F. D. Wickham

Frank Dickenson Wickham (March 21, 1873 – October 29, 1942) was an American colonel. He is known for assisting with the creation of the ritual of Kappa Kappa Psi band fraternity during his time at Oklahoma A&M College in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Early life and military career Wickham was born in Gallatin, Missouri to General Joseph Alfred Wickham and Lucy Ordway Cunningham. He graduated from high school in 1889 and attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where he became a member of the Zeta Phi chapter of Beta Theta Pi, captain of the university battalion, and played on the baseball team. Wickham left the university in 1893 and enlisted with the 8th Cavalry Regiment in 1894, where he served for three years. On June 25, 1902, Wickham married Myrtle Louise Logan.

Oklahoma A&M College In March 1919, Colonel Wickham arrived at Oklahoma A&M College, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, to serve as commandant of the college's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Martin and Wickham collaborated to develop the fraternity's ritual, for which Wickham was honored with one of the first honorary memberships in the new fraternity at their first initiation in March 1920. Wickham also gave a short speech on "The Future of Kappa Kappa Psi" at the initiation banquet. While at Oklahoma A&M, Wickham militarized the college band, the effects of which were that "the band has come in close touch with the [military] department and has functioned under its direction successfully."

After Oklahoma A&M On the July 1, 1920, Wickham was promoted to colonel in the Regular Army and assigned July 6 to the 38th Infantry Regiment, and was transferred to Camp Pike near Little Rock, Arkansas. From there he was transferred to Fort Douglas, Utah, with the 38th Infantry, where he established the "Wickham Cup" in 1921 as an award for marksmanship.

Wickham died October 29, 1942, in El Paso, Texas, and is buried next to his wife and son at Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso.