Undergraduate Chapter

Chi Chapter

Vanderbilt University

The Chi Chapter was first established on 04/09/1883 at Vanderbilt University and was restored on Friday, February 23, 2018. This chapter is located in Nashville, TN.

  • Founder(s): W. E. Lucas
  • Charter: April 9, 1883, J. S. Candler
  • Charter Members: Horace Henry White, Edgar Smith, Andrew Joseph Gibson, Marion Dargan

Distinguished Alumni

  • Dr. Ric Cannada – Initiated 1967 – President, Reformed Theological Seminary; Presbyterian Minister
  • Brandt Snedeker – Initiated 2000 – Professional golfer
  • Horace H. White – Initiated 1883 – 13th Knight Commander of Kappa Alpha Order from 1889 to 1891
  • Delbert Mann – Initiated 1938 – film director, won an Oscar and Palme d’Or in 1955
  • Andrew Nelson Lytle – Initiated 1922 – Novelist, dramatist, essayist, Professor of Literature at the University of Florida and the University of the South