During World War I, he served as an investigator for the Department of Labor. He held teaching positions in Florida, Indiana, Kansas, and Oklahoma. After finishing Indiana University, he earned his Master's degree at Columbia University in 1913, and subsequently the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Michigan. Armstrong, born in Westfield, Indiana, entered Indiana University where he studied philosophy, mathematics, and sociology. He was also a member of the board of Managers of the Columbia Community Branch of the YMCA.īyron K. For eight years, he conducted a successful catering business in Philadelphia he organized and served as Vice-president and Secretary of the Mutual Emergency Union, a mutual aid company in Philadelphia. Vocationally, he was engaged in several enterprises. He helped organize, and for several years was president of, the Fairview Gold Club, the first Negro Golf Club in Pennsylvania.
His battery enjoys the unique distinction of having been the first battery of Negro Artillerymen ever to open fire upon an enemy. He enlisted in the 349th Field Artillery in March of 1918 and served overseas as a First Class Sergeant and Gunner. He later became a student at Temple University (1915) but was compelled to leave school because of a death in the family. John Milton Lee, born in Danville, Indiana, September 7, 1890, was graduated from the Danville High School in 1910 and entered the University of Indiana and there completed three years of pre-medical work. Diggs was instrumental in having the Indiana Constitution amended to permit Negro enlistment in the Indiana National Guard. After European service with the 368th Infantry, he became a captain in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Upon America's entrance into World War I, Diggs resigned his principalship to enter the Nation's first Officer's Training Camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was commissioned a lieutenant. After his death on November 8, 1947, the name of the school where he taught was changed to the Elder Diggs School in his memory. An educator by profession, he taught in the public schools of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was elevated to a principalship. For this and other outstanding contributions to the Fraternity, he was awarded the Fraternity's first Laurel Wreath in December, 1924. He served as Grand Polemarch for the first six consecutive years of the Fraternity's existence. Elder Watson Diggs, born in Christian County, Kentucky, was a graduate of Indiana State Normal (now Indiana State Teachers College) and Indiana University, the birthplace of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
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