Kappa Kappa Psi - Alpha Chapter

Oklahoma State University

Serving the OSU Bands and Striving for the Highest Since 1919

History Snippets

Snippet #10 - "In Memoriam", taken from the April 1943 issue of The Baton.

Steve Nelson:  "Just read, there's not much I can add to this.  I wish you could see the picture that was published with this.  It shows Brother Webb in his flight jacket and flight helmet, goggles pushed up on his forehead.  He has a big smile on his face, looking skyward with clouds all around. He looks something like Will Rogers, if you can picture him."
 

In Memoriam
(BATON, April 1943)

    When two airplanes met in mid-air on a cold winter afternoon on January 25, 1943, the accident occurred which took the life of the first member of Kappa Kappa Psi in the armed forces of the United States for World War No. 2.  Albert Volney Webb was a cadet pilot in the Army Air Corps located at Ellington Field, Texas.  He had been in the service several months and was in line for his commission and wings a few days before the fatal accident occurred.

    Brother Webb was a member of Alpha Chapter of Oklahoma A&M College and was short only a few hours of his Fine Arts degree when he entered the Air Corps.  He was perhaps one of the best known musicians on the A&M campus.

    Brother Webb was a graduate of the Stillwater High School and a member of the State Champion High School Band and Orchestra.  On graduation he entered the A&M College, enrolled in Fine Arts, majoring in instrumental music.  He played the bass horn in the college symphonic band, the bass fiddle in the college orchestra.  He took an active part in student activities and was recognized as one of the outstanding musicians on the campus.

    He possessed a pleasing personality.  His quiet smooth manner won for him many friends and his loyalty to his fraternity, his college, and his friends was the outstanding virtue of this young man.  In his quiet, unassuming manner, he continually worked for the welfare of his brothers.

    May it be said in these last lines that the Alpha Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi gave to the world in its fight for democracy and freedom, one of its outstanding members.  The name of Albert Volney Webb will live on and on in the hearts of his brothers and the memory of his fine contribution to his chapter will never fade or grow dim in the life of the fraternity.  The fine Christian life of this young man causes his friends to feel that he has truly won his wings and is flying in the great blue sky out yonder. These wings will sail on into God's great beyond throughout eternity.