In 2004, the decision was made to move the Institute to Washington, D.C. For 20 years, Laurel Hall was home to the Hudson Institute. In 1984, the Hudson Institute, a policy research organization, purchased the property and changed the name of the building to the Herman Kahn Center. In 1982, Laurel Hall was again owned by a bank. Laurel Hall took on the role of the “Manor House,” the community’s office and entertainment center. He developed much of the property into condominiums. In 1974, Laurel Hall was sold to a local businessman.
Unfortunately, enrollment never reached that number and by 1970 it became necessary for the school to merge with St. In 1963, the Sisters opened a new building, increasing the school’s capacity to 600 students. They used it to house Ladywood, an all-girls Catholic boarding school. A year later it was sold to the Sisters of Providence. The Fletcher American National Bank, sans Fletcher at the helm, became the owner of Laurel Hall. In 1924, Fletcher declared bankruptcy (he died in 1957 in California, where he had worked as an elevator operator). He lost the bank and then his wife took her own life. In the early 1920s, Fletcher’s fortune’s changed due to an ill-timed investment in armaments and a World War which ended sooner than Fletcher anticipated. By 1920, the Fletcher American National Bank was Indiana’s largest national bank. At the time, it cost $2,100,000 to build. It had been built almost 90 years before as a private residence for Indiana banker, Stoughton J. Phi Psi’s Laurel Hall and Ruth Lilly Conference Center was acquired by the Phi Kappa Psi Foundation in 2005. How many Greek-letter organizations can make that claim? There I made the most startling discovery, Phi Kappa Psi’s headquarters, a former mansion, also doubles as an award-winning wedding and special events venue. In debating about whether I could even pull off of an interesting Phi Psi Founders’ Day post, I went to Phi Psi’s website. Mike McCoy, the fraternity’s historian does an excellent job of tweeting about the fraternity’s history. In the time I have been on twitter I have come to learn much about Phi Kappa Psi. Phi Kappa Psi’s founders are William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore. He was also a member of the Board of Managers of the Columbia Community Branch of the YMCA.Phi Kappa Psi was founded on Februin Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, at Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania). For eight years, he conducted a successful catering business in Philadelphia he organized and served as Vice President and Secretary of the Mutual Emergency Union, a mutual aid company in Philadelphia. Vocationally, he was engaged in several enterprises. He helped organize, and for several years was president of, the Fairview Gold Club, the first Negro Golf Club in Pennsylvania. His battery enjoys the unique distinction of having been the first battery of Negro Artillerymen ever to open fire upon an enemy. He enlisted in the 349th Field Artillery in March of 1918 and served overseas as a First Class Sergeant and Gunner. He later became a student at Temple University (1915) but was compelled to leave school because of a death in the family. John Milton Lee, born in Danville, Indiana, September 7, 1890, was graduated from the Danville High School in 1910 and entered the University of Indiana and there completed three years of pre-medical work. Diggs was instrumental in having the Indiana Constitution amended to permit Negro enlistment in the Indiana National Guard.
After European service with the 368th Infantry, he became a captain in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Upon America’s entrance into World War I, Diggs resigned his principalship to enter the Nation’s first Officer’s Training Camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was commissioned a lieutenant. After his death on November 8, 1947, the name of the school where he taught was changed to the Elder Diggs School in his memory. For this and other outstanding contributions to the Fraternity, he was awarded the Fraternity’s first Laurel Wreath in December, 1924.Īn educator by profession, he taught in the public schools of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was elevated to a principalship. He served as Grand Polemarch for the first six consecutive years of the Fraternity’s existence. Elder Watson Diggs (circa 1883-1947), born in Christian County, Kentucky, was a graduate of Indiana State Normal (now Indiana State Teachers College) and Indiana University, the birthplace of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
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