John W. Hudson to G.A. Wilson Jr. Letter, April 19, 1905

In this copy letter sent to multiple chapters, Hudson argues that Pi Kappa Alpha cannot remain a distinctly Southern fraternity and must expand to the North and Northwest. Hudson makes the case from his own personal experience that the fraternity is losing potential members because Southern men who intend to move to the North will not join a fraternity without Northern chapters. He also argues that college men in the North are wealthier than in the South and the fraternity is losing an opportunity to increase its strength, wealth, and prestige by refusing to expand to the North. Hudson urges the recipient to support the case of Northern expansion at the 1905 Chattanooga Convention.

• Collection
  Archives Collection
• Author
  Hudson, John Wesley
• Date/Date Range
  Apr 19th, 1905
• Subjects
  ConventionsExpansionExpansionistsGeographic ExpansionNorthern Expansion
• People Mentioned
  Smythe, Robert Adger
• Location
  Knoxville, Tennessee
• Chapter
  IotaLambdaZeta
• University
  Hampden-Sydney CollegeMilitary College of South CarolinaUniversity of Tennessee
• Era
  1900s20th Century
• Event
  1905 Chattanooga Convention