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Founding Father Henry Melbourne Vaughan passed away this day in 1939.
Founding Father Henry Melbourne Vaughan was born in Nova Scotia, Berwick on March 27 1874. While attending Bridgewater State College, he played on the tennis team. He graduated from Bridgewater in 1900. He was a teacher in Auburn RI as well as in Millbury. Founding Father Vaughan was married to Cassandra Pierce. Henry Vaughan passed away on May 30 1939 and is buried in the Pocasset Cemetery in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Remember Memorial Day and thank the many Kappa Delta Phi Brothers and Kappa Delta Phi NAS sisters that are Service men today. Feel free to leave them a note of thanks in this thread.
On Robert Edward Pellisser, a Brother from Alpha Chapter, Kappa Delta Phi at Bridgewater State College who was the first Brother to give his life in Battle. His days are chronicled in the book A Good Idea of Hell: Letters from a Chasseur a Pied.
Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot soldier – a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had grown up in the US and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland. Returning as a volunteer, he saw uninterrupted months of trench warfare in the Vosges mountains of Alsace, the only region where French troops actually captured German territory, a sector largely neglected in World War I literature. Pellissier’s diary and his letters to relatives in America show a panorama of this ghastly war: from the horror of being under fire with 3000 German shells falling on the French troops every day to the monotony of long quiet hours spent in cold, wet trenches. He writes of the grinding and indecisive character of the fighting in the Vosges and of the almost ritualistic shelling and limited tactical offensives, such as the attack at Steinbach in December 1914. His later letters were written from the hospital, from officer training school, and from the front at the Somme. He relays news of all the major battlefields – Flanders, Verdun, Russia, Austria, Gallipoli, Italy, Serbia and the Suez. He also comments on the new technology that changed the nature of war: the machine gun, the new airplanes, U-boats, improved artillery, barbed wire and poison gases. Drama and a sympathetic human voice combine to make this account of a little-reported French front a valuable addition to the literature of World War I.
To the many service men and women that are our Brothers and Sisters in Kappa, THANK YOU for everything you do you keep us safe and your are an inspiration to us all.
May The Spirit Never Die.
Cyrus M. Benson was born in Bridgewater Massachusetts on May 21, 1878. In his career at Bridgewater, he was running back and captain of the football team. He was also secretary and treasurer of section C, of his graduating class and a member of the glee club as well as one time Vice-President of Kappa Delta Phi.
He graduated from Bridgewater in 1900. Cyrus M Benson passed away on February 2, 1931 and is buried in the North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island.
On June 21 1971, Herman Gammons passed away at Nobel Hospital in Westfield Ma. He was cremated in Springfield and his ashes were buried in Lake Grove Cemetery, in Holliston Ma. He was the last of our founding fathers to pass away.
Herman Gammons was born on May 14, 1880 in Bridgewater, Ma. He played 4 years of baseball as a first baseman, as well as a member of the glee club. He was the 1st Vice-President and Secretary of Kappa Delta Phi along with president of section C in his graduating class. After graduating from Bridgewater in 1901, he went on to Harvard where he attained his masters in teaching. After Harvard he became a high school principal in Ashby. Later on in his career he became principal for a high school in Lewiston, Maine.
He was also the principal of Arlington HS in Arlington MA, where he eventually retired. Later they named the school after him.
While Nahum Leonard was our Founding Father, he was not the first President of Kappa Delta Phi.
1) What was Nahum Leonard’s position in Kappa Delta Phi when founded.
2) Who was the first president of Kappa Delta Phi?
Answer the question in the OTC forums
109 years ago Kappa Delta Phi National Fraternity was founded by 14 men with a vision of fraternalism of men and mankind, the responsibility we have to ourselves and to others and how to aid those in our communities, nation and elsewhere.
The organization of Kappa Delta Phi was founded at Bridgewater Normal School, on April 14, 1900. Before this date, a set of normal fellows varying in numbers from 10 to 15 had been in the habit of holding informal meetings in different rooms around the campus, most notably No. 60. At these meetings devoted chiefly to the joys of good fellowship, a feeling gradually arose concerning the desirability of moving toward a fraternal order. Thus this group of young men formed Kappa Delta Phi based on the same beliefs as we have today. The following men are the “founding fathers” of Kappa Delta Phi Fraternity:
Henry Melbourne Vaughan was born in Nova Scotia, Berwick on March 27 1874. While attending Bridgewater, he played on the tennis team. He graduated from Bridgewater in 1900. He was a teacher in Auburn RI as well as in Millbury. Henry Vaughan passed away on May 30 1939 and is buried in the Pocasset Cemetery in Cranston, Rhode Island.
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On May 14, 1880 one of the fourteen founding fathers of Kappa Delta Phi National Fraternity was born.
Herman Gammons was born on May 14, 1880 in Bridgewater, Ma. He played 4 years of baseball as a first baseman, as well as a member of the glee club. He was the 1st Vice-President and Secretary of Kappa Delta Phi along with president of section C in his graduating class. After graduating from Bridgewater in 1901, he went on to Harvard where he attained his masters in teaching. After Harvard he became a high school principal in Ashby. Later on in his career he became principal for a high school in Lewiston, Maine. In his free time he enjoyed fishing and woodcrafts. On June 21 1971, Herman Gammons passed away at Nobel Hospital in Westfield Ma. He was cremated in Springfield and his ashes were buried in Lake Grove Cemetery, in Holliston Ma. He was the last of our founding fathers to pass away.
He was also the principal of Arlington HS in Arlington MA, where he eventually retired. Later they named the school after him.
Edward Lawrence Curran was born on February 14, 1879 in East Bridgewater, Ma.
He was the manager of the baseball team and left tackle on the football team. He was also the Vice-President of Bridgewater’s athletic association and class historian of section C for his graduating class.
Also as a member of Kappa Delta Phi, he served as Vice-President. After graduating from Bridgewater in 1901, he went on to earn his Ph.D.. Soon after this he became superintendent of Boston Newboy’s Club.
Also during his post graduate career, he taught at the School of Sciences at Fordham University as well as being the Sales manager at American Oil Company in Boston.
Later on in his career he moved to New York City where he became a registrar at the Woolworth Building. After living in New York for his last few years of work, he moved back to Boston where he retired. Edward Curran passed away on January 5, 1957.
He was laid to rest in the St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery, which is located in Bridgewater Massachusetts.
Fordham University has named an award after this founding father of Kappa Delta Phi University – The Dr. Edward L. Curran Award – In honor of Dr. Curran, registrar from 1927-1954, each year the school’s Alumni association awards $200 to a student from each campus on the basis of grades, practice competence and school service.
Cyrus M. Benson was born in Bridgewater Massachusetts on May 21, 1878. In his career at Bridgewater, he was running back and captain of the football team. He was also secretary and treasurer of section C, of his graduating class and a member of the glee club as well as one time Vice-President of Kappa Delta Phi. He graduated from Bridgewater in 1900. Cyrus M Benson passed away on February 2, 1931 and is buried in the North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island.
