Maceo A Walker initiated 1/27/1929 at the 65th Grand Chapter December 26, 1983 received the coveted Laurel Wreath Award.
Samuel P. Massie, initiated in 1939, a genius, chemist and teacher, born 1919 in North Little Rock, Arkansas. A 1939 Alpha Delta initiate and past Polemarch of Nashville (TN) Alumni Chapter, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. A graduate of Fisk University and Iowa State University where he earned his PhD in Chemistry. Inspired by his fathers asthma, he set out to find a cure. Massie subsequently became president of North Carolina College at Durham. In 1996, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Massie to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland where he became the first African American professor at the institution, where he created the Academy’s black studies program.
Gregory D. Ridley Jr. initiated 5/17/1947 was listed in Who’s Who American Art. A sculptor painter and repose artist in over 500 public and private collections throughout the United States.
Alcee Lamar Hastings initiated 11/27/1954 was first appointed a U.S. District Court Judge for a southern district of Florida then elected to US House of Representatives. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, he became the first African-American Federal Judge in the state of Florida, and served in that position for ten years. In 1992 he was elected to Congress as the first African-American from Florida since the post-Civil War. Alcee Lamar Hastings received the Laurel Wreath award at the 77th Grand Chapter in 2007.
Godfrey J. Dillard Esq. was initiated at Alpha Delta 11/25/1968 and currently serves as a active member of the Detroit Alumni Chapter. Godfrey broke the Color Barrier in the SEC and as one of the first African American Scholarship Basketball players at Vanderbilt University.
Charles Wesley “Ceedy” Morgan, III initiated 11/29/1969 first triple life member and past Midwestern Province Keep of Records and Exchequer.