The SPHINX | Spring February 1947 | Volume 33 | Number 1 194703301

CONVENTION NUMBER PAUL ROBESON—"Citizen of the world," celebrated singer, noted actor, and an Alpha brother in the bond, who highlighted the Thirtysecond General Convention by his personal appearance on the Fraternity's Public Program before approximately five thousand persons in Memorial Hall, Columbus, Ohio, last December. He is shown here as he sang one of the favorite numbers of his concert audience, "Ole' Man River."

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Florida A an* 51 College, Tallahassee. Flotiua LOUIS H SCHUSTER '.

Third Vice-President Virginia State College. Eltrick, Virginia A MACEO SMITH :...Fourth Vice-President '2011 N. Washington Ave., Dallas 4, Telas BURT A. MAYBERRY General Secretary 2446 Harrison Street, Kansas City 8. Missouri tl. G. FERGUSON • " General Treasurer t'ilfzens Savings and Trust Company, Nashville, Tennessee LEWIS 0. SWINGLER Editor of the Sphinx 1.4 pVaJe Avenue. Memphis 3. Tenneeeee H, COUNCILL TRENHOLM Director el Educational Activities Slate leathers College. Montgomery, Alabama CHARLES LANE , General Counsel 417 East 47th Street. Chicago 15, Illinois LAY MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL l i n e s I Cimmiines lane College Jack-on Tcim ; Charles E. Gaines. 1301 vv , '*, •«,'". ^ S S r a T l l I T S l b e r ? o n e . . ^ n i t e r a S it California. Los Angeles. c.lif »lf »,l 1 l-nch I im-oln Dnlveraiis Pa Calif. . Allied 1.. I o t h , 1,1,1.1,1,, u n ™ * ™ . « CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES SIONEY BROWN •• V1.V1 General Secretary _ . . „ **' K " s l Al,b autaLhicago. Illinois „,.•..,,. e».n..

HOWARD H. LONG .Committee on Pub.ic Policy 1112 Giiard St.. N. W., Washington, D. L. W. O. HAWKINS, JR . . . . . . . . . . •• — • • • • ; • • " • • • • • • • • • - •*«•'«'»• Committee - „ . , „ • , n • . * • • • « , ' i s k L n l ™ " " y - Ns'hville, Tennessee „„,,„, r..__ir,.« ROBERT P. D A N I E L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • • • ;,"••.,••• • • • • » • • " vemr.ii™ „ , . , „ u w « . . . ' - - i " Lniversity, Raleigh. North Caiollna Historian CHARLES H. WESLEY . . " • • • . : • ; • • : : • • •^.-.:f-:.•••• • A j j ' "' " •AYFORO W LOGAN Lniversity, Wilberforce, Ohio, n r Relations BAYFORD W. L O G A N . • • - • • • L• •n•l , • • 8• 1••••< • • • • / • • • " • • " " D' • A • CHARLES O PROCTOR " t r ' , a S B ' . . . . . . . . C h a p t e r Achievement Fisit' Vniv'erVitv.' Nashville,; 'Tennessee

Dr. Henry A. Cauls, 2306 East s i . . N, E„ Washington. 1>. C ; Nathaniel A. .Murray. 156 You s i . . N. W.. Washington, D. C.i Vermel W. Tandy, 221 West 189th Si.. NOT Yrnk. V Y.; George H. KHIrv. 1 -113th Street. Troy. N. Y. *Cbarlea II Chapmen—'Hoy M. Ogle Mantes H. Morton—"Deceased, REGIONAL DIRECTORS Mid-Western Jurisdiction—W. N. Lovelace. Vice President; Charles Haines, First assistant, University ,,f Illinois; Thomas Horner, 317 North 89th Street, Indjanapolis, Indiana. (Area; Indiana, Illinois, and Wiaconain); Finest L. Savory. 1st; Hamilton Ave, Columbus, Ohio, (Area: Ohio, Western Pennsylvanis, Iowa, Minnesota! : Robert M. Thomas. 112 Holbrooh Avenue, lletrolt.

Michigan, (Area: Michigan); Michael Turpeau, West Virginia state College.

Institute, West Va.. (Area: West Virginia); .lohn D. Buckner, 1846 w .

North Market Street, St. Louis, Mo.. (Area; Missouri. Kansasi ; and s. E, i-.roadits. Harrods Creek. Kentucky. (Area: Kentucky/ Southern Jurisdiction—W, II. tiray, Vice-President; Clinton 1.. Itlakc, Principal., West Charlotte High School. Ill", Beaten Ford Road, Charlotte, North CaroUna: (Area: North and South Carolina! : Andrew .1 Lewis, .',2:, Tatnall SI..

S W Atlanta. Georgia; (Area: Georgia and Alabama) ; Aaron L Allen. 1C01 Kwhlcenth Avenue, N.. Nashville, Tennessee: (Area: Arkansas and Tennessee); Uallei Mortal, 1433 Tour,, SI., New Orleans. Louisiana; (Area; Louisiana a m l Mississippi) Eastern Jurisdiction—Louis II. Schuster, Vice-President; Dr. G. A. Galvin. 401 Wesi Siale Street, llha.a. New York: St. Elmo Brady. 2603 Eleventh Street, „ vVasMiHrton, 11. C. (Bndergradttate Regional Director who will work N rmifieiaduate Chapters) wifh Western Jurisdiction—A Maceo Smith. Vice President: Sooilovesi Aira C, Paul Johnson. Regional Director, 1200 East 12th SI.. Austin, Texas, including Teias. New Mexico, and Arizona: Far West Area: Dewey I). Davidson. IteHone] Director. 1162 E. Kith s u e d . Los Angeles, Calif., including California, Nevada. Oregon and Washington; West Central Area: Lloyd H. Williams.

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6. ZETA—Yale University. New Haven. Conn., President, Mamlel <s Fleminc 60 Dixwell Ave. New Haven, Conn,; Sec"etary Charts H Wilson. Jr 69 Dickerman Street. New Haven Conn 7 FT A—Columbia University St Lawrence, Brooklyn City C^llTee N?w York N Y President Juan A. Sandifer, 225 W 110th New York N Y Secretary. Edward N. Byas, 302 W 122d Street New York 27 N Y R THETA—University of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.

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Marion A Allen 1144 E Long Columbus. Ohio: Secretary, Henry F Smith.' 75 E. l'lth Avenue. Columbus 1. Ohio.

11 MU—University of Minnesota. Minneapolis-St. Paul.: President Charles F Nichols 742 Rondo, St. Paul, Minn.; Secretary Maurice Howell. 2207 Elliot Avenue, Minneapolis 4.

Min'n 12 Nil—Lincoln UniversityPennsylvania; President, Miles wYshrngton • Lncolr University* Pennsylvania; Secretary.

Gavraud wilmore Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. n XI—Wilberforce University, Wilberforce. Ohio: Robert M. Carter PCL Bo*: 237 Wilberforce. Ohio; Secretary. George N Col ins P O Box 257. Wilberforce. Ohio.

14 OMICRON—Pittsburg Pa President. James A. Jordan, 6421 Deary Pittsburgh Pa Secretary. James L. Whitsett. 534 i ™ i u « r « t P tshiirBh Pa 15 Pl-Weste™ Reserve Cleveland. Ohio; President, Joe Hicks, 4120 Cedar Ave : Corresponding Secretary, Leroy Collins, IBIS CeSar Avenue Cleveland Ohio 16 RHO-^hilaVelphfa Pa (Graduate Group); President. Dr. w F Terrick 1843 Christian- Secretary Dr. O. Wilson winters 28 Curren Arcade Norristowr. Pa 17 MCMA-iSrvartTunYve? s Uy. BostoT Mass.; President.

Thomas £ Center. 12 Hubbard Avenue. Cambridge. Mass.; Qocretaw A P Faire 111 Townsend St Roxburv, Mass.

18 ™£^J^tvo?Ul£o£lj?£SZ Illinois; H. R. Alexander 707. N. 5th Street. Champaign. 111.; Secretary. R. E. Clavbrooks. Jr.. 1310 W. Clark St.. Urbana. 111.

19 UPSILON-Universitv of Kansas. Lawrence. Kansas; Kansas «.n?e Teachers Colleee Emporia Kans ; Kans State College ol Agrit-uUure and Applied Science Manhattan. Kansas; President Howard Brown. 1101 Miss.. Lawrence. Kansas; s „ „ ' , " ' , 1 awrenre I ackev 1101 Lawrence Kansas 90 I H f Ohio UnlverS^v Athens Ohio *-ansasl l ' cm^SeharVy Medial CoUege. Nashville. Tenn.; President.

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30. i ^ H r / H E ^ A - I o v v a University Iowa City. Iowa; Presldent ' H - x- Fontelho-Nanton. Box 788. Iowa City; Secretary, E. Leonard. 121 N. Dubuque Street. Iowa City. Iowa.

31. ALPHA IOTA-University of Colorado. Denver. Colorado; President. Wendell A. Peters 2304 Williams Street. Denver 5. Colo.; Secretary. John Waller. 2604 Gilpen St., Denver S, Colo.

32. ALPHA KAPPA-Springf.eid College. Amherst College, Springfield, Mass.. Amherst. Mass.

33. ALPHA MU—Northwestern University. Evanston, 111.; President. H. Jackson. 4751 Forrestville. Chicago. 111.; William C. Pyant. Secretary. 1930 Brown Avenue. Evanston. 111.

34. ALPHA NU—Iowa State College. Drake University. Des Moines. Iowa; President. Arnold Banister. Crocker St. B-anch Y. M. C. A. Des Moines, Iowa; Secretary, Virgil F. Dixon 1109 Fourteenth St.. Des Moines Iowa 35. ALPHA XI—University of Washington. Seattle, Washington, 36. ALPHA OMICRON—Johnson C. Smith University. Charlotte.

N. C.J President. Elmer A. Anderson. Johnson C. Smith University. Charlotte, N. C: Secretary Obadiah Williams.

Johnson C Smith University. Charlotte. N. C 37. ALPHA PT—Louisville Municipal College. Louisville. Ky. 38. ALPHA RHO—Morehouse College. Atlanta. Georgia; President J. J. Welcome. Jr.; Morehouse College. Atlanta. Ga; Secretary. James R. Jones. 199 Howell St.. Atlanta. Ga. 39. ALPHA SIGMA-Wiley College Marshall Texas; President.

Wm. Lawrence Cox. Wiley College. Marshall, Texas; Secretary. Alfonso Standifer, Wiley College. Marshall. Texas.

40. ALPHA TAU-Akron University. Akron. Ohio; President.

Herbert R. Bracken 385 Wellington. Akron, Ohio; Secretary.

Sterling Tucker. 786 Euclid. Akron. Ohio 41. ALPHA UPSILON-Wayne University. Detroit. Michigan; President. James Roberts. 72 E. Euclid. Detroit 2. Mich.; Secretary. Albert Somervllle. 6031 Northfield, Detroit 10, Mich, 42. ALPHA PHI—Clark College. Atlanta. Georgia; President.

Wm P. Jones. Clark College Atlanta Ga.; Secretary. Paul L. Hatchett. Clark College. Atlanta. Ga. 43. ALPHA CHI-Fisk University. Nashville. Tenn.: President, Charles J. Lee; Box 35£ Fisk University. Nashville.. Tenn.; Secretary. Leonard R. Ballou. Box 293. Fisk University.

Nashville, Tenn, 44. ALPHA PSI-Lincoln University Jefferson City Mo Elmore W. Nelson 309 Allen Hall. Lincoln University Jefferson City Mo.; Secretary. James C. Butler. 625 Butler Hall.

Lincoln University. Jefierson City^ Mo. 45. BETA ALPHA—Morgan College. Baltimore. Md.: S. A. Pennington. 1153 N Carrollton. Baltimore Md, Secretary Paul E. Waters 2532 Pennsylvania Ave.. Baltimore 17. Md. 46. BETA BETA—University of Nebraska. Lincoln, Nebraska; President. E. James J. Cole. 1043. N. 23rd St., Lincoln 3. Nebl 47. BETA GAMMA-Va. State College, Petersburg Va; Edward L. Smith. President; Virginia State College. Petersburg, Va.; Secretary. William T. Kyle. Va. State College. Petersburg.

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THE STAFF

THE STAFF OMEGA C H A P T E R

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LEWIS O. SWINGLER 164 Beale Avenue, Memphis 3, Tenn.

ASSISTANT

Brother Attorney Bert McDonald, of Los Angeles, California, former Western Vice-President, and first to serve in that capacity, died Sunday, March 9th. Detailed account of his contribution to Alpha will be published in the MAY NUMBER.

EDITORS

F R A T F U N EDITOR O. WILSON W I N T E R S 28 C u r r e n Arcade, Norristown, Pa.

CONTRIBUTING

ROBERT CUSTIS 771 St. Nicholas Ave., New York, N. Y. MILTON S. J. W R I G H T Wilberforce University, Ohio.

Paul Robeson

Wilberforce,

J A M E S B. BROWNING Miners Teachers College, Ga. Ave., at Euclid and F a i r m o n t , N. W., Washington, D. C. ARMISTEAD S. P R I D E Lincoln University (Mo) Jefferson City, Mo.

FEATURE EDITORS J. EDWARD COTTON 348 N. Manassas St., Memphis, Tenn.

G E O R G E W. GORE, JR., A. & I. State College, Nashville, Tenn.

MACEO H I L L 291 N. 21st St., Columbus, Ohio G. BLYDEN J A C K S O N Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.

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:___ Front Cover Page The Columbus Convention 2 Convention—On Schedule 3 Official Delegates' Roster 4 Founders' Address 6 President's Annual Report 7 Our Next Stop, Tulsa!

12 Forward With Alpha 14 Major McLendon 14 Alpha's Fight For The Ballot 16 Fraternity Fun 25 Announcement of Committee Chairmen ___28 Hampton Admits Greek-Letter Societies _„29 Brother DeKovan A. French 32 Brother Edgar Askew 33 Chapter Echoes 34 Southern Regional Conference—Back Cover NOTICE BROTHERS Convention Photographs Most of the pictures appearing in this edition of the SPHINX, and many others were made by Brother Robert S. Scurlock. Official Convention Photographer.

Copies of any photograph may be obtained by ordering from the SCURLOCK STUDIO 900 U. Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Price: $1.00 per picture. Mailed avywhere in the USA

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SIDNEY A. J O N E S 180 West Washington St., Chicago, 111.

CLARENCE H. M I L L S , SR. Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio P R O G R A M EDITOR J. R U P E R T P I C O T T 201 East Clay Street, Richmond, Va. MOSS H. K E N D R I X 1927 11th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. ANDREW J. L E W I S II 525 Tatnall St., S. W., Atlanta, Ga.

