Guide Right

HISTORY OF GUIDE RIGHT

In the infancy of Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity when chapters were blossoming and flourishing throughout the length and breadth of the United States, both   individual and collective efforts were being made to incorporate meaningful programs into the various local chapter activities.

The very foundation of Guide Right can be traced to the St. Louis Alumni Chapter and Leon W. Steward, who rightfully is dubbed as the "Father of the Guide Right Movement".

According to the story of Kappa Alpha Psi, soon after the St. Louis Alumni Chapter’s beginning in 1921, Brothers Leon W. Steward and J. Jerome Peters were assigned to study the needs of active chapters for guidance and funds and to devise a "meaningful and practical approach" to the problem.

Ultimately, Brother Steward, a Y.M.C.A. secretary, proposed a program of guidance to the designated as Guide Right, with the purpose of assisting high school seniors to choose and pursue useful careers, consistent with fraternity purpose. This program was immediately adopted at the local level and the 12th   Grand Chapter adopted Guide Right as the national service program.

The focus of Guide Right, from its inception, was to provide scholarships to needy and talented students, and to inform young people in the professions and   career options.

OBJECTIVES OF GUIDE RIGHT

The basic objectives of Guide Right may be summarized as follows:

     
  1. To inspire service in the public interest through the cultural enrichment and character development of high school males.  
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  2. To develop leadership skills while monitoring, encouraging, and rewarding outstanding academic performance.  
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  3. To refined self-image, self-esteem, social skills, and environmental awareness.  
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  4. To assist parents in the handling of their children by giving them opportunities to talk over problems with those who know and are successful in their chosen vocations.  
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  5. To afford the less fortunate youths a respite from the drudgery of the streets, through sponsored entertainment and cultural enrichment.  
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  6. To inform youth of the value of higher education, assistance available for continued educational pursuits, scholarships, loans, professional counseling, and fellowships.

Kappa Alpha Psi’s commitment to young people is well established and our Guide Right efforts, both individual and collective, can contribute to serve as   a mechanism to "inspire service in the public interest."

GUIDE RIGHT COMMITTEES

Community Service Committee

Responsible for managing initiatives and projects with community-based organizations in the Richmond area. Project partnerships have been established with the Richmond Children’s Home, Richmond Public Schools, and the Richmond Social Services Department.

Kappa League Program

Responsible for managing activities, events and programs designed around mentoring developing metro area high school males.

What is the Richmond Kappa League?

The Richmond Kappa League is a community based organization of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. comprised of young men from the Richmond Virginia metropolitan area high schools, with specific emphasis on leadership development and self motivation for academic, and career achievement.

Richmond Kappa League members, through club oriented activities, perform projects that will expose them to the planning, execution, and reporting of ideas and development of good leadership characteristics.

The fundamental purpose of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity is achievement; therefore the primary charge of the Richmond Alumni’s Kappa League Committee is to help young men achieve worthy goals for themselves and to make constructive contributions to their communities when leadership roles become their   responsibility.

All activities and programs of Kappa League are comprised from one or more of   the following phases of the Guide Right Kappa Instructional League Program.

     
  1. Self- Identity
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  2. Training
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  3. Competition
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  4. Social
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  5. Health Education
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Through the assistance of family, community, as well as the Fraternity, has   been essential in proving the experiences that are necessary for realizing these ends. The Richmond Alumni Chapter continually commits itself to the task of helping young men who will be future leaders.