Knowing their actions would have consequences. Some anxty members from Alpha Phi chapter voted to admit women on October 8, 1972. On March 26, 1946, Tau Beta Sigma was officially chartered as a national organization, but not as an aux chapter as a sister organization.

It is a new era and some of the best band directors in the United States are coming to the theory that girls must be recognized and give the same opportunity as boys.” “If we do not meet this new situation and give recognition to the girls who are coming into the bands or make it possible to give aid or assistance to the many universities and colleges that have bands composed of both boys and girls, we will be playing second fiddle within the next five years to some band fraternity that will grant membership to boys and girls and their chapters will open up in the smaller schools where ours have died. This quote from a letter to Martin to Scroggs sums it up. In the end, membership was granted to both male and females. Some hopeful members of KKPsi helped guide TBS with the intent of getting them into Kappa Kappa Psi. Tau Beta Sigma was formed in 1939, and in 1944 they petitioned the National Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi to be allowed as an auxiliary chapter of the Fraternity.

Frank Martin, William Scroggs, and the five remaining active chapters (Alpha, Oklahoma State University Alpha Beta, Butler University Alpha Iota, University of Colorado Alpha Omicron, Texas Tech University and Alpha Pi, University of Tulsa). Kappa Kappa Psi was kept alive by the efforts of A. WWII put a great deal of strain on the membership of Kappa Kappa Psi, eventually forcing 90 percent of all chapters to shut down. Kappa Kappa Psi is a National Honorary Band Fraternity.įounded in 1919 by bunch of old, white men.

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