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MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION COMMITTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;These are the brothers who with their charming wives (See opposite page), lady friends, and the citizenry at large of Columbus, Ohio who made history as official hosts to the Thirty-second General Convention last December. The entire Convention Committee roster included: Brothers Maceo Hill, General Chairman: Dr. R. M. Tribbitt. chairman: Charles D. Allen, Dr. A. P. Hall, L. C. Wright, A. D. Crosby, Finance; Kenneth A. Morris, chairman; Austin Allen, Housing; W. O. Colwell, chairman: D. A. F. McCoy, Henry Smith, Headquarters and Housing; C. C. Handy, chairman, and Darius Worsham, Decoration and Emblem; Dr. Trib-

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bitt, chairman, and W. H. Brooks, Sunday Morning Church Meeting; L. C. Wright, chairman; Alfred Allen, and T. D. Shelby, Social; Attorney E. J. Cox, chairman, Place; J. Arnet Mitchell, chairman; E. Jenkins and William Finch, Public Reception; W. H. Brooks, chairman; and Maceo Hill, Publicity; George DeLoache, chairman; Lowell Q. White, N. R. Elder, and W. Barbee Durham, Banquet; E. J. Cox, chairman; E. D. Allen, William Williams, and Robert Dews, Registration; T. D. Shelby, chairman, and Russell Embrey, Souvenir Program; Jack Mitchell, chairman, and Harry T. Luebers, Souvenirs; Leroy Savory, chairman and Robert Dews, Transportation.

The Columbus Convention T is usually inexpedient to indulge in the practice of attempting to rate one convention over another through comparisons or contrasts, because past experiences have proven that chapters undertaking the responsibility of serving as official hosts to a General Session of Alpha Phi Alpha give their best in the form of hospitality, service, and facilities of their communities, often extending far beyond their immediate membership circles. In a few instances, it may be said that preparations on the part of several host chapters have been greater than the equivalent returned by the Fraternity by way of a wellrounded program.

We make this observation in order that the atmosphere may be cleared for an unstinted salute to the brothers of Columbus, Ohio. As hosts to the Thirty-second

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General Convention last December, brothers of Alpha Rho Lambda and Kappa Chapters may be accredited with giving almost perfect balance to the variety of activities making up the convention agenda. There was demonstrated a splendid example of team work with each committee carrying out its assignments in coordination with all the other committees. There was an apparent continuity of the basic thought expressed on the platforms at the Opening Meeting, the Public Program, and at the Closed Banquet. The setting for each of these memorable occasions gave added grandeur and accentuated the purpose for which we came to Columbus.

On the social side, the Alpha Wives Auxiliary lived up to all the advanced billings that had been given to the many

parties they had planned for the pleasure of visiting wives and sweethearts of Alpha men. These ladies of Columbus had their social activities well in hand, and good times flourished in every quarter for their feminine guests.

Columbus was ready for the occasion!

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity was also ready for Columbus. The brothers came in large numbers from every jurisdiction of the Organization. From the first day to the last, our General President kept the convention moving on schedule. Men of national and international fame expressed their pride in being Alpha brothers. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, as a General Convention, returned value for value to the host brothers and the people of Columbus.

For their strenuous year of preparation, their genuine cordiality, and the high appraisal they gave to the return of an Alpha Phi Alpha Convention after nearly twenty-five years, the people of Columbus deserved nothing less.

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ALPHA WIVES AUXILIARY ADDED SOCIAL GRACE TO CONVENTION

COLUMBUS CONVENTIONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ON SCHEDULE!

by ROBERT C. CUSTIS Assistant Editor OLUMBUS Convention programs moved on schedule. Seldom if ever, has the work scheduled for business sessions been completed within the day allotted.

This happened at Columbus.

Major business items ended within the day planned. In fact, the first half day was ahead of schedule. This set the tone for other days. In like manner, events planned for other days ended within that day. This occasioned shifting items when they were ready for presentation. It also required the wholehearted cooperation of all committees and individual participants.

It further required all participants to be concise and germane to the matter under consideration. This too was done. This was not all. Time was allotted within the day for committee meetings. The time was insufficient in many instances. Nevertheless, committee reports were made on or ahead of schedule. This facilitated movement of the schedule. The entire business of the convention was completed December 31, Tuesday, several hours before the banquet.

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business. This may have happened before the 1940 Kansas City Convention.

This'is the first time it has occurred since 1940. All previous convention banquets usually ended about three, four or five a. m.. on January 1st. But not at Columbus.

The banquet was a real festive occasion.

It started on time and ended a little after the arranged time. It really was a delight. Only one speaker, no motions or unreadinesses. No setting the clock back.

We started and kept apace of the clock before and during the dinner. May this be a fitting precedent for all future conventions. Times have changed. Let us continue to move on schedule in all things locally and nationally.

CONVENTION ECHOES JEWEL NATHANIEL A. MURRAY FOUNDERS' SPEAKER "The thirty-second convention of Alpha Phi Alpha recently held at Columbus, Ohio, was to my mind a model of convention procedure. It sets the pace from which all future Alpha Phi Alpha conventions can well afford to copy. This

convention started on time and ended on time. It was the first convention of Alpha Phi Alpha I have attended and I have been present at many, where the business of the closing session was notcarried over and completed in the final formal banquet.

"Each unit of the four-day program opened on a scheduled time and closed on time. The time allotment for each day's session, the time allotment for the voluminous and inspiring reports of the various vice-presidents, the delegates as well as the addresses and discussions were all ended as per schedule. In fact, in some instances, we were as much as four hours ahead of schedule.

"Our General President, Belford Lawson, is to be commended for the way in which he opened and closed each day's session, and for the diplomatic manner in which he cut out unnecessary debate, which in past conventions has caused sessions' fatigue and waste of valuable time.

"I trust I can look forward to the coming Tulsa convention, not only continuing the good work started by our general President Lawson, but cooperating in every way by proper planning before Turn Page

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OFFICIAL ROSTER OF DELEGATES Undergraduate Chapters ALPHA A u b r e y E. Robinson, G. A. Galvin BETA Robert Williams, St. Elmo B r a d y EPSILON — T. W. Williams, O. L. J o u r d a n ETA J . A. Sandifer, G. C. Rock THETA C. P a r r i s h , M. K e n n y KAPPA J o h n A. Mitchell, Jr., William Finch NU Miles S. Washington, Jr., Alfred P u g h XI Robert M. Carter, E m m e t t M. P a u l i n OMICRON E d w a r d Ray, Glen Zellars PI H e n r y C. Crawford, J o s e p h u s F . Hicks RHO L. Hardy, R. M a t t h e w s SIGMA Col. E d w a r d O. Gourdin, Lucius Taylor TAU Charles Ellis Gaines, Homer L. Chavis CHI E a r l B. Smith, E d m u n d Casey PSI W. N. Walker, K e r m i t Hall ALPHA ALPHA J. W. Fleming, J . T. Sims A L P H A BETA __ Douglas B. Fullwood, Donald P. McCulham ALPHA DELTA D. Rudolph Henderson, A l b e r t J o n e s ALPHA EPSILON Byron Rumford, Thomas B r o w n ALPHA ZETA Michael Turpeau, Robert G a r d n e r

A L P H A ETA J a m e s C. Blanks, Jr., Chester Hodges A L P H A MU W. C. P y a n t , W. P . Overby A L P H A OMICRON I. G. Simpson, P a u l E. Sandifer ALPHA PI Ernest Sullivan, Eugene P r a t h e r A L P H A RHO J a m e s T. Montgomery, Charles V. Willie A L P H A SIGMA W. Cox A L P H A TAU A. R. Decatur, J a m e s L. Peavy ALPHA UPSILON R. Thomas, C. Bright ALPHA PSI H e r m a n Morgan BETA ZETA K a r l E. Downs BETA ETA J. C. P e n n BETA K A P P A S. L. Hargrove, Hollis Stearnes BETA NU Lee Royal Hampton, George Rawls BETA OMICRON _ _ Clarence Kimbrough, Joseph Thomas BETA P I Virgil May, Richard O. Bass BETA TAU H a r g r o v e F . Wooten BETA U P S I L O N Ralph D. Harris GAMMA G A M M A Robert Price, Ronda A. Gilliam GAMMA D E L T A Freezel D. Calvin, Alfred King GAMMA E P S I L O N Isaac Miller, Ira T. Dawson

Graduate Chapters A L P H A LAMBDA F r a n k L. Stanley, S. E. B r o a d d u s BETA LAMBDA Dan W. Lewis, J a m e s A. B r a n d f o r d GAMMA L A M B D A Lonnie S a u n d e r s , F . A. K o r n e g a y DELTA LAMBDA F r e d e r i c k Dedmond, Walter Dixon EPSILON LAMBDA J . D. B u c k n e r , V. McKnight ZETA LAMBDA H. W. Ridley, W. A. Miller T H E T A LAMBDA W. E. Wiley, Leo A. Lucas ETA L A M B D A N. C. Jackson, J. O. Slade IOTA LAMBDA S. Clark, T h o m a s H o r n e r K A P P A LAMBDA J. M. Martin, E. S t a n d e y MU LAMBDA C. C. House, J . F . B o u r n e NU L A M B D A H. Roberts, T. W. Cotman XI LAMBDA Bindley C. Cyrus, I r m e R. Mahone OMICRON L A M B D A W. C. Matherson, H. L. Mosley P I LAMBDA — C. T. B r o w n , M. S. H a r r i s RHO LAMBDA Alfred D. Price, Hilton D. L a n g SIGMA L A M B D A Walter E. Morial, Asa H. A t k i n s TAU LAMBDA A. L. Allen, R. B. J. Campbell U P S I L O N LAMBDA R. N. Gordon P H I LAMBDA H. C. P e r r i n , R o b e r t P . Daniel CHI L A M B D A Milton S. J. Wright, Thomas E. Kelley P S I LAMBDA Walter L. Hainey A L P H A A L P H A L A M B D A ___ D. H. Banks, F . D. Williams ALPHA BETA LAMBDA N. L. P a s s m o r e A L P H A G A M M A LAMBDA _ G A. Jackson, F . L. Hailstock A L P H A D E L T A LAMBDA __ Charles Tarpley, S. M. S m i t h A L P H A ZETA L A M B D A P . R. Higginbotham A L P H A ETA LAMBDA W. Samuels A L P H A T H E T A LAMBDA — C. M. Cain, Nathaniel Spencer A L P H A IOTA LAMBDA E. L. J a m e s , F e l i x W a r r e n ALPHA K A P P A LAMBDA E. D. Downing, H. L. Giles

A L P H A MU L A M B D A M. D. Senter, C. A. Coavan A L P H A X I LAMBDA . . . W. S. Hopson, R. A. Morrison A L P H A OMICRON LAMBDA „ R. W. Taylor, C. H. C u r b e r t A L P H A P I LAMBDA A. P . Marshall, W. P. Meroney A L P H A R H O LAMBDA __ A. D. V. Crosby, J. A. Mitchell, Sr. A L P H A SIGMA L A M B D A ___ H. D. Beatty, Jr., Robert Price A L P H A TAU L A M B D A L. H. Williams, R. C. B r y a n t A L P H A U P S I L O N LAMBDA F r e d Hall A L P H A P H I LAMBDA T. W. Young, A. C. Fentress A L P H A CHI LAMBDA A. C. Griggs, H. L a m a r A L P H A P S I LAMBDA T. S. Martin, H. W. Webber B E T A BETA LAMBDA _ _ C. L. Williams, W. B. S t e w a r t BETA E P S I L O N LAMBDA P . E. Wesley BETA ZETA LAMBDA G. R. Cotton, Lionel Newsome BETA ETA LAMBDA G. L. Harrison, H. L. P a r k e r BETA IOTA LAMBDA S. E. W a r r e n , M. L. Harvey BETA NU LAMBDA C. L. Blake, D. S. Potts BETA R H O LAMBDA G. A. Lynch, A. L. J o h n s o n BETA P S I LAMBDA „ D. D. Davidson, J. B. St. Felix Isaacs GAMMA G A M M A LAMBDA R. W. Anderson, H. S. Smiley GAMMA DELTA LAMBDA ___ M. K. Austin, N. L. Collins G A M M A ETA LAMBDA L. M. Mitchell, C. P. Johnson GAMMA IOTA LAMBDA C. B. Wilson, W. H. H u r s t G A M M A MU L A M B D A M. G. Miles GAMMA X I LAMBDA __ J o h n R. Lawrence, J o h n M. P a t ton

ECHOES FROM THE GENERAL CONVENTION From Page 3 convention t i m e to i n a u g u r a t e a t h r e e day convention p r o g r a m . Such procedure will not only h e l p to r e d u c e convention expenses of each delegate, general officers, and general organization, b u t will m a k e , for a b e t t e r business-like convention procedure."

Brother A. Maceo S m i t h Western Vice-President

" T h e thirty-second General Convention of Alpha P h i Alpha, which recently convened in Columbus, Ohio, is considered b y t h e w r i t e r to h a v e been one of t h e greatest conventions in t h e history of t h e fraternity. T h e m e e t i n g in Columbus m a r k e d t h e t u r n i n g point in t h e p r o g r a m to revitalize t h e p r o g r a m of t h e fraternity so t h a t w e shall regain

our former position of leadership through service and devotion to t h e cause of world citizenship."

S. M. (Committee) S M I T H Delegate, Alpha Delta L a m b d a "May I say t h a t Columbus was "Mighty Fine."

"I h a v e been to several conventions d u r i n g t h e twenty-five years t h a t I h a v e had the pleasure of being identified with Alpha, b u t I can truthfully say t h a t I h a v e not enjoyed a convention as much Next Page

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Election of Officers All General Officers, including L a y Members of the Executive Council w e r e r e t u r n e d to their respective posts as the results of the election at the last convention. Too much praise cannot be given to the Election Committee for the painstaking care it exercised in carrying out election proceedings.

T h r e e n e w Lay M e m b e r s of t h e Executive Council, all u n d e r g r a d u a t e s w e r e added to the Officers Directory. One of the Lay Councilmen was retained, Brother J a m e s Cummings, of L a n e College, Jackson, Tenn. This gives the F r a ternity u n d e r - g r a d u a t e representation on the Executive Council from each of the four jurisdictions. T h e n e w m e m b e r s of the Council are: Brother Albert Jones, University of California, Los Angeles, w h o delivered t he Convention Address at the last session: Charles Ellis Gaines, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; Alfred P u g h , Lincoln University, Chester County, Pa. s

Echoes From The General Convention From Page 4 as I did t h e one at Columbus.

"It was a pleasure to be so near t h e seat of Xi chapter w h e r e I first saw the light and meet old classmates, schoolmates and to r e n e w old acquaintances.

"The fellows of K a p p a and Alpha Rho L a m b d a deserve m u c h praise for a thoroughly organized convention, t h e w a r m air of hospitality that w a s evidenced, and the activities they had p l a n n e d that just about took u p the twenty-four h o u r s of each day. " T h a n k s a million for a very enjoyable visit!

"Looking t o w a r d Tulsa n e x t December, I am, F r a t e r n a l l y yours."

By Louis H. Schuster Eastern Vice-President I think it w a s one of our finest conventions. I do not k n o w of any convention in which t h e business was handled w i t h such dispatch. Thus, administratively, great credit goes to our General President, B. V. Lawson, Jr., for the m a n n e r in which he handled and planned the convention. I do not k n o w of any convention that was handled more efficiently or at which there was a broader social program. T h e local chapters and committees are to be highly commended in this regard.

