Jasper Alston Atkins

While at Fisk, Atkins competed on the debate team and was initiated into the Omega Psi Phi fraternity through the Camp Howard chapter in 1918.

Further, Atkins was charged with the task of creating a scientific index for the thirty one volumes of legal periodicals in the Yale Law Library.

[1] Atkins was instrumental in the founding of Delta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi in 1919, which had its origins at Fisk but amidst university dissent was forced to relocate to Meharry Medical College just down the street.

Atkins also established five geographic regions, or districts, to better attend to the needs of various colleges and communities within Omega, which by that time (1922) spanned New England down to the Southeastern States, the Midwest out to the far West.

Atkins briefly served as editor of the Informer and Texas Freeman in Houston before returning to his home state of North Carolina.

Atkins was made Executive Secretary of Winston-Salem Teacher's College, the school his parents had founded in the late 19th century and where his brother served as President.