Brother Dr. Percival Hall, 1st Congregation

Percival Hall’s reputation at Gallaudet is among the most eminent. Even with becoming the second President of the University in 1910 at 38 years old, this was not his greatest feat. He already had achieved something greater nine years before. Because he could see that there was no elusive men’s club or any official fraternity of the University where men could gather and proposer, he established this very Fraternity on January 4, 1901, along with three undergraduate students. It was great struggle that he had went through to get Kappa Gamma established, with much struggle due to the precedents — the other two unofficial fraternities of the University had been disbanded by President Edward Miner Gallaudet for hazing reasons. Percival Hall was one of the minority of the Faculty who were willing to become an official Faculty advisor to the new Fraternity.

He was born in 1872 and attended Harvard before he received his Masters at the Gallaudet Normal School in 1893. He died in 1953.

It is because of him, we are present today.