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KYLE W. SINGER

MEMORIAL AWARD

This award is presented, annually, in memory of Kyle W. Singer. It is bestowed upon the Kappa
Leaguer who best exemplifies the sprit, dedication, determination and personality that was
apparent in Kyle at such a young age.

Kyle was a Southfield Alumni Chapter Kappa Leaguer for more than three years. He joined the group
as a freshman, in high school, and immediately his leadership abilities could be
discerned. He went on to become a two-term Kappa League President and was so good at his job the

program required very little adult intervention to operate like a well oiled machine. Kyle required only
to be pointed in the right direction and he took the Kappa Leaguers on the journey to success by his
leadership.

What is remembered by most, about Kyle, was the wry smile he would give when asked a
question he knew could incriminate him or his peers. After giving that smile, he would proceed to tell
the truth about the issue no matter what the consequences would present for him and the others.
Although he possessed all of the qualities one loved to see in a young man he was still a boy at heart.

He had a happy-go-lucky manner about him and was always comfortable having conversations with
adults as well as his peers who did not possess his skill set. He was well liked, by other Kappa
Leaguers, and they followed his leadership and direction.

Kyle graduated from Southfield High School and matriculated at Morehouse College where he played
football and graduated Cum Laude in 1996. After graduation he lived in Philadelphia, with his mother,
who had taken a staff position at Temple University. At twenty-four years of age, he was moving into
an apartment in preparation for entrance into Southern University’s Law School, in Baton Rouge,

Louisiana, when he succumbed to congenital heart failure on August 30, 1998.

Kyle became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity on January 25, 1997, having been initiated into
the Norristown (PA) Alumni Chapter. Although Kyle was with us for only a short period of time, he left
an indelible impression on everyone with whom he came in contact. So impactful was
he in other’s lives, a contingent of Kappas travelled to Detroit, from Pennsylvania, for
his funeral after having known him less than a year. He was an outstanding young man, with an
infectious smile, and those of us who knew him are destined to look for his qualities in every other

young man we meet. His spirit will live on forever in the hearts of Southfield Alumni Chapter
Kappamen.

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