Tau Kappa Alpha (Colorado Chapter) Records

Tau Kappa Alpha was established in 1908 in Indianapolis by Butler University student Oswald Ryan and Hugh Thomas Miller, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, to promote forensics (public speaking). Members needed to participate in intercollegiate oratorical or debating contests. The Colorado chapter at the University of Denver was established January 28, 1910 and installed by Henry Buchtel. Professional forensics fraternity Phi Delta Gamma merged into Tau Kappa Alpha in 1935. Tau Kappa Alpha combined with Delta Sigma Rho, founded in 1906, to become Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha (DSR-TKA) in 1963. DSR-TKA publishes Speaker and Gavel, a bi-annual journal in communication studies.