On July 20, 1962, twenty-one Kappa Brothers living in El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico sent forth to the Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity Grand Chapter the documentation required to create a new Alumni Chapter which would be know as the Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity, Inc., El Paso – Las Cruces Alumni Chapter. The Charter for this Alumni Chapter was finally approved and granted on 13 October 1962.
Twenty of those Charter Brothers carried a life membership card with the Grand Chapter.
The twenty-one Charter Members of the El Paso – Las Cruces Alumni Chapter are:
- James B. Crumady – Polemarch
- James M. Bailey, Jr.
- Andrew Bland
- Rufus Bowling Jr.
- Bennie D. Cooley
- Theodore Crawford
- Ira L. Davis
- James S Guyton, Jr.
- Earl R. Greene
- Jack A. Harris
- Harvey Lassiter
- Claude P. Malone
- Frederic L. Merchant, Jr.
- Dennis B. Neighbors
- Daniel B. Nicholas
- Howard Patton
- Robert J. Reed
- Nathaniel R. Roache
- G.V. Shipp
- James H. Sitgraves
- Robert L. Wright