Alpha Kappa Lambda was founded on April 22 , 1914 by a group of young men attending the University of California , Berkeley . Its birth , however , dates back to 1906 when a group of friends discussed the " need of Christian men for a place to live and study that was within their ( financial ) means . " After assisting in the cleanup of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , four students re-addressed their desire to organize a house club during a YMCA conference in Pacific Grove , California . They decided to form " Los Amigos " in 1907 , a house club named from the Spanish translation of " The Friends . " Shortly after , seven more men joined Los Amigos . Reverend Gail Cleland , one of the original eleven members of Los Amigos , recalled , " when we organized Los Amigos as a house club ... house clubs and fraternities were dime a dozen . They came , they lived for a few months or a few years , then they went out of existence again . But Los Amigos did not go out of existence . " The motto of the fraternity is " Alítheia Kai Logos , " which in Classical Greek means " The Truth and the Word "
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
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