Varlet Chapter 6

10. What did Ammen urge immediately after the speech?

Ammen urged necessity for the enhancement of ceremonies.

15. From what image did Ammen derive Kappa Alpha's principles of ideal manhood and why?

Ammen used the idea of a Christian gentleman because it was closest to his own experience.

How long did it take for the present ritual to be created?

Continous collaboration over 5 decades by Samuel Zenas Ammen and William Sprigg Hamilton.

8. Where did Ammen get his understanding for ritualistic procedures?

His membership in Freemasonry.

2. What do members of 50 years ago and members now agree on?

Initiation into the Order is a life-changing event.

11. Who completed the new ritual?

James Ward Wood, Samuel Zenas Ammen, and William Nelson Scott.

14. With the concept of the new ritual, KA changed from what to what?

KA changed from a fraternity to an Order of Christian Knights pledged to the highest ideals of character and achievement.

5. Where was James Ward Wood from?

Lost River, West Virginia.

6. When was Samuel Zenas Ammen initiated?

October 17, 1866.

When do people say the order really began?

October 17th, 1866 when Ammenn was initiated.

9. When did Ammen find what he was looking for to "stir the fancy"of initiates?

On November 30, 1866, Ammen heard a essay delivered by Wood that compared the struggling group with the Knights Templar.

17. What is the main purpose of ritual?

Ritual is not to create a fraternity man but to present a set of principles common to every Kappa Alpha brother.

What are the three books need for the formation of the perfect man?

Shakespeare (general culture), the bible (forms the christian), Kappa alpha ritual (creates the chivalrous christian)

1. What can we be assured about the initiation ceremony?

That it is impressive and dignified.

7. What was the order called when Ammen was initiated?

The K.A. Council.

16. What is the ritual designed to do?

The ritual is designed to assist the initiate in defining his beliefs and ideals.

4. How can initiates from today and other generations relate?

They both reacted to an identical, person experience.

12. What did Ammen say a ritual needed to be effective?

A ritual must tell a story and touch the heart, with appropriate action.

13. What did Ammen say about the creation of ritual?

"The present ritual, in fact, was not made; it grew".

3. What makes a good ritual?

A distillation of wisdom from ages past.