I was born in the year 1804 or 1805, I could never determine which, on the third of May, a month which gives birth to many a tender flower unfitted for the storms of life. -- John Hart Hunter

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In 1989, a group of Kaps formulated an idea and plan for a Foundation whose goal was to strengthen the Kappa Alpha Society by funding scholarships, educational programs, and improvements to Kap lodges that would support the educational and intellectual objectives of the Society on each chapter campus. On March 10, 1994, the Foundation’s first step in its mission was realized when the Internal Revenue Service granted permanent status to The John Hart Hunter Educational Foundation, Inc., which was designated as a not-for-profit 501 (C)(3) tax-exempt, public, charitable organization.

The Foundation is named in honor of John Hart Hunter who led the founding of the Kappa Alpha Society at Union College on November 26, 1825. What the nine founding members proposed under Reverend Hunter’s direction was to formalize a secret Greek letter literary society as a social and eating group.

The Literary Society concept remains unique to Kappa Alpha, but the secret Greek letter social, eating concept evolved into the college fraternity system as it is known today. The Kappa Alpha Society was the first of these Greek letter groups and has chapters in colleges and universities in the northeastern United States and throughout Canada.