The Gamma Psi Chapter was chartered on May 20, 1950 on the campus of Grambling College in Grambling Louisiana. The charter line was comprised of the following 9 astute young gentlemen:
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Edward L. Adams
Curtis J. Armand
Wickliff Bassett
Louis J. Davis
Edward M. Johnson
Lucius W. Martin
Zettie L. Moore
Isaac C. Porter
William D. Warren
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A Small Sample of Chapter Brother Achievements
1965 – Calvin Brown (Fall ’55) is a stunt double on television shows I Spy and The Big Valley and is widely recognized as the first African-American stuntman in Hollywood.
1977 – Joseph B. Johnson (Spring ’55) is named president of Grambling State University.
1981 – Willie Davis (Fall ’54) is inducted into the National Football League (NFL) Hall of Fame.
1984 – Raymond Jetson (Spring ’76) is elected to the Louisiana Legislature.
1988 – Emmett Moten, Jr. (Spring ’63) is named CEO of The Moten Group, a real estate development and consulting firm. He is largely responsible for late Detroit mayor Coleman Young’s economic development plans and the 2008 restoration of the historic Ft. Shelby hotel into the current Doubletree Ft. Shelby hotel in Detroit.
1998 – Levi Washington (Spring ’58) is selected to the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Hall of Fame.
2004 – Martin Lemelle (Spring ’04) is awarded the Byron K. Armstrong Scholars award by the fraternity. This award is the only Grand Chapter award available to undergraduate members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. for outstanding achievement.
2007 – Southwestern Province names chapter as undergraduate chapter of the year and Aubrey Jackson (Spring ’06) as undergraduate brother of the year.
2008 – Charles Blow (Spring ’89) is named as the first Visual Op-Ed Columnist at the New York Times following previous stints at the Detroit Morning News, the New York Times, and National Geographic.
2009 – Michael Lyons (Spring ’72) is elected to the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame for a girls and boys basketball coaching career resulting in nearly 1200 wins and 6 championships.
2013 – Jerome “DJ Jubilee” Temple (Spring ’89) headlines the first bounce show to be performed at New Orleans’ Preservation Hall with the Big Easy Bounce Band. Known as “The King of Bounce”, Brother Temple first achieved international fame with his 1993 single “Do The Jubilee All” which has been accepted as the first recorded work using the word “twerk” for a widely known popular dance.
2016 – Richard J. Gallot, Jr. (Spring ’85) named president of Grambling State University after a noteworthy political career in both the Louisiana House of Representatives and the Louisiana Senate.