The Alpha Nu Chapter was founded at the University of Missouri on September 1, 1909. The chapter was founded by Henry A. Eversole, a law student at the University of Missouri, and Russel E. Holloway, a practicing lawyer in Columbia.
Pi Kappa Alpha was founded on March 1, 1968, at the University of Virginia, in room 47, West Range. The fraternity was founded by six graduate students: William Alexander, Littleton Waller Tazewell Bradford, Robertson Howard, James Benjamin Sclater Jr., Frederick Southgate Taylor, and Julian Edward Wood. The six men created Pi Kappa Alpha with the values of scholarship, leadership, drive, and character. Pi Kappa Alpha establishes lifelong friendships and develops men to positively transform its members and communities.
Pi Kappa Alpha is dedicated to developing men of integrity, intellect, and high moral character and to fostering a truly lifelong fraternal experience.
Pi Kappa Alpha will set the standard of integrity, intellect, and achievement for our members, host institutions, and the communities in which we live.
We believe in the importance of virtue and commit to living the values of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. We recognize that truth is the foundation of all lasting associations, and we will seek wisdom and knowledge while serving others in modesty and dignity.
Recalling that Pi Kappa Alpha is a lifelong commitment, I therefore reaffirm to live my life with honor and courage, seeking the inherent worth in each person I meet; to accept all brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha in love and friendship; and to serve my faith, my family, my community, my alma mater, and my Fraternity.
Only then, by living these virtues, will we realize our fullest potential.
"For the establishment of friendship on a firmer and more lasting basis; for the promotion of brotherly love and kind feeling; for the mutual benefit and advancement of the interests of those with whom we sympathize and deem worthy of our regard; We have resolved to form a fraternity, believing that, thus we can most successfully accomplish our object."