Finally, 1 think it w a s t h e one convention I h a v e attended t h a t w a s void of prolonged r a n cor and bitterness. If a great moving spirit was not present, these other factors compensated.

By W. D. H a w k i n s , C h a i r m a n Auditing Committee I have had the opportunity of attending most of t h e General Conventions held since 1928. In m y opinion t a k i n g all factors in consideration, t h e Columbus Convention w a s one of t h e best t h a t I h a v e been privileged to observe. I was h a p p y to note that w e w e r e able to close the Convention on time and transact no business at t h e Banquet. I believe t h a t this is a v e r y critical period in the history of Alpha P h i Alpha and t h a t it should deserve the considered j u d g m e n t of all Brothers interested in its future. That, even though w e h a v e differences of

A G R E A T ARTIST COMES T H R O U G H FOR A L P H A â&#x20AC;&#x201D; B r o t h e r P a u l Robeson sings "Water Boy" a t t h e Public Meeting held at Memorial Hall, Columbus, Ohio, attended by over five thousand.

General Officers Convention Reports All reports of General Officers w e r e distributed in mimeographed form to delegates. Copies of these a r e or should be on file at each Chapter seat represented by delegates. This issue, therefore, carries in full only t h e Convention Report of the General President, t h e Address by the Guest F o u n d e r , J e w e l Nathaniel A. M u r r a y , and excerpts from special addresses. opinions w e are striving to h a v e as a result of this transitional period an Alpha P h i Alpha F r a t e r n i t y t h a t shall b e t r u e to t h e ideals and concepts of its founders.

I am of t h e opinion t h a t all t h e m e m b e r s a r e interested in h a v i n g t h e fraternity operated on a sound financial basis and that the Alpha P h i Alpha F r a t e r n i t y is bigger than any one m e m b e r or group of m e m b e r s . First of all S e r v a n t s of All.

By Charles F . Lane, Esq. General Counsel T h e 1946 Convention held in Columbus, Ohio, was the best I h a v e ever attended.

It set a precedence for disposing of t h e F r a t e r n i t y business within reasonable hours, which resulted in greater enjoyment of t h e social affairs. Columbus afforded excellent hotel accommodations, and ample eating facilities. Our public meeting was top-heavy w i t h p r o m i n e n t speakers, all b r o t h e r s , w h o d r e w t h e largest crowd ever to attend that phase of our program. It h a s been stated that this w a s our most expensive convention.

I am quite confident, however, t h a t t h e end justified t h e means.

The Front Cover "Life is enriched by Courageous Action and Scholarship." This was the Convention Slogan of the late Session in Columbus, Ohio last December. No one could have more closely measured up to this slogan than the featured speaker on the Public Program, Brother Paul Robeson.

Memorial Hall was filled to capacity by visiting Alpha men, and citizens at large of Columbus, who came to see and hear the great Paul Robeson. Brother Robeson did not disappoint his audience. He sang a series of five selections, including "Water Boy," and "Ole' Man River"; he gave an excerpt from his most famous stage role, "Othella"; and climaxed his appearance with a stirring message on our international problems, declaring in parts "The Negro in America, West India, and Africa has a first-hand understanding of what imperalistic exploitation is. Negroes experience the same job discrimination, segregation, and denial of democratic rights whereby the imperialist overlords keep hundreds of millions of people in colonial subjection throughout the world. To me the greatest insult is to say, "You can go this farther and no farther." We who are educated must help our people in Africa. But in Alabama, in Georgia, in Columbus, Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;colonial people do not expect to be colonial people much longer. I feel as I do today, because in today's international struggle the welfare of my people is unsolved."

Brother Robeson announced in .St. Louis, Mo., recently, that he has decided to abandon the theater and concert stage for the next two years in order that he can "talk up and douin" the nation against "hatred and prejudice." His statement was made while heading a picket line against the American Theatre because of Jim Crow practice.

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JEWEL MURRAY GIVES FOUNDERS' ADDRESS HIRTY-THREE.years ago today, I came the real Alpha Phi Alpha spirit. This wishes to mention is for those who are to to Columbus to speak before the Fifth is the problem that the speaker does not take charge of this Reclamation Program, Annual Convention of Alpha Phi feel qualified to answer. However, there to arrange their meetings with a view of Alpha Fraternity. My address then was are a number of suggestions he has in making such meetings so interesting and entitled, "Reminisces of Some of the mind that are offered in hope that the inviting that once the strayed Brother Events Associated With the Founding of observance of them may react to stimu- comes out, he will be so surprised and so Alpha Phi Alpha at Cornell in 1906." late a greater desire on the part of those well pleased that he will recognize the folly of further inactivity on his part.

Today, I am again happy to be at Co- strayed Brothers.

Many of those strayed reside at the seat He may better serve as an example for lumbus and speak to a larger audience whose efforts in carrying on where your of our undergraduate and graduate chap- others to follow and his influence will be Founders and others left off have been ters. Why have these Brothers not kept found to react for the good. instrumental in building up our present pace with the great onward movement of Don't get discouraged in your personal large and prosperous Brotherhood of Col- Alpha Phi Alpha? Why is it that these visits and efforts to rehabilitate Brothers Brothers are habitually absent from who will tell you "yes" in order to get lege Men. rid of you and then fail to show up. All Again today, due to the rapid expansion chapter meetings?

A partial answer to the foregoing is who are interested in the strayed Brother of our great fraternity, many brothers taken in some time ago, have been more that these Brothers need a real heart-to- or Brothers should grasp this opportunity or less negligent of their vows when ini- heart talk with a view of re-acquainting to put Service above Self. Go after that tiated. They have lost interest and con- themselves as to how absolutely necessary Brother in your own auto or even hire a tact with their brothers in their local it is for them to continue to affiliate with laxicab if necessary to impress him with chapters. This has caused them to stray their local chapters, as they did in the the real need the local chapter has for his away. It is the purpose of this address to beginning of their undergraduate days. presence and influence. Expense should offer a few practical suggestions for the The fraternity needs them as necessary be nil, when the reward justifies the reclaiming of these brothers. We want integral parts of its forward moving pro- expense. For after all, what good is them to return like the Prodigal Son of gram. Brothers do not make the mistake Alpha Phi Alpha to any of us if it does of stressing the need of their returning not teach us that as a servant of all we Biblical fame. merely to help out in some financial pro- must transcend all through service.

Another matter I wish to call your at- gram because that is not the idea the Each chapter that desires to make these tention to at this time is that dealing speaker wishes to convey. Far be such Reclamation worthwhile with having present at all future conven- an idea. Let the Brother be persuaded should head upsuggestions local chapter with a tions of Alpha Phi Alpha, all living by personal visits and talks to come out corp of officers itswhose is Jewels or Founders so they may share and see for himself what a wonderful radiated outside the chapterenthusiasm Prowith the traditionally invited guest thing it is to be a part of Alpha Phi vide a budget for just such meeting. work and let Founder the growth and glory that comes Alpha whose efforts will live forever. it be known through extensive to the organization of which your It is going to take much work, much wise ing among the Brothers that suchadvertisa camFounders have been an actual part. thought and planning, many sacrifices, paign is being put on. Don't let the perWe are not getting any younger. Father both of time and money, to accomplish sonal element govern you in going after a Time and the grim Reaper have already this. But after all, if Alpha Phi Alpha delinquent Brother. Whether you like a claimed three Jewels. means anything, it means putting Service given assignment or not, it is your duty There are many delegates and visiting above Self. as a Brother in Alpha Phi Alpha to carry Brothers present today who have never Another suggestion which the speaker Turn to Page 10 had personal contact with any of the living Jewels.

Their ideas concerning your Jewels and what they are have been formed from pictures seen in previous Convention Souvenir Programs.

I hope I will not be misunderstood when I say to this Convention that Alpha Phi Alpha will pay a great tribute to its living Jewels if it takes such action as will insure their presence at all future general conventions.

As far back as 1925, when the speaker was guest Founder at the Detroit Convention, down to the Richmond and Philadelphia Conventions, there has been a very noticeable increase in the number of unfinancial Brothers and unrepresented Chapters. In other words, the number of financial Brothers and Chapters has not kept the pace with the rapid growth of the Fraternity. To what is this great amount of delinquency due? Has the era of inflation which seems to grip this country been the potential factor?

In some cases the latter statement has been the cause, but the speaker believes that the great amount of delinquency must be attributed to other and more common causes or reasons.

Like an army that advances to a certain destination or objective, as the result of well executed and coordinated plans, halts and consolidates its forces in order to hold the gain it has made, the writer believes that the time is ripe for Alpha Phi Alpha to do likewise. Our purpose today is to protect what it now REMINISCINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Two of the Founders at the General Convention talk of old times. has to go forth and reclaim those who They are Jewel Nathaniel A. Murray, and Henry A. Callis, both of Washington, D. C. have apparently been out of touch with Brother Murray delivered the Founder's Address.

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The Report of the General President To the Founders, Officers and Brothers of Alpha: Here gathered together in historic assembly are some of the most compelling minds o* the twentieth century. Teachers, philosophers, lawyers, students, physicians, leaders all, met to discuss problems complex and urgent; met to transform as far as we can, a nation and a world of hate and conflict into a nation and world of peace, justice and love, to drink again of the fresh, flowing waters of Alpha, to renew our ancient faith and to formulate a program which will meet the changing needs of our membership and best serve the public. I regret that I cannot come like Edna St. Vincent Millay's April, ' . . . babbling and strewing flowers." I come rather to suggest that we must in the scientific method and spirit observe the facts of our situation honestly, record them truthfully, debate them thoroughly. and follow them doggedly. We must not start with the answers, but with the facts. We must plan and prosecute our program on the basis of the facts. Some of the facts which I think important are: (1) the type of purpose of our organization in these difficult times (2) what Alpha Phi Alpha must do for its members (3) how best it can serve the public based on our present organizational structure, our present budget, and our future income. We must understand that policy-making is one thing and administration is another. With the skills, the instruments, and the faith bequeathed us by our Founders, I can report to you that this administration understands the heritage of the Fraternity with deep appreciation and we shall preserve it with undeviating tenacity. Be assured that this heritage has not lost its force and power, but has been and will be revived and renewed by the magic of devoted and conscientious service.

We come to take inventory, inventory in ever increasing areas of varying activities which must be continuously intensified by ceaseless effort to the end that the Fraternity and each of its chapters may become effective instrumentalities for private and public service.

It is not my purpose merely to enter a chronology of activity during the past year, but to indicate some philosophic and programmatic perspectives which might serve as a basis for a general discussion of our aims, the ways and means of formulating a program and increasing our strength and influence to the end that we may repudiate any doubts and fears as to our basic purpose and reaffirm our faith that Alpha Phi Alpha's greatest work is yet to be done. Let us not voyage toward despair, but set our sails toward hope.

My report will be supplemented by the reports of our National Officers and Committee Chairmen who have worked so faithfully and who will emphasize other administrative and organizational aspects of our work. I ask you to consider those reports, not separately, which too often we do in both thought and action, but rather as complimenting each other and forming a single interrelated pattern of fraternal objectives as a guide for our collective participation out of which, we hope, will emerge greater

Brother Belford V. Lawson Gives State Of Fraternity In His First Annual Address At Columbus Convention

ATTORNEY BELFORD V. LAWSONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;General president gives opening address at the Public Meeting. clarity, deeper conviction and a more scientific and effective program.

In this fortieth year of our existence, we are an important part of Negro life in America. In the next ten years we must become an important part of American life generally. Born out of the great need for fellowship and scholarship, we have proved our existence and initiated our policies as a force and service to the people. For this we have been rewarded by the respect, esteem, and affection, not only of many brothers who have gone before, but by college communities and the public generally.

The necessities for a vital, practical and progressive program for Alpha Phi Alpha are as I see them: (1) diagnosis of our present organizational structure and program; (2) identification of the causes of disagreement, if any; (3) prescription and treatment. With the use of all available knowledge and with our abundant talent we can reach sound conclusions. The difficulty will come, as in prevention of disease, from our unwillingness to diagnose, to identify and to take the necessary treatment. This is so because it involves hard thinking. It may taste bad. It means hard work and may mean change. It will undoubtedly mean giving up the path of certainty; it means the discontinuance of the use of the old patent medicines and the old slogans; it means that we must adequately assess our responsibilities and take proportionate action: it means leadership which is not afraid (if great purposes and hard problems nor afraid tn

undertake great experiments in their name. Extensive surgery is always unpleasant, but a persistent and malignant cancer is worse.

Emerson in his essay on intellect says, "God offers to every mind his choice between truth and repose. Take which you please. You can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, most likely his father's.

He gets rest, commodity, reputation, but he shuts the door to truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings and afloat. He will abstain from dogmatism and reengage all the opposite negations between which, as walls, his being is swung. He submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion, but he is a candidate for truth, as the other is not and respects the highest law of his being." The people who chose repose made two world wars possible and maybe a third and final one is in the making.

Alpha cannot choose repose. We must choose truth.

We realize that a quiet, easy life whether for an individual or an organization does not make great ideas or great men or great organizations. Only the compulsions of crisis, the imperatives of survival weed out dead things by the roots, quicken the growth of new and powerful ideas and build strong and persuasive Turn Page

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BIG THREE AT PUBLIC MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;General President Lawson congratulates Brother Paul Robeson after his performance at the public meeting. Brother Dr. Channing H. Tobias who was also a pi i" ci Pal_speaker,_looks^in : _

THE REPORT OF THE GENERAL PRESIDENT From Page 7 energy and our faith or we may lose our men and organizations.

In the midst of profound moral, spirit- rating among the powerful organizations ual, economic and political instability, we in the public life and we may not even cannot be bound by the fetters of in- continue to be self-serving. Those may herited orthodoxy. "The dogmas of a be unwelcome words at our banquet of quiet past are inadequate to the stormy national self-praise, but these are words present." We are inheritors of a world which. I believe. I should, as your templowed up by the Nazi-fascist revolu- porary president, speak.

Hated by millions because of our race tion, devastated by a global war, victims of deep and abiding hates and injustices. and origin, State and Federal governand now confronted by the terrifying ments and courts sanctioning local cuspotentialities of the atom, unlocked and toms. and with the press, radio, entrenched power and vested interests arrayed unleashed.

Our future will be shaped by our ef- against us. we have got to join hands in forts in bold, clarity of thought, coopera- mortal combat against the forces of retive social planning and prosecution. We action. evil, and despotism and violence. must at this Convention formulate, crys- We must realize that economic stability, tallize and publicize a guiding social political and cultural equality, and perideal for our common good, in consonance sonal dignity are privileges for which with our ancient philosophy and geared we must be willing heroically to fight and to the social mood and exigencies not if need be, to die. I counsel orderly but only of the present, but of the future. adventurous procedure. I realize with Henrik Ibsen said, "I hold that man is in Mr. Justice Holmes that "justice cannot the right who is most closely in league be taken by storm, but must be wooed by with the future." To this ideal we must slow advance." Hate and force do not dedicate our time, our money and our create consensus. Our guiding ideal

should be the complete destruction of the iron-clad curtain of Jim Crow in this country and in the world and which stands astride the arteries of the nation like a toll-bridge whose keeper collects his evil, constant and humiliating fee, and an effective and expanding program of service to chapters and brothers. The evil, bitter fruits of injustice, based on color, must be torn from the tree of American and world culture. The history of civilization shows that liberty and justice are not boons granted to dilettantes. They are the hard-earned possessions of fighting men. We of Alpha must join the fight for freedom and equality to be achieved by mutual consent, if possible, but achieved in any event. Scholarship and erudition must be combined with courage and action if we are to remain first of all and servants of all.

The great decision of this generation of Alpha men is whether we shall continue to accept the fact of segregation or whether we shall with every ounce of energy, with every dollar in our treasury, with every fibre of our mind and soul deny the gigantic conspiracy to preserve our segregated status quo, and de-

February, 1947 stroy t h e mighty monstrous mockery of h u m a n decency a n d dignity, t h e y o k e ot J i m Crow which hangs a r o u n d our necks. To compromise is to evade t h e crucial issue.

I call you to action. Let us speak for Uie dawn, b u n r i s e follows sunset. We need to chart new ways and tread n e w paths. A great chorus of brothers, living and dead, brave souls a n d noble spn-iis, call upon us to a w a k e n and liveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; not alone lor ourselves, but lor our children and our children's cnildren.

We are the faithful. We are t h e undefeated. u i o l h e r s , legion and immortal, h a v e d a r e d 10 hope a n a dared to do.

They, like l e n n y s o n ' s Ullysses, spoke for tne D a w n .

Chapter Visits The following cnapters w e r e visited the past year: Alpha G a m m a L a m b d a (New i o r k ) , Omicron L a m b d a (Birmingham), /iipiia K a p p a L a m b d a iRoanoke), Rho a n d Psi (Pmlaaelphia), A l p h a Alpna (Cincinnati), G a m m a (Richmond), Zeta (New Haven), Beia G a m m a (Petersburg), Alpha lota L a m b d a and Alpha Zeta (Institute, W. Va), Beia Nu and G a m m a Mu L a m b da (Tallahassee), Beta Upsilon and Alpha Upsilon L a m b d a (Montgomery), Alpha P h i , A l p h a Rho and Eta L a m b d a (Atlanta), Alpha Chi L a m b d a (Augusta), Omicron (Pittsburgh), P i (Cleveland), Alpha Upsilon and G a m m a L a m b d a (Detroit), Eta (New York), Alpha Theta L a m b d a (Atlantic City), K a p p a a n d Alpha Rho L a m b d a (Columbus), Sigma (Boston), Epsilon (Ann Arbor), Beta Alpha and Delta L a m b d a (Baltimore), a n d Theta a n d Xi L a m b d a (Chicago).

T h e Mid-Western Regional Conference, held a t Cincinnati, April 26-28, during which time a public meeting was sponsored by t h e F r a t e r n i t y along w i t h t h e Alpha K a p p a Sorority, and the Eastern Regional Conference held at Atlantic City, October 4-6 w e r e also attended.

Representation at Meetings and in Organizations T h e president has r e p r e s e n t e d t h e F r a ternity at meetings and in organizations, a m o n g others, as follows: T h e S o u t h e r n Conference for H u m a n Welfare (dinner honoring Channing Tobias; a n d protest of w a v e of lynching); the Council on African Affairs (New York; N A A C P Conference on Lynching (New York); Conference of t h e Committee for Maritime Unity (Washington); I n d e p e n d e n t Citizens Committee of Arts, Sciences, a n d P r o fessions (New York); Committee for J u s tice in F r e e p o r t (New York); Committee on Racial Democracy (Washington); National Committee to Abolish t h e Poll T a x (Washington); Liberian Centennial Commission (dinner in honor of t h e Consul G e n e r a l of Liberia, (New York); Conference on Police Brutality, sponsored by the National Negro Congress (Washington)- Pan-Hellenic Roundtable, sponsored

by Omega F r a t e r n i t y (Washington); Attorney General's Conference on J u v e n i l e Delinquency (Washington); U. S. Employment Services (Washington); and Liberian flag presentation, H o w a r d University, Brother Logan presiding.

Recommendations Based upon m y experience in t h e F r a ternity and conferences w i t h m a n y brothers, I r e c o m m e n d as follows: (1) T h a t regional conferences b e held every y e a r : (2) T h a t the grand t a x for g r a d u a t e and u n d e r g r a d u a t e brothers be increased. In m y judgment, increased costs a n d an ex-

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BROTHER T O B I A S S P E A K S O F AFRICA- -Bro. Dr. C h a n n i n g T. Tobias addresses the Public Meeting at Memorial Hall. p a n d e d p r o g r a m r e q u i r e an increase in the F r a t e r n a l budget.

(3) T h a t an Executive Secretary b e employed as soon as possible, p u r s u a n t to the directive of the Chicago Convention.

I a m convinced that w i t h some sacrifice and careful m a n a g e m e n t this can be done.

(4) T h a t t h e Executive Council be authorized to select an Executive Committee to be composed of t h e President, the four Vice Presidents, the General Counsel, t h e Secretary, t h e Treasurer, and one u n d e r g r a d u a t e m e m b e r of t h e E x e cutive Council to act for t h e Council in the interim between Conventions. This committee will greatly expedite t h e business of the F r a t e r n i t y a n d will save money.

(5) T h a t t h e budget of t h e Vice P r e s i dents and Regional Directors b e increased so t h a t some officer m a y visit each chapter at least once a year.

(6) T h a t the Constitution Committee continue its study of t h e Constitution with a view further to streamline o u r organization, coordinate and combine t h e work of committees, define their functions and w h e r e possible, reduce t h e m in n u m ber, and to revise our by-laws.

(7) That t h e F r a t e r n i t y , u n d e r the direction of t h e G e n e r a l Counsel, e x p a n d its legal program to assist in t h e solution of the legal problems facing Negroes.

I strongly r e c o m m e n d t h a t t h e F r a t e r n i t y adopt t h e legal theory of t h e Henderson case: t h a t segregation in interstate transportation and public accomodations is discrimination and b y so m u c h is illegal.

This is t h e only approach which, in m y judgment, if adopted by t h e S u p r e m e Court of t h e United States will lay the foundation for t h e achievement of the equal and exact justice guaranteed to us u n d e r the law.

(8) W h e r e v e r possible, t h a t t h e a n n u a l Convention be held successively in each

jurisdiction and at no time be h e l d in t h e same region two years in succession except w h e r e it is unavoidable.

(9) T h a t an appropriation as substantial as our budget will p e r m i t to be m a d e to t h e S o u t h e r n Conference for H u m a n Welfare and to t h e Council on African Affairs.

(10) Based on the findings of t h e Special P r o g r a m Committee, t h a t a small b u t r e p resentative committee of e x p e r t social p l a n n e r s be appointed scientifically to formulate our program.

(11) T h a t continued a n d r e n e w e d emphasis be placed on our p r o g r a m of reclamation.

(12) T h a t w h e r e v e r possible, special emphasis be placed on t h e increased participation b y younger b r o t h e r s in t h e regional and national p r o g r a m s a n d in t h e development and prosecution of our program so t h a t t h e y may h a v e e v e r y opportunity to develop their capacity for leadership.

(13) T h a t t h e Convention expenses of the c h a i r m e n of all standing committees be b o r n e by t h e national organization.

(14) T h a t t h e p r o g r a m of t h e Committee on International Relations a m o n g Minorities and t h e Committee on P u b l i c Policy be e x p a n d e d and the budgets of these committees be increased.

I believe t h a t t h e r e is an i n t i m a t e connection of tragic u r g e n c y b e t w e e n t h e problems of minorities t h e world over. No other organization t h a t I k n o w has a special committee w o r k i n g in this field. Certainly t h e r e is no organization whose directing head speaks out of a w i d e r experience a n d w i t h m o r e a u t h o r i t y t h a n the c h a i r m a n of our Committee on International Relations a m o n g Minorities. T h e F r a t e r n i t y ' s p r o g r a m in this field of activity is original, far-reaching, a n d effecTurn to Page 11

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THE FRATERNAL ADDRESSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Brother I cation, as he delivers the Fraternal Address^

Jewel Murray Gives Founders' Address From Page 6 out to the best of your known ability any chapter tasks given you. Only by putting Service and Self will this suggestive program of Reclamation of hope for a successful end.

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Aim to cut out too much politics in the selection of your chapter officers.

Select only those Brothers for nomination who possess qualities of leadership, scholarship and character that you will feel proud in having them as leaders. Get rid of the machine politics whereby so many chapters are handicapped in carrying out any kind of a program, which program would always react to the glory

February. 1947 and fame of dear old Alpha Phi Alpha.

This latter suggestion can only be done by selecting as officers those whose known ability to lead and who are not candidates for office.

In many cases such Brothers have refrained from allowing their names to be considered as candidates for office because of the known antipathy of the machine group towards their candidacy. Alpha Phi Alpha is not a fraternity in which a few Brothers can hope to acclaim all the benefits for meritorious achievement. Alpha Phi Alpha means all, and only by having all take part can we hope to achieve these things embodied in our preamble u nd ideals which your Founders fought so hard to perfect, in order that you who are beiore me, might enjoy the benefits arising liom being affiliated with a group of college men who have banded themselves together in order to transcend all through service.

As a Founder of our great and glorious Fraternity, no one feels more keenly the results of the political and machine conditions that have been allowed to creep into many of our chapters and destroy the interest and enthusiasm prevailing at the time such chapter was organized. Many good Brothers and likewise many potential men have been lost to the Fraternity as a whole because of machine politics.

The joys and enthusiasm which the delegates to the earlier conventions received and carried home with them to their respective chapters seems to be dead. Your speaker can recall how vividly he listened to the report of the various delegates. There was real inspiration and it was the real Alpha Phi Alpha spirit present in those days that carried us on and up. I long for a return of those days. In those days the familiar slogan was "Do all you can for dear old Alpha Phi Alpha." Can we not capitalize on that same slogan today? If chapters will but work to assimilate their membership and through their programs keep Next Page

SECRETARIAL STAFF KEEPS THE RECORDâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;General Secretary Burt A. Mayberry, center, and his staff. It was the second consecutive convention for Brother Walker S. Quarles, left end, as convention secretary. Brother R. Allen Durrant, Rho Chapter, served as assistant to the General Secretary and Convention Secretary.

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GIVES MASTERLY CONVENTION He was later elected a Lay Councilman. up a rich spirit and enthusiasm, the worries about taxes and assessments will be a thing of the past. A rich chapter life will replace the tendency to stress dance and entertainment features.

Brothers, Alpha Phi Alpha needs a real awakening from its lethargy! It is asleep and things are transpiring in many of the local chapters that would humiliate and shame your Founders, if they perchance happen to be near such chapters. Something must be done if we are to hold our place in the sun as the first fraternity among Negro men. It is not up to your Founders to bring about the much needed change, but it is up to you, my listeners. Your Founders sowed the seed, fed it, and as the plant which has come from this seed (sown in fertile soil) is expanding, you who are before me should see to it that the expansion is upward and onward rather than downward. Prune here and there like the good gardner does when he finds his plant getting unweildly. for only by so doing can the good old Alpha Phi Alpha spirit return, only by so doing can the returning delegates receive the much needed enthusiasm and inspiration to impress upon their own Brothers this needed awakening.

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tive and is well worthy of increased support.

That in the formulation of our public policy, we keep informed and rise above tradition and partisanship; that we view critically the liberties we love and revere and that we express boldly the belief we cherish. Enduring influence and effective leadership in the public life require accurate information, and timely and concerted action working always within the confines of Article X, Sec. 4 of our Constitution.

That we take the lead in establishing, with the cooperation of other fraternities and sororities, a lobby in Washington or revitalize and reorganize the program of the national Pan-Hellenic Council so as to include such a program and that a special committee be appointed to carry out this purpose.

The Henderson Case I reported to the Chicago Convention that the Federal statutory court remanded the case to the Interstate Commerce

Commission on December 17, 1945 for further hearing. After much negotiation with the Commission and the Southern Railway, a rehearing was held before the Commission on October 15, 1946. Under the court's decision in this case and the decision of the Supreme Court in Morgan Vs. Commonwealth of Virginia, we contended that the issues involved in the Henderson case are basic to the solution of the problem of segregation not only of Negro interstate dining car passengers but the segregation and discrimination in interstate transportation generally.

Twenty cases are now pending before the courts and the Commission awaiting the final decision in the Henderson case. We are making three contentions: (1) that segregation is an undue burden on interstate commerce and is itself discrimination; that there is no such thing as separate but equal accomodations; (2) that a single uniform rule to protect Negroes in national transportation is required; and (3) that State legislation to the contrary, in the absence of action by Congress, is beyond the power of the State and therefore is invalid.

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EASTERN DELEGATION . . . This large delegation represents majority of the chapters in the Eastern Jurisdiction, "Cradle of Alphadom," and presided over by Brother Louis H. Schuster, of Virginia State College, shown front row, 10th from left end, kneeling. These brothers are leaders in many walks of life, medicine, law, education, business, and industry, and public welfare. The list would be too imposing to name all the prominent brothers shown here, but included are Gen-

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eral President Belford V. Lawson, J ewel Nathaniel A. Murray, O. Wilson Winters and Walter Jerrick, Life Members; C. Arthur Jackson and G. A. Galvin, Regional Directors; Robert S. Scurlock, Official Convention Photographer; J. Rupert Picott, Chairman of Publicity; and Robert Custis, Sphinx Staff Member, Brothers Winters, and Picott are also staff members of the Sphinx, the former serving as Frat Fun Editor, and the latter as Program Editor.

OUR NEXT STOP, TULSA!

BY DR. C. E. THOMPSON

Brother Thompson, noted Chicago surgeon, whose inspiring address. "Leadership And Servants of All." lifted brothers of the Greater Chicago to new heights during the annual Thetaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Xi Lambda Foundation Dinner last year. He attended the General Convention in Columbus, Ohio.

N to Tulsa moves the Calvacade of Alpha Phi Alpha liberalism and progress. On to Tulsa is consonance with the challenge of leadership and service to that great parade of Negro workers which is moving hopefully away from the boll weevil, the Bilbos, and the brutalities of the Southland, to new horizons of opportunities for themselves and their children in the great West and Southwest.

We are coming Tulsa, not as harbingers of social prestige to strut our self-satisfac tion and false pride in social leadership of the elite, but rather we are coming as humble "servants of all" in a sincere expression of our love for all mankind.

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song writing, I am sure that I would be inspired to add a new verse to our famous pep chant, "Give me that old Alpha Spirit." This added verse would evoke the blessings of some of the new Alpha Spirit which I have observed and enjoyed in its development with a crescendo of intensity during the last three National Conventions of our beloved fraternity.

This evidence of this new spirit of Alpha Phi Alpha liberalism was first presented in Atlantic City with the ringing challenge of our courageous Brother Adam Clayton Powell, to join the parade of common men and women in their struggle for equality and justice and the brilliant exposition of the Colored peoples of the world by problems of exploitations of the Colored peoples of the world by our erudite Brother Burkhardt DuBois. It continued to gain momentum in Chicago with the scholarly address of our Brother Manley, the great leader of the Peoples Movement in the West Indies, in their struggle against the oppression Next Page -s-

CONVENTION REPORT OF GENERAL PRESIDENT From Page 11 a significant contribution to our system of jurisprudence and legal history will be made if we continue the prosecution of this case. Of the $500.00 appropriated by the Fraternity specifically for this litigation, we have spent approximately $300.00. Proper financial accounting for the expenditure has been made to the Auditing Committee.

To the officers and committee chairmen and to all the brothers who have given me of their time and advice I am deeply grateful. I am particularly grateful to Brothers Rayford W. Logan, Howard H. Long, Sydney Brown, Bindley Cyrus,

Walter Jerrick, H. Councill Trenholm, and H. L. Dickason upon whom I have called for special advice. I wish to express my deep thanks for the constant and valuable assistance and advice given me during the past year of this administration.

In conclusion, I challenge you as Pericles did the people of Athens, 2,000 years ago: "There no hearts grow faint, because they loved riches more than honor; none shirked the issue in the poor man's dream of wealth. All these they put aside to strike a blow for the city. So they gave their bodies to the Commonwealth and received, each for his own memory, peace that will never die, and with it the grandest of sepulchres, not that in which their mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains afresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes by. For the whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives." And then he added, "For you now it remains to rival what they have done and knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom and the secret of freedom to be a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset."

Whatever our mistakes or misunderstandings, whatever our achievements, let the rhythm of the fresh healing waters of Alpha teach us the meaning of the brotherhood of man and the timeless and patience of God as reflected in the mirrors of our lives. May the songs of our Fraternity always in choir chant the psalm of brotherhood. Let it be said of each of us that none lived, or fought or died with greater gloryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and there were many who lived and fought and died and there was much glory. Let us speak and act for the Dawn.

Respectfully and fraternally submitted, BELFORD V. LAWSON, JR. General President.

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From Page 12 and exploitation of British and French imperalism.

This new spirit of liberalism came to an inspiring and infectious climax of enthusiasm at Columbus with the brilliant address of our great historian, Brother Wesley, the dynamic challenges of our incomparable and fearless Brother Paul Robeson and brilliant scholar, Brother Rayford Logan, and our fiery war veteran, Brother Judge Sandifer.

The themes of all of these brilliant speeches evinced this new Alpha spirit of liberalism and courage and determination, and also the eloquent words of our great and progressive president, Brother Belford Lawson to "storm the citadel of privilege and power in America." Moreover, men of Alpha have taken their places in the vanguard of leadership, side by side with other men of goodwill of all races, all creeds, all colors, all ideologies in this world struggle against the evil forces and evil leaders who, in their control of human destinies have brought civilization to a state of moral and spiritual bankruptcy. These human parasites riding on the backs of the underprivileged people of the world would sacrifice civilization itself on the altar of their greed, their prejudices and their selfish and stupid desires to perpetuate the myth of White Supremacy. These conscienceless leaders who indulge in hypocritical forensics in their search for a formula for peace while they fasten with new links the chains which they promised soon would fall from the limbs of the unhappy oppressed peoples of the world.

In their insincerity, they totally ignore the simple formula for peace which they could find in the lesson which the Great

ALLEN-FERGUSON CUP TO CHICAGOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bro. Earl B. Smith of Chi Chapter Meharry Medical College, presents the Ferguson-Allen Cup given for meritorious achievement to the outstanding chapter to Bro. Thos. M. Clarke who receives it for Xi Lambda Chapter in Chicago. Donors of the cup. Bros. M. G. Ferguson and Aaron L. Allen look on.

Prince of Peace taught when he preached on the shores of Galilee, the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man.

There are some reactionary and fascistminded individuals who have hinted that

MIDWESTERN DELEGATION . . . Brothers of the Host Jurisdiction, the Midwestern, presents an imposing picture here. It was the second convention within two years for this Area, and the fourth since 1940. Results of these great Alpha meetings in Kansas City, Mo., Louisville, Ky., Chicago, 111., and this past year in Columbus in the Midwestern Jurisdiction during the past six years have meant a general revival of fraternal interest, increase in memberships, and a progressive program of action to meet the post-war challenge of our times.

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Brother William N. Lovelace, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Midwestern Vice-President, is seen ninth from right end. Incidentally, had it been left to those fine brothers from Detroit, the 1947 Conclave would have met for the third consecutive year in the Midwest. . . . this time in Michigan. The Detroiters promised a brand new car for every registered delegate to ride in "Just name your make." The Tulsa brothers didn't promise any oil wells, but managed to "squeeze" through with the next session notwithstanding.

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O F F I C E R S AND J E W E L S w h o partideliberations and helped shape policies General Convention in Columbus, Ohio.

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eral Secretary; Past General Presidents Rayford W. Logan, Charles H. Wesley, B. A n d r e w Rose. Raymond W. Cannon, S. S. Booker, Howard H. Long, H e n r y L a k e Dickason, and J e w e l s Nathaniel A. M u r r a y , and Henry A. Callis.

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of n u m b e r s , but in our closeness to one a n o t h e r as brothers in t h e bond, bound together to tight for those ideals and principles which w e believe will, while protecting those rights and privileges already ours, provide us with those guarantees which a r e necessary for a progressive world and a charter to maintain those same rights and privileges for all men of every nationality and race upon the principles of "Brotherly Love."

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IM-: greatest achievement at t h e annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, w a s the general expression of brotherhood which p e r m e a t e d the entire five-day session. Everybody was impressed w i t h t h e sincerity as expressed by individual brothers to do our share toward building a better world. I am sure that no brother left "The Convention City" disappointed in the progress m a d e there.

It is indeed challenging that t h e first Negro fraternity would extend its sphere of interest to the down-trodden and underprivileged peoples of the world.

Brother Logan is doing a fine job of pointing out to t h e United Nations some of t h e ills which have followed systems of m a n d a t e governments all over the world. But, though B r o t h e r Logan is a leader in this field, the response to our general program demonstrated that he is not alone in his fight for freedom of the thousands of enslaved persons, w h e t h e r in Africa, China, or h e r e in our own United States.

No one will deny that Alpha P h i Alpha has grown within the past year. But ordinarily we think of an increase in n u m b e r s with the word growth. We have done more. We have grown and a r e still growing in wisdom, in b r o t h e r l y love and interest in our fellow world-citizens, and in u n d e r s t a n d i n g of the effects of his status of freedom upon our own. I think no brother left t h e convention w i t h o u t u n d e r s t a n d i n g that as long as one single person in t h e world is in bondage, our status as free citizens is not secure. Each b r o t h e r must h a v e left the b a n q u e t which closed t h e formal p a r t of the meeting, w i t h a m o r e thorough k n o w l e d g e of w h a t m e m b e r s h i p in Alpha P h i Alpha means.

And I, for one, was particularly elated over t h a t fact. So m a n y of us h a v e t h e idea t h a t our fraternity is a strictly social organization, a n d that w c a r e not

interested in taking such action thai will g u a r a n t e e our rigiiis Jto socialize as we see lit. My only regret is that there a r e still several thousands "lost" brothers who are not financial, thus-failing to join with the fight for h u m a n rights for all persons regardless of race or color.

U n d e r g r a d u a t e s m u s t h a v e been impressed with the sincerity of m a n y of the brothers present at the convention in their fights for the rights of the masses. Such stalwarts as Paul Robeson, Rayford Logan, Bclford Lawson, Max Yergan, and Charles Wesley serve as bolsters to the faith of those brothers who have long been skeptics about the purposes of the organization.

II is io be hoped that these younger brothers received some of the enthusiasm which was demonstrated and will p r e p a r e themselves to carry the torch w h e n the present leaders h a v e ceased to be active.

Of course, there w e r e m a n y demonstrations of that particular idea. But wc all k n o w that leaders are still lacking. and too often we depend too much on a few well-known and able leaders to carry too m u c h of the b u r d e n . The limits of an Alpha man a r e the same as any other of t h e great leaders of America. Others will be needed to assist them in their campaign for freedom and justice.

If there are still men who a r e doubtful of the "bigness" of Alphadom. let them peruse carefully t h e proceedings of the Columbus Convention.

Let them read the reports of the standing committees as well as the annual address of our leaders. Our G e n e r a l President's address, in particular, was as challenging and as pointed as a president of our country charting t h e course for t h e nation's development. " F o r w a r d w i t h A l p h a " could v e r y well be the slogan for our drive to regain "lost" brothers d u r i n g the coming year, for Alpha P h i Alpha still m a i n t a i n s its place of leadership which it took in 1906. We a r e m o v i n g forward not only in t h e sense

Major McLendon Resumes Law Practice In Chicago After Overseas Services

To his wide circle of friends in Chicago,

February. 1947 Washington, D. C , and other sections of the country, it was good news to learn that Major J a m e s A. MeLendon has r e t u r n e d from Military Service to Chicago w h e r e he is resuming the general practice of law at 417 East 47th Street, Suite 328.

B r o t h e r McLendon entered on Military d u t y with the 18th Field Artillery, formerly t h e famous 8th Illinois Regiment, as •a private and was promoted to t h e r a n k of Major in F r a n c e in November, 1945.

His tour of service included duty as •Staff Editor for the Re-statement of A r m y Regulations at the Adjutant General's School, Fort Washington, Maryland, and •assignment for approximately a year on the staff of the J u d g e Advocate General •of the A r m y in the War D e p a r t m e n t in Washington.

He won official commendation for his work in both d e p a r t m e n t s . After about six months as Assistant Post J u d g e Advocate at F o r t Huachuca, Arizona, he was ordered overseas w h e r e he served as Assistant Staff J u d g e Advocate of Seine and Western Base Sections in F r a n c e .

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Major McLendon formerly practiced law with the firm of Temple, Wimbish, and McLendon at 3456 So. State Street and at 155 No. Clark Street, in Chicago and is a g r a d u a t e of Fisk University and N o r t h w e s t e r n University School of Law. He is also a charter m e m b e r of Alpha Chi. Brother McLendon has received a n u m b e r of commendations including the two following ones: HEADQUARTERS, ARMY SERVICE FORCES OFFICE OF THE J U D G E ADVOCATE GENERAL WASHINGTON, 25, D. C. SPJGO 9 May 1946 SUBJECT: Commendation To: Major J a m e s A. McLendon (0-1001634) JAGD 1. During the period from 20 September 1943 to 19 December 1943 you served in several of the most important divisions of this office and accomplished your duties with distinction: from 22 May 1944 to 8 -August 1944. you served as Member Legal Review Branch, Claims Division, Office of the J u d g e Advocate General.

WESTERN DELEGATION: Brothers of the Western J u r i s diction with a sprinkling of delegates from other sections.

Western Vice-President, A. Maceo Smith, of Dallas, Texas, (third from left end front with Alpha banner) was reelected for a second term. T h e 1947 General Convention will be held in t h e Western Jurisdiction a t Tulsa, Oklahoma. This will be t h e first time the General Convention has ever met in the Western Area. A special session, the Pan-Pacific Convention, was held in Los Angeles, California in 1936. Delegates from the host-elect city w e r e Brothers Drs. Lloyd H. Williams,

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2. For the foregoing accomplishments you a r e h e r e b y commended and authorized to w e a r the A r m y Commendation Ribbon by direction of the Secretary of War. Thomas H. Green T H O M A S H. GREEN Major General T h e J u d g e Advocate General THE A D J U T A N T G E N E R A L ' S SCHOOL FORT WASHINGTON, MARYLAND 28 J u l y 1943 SUBJECT: Commendation TO: 2dLt. J a m e s A. McLendon, Adjutant General's School, Fort Washington, Maryland.

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Regional Director, Roscoe C. B r y a n t and E. L. Hairston. A m o n g others s h o w n in the picture a r e J e w e l H e n r y A. Callis, of Washington, D. C , Regional Director C. P a u l Johnson, Dewey D. Davidson, W. D. Hawkins, Chairman of the A u d i t i n g Committee; Albert Johnson of UCLA, elected Lay m e m b e r of t h e Executive Council, w h o gave t h e Convention Address; Lewis O. Swingler, Editor of t h e S p h i n x and formerly of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and A. L. Allen, Representative of Alpha's Official Jeweler.

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Major McLendon Resumes From Page 15 jutant General's School and under provisions of paragraph 8 AR 600-55, I desire to commend you officially for exceptionally meritoridus service specifically as follows: in research, outlining and writing, you have displayed superior initiative, industry and a keen devotion to duty. As a staff editor your work â&#x20AC;˘ has been an outstanding contribution to the preparation of Army Regulations 1-5 and to the restatement of Army Regulations during the period 13 February 1943 to date while assigned to the AR Restatement Branch. The Adjutant General's School, Fort Washington, Maiyland.

2. The vigorous prosecution of work and the devotion to duty which you displayed, as shown above, reflect high credit on yourself and on the military ser-

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APPRAISAL OF ALPHA'S FIGHT FOR THE BALLOT

By Ishmael P. Flory XI Lambda Chapter "A good cause and a stubbon fight are a combination almost as good as victory itself, better than victory without them . . . Vote! Cast your vote though taxed for it. Cast your vote though defrauded of it, as many a white man is today. Cast your vote though you die for it . . . Keep vice.

3. This commendation is made a part of your official record to be used by you at such time and in such manner as the occasion may warrant.

(Sgd) Alfred L. Price ALFRED L, PRICE Colonel, AGD Acting Commandant

SIX COLLEGE PRESIDENTS AT CONCLAVE . . . Alpha's emphasis upon high scholarship, and its effort to help raise the educational standard for the entire racial group in America are given impetus by a number of prominent leaders who head educational institutions. Shown here are six college administrators who wear the Alpha badge. They are, from left to right, Brothers H. Councill Trenholm, president of Alabama State Teachers College; Robert P. Daniel, president of Shaw University; Charles H. Wesley, president of Wilberforce University; William H. Gray, Jr., president of Florida

your vote alive; better nine free men than ten half free. . .

FROM "A Southerner Looks at Negro Discrimination," Selected Writings of George W. Cable, International Publishers, New York, New York.

Negroes in the North cannot be free until Negroes in the South exercise the right to vote and hold office.

This is an old conclusion that should take on new meaning and new emphasis when we read, as we did in the last issue of the Sphinx, of the work of our Alpha brothers in Atlanta, Ga. For these brothers, in the best Alpha tradition and ritual, are organizing and working so that Negroes might exercise the right to vote in the South. Their efNext Page

A. & M. College; Karl Downs, president of Samuel Huston College; and Henry Lake Dickason, president of Bluefield State Teachers College.

Institutions headed by these educators, all delegates to the Columbus Convention, represent the educational programs of three states, Alabama, Florida, and West Virginia; and three great religious groups, the Baptists, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Methodist Church . . . indicating the wide spread of Alpha leadership in the field of higher learning.

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SOUTHERN DELEGATION. Delegates and visiting brothers from virtually every state in the Southern Jurisdiction are represented here.

Southern Vice-President Dr. William H. Gray, Jr., of Florida A. & M. College, is shown front row, seventh from left end. Others shown in the picture are Jewel Henry A. Callis, of Washington, D. C; Brothers LeRoy Collins and James Cummings, Lay Councilmen; Dr. Robert P. Daniel ofShawJJniyersity, Chairman of the Budget Committee; M.

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Memphis, Tennessee, with Alpha Delta Lambda and Beta Xi Chapters and official hosts, will be the scene of the Southern

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APPRAISAL OF ALPHA'S FIGHT FOR THE BALLOT From Page 16 forts are being duplicated by Negroes— are not fully free But even more conand not without considerable progressive crete and specific, Alpha Phi Alpha canwhite support—in other states, in the not do the maximum, as the Fraternity South. should do, in behalf of our own brothers, Indeed the objective for which these who for example need housing on and brothers and allied movements strive, off campuses, who need expanding oppordeserve considered moral and financial tunities for jobs to utilize their special support of every brother and chapter in training and education, and who face disAlpha Phi Alpha for they pose some crimination in many and varied forms fundamental questions that cannot be ig- in procuring their education. These needs nored by the fine spirited men who make today more and more tie in with politics up the fraternity.

—yes the very right to vote.

Now I know that there are still very Fundamental is this struggle for the sincere and hard-working brothers in the right Negroes to vote and hold office various chapters who say, "I am for things in theof South, carried forward by our progressive, but the fraternity is not the Georgia brothers, those heroic black place for them" OR, "The Fraternity is a men who testified by against Bilbo in Missocial organization where good men of sissippi, by the Negro veterans in Alalike minds get together but not for mat- bama and by other movements all over ters of serious concern such as politics, the South, reaching among the most adcurrent trends, and issues." vanced sections of white labor and other For these reasons there will be in population segments. Accompanying the many chapters resistence even to a dis- denial of the right of franchise in the cussion of the questions here presented. South comes the doctrine of "white suBut this resistence must be overcome and premacy," lynching, Jim Crow and terror. our dissenting brothers helped to under- From this reactionary sector of America stand that we can never attain the high- radiates the manifold patterns of discrimest in fraternal good fellowship while we ination in the North that even the most

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economically secure brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha cannot escape. Hence, for the right to vote, all the efforts in the South to wipe out poll taxes, to pay them in some places, to eliminate so-called grandfather clauses in others, to encourage mass registration and mass voting, deserve the most careful and serious consideration by an enlightened organization like Alpha Phi Alpha. And well might our brothers and chapters outside of the South rally to the support of our brothers in Atlanta and our brothers—in a broader sense— all over the South, with finance, with greetings of solidarity, and with protest and demonstration of support where needed.

Moreover, realizing how closely linked are the problems of Negroes in the North to the right of Negroes to vote and hold office in the South, without which right Negroes nowhere can breathe the full fresh air of freedom, well might Alpha Phi Alpha develop this theme during education week activities in May, even if it required a reorientation of program.

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CHICAGO DELEGATION . . . Delegates and visiting brothers from Chicago, Evanston, Gary and other immediate vicinities of the Illinois metropolis, after giving Alpha Phi Alpha its first postwar convention in 1945, (Did the same thing after World War I) laid down important affairs and holiday pleasures with loved ones at home to attend the Columbus, Ohio Conclave. The delegation was headed by General Counsel

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Charles F. Lane, Ninth from left end, front row; and Attorney Bindley Cyrus, front row, Eighth from left, who spearheaded the "overhauling" of the Constitution in 1945. Brother William C. Pyant, Executive Secretary of the National Pan-Hellenic Council of Evanston, Illinois, and long-time representative of the Fraternity in that organization, is seen on front row, second from right end.

APPRAISAL OF ALPHA'S FIGHT FOR THE BALLOT From Pag e 17 vote and hold office traveling? Is it to seat of power and authority over the be channelized into the Democratic Party Federal Government. And yet, in these of the South? Is it to be linked to men eighty-one years, neither of the two major like Bilbo. Rankin, Talmadge and the like? parties has made any serious effort to Is it to be linked with the Republican wipe out the disabilities suffered by NeParty of "lilly-whiteism" in the South and groes, South or North. And even in the Big Business in the North? Is it going North where Negroes have won some civil to find its links with the movements of and political rights they have not been the trade unions and other potentially won without a sharp struggle, and neither progressive forces in the South? Is it to major party in state or local influence find working relations with and strength has used that influence, and the accomfrom the rising independent political panying authority, seriously to enforce movements in America such as the "Pro- laws affecting the rights and welfare of gressive Citizens of America" or the the Negro people. Even with a Progres"American for Democratic Action?" sive Roosevelt, we were not able to have But the posing of these questions raises the Federal Government, under its powers other questions which must be answered under the Constitution, to use its powers in part by Negroes in the North. And and authority to guarantee the rights of here, Alpha men have an opportunity the Negro people, or even to force through to help lend clarity and give a correct and anti-lynch bill or an anti-poll tax-bill.

Will the Republican Party, now returned answer.

Wither goes the Negro in the North? to power with a majority in both houses, the anti-lynch bill, the anti-poll tax Almost eighty-one years have passed pass and other measures to guarantee the since "Northern Big Business," through bill of the Negro people in the South President Rutherford B. Hayes, made the rights to vote and hold office as is their rights deal with the Southern rebellious planta- under the constitution? tion owners, to disfranchise Negroes—and poor whites too—aborting the demands of Will the Negro people in the North, in the Civil War that would have assured in order to take a leap forward in the ena large measure the citizenship rights of joyment of their manhood rights, be comthe Negro people of the South. Since this pelled to take a new political course period, at various times, one or the other leading to independent political action? major political parties has occupied the Will they be able to unify the most ad-

vanced and progressive sections of Negro business, church and professional people in alliance with labor to open a new political tributary, rising from blocks and precincts and from wards and districts, pouring into the broad stream of independent political action being channelized by men like Phil Murray. Mrs. Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Walter White and others?

Practically, can they overcome the lethargy of a fool's paradise, and shake all sections of the Negro people into motion and bestirment for independent initiative and action to wipe out black ghettoes, for adequate housing, for FEPC's, for an end to all discrimination and Jim Crow and for greater civil rights, along new political lines?

The answer to these questions will certainly help to determine the direction of the movement for the right to vote and hold office in the South, and will determine in some measure how much moral and financial support they will receive.

These are all political questions, that the Atlanta action of our brothers raises.

These are questions that will be, must be, answered in our time. These are questions that enlightened men of Alpha must help answer. For there is no problem in America today that is without direct political connotation, that can by-pass completely the political arena, nor can the Negro people in the North be free until the Negro people in the South exercise the right to vote and hold office— and that's politics.

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Convention Addresses Thought-Provoking From the beginning to the close of the late convention in Columbus, Ohio, speakers brought to the delegation addresses that were rich and thought-provoking.

These messages not only made us mindful of our rich heritage as a fraternal organization, but challenged each with the responsibility that he must meet on the local and national scene to justify the continued existence of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

Among the key speakers were Brothers Dr. Charles H. Wesley, Dr. Robert P. Daniel, Paul Hobeson, Dr. Charming Tobias, Rayford W. Logan, General President Belford V. Lawson, Max Yergan, Dr. H. Councill Trenholm, Jewel Nathaniel A. Murray, Albert Jones, Attorney Juan Sandifer, Albertus B. Conn, Dr. Walter F. Jerrick, Dr. Karl Downs and J. Arnett Mitchell.

Brother Charles H. WesleyBrother Wesley, as guest speaker at the opening session, spoke on the topic "Better Leaders—The Challenge to Frater-

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nities"—Quoting from the constitution of the United Nations, Education, Scientific and Cultural organizations—"That since wars began in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defense of peace must be constructed," Brother Wesley stated that education was an important factor in human relations. He declared that "the mind and spirit can make or unmake material like, for men make economics what it is, they make politics and society what they are. Our work in education, should therefore, concern itself with men as well as materials, for the recently passed and present crisis is a spiritual one.

Continuing, Brother Wesley named three social forces which had the power of motivating the spirit of men. They arc, he said, Nationalism, Racism and Fraternalism. The first two, the speaker declared, have been used over the years to create strife and wars. The latter, the brotherhood of man's spirit must triumph in the minds of men if America and the world are to achieve the peace so much desired. To do this, education must be changed from an in-group relationship to an out-group one.

He praised labor

Pag© 19 unions which have already made some progress in this direction and asked the religious and educational forces cease their separatist policies.

Brother Logan's Address Brother Dr. Rayford W. Logan, Past General President, and Chairman of International Affairs, during the public program at Memorial Hall, declared: "The issue before the American people and the world is whether progress toward 'respect for human rights and the fundamental freedoms as to race, sex, language or religion' will result from a third world war or from an intelligent sincere pub-' lie opinion.' " Brother Dr. Max Yergan Brother Max Yergan, who was among the guests on the platform in a brief address to the Convention at the public program said that we should not only fight for what is going on in other countries, but bring about enactments regarding lynchings, permanent FEPC, and the abolition of poll tax.

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WASHINGTON DELEGATION—Delegates and visiting brothers from the nation's Capitol, Washington, D. C, and representing Beta and Mu Lambda Chapters. Jewel N. A. Murray, and General President Lawson are shown on back row.

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by approximately five hundred delegates and visiting brothers, Memoriai Hall. T h e h y m n w a s r e c o r d e d with both piano and

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CONVENTION From Page 19 Rev. A. S. King, pastor, on Sunday morning, December 29th. Brother Dr. K a r l Downs, president of Samuel Huston College. Austin. Texas, was guest speaker.

In an effective manner, Brother Downs delivered a most inspiring sermon, using the following t h e m e as a basis of his message: WHAT—you go out to see and you have no stars!

WHAT—you go out to battle and you have no music!

WHAT—you a r e going to take a t r i p and vou have no map!

WHAT—you talk about living and you have no love!

Brother H. Councill Trenholm B r o t h e r H. Councill Trenholm. president of Alabama State Teachers College, Montgomery, Ala., gave t h e F r a t e r n a l Address. Using as his subject, "The P r i c e We Pay," B r o t h e r Trenholm, w h o also holds the important post of Director of Education for Alpha P h i Alpha, said:

the Greeks sang their official songs. Shewn h e r e are m e m b e r s of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority r e n d e r i n g their h y m n . The sea of faces in the background gives some idea of attendance.

"If we aim at one goal then let's travel together."

Those who seek tor higher things must be more careful for their affairs. Brother Trenholm added. The opinions of men are different, b u t the principles can be the same, he concluded.

Remember, Southern Regional Meeting In Memphis, Tenn.

April 4th, 5th, 6th

RESOLUTIONS OFFERED AT COLUMBUS SESSION Report of Committee On Resolutions T h e Committee on Resolutions of which Brother EUwood Downing served as Chairman, took recognition of the Centennial Exposition to be held in Liberia, Africa this year, the poll-tax and t h e inestimable service rendered by "Mother" Annie Singleton, of Buffalo, New York, in whose home Alpha P h i Alpha F r a t e r nity was formed over forty years ago w h e n she and h e r late h u s b a n d w e r e residents of Ithaca, New York.

Report of the Resolutions presented to the Convention and subsequently adopted w e r e as follows: "The Committee on Resolutions endorsed the following resolutions:

1. W H E R E A S the Na'ional Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax has constantly fought for the removal of the poll tax as a voting restriction on American citizens. and W H E R E A S Alpha P h i Alpha F r a t e r n i t y is dedicated to the principle of bringing to m e m b e r s of every origin the full rights of citizenship and equal participation in the government of our country, and W H E R E A S the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax has requested that Alpha P h i Alpha F r a t e r n i t y contribute to its support both morally and financially.

BE IT T H E R E F O R E RESOLVED T H A T Alpha P h i Alpha F r a t e r n i t y go on record

February. 1947 as giving its m o r a l support to t h e Committee, and that a contribution be made, t h e a m o u n t to be determined by t h e Budget Committee, but at least a m i n i m u m of Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars.

2. On J u l y 26, 1947, t h e Republic of Liberia, West Africa, will observe its one h u n d r e d t h year of Independence. In connection with its centennial celebration, the Republic is p l a n n i n g a Victory- Exposition to open November 1, 1948, at Monrovia, capital city of the Republic.

T h e fostering organization of Liberia— The American Colonization Society organized in Washington. D. C . 1817, held Ks early meetings in the chambers of the United States S u p r e m e Court w h e r e deliberations were held regarding the settlement of t h e colony in West Africa.

The first eighty-eight emigrants to Liberia departed from the port of New York in February, 1820, and the colony of Liberia was first settled in 1822.

When the Republic of Liberia declared itself free and independent, (July 26, 1847). it established a form of governm e n t similar to that of t h e United States —Executive, J u d i c i a r y and Legislative branches. One notable exception in t h e two forms of governments is that presidents of Liberia a r e elected for an eightyear term and cannot immediately succeed themselves.. T h e Flag of the R e p u b lic of Liberia bears striking similarities to that of t h e United States. Its colors and symbols a r e the same as those of the Flag of this nation. A large w h i t e star in a navy blue field signifies the lone republic in Africa and eleven alternate red and w h i t e stripes a r e in honor of t h e signers of the Declaration of Independence.

T h e charter m e m b e r s of the United Nations have been invited to participate in the Liberian Centennial and Victory Exposition. Chief among these nations is the United States, which, because of historical ties and cordial diplomatic relations, is a sister republic of Liberia.

Supporting an invitation which has been directed to t h e United States, each State of the Nation has been requested to participate in the Exposition through "Representations and Exhibits." In order for the Federal G o v e r n m e n t and the respective States of t h e United States to participate in t h e Exposition, the Congress and State Assemblies must pass legislation supporting such participation.

Action on t h e p a r t of Congress should be taken d u r i n g the 1947 sessions, while it is hoped that in the thirty-four states. in which legislatures will convene in 1947. action will be t a k e n upon participation in t h e Exposition. Thirty of these states will not hold state assemblies again until 1949, which will be after t h e Victory Exposition will have opened in November, 1948.

W H E R E A S Alpha P h i Alpha F r a t e r n i t y is interested in the progress of colored peoples and the development of smaller nations all over the world; W H E R E A S Alpha men have longstanding identity with the Republic of Liberia through their significant positions in American Life; W H E R E A S t h e c u r r e n t United States Minister to the Republic is an Alpha man; W H E R E A S key persons in the Liberian Centennial Commission a r e Alpha men; W H E R E A S Alpha m e n now labor in Liberia for t h a t Nation's advancement, and W H E R E A S Alpha P h i Alpha F r a t e r n i t y Turn Page

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GOOD-TIMES AT P A N - H E L L E N I C BALL—A group of guests snapped at the Pan-Hellenic Ball. In the photo left to right: Miss Maxine Harris, Mr. E m m e t t Campbell, Mrs. G. H. Valentine, Wilberforce; Mr. Bill Williams, N e w a r k ; Miss Phoebee O'Haro.

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Page 24 wishes that through the Centennial and Victory Exposition, Liberia will enter an era of golden opportunity; BE IT RESOLVED: That this organization endorse the Liberian Centennial and Victory Exposition; That this organization be represented at the Victory Exposition by delegations and exhibits; And that Alpha men all over the nation use their influence in the promotion of legislation to support National and State participation in the Victory Exposition.

RESOLVED, that Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity be represented in the Liberian Centennial and Victory Exposition by delegations and exhibits, provided this can be done without undue expense.

3. WHEREAS, we, the members of Alpha Phi Alpha, are grateful to those who aided us in our development, and WHEREAS Mrs. Singleton gave the hospitality of her home to those seven outstanding Jewels who founded our great organization, and WHEREAS Mrs. Singleton has been de-

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signated "Mother" of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Organization assume the responsibility of bringing "Mother Singleton" to the next General Convention to be held at Tulsa, Oklahoma.

4. WHEREAS, on June 3rd, 1946, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered the majority decision in the case of Irene Morgan vs. the Commonwealth of Virginia, thus making illegal racial segregation on public motor carriers traveling between the various states; and, WHEREAS the great majority of bus and railroad companies are either ignoring or frustrating the high court's intention; and, WHEREAS, it is the opinion of such leaders, lawyers and educators as Charles Houston, A. Phillip Randolph, Ira DeA. Reid, Mary McLeod Bethune, Spottswood Robinson, Howard Thurman, Bedford V. Lawson, Jr., Rayford W. Logan, Bishop F. W. Alstork, that direct action on the part of disciplined interracial group is essential to the eradication of the tradi-

February. 1947 tion of Jim Crow in interstate travel; and, WHEREAS, the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Congress of Racial Equality are carefully working to create such well-trained groups for the purpose of evolving a non-violent pattern in which both resistance and reconciliation are possible. Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity go on record as giving its financial and moral support to the education and direct action program to be carried out in April in the upper South under the sponsorship of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Congress of Racial Equality, amount of this contribution to be determined by the Budget Committee.

Respectfully submitted by The Committee on Resolution ELLWOOD DOWNING, Chr. WILLIAM H. HURST, Jr., Sec. FELIX WARREN WILLIAM S. HOPSON ROBERT A MORRISON CARL SCHUSTER MACEO SMITH

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But before we turn our thoughts to the 1947 Convention which will convene in Tulsa.

Oklahoma, let us re! view briefly certain impressions received at | the 1946 conclave. The Christmas Number was I under the caption ! "What I expect at the ! Columbus Convention." | so one would think this | issue should read "What I Received at the Columbus Convention."

But I cannot be so comprehensive since 1 am informed that the | Alpha women also read the Fraternity Fun DR. WINTERS Column. Therefore, I shall tell Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Fowlkes, Mrs. Cotton, Mrs. Spurling Clark. Mrs. Swingler, Mrs. Frank Stanley and all the rest of the intrepid venturesome perusers of this page several of the incidents that brought me convention thrills.

of just two vest buttons and found gastronomic surcease as reflected in this incident. Little Betty told a neighbor that they had a new baby at their house and added that "he's going to stay." "How do you know he's going to stay?" asked the neighbor. "Oh, said Betty, "he's got all his clothes off."

It thrilled me to hear the very spontaneous and snappy reply of a young coed from Ohio State. She and some of her Sorors were stopping at the Fort Hayes Hotel during the convention week so as to be near the center of social activities. She was indeed bewitching at the Pan-Hellenic dance, what with her beautiful evening gown of a pale pink built on the suspension frams style that eliminated the necessity for straps support, the entire expense of shoulders and contigu ous anatomy being generously exposed in all the alabaster beauty you can imagine. He was escourting her back 1o the seats that lined the dance salon and I heard him exclaim in feigned surprise.

"So you are stopping at the Fort Hayes. too!" "On what floor are you; how do I get to your room?" Cooly. but firmly, she A thrill is a thrill to one that receives replied. "Straight up the church aisle— it as little Peggy, aged four, found out fo the accompaniment of Lohengrin's when she attended her first little party. Wedding March."

Brother X was discussing the maze of Mama and papa were all aglow with figures incidental to the finances of the curiosity over the first social venture of their "pride and joy." After listening to organization. He was vehement in his the breathless recitals of the games and denunciation of little expense cropping dances and candies and cakes and ice up here and there causing a continuous cream and nuts and mints, daddy swept leak that would amount to formidable little Peggy into his arms and said, "What proportion is a few years if allowed to did my little precious do at the party?" continue. He arose, went to the blackVery proudly Peggy answered, "I frowed board in the committee room and by a series of figures in arithmetical progresup!" sion, he showed "If unmolested, 350,000,No, I did not "throw up" but I certain- 000 rats would be produced from a single ly got a thrill visiting debonair Brother pair in three years." "Good Lord!" exLouis Schuster at his sumptuous hotel claimed puckish Brother John Buckner. suite at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel. "now give us the figures for a married Brother Schuster had Brother Jerrick and pair." me as dinner guests one evening. In showI was thrilled to hear Brother Paul ing us what fine room service the hotel Robeson speak and sing at the Public provided, we "frowed down" a powerful Session at Memorial Hall Sunday. Decemlot of good food. After dinner, I got ber 29th. His very descriptive style of the thrill at the pleasure and relief of cupping his hand over ear as he sings unbuttoning those two lower buttons on is very intriguing and effective. He told my vest Brother Jerrick was disdainful us he learned the mannerism from Bing

Crosby at Hollywood. Well Bing must have lived in Slippery Rock, Georgia at one time for the old country preacher down there does the same thing when he starts to hollering when the preaching gets good to him. Parson Smith spreads his mouth and cups his ear just like Paul and Bing.

There was an exclusive party out from Columbus in the suburbs. It was very caloric, if you get what I mean. We had been warned what to expect but still we were a bit shocked at the abandon that characterized the quest for midnight joy.

Worshippers at the shrine of Bacchus, Venus. Narcissus and Gypsy Rose Lee were estatic in their devotion. (One of you ladies reading this article can be proud of your husband. He wasn't there!

He was too discreet, too prudent, too refined—too old.)

Young high school students are earning much money now-a-days in a new enterprise called "baby sitting."

Brother Harold Taylor from my own chapter attended the convention and I saw him at one of the dances doing some "babysitting." He could not ask for pay, for the baby he was sitting out a dance with was a vision in white loveliness that I discovered to be Mrs. Harold Taylor.

You, young lady who just stopped to read this column ask your husband to tell you about Miss Lucille Culpepper Brown. "Who is Miss Lucille Culpepper Brown?" Who was that lady representing Phi Lambda Rho Sorority wearing a cuckoo's nest hat with a Rose Bowl embellishment, powder blue orchid stream line dress with shoes to match?" "Who was she?" Ask your husband if he saw that "Timken" walk? No, it wasn't a walk, nor a glide; she floated from here to there like a thistle-down; a gossamer dream.

Brother Pitchard from Louisiana pointed out a thrill at the Pan-Hellenic Dance.

She was wearing a gold lace evening gown with abundant sequins. I suggested that the lady didn't wear it long enough. but the Brother insisted that she hadn't worn it soon enough.

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G R E A T MOMENT AT A GREAT SESSIONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Under the direction of Ero. Maceo Hill the Brothers sung t h e Alpha Hymn, which was recorded.

Fraternity Fun From Page 25 w e r e at the Casbah commiserating t h e Old Year out and felicitating the New Year in. At a little table near the m u sician's stand was my friend Brother J e r rick, Brother Heinie Crawford and wife from Cleveland and I. Suddenly the lights became brighter, the whistles began to blow, bells rang, h o r n s tooted in a cacophonous serenade.

Mrs. Crawford embraced B r o t h e r Crawford in a caress 1hat presaged e x t r e m e happiness for 1947. No, you're ahead of my story. No. I did not e m b r a c e Brother Jerrick, b u t I took one big look at the embracing Crawfords and. "how I did droll!" The Crawfords went into a private committee meeting of two and w h e n they emerged I h e a r d him say, "O. K. Wolf, go ahead and kiss her." "Did I kiss h e r ? " My wife said she bet Mrs. C. had to apply Ungentine to her lips for a week. T h a t osculatory vitamin made me join the New Years snake dance a r o u n d the Casbah tables. I was enjoying the thrill until a girl said, "I bet you will need the Sloans Liniment bottle tomorrow." T h a n k s Mrs. Mary C. from Cleveland, also t h a n k s Mrs. L. R. from Dayton, and thanks Mrs. L.

from St. Paul. The Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

My last tin-ill came at the Dawn Snack in the B r o ' h e r K e r m i t Hall's hotel suite.

It cam-:.' from my Chesterfield cigarette girl in a black velvet gown. She was my Chesterfield girl because she was "so round, so firm, so fully packed, so free with Columbus hospitality and so easy on the eyes." Ask the B r o t h e r from South Carolina. If you doubt him, ask B r o t h e r Howard from West Virginia. Happy New Year Miss T. Now, ladies, if this passes your censorship, show it to your husband.

See me in Tulsa in December.

O. Wilson Winters.

Cup Awards, And Trophy Winners F o u r a w a r d s w e r e presented to chapters at the Columbus, Ohio Convention.

T h e Committee on Chapter Achievements took into consideration points based on Scholarship Record of the chapter . . . its Social Record, Civic Record. Political Record. Religious Record, Educational Record. G r a d u a t e â&#x20AC;&#x201D; U n d e r g r a d u a t e Relations, Reclamation Record.

Oldest of these a w a r d s is the historic McGee Cup, named for its donor, the Late Brother L. L. McGee, Past General President. Competition for this CUD is Mmited to g r a d u a t e chanters. The Metal Arts Cup. successor to the Balfo-ir Cuo, and t h e Alpha P l a q u e are presented onlv to u n d e r g r a d u a t e chapters. Latest awards to appear on the scene is the Meritorious A w a r d Trophy presented by Brother Meredith G. Ferguson. General Secretary. and Aaron L. Allen. Regional Director. both of Nashville. Tennessee. This trophy is opened to either undergraduate or u n d e r g r a d u a t e chanter.

A w a r d w i n n e r s for 1946 went to Alpha Rho Chapter, Morehouse College. Metal Arts Cup; Beta Omicron Chapter, A. & I. State College, Nashville. Alpha P l a q u e : Beta L a m b d a Chapter, Kansas City, Mo..

McGee Cup; and Xi Lambda Chapter, Ferguson-Allen Meritorious Trophy. s

Six New Chapters Added at Columbus, Ohio Convention By authority granted at the Thirtysecond General Convention, Columbus, Ohio, application for chapters for t h e

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following schools or communities were approved: Southern Jurisdiction G a m m a Kappa Chapter. Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama.

G a m m a Sigma L a m b d a Chapter, Macon and Fort Valley, Georgia.

Western Jurisdiction G a m m a Pi Lambda Chapter, Galve: Texas.

Eastern Jurisdiction G a m m a Iota Chapter. Hampton 1. statute, Hampton, Virginia.

Midwestern Jurisdiction G a m m a Eta, Indiana University, BloomIndiana.

Gamma Theta, University of Dayton.

Dayton. O Gamma Rho Lambda, Gary. Indiana.

Applications to establish those chap were approved only after most careful consideration was given by the Committee en Standards, headed by thai veteran Alpha brothei', and Past General President, Brother Dr. H e n r y Lake Dicka Communications from t h e General Secretary a r e to the effect that the required fee for t h e chapter has been received from each of these chapters, and before publication of the next edition of the Sphinx each of these units will have been added as another strong link in our organizational chain. Welcome to the fold!

Contributions To Organizations Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, in I, ing w i t h its established policy of giving financial aid to organizations engaged in uplift w o r k and the struggle against racial proscriptions, voted to coi support of such organizations as: T h e National Association for the Adv a n c e m e n t of Colored People.

National Urban League.

Association of Negro Life and History.

National Committee to Abolish Pol! Tax. National Student Council (YWCA) Southern Conference for H u m a n Welfare.

Council of African Affairs.

LOCKBOURNE HOSPITALITY—Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Benlley and Brother T r u m a n l< Gibson Sr., of Chicago enjoy themselves at the informal p I'

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Alpha's Footprints Here And There APPOINTED:—Brother Joseph T. Gier has been appointed instructor in the Col lege of Engineering at the University of California. Berkeley. This marks the first time a Negro has been so honored by the Berkeley Lnstitutio

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OMEGA CHAPTER—Brother William Percival Harris' death on December 171,i past, brought sadness to scores of friends in Georgia and other sections of the country. He was a m e m b e r of Eta L a m b da Chapter, Atlanta, and n u m e r o u s other organizations. Brother Harris usually had the distinction of holding pass card number 1 or 2, indicating the punctuality with which he paid grand tax fees" to the General Organization.

He leaves his widow, one daughter, two sons, mother, two sisters and two brothers: and a granddaughter. Burial rites took place in Atlanta, Ga.

MOMENTS THAT LIVE ON—A group of Brothers and their ladies enjoying the Grand Alpha Ball left to right: Darias Warsham, Miss J u a n i t a Bynum, both of Columbus; Miss La Vona Powell, Detroit; Mr. J i m m y Sanders, Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Wanda Lowery and Miss Ellen Higginbotham of Columbus and J a m e s G a n t y m e n y , Atlanta, Ga.

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PRESIDENT B. V. LAWSON ANNOUNCES LIST OF COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN ALPHA SONGS—James A. Jeffres, 1834 Paseo. Kansas City, Mo. • » • AUDITING—William D. Hawkins, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.

• • • BUDGET CHAPTER—Robert P. Daniel, Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. • • » ACHIEVEMENTS—M. G. Miles, Florida A. &. M. College, Tallahassee, Fla. » • • CONSTITUTION—Sidney A. Jones, Jr., 100 N. LaSalle Street. Chicago, 111.

• • • ELECTION—W. Barton Beatty, 3918 Lattimer St., Dallas 15, Texas • » • EXECUTIVE SECRETARY—Charles H. Wesley, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio.

• * • EXTENSION & STANDARDS—H. L. Dickason, Bluefield College, W. Va. » » • GENERAL ORGANIZATION AFFILIATION—Dewey D. Davidson, 1162 E. 46th

St.. Los Angeles, Calif. » • * HOUSING COMMISSION — C. Morris Cain, 1711 Arctic Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. . • • INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS—Rayford W. Logan, 1519 Jackson St., N. E., Washington, D. C. * * * PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL—Braxton F. Cann, 5223 Ward St., Cincinnati, Ohio. * *• * PINS & BADGES—Thomas Clarke, 417 E. 47th St., Suite 309 Chicago 15, 111. * * • PROGRAM & SCHOLARSHIP—Howard H. Long, 1112 Girard St., N. W. Washington, D. C. • * • PUBLIC POLICY—Howard Long, 1112 Girard St., N. W., Washington, D. C. * • * RECOMMENDATIONS—Howard Bennett, 32 W. Randolph St., Chicago, 111. * * » RULES & CREDENTIALS — Andrew J. Lewis, Bd. of Education, City Hall, At-

lanta, Ga. • * • PUBLICITY—J. Rupert Picott, 201 East Clay St.. Richmond, Va.

NOTICE, BROTHERS Convention Photographs Most of the pictures appearing. in this edition of the SPHINX, and many others were made by Brother Robert S. Scurlock, Official Convention Photographer.

Copies of any photograph may be obtained by ordering from the SCURLOCK STUDIO 900 U Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Price: $1.10 per picture.Mailed anywhere in the USA.

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Hampton Institute Admits Sororities And Fraternities From Press Service Hampton Institute, Hampton. Virginia, Tel. 6561, Claude D. Nelson, Jr. Chapters of national fraternities and sororities were introduced recently in history-making ceremonies which made the four following groups the first social fraternities and sororities in Hampton Institute history: Gamma Iota chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority; Gamma Zeta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority; Gamma Iora chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; and Gamma Epsilon chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

Three other groups—Kappa Alpha Psi and Phi Beta Sigma fraternities and Zeta Phi Beta sorority—are in the process of establishing chapters on the campus.

Approval of introduction of fraternities and sororities at Hampton was given by the Board of Trustees in its annual meeting in New York City last October. The action followed evidences of student and faculty interest over a period of years, culminating in a poll of the student body last spring in which the fraternity system was given a substantial majority.

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SPEAKS FOR VETS AT BANQUET—Brother Juan Sandifer, New York City, whose forceful and inspiring address on behalf of the Negro veterans during the Closed Banquet Session was a great climax to a grand convention in Columbus, Ohio.

Declaring that the Negro Veteran is angry, the eloquent young attorney who only recently returned to civilian life, added: "We should not remain silent on all issues. We know what we fought for and we intend to get it. We are interested in (a) a national housing program; (b) privilege to attend all schools; (c) abolition of the poll tax.

"We must as defenders of justice, rise and meet the challenge of the hour."

Brother Sandifer's message was received with a thunderous ovation.

Although still virtually in his youth, Brother Sandifer has already distinguished himself for his public service record. He holds the presidency of Eta Chapter, and serves as Regional Attorney and New York Judge Advocate for the United Negro and Allied Veterans of America. He is Attorney for the Greater New York Association of Veterans, holds a similar position with the American Veterans Committee— Chapter 26, the United Harlem Tenants and Consumers League, holds the chairmanship of the Veteran Affairs Committee and is a member of the Legal Committee of the New Branch of the NAACP, the New York Bar, and the National Lawyers Guild.

Brother Sandifer received his Law Degree from Howard University.

WHY ALPHA FIRST OF ALL. Brother Dr. Marion Johnson, recently returned to civilian life was a Captain in the United States Army Medical Corps. He has been elected president of Alpha Chi Lambda Chapter, Augusta, Ga. The young physician has set up office for practice in Augusta. One of his first interests, aside from his professional work, was to seek fellowship with his Alpha brothers in Augusta. Brother Johnson completed a course in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, before returning to Georgia to settle down.

It's brothers like Captain Johnson and his associates of Alpha Chi Lambda who make Alpha "First of All."

TULSA BROTHERS SPONSOR MILK FUND Climax to the big Variety Show given in Tulsa, Okla., last summer by members of Alpha Tau Lambda Chapter was presentation of a one hundred dollar check to help provide milk for under-privileged babies of the community. The Alpha Babies' Milk Fund is another project initiated by the progressive, civic-minded brothers of the Oil Capitol. They have many more to their credit.

Shown on next page are ceremonies in front of the Variety Health Center where Brother Dr. Tollie W. Harris, chapter president, turned over the check to Senior Nurse Janie Jones, in charge of the Center. Others in picture are Brothers Clyde L. Cole, Lloyd H. Williams, Dr. Frank Pauley, director of Research; W. N. Coots, Harry Ward, Robert L. Fairchild, and Jesse L. Greadington.

Brother Harris has been selected as General Chairman of the Convention Committee which has already started work on plans for entertaining the 1947 Convention in Tulsa, Okla., in December. Brother Dr. Williams, one of the Regional Directors of the Western Jurisdiction, successfully spear-headed the campaign for the next conTurn Pagt

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est of the four with 30 chapter members. was inducted February 8 at Clark Hall.

Mrs. Muriel Johnson. Glenburnie, Maryland, Eastern Regional director, officated, with Mrs. Marian P. Capps, retiring regional director, assisting. Mrs. Capps is chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Hampton.

Chapters participating in the ceremony were Mu Sigma, Norfolk; Alpha Theta Sigma, Lynchburg, Va.; Beta Sigma and Alpha, Washington. D. C: and the entire membership of Beta Kappa of Newport News and Hampton, Va. The neophytes, honored at a banquet at the Alumni House following the ceremony, were conveyed greetings from national officers, from other Virginia chapters, the Howard University chapter, and the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Gamma Iota of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity inducted thirteen undergraduates February 8, with L. H. Schuster, Eastern Vice-President, officiating and presiding at a banquet afterwards in Newport News honoring the charter members of the new chapter. The Zeta Lambda chapter was host at the banquet, during which fraternal greetings were brought to Gamma Iota by brothers from Howard University, Virginia Union, Virginia State College, and graduate chapters at Norfolk, Richmond and Washington, D. C. The following were inducted as charter members of the new chapter: Emanuel Bertrand, Virgin Islands; Calvin Cooke, Phoebus, Va.; Walter Gordon, Albany, Ga.; Silas Jackson, Kinston, N. C; Elmer McDowell, New Haven, Conn.; Midgett Parker, Newport News, Va.; Ray Next Page

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FOR BUDGET PLANNING, AND AUDITS TWO STALWART ALPHA BROTHERS

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L. Richardson. W. Tulsa. Okla.; Calvin Sampson, Cambridge, Md.; Edgar Smith, Oakland, Calif.; Will Smith, Jr., Tulsa,

"Unsung heroes" at every Alpha Convention a r e chairmen of the various committees who carry on the basic work in committee rooms and on the convention floor. These brothers very seldom have opportunity to participate in general proceedings, frequently miss inspirational addresses and debates on vital issues, but in the end the convention is usually governed by their weighty decisions on internal affairs of the organization. Typical of this staff of brothers heading important committees and carrying out other duties of the Convention are Brothers Kobert P, Daniel, Chairman of the Budget Committee, and president of Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C ; and W. D. Hawkins, Chairm a n of the Auditing Committee, and ori t h e Administrative Staff at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. Both Brothers Daniel and H a w k i n s deal with finances of the F r a t e r n i t y , and in their respective capacities help keep Alpha Phi Alpha operating on a sound m o n e t a r y basis.

Their reports and recommendations a r e published in the minutes of the 1946 Convention.

Okla.: Jacob T. Stewart. Church Road, Va.: Calvin Wanser, Delaplane, Va.; F r e d West, Jr., Hampton, Va. Transfers from other chapters: William B. Proctor. El Reno, Okla.; and Lloyd J. Stark, Pueblo, Colorado. William B. Proc-

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL SECRETARYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Brother William D. Hawkins, Official Auditor of Alpha P h i Alpha Fraternity, shown (Back turned) on occasion of his A n n u a l Audit at the Office of General Secretary, B u r t A. Mayberry, in Kansas City, Mo., shortly after t h e Columbus, Ohio Convention, in J a n u a r y . Left to right: R. H. Jackson, stenographer, typing . t h e file cards from the Directory of Active Members

ROBERT P. DANIEL Chairman, Budget Committee tor is president of G a m m a Io'.a. s

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will be compiled: Brother Hawkins. Auditor, checking the accounts of the General Secretary; Mrs. B u r t A. Mayberry, Assistant to the General Secretary, checking over t h e remittances and issuing 1947 pass cards; and Gloria Irving, clerk, posting the records of t h e acive m e m b e r s to t h e p e r m a n e n t file cards.

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HOW NICE IT WAS TO REGISTER: A bevy of pretties registering delegates at the Columbus session. Shown here is Brother Edward Cox, standing, being signed up for a badge by

Dr. Dekovan A. French Devoted Son of Alpha, Dies In Car Accident Sad is the news of the tragic automobile accident that cost the life of Brother Dr. DeKovan Alexander French, while he was enroute to his home at Muskogee, Oklahoma on Highway 62. He was 42years-old.

A native of Sedalia, Mo., Brother French went to Oklahoma to teach as a youth at Boley, an all-colored town. He was educated at Kansas University, where he received both the B. A., and M. A. Degrees. Brother French, following several years in the classrooms, returned to studies, this time at Howard University Medical College, Washington, D. C, from which he finished with honors. He returned to Oklahoma and settled down at

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one of the lovelies at the desk. Brother Cox served as Chairman of the Place Committee for the host chapter, Alpha Rho Lambda. He is well known as City Prosecutor in the Ohio Capitol.

Wewoka, to begin the practice of medicine. There he wooed and won the hand of Miss V. V. Simmons, a teacher in the public school of that community. Brother and Mrs. French made steady progress which was reflected in the large practice built up. The couple moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1940 where Brother and Mrs. French continued to make success.

Brother French was a charter member of Beta Chi Lambda Chapter, Muskogee, and was serving as its president at the time of his untimely death. He was also a member of Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, and a 32nd Degree Mason. Besides his widow, he leaves two daughters, Devonne, 6 years old; and DeVette, 3 years old; a sister, Mrs. Erva Bradley; and two brothers, Wendell and Shelton.

His tragic passing deprives Muskogee and Oklahoma at large of one of the valuable brothers in Alphadom. â&#x20AC;˘

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Askew, whose death at his home at 60 Second Street, Hackensack, New Jersey, on January 15th of this year following a prolonged illness has deprived Alphadom of one of its really outstanding leaders in the East.

Brother Askew, at fifty-five years of age, had already made himself felt in many quarters of worthwhile endeavors.

His educational training prepared him for his professional work as a dentist, but he relied upon his innate qualities for leadership to take him to the top in political, fraternal, business, and civic circles of his state.

After receiving his early educational training at Waters Institute, Winton, North Carolina, Brother Askew went to Meharry Medical College to complete a course in Dentistry. It was in 1922 that he began his dental practice in Jersey City, New Jersey, but after three years Brother Askew moved to Hackensack, N. J. Dynamic and forward, he immediately fell into local civic and political life of that city and later became popular in statewide Republican circles.

ALPHA'S OFFICIAL FAMILY . . . General Officers for 1947, including two Past General Presidents, shown holding their first official meeting of the Executive Council following election on the final day of the Columbus Convention. From left to right, seated, they are: Brothers Charles F. Lane, Chicago, General Counsel; William N. Lovelace, of Cincinnati, Midwestern Vice-President; A. Maceo Smith, Dallas, Western Vice-President; Belford V. Lawson, Washington, D. C, General President; Louis H. Schuster, Virginia State College,

Page 33 Brother Askew was the first Negro Journal Clerk in the New Jersey House of Assembly, first of his race on the Chamber of Commerce Council Manager Board. He was most active in the Majestic Lodge of Elks Number 153, and served this body as Grand Exalted Ruler. Other activities included participation in the Round Table Forum of business and professional men of Hackensack.

Alpha Alpha Lambda claimed him as one of its most devoted sons, and Brother Askew's death leaves an "aching void" within its midst. To members of Alpha Alpha Lambda, the widow, children, and other relatives, our Brotherhood at large extends its deepest sympathy. A life well spent in the service of his community, race, and nation at large has assured Brother Askew of a place high in the council of Omega Chapter.

Surviving relatives are his widow, Mrs. Matilda Giles Askew; a daughter, Mrs. Cecil Davis, Philadelphia, Pa.; son Edgar F. Askew, Jr.; brother, John Askew, Providence, Rhode Island; and a sister, Mrs. Katie Hart, Winton, N. C.

Eastern Vice-President; M. G. Ferguson, Nashville, General Treasurer; Lewis O. Swingler, Memphis, Editor of the Sphinx Magazine.

Standing, from left to right: James Cummings, Lane College, Lay Councilman; Drs. B. Andrew Rose and Henry Lake Dickason, Past General Presidents: Burt A. Mayberry, of Kansas City, Mo., General Secretary; Albert Jones of University of California, Los Angeles, Lay Councilman; and George Gaines, Illinois University, Lay Councilman,

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CHAPTER ECHOES BETA ZETA CHAPTER Samuel Huston College Greetings Brothers: Beta Zeta Chapter is back in the news again. Six Brothers crossed the "burning sands" in November and were welcomed into the fold of Alpha. They are Brothers Elzie Maloy. Billie Orman, Otis Williams. James Joshua. William Clark, and Edward Hoover.

After the ritual the regional director. Brother C. P. Johnson honored us with his presence. Brother Johnson gave an inspiring talk on the purpose of Alpha and what would be expected from them. Brother William Bell. Dean of the college, also welcomed the new Brothers.

At our homecoming game we contributed a float to the parade with the Alpha Sweetheart, Miss Wanda Pugh. a freshman. Our float won first prize unanimously.

We gave a Founder's Day Program in our college chapel which was commended by the entire faculty and student body.

The following Brothers were elected officers: Edward Hoover, president; Elzie Maloy, vice president; and Dean of Pledgees.

James Joshua, secretary; Bennie Leon Davis, treasurer; William D. Clark, Associate Editor to the Sphinx; Otis Williams, sergeant-atarms; and Billie Orman. chaplain.

The following little Brothers were initiated into the Sphinx Club; Herman Barnett. Joseph Ellis, Claude M. Gist. Luther Mitchell, Eugene Robinson, Marion Harris, Emory Williams and John Preciphs.

True to the Alpha tradition we arc holding the light ever high.

Fraternally yours, EDWARD H. HOOVER Associate Editor

ALPHA PI LAMBDA Winston-Salem, N. C. Dear Brothers in Alpha: The New Year should bring about an increase in activity on the part of this chapter. Not that we have been asleep, but we have been so impressed with reports of the last convention that we are anxious to add our stamp of approval to the proceedings there.

Our wives have recently formed an organization of their own, known as "Alpha Wives of Winston-Salem" We wish them every success in their venture and hope their meetings will be as enjoyable as ours. Mrs. Melanie Walker, wife of our president, is acting president of the organization, and Mrs. Ruthe L. Marshall, wife of our chapter secretary is acting secretary. Makes it look as though officers connected with our chapter are family affairs.

We are already making plans for Education and Citizenship Week. This year we are hoping to make it something our city will remember.

We offer our congratulations to all our officers for having been elected to serve us another year, and to all brothers everywhere, we wish a happy and prosperous New Year.

Fraternally yours, A. P. MARSHALL Associate Editor.

BETA RHO LAMBDA Youngstown, Ohio Greetings, Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha all over the World: Beta Rho Lambda Chapter has created a great new interest among its members during the summer and fall seasons. One of the principle means of accomplishing this goal has been our monthly social meetings. These meetings are held at the homes of Brothers

and our wives and sweethearts are guests.

The diversions are usually games and luncheons along with our informal discussions of world affairs.

We have succeeded in reclaiming several brothers of our chapter and have worked out plans to add new ones. Brother Charles Green from Atlanta, Georgia, a past president of the Southern Jurisdiction, was a welcomed visitor at one of our recent meetings. He gave us a good and timely talk on reclaiming lost members. Brother Green then conducted the elections of officers for us. The officers elceted for 1947 were: Graham A. Lynch, president; Atty. Andrew Johnson, vice president; James E. Smith. secretary; Rev. S. S. Booker, treasurer; Romeo J