Post by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated

Happy Birthday Founder Henry T. Asher! Henry Tourner Asher, an unassuming, dependable supporter of Negro youth, equal rights, higher education, and religious affairs and son of a Baptist Minister, was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 30, 1890, and was the eldest of seven children. He moved to Bloomington, Indiana, attended public schools, and graduated from Bloomington High School in 1910. He enrolled at Indiana University in 1910 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1914. He became an instructor at Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City, Missouri, 1914-1915. In 1915, he enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Wisconsin. Subsequently, he transferred to the University of Illinois, but ultimately earned his MA degree at the University of Minnesota in 1917. He received his LL.B. degree at the Detroit College of Law in 1928. After serving more than a year overseas in France during World War I, he gave up a possible teaching career at Wilberforce University for one in real estate. He ended up in Detroit, where he decided to enter the postal service. Twenty-year-old Asher, and Founders Edmonds and Blakemore were the first three freshman initiates of the Alpha of Kappa Alpha Nu. Although not a Detroit (MI) Alumni Chapter charter member, he was among the first to affiliate with the chapter in 1920. Founder Asher was an active member of several organizations, including the NAACP, the Elks, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He spent the remainder of his life in Detroit, Michigan, where he died March 5, 1963. Kevin Scott Grand Historian