for every year or almost every year, but I do not currently have access to all of them.)

Respectfully submitted,
Joel Hahn '94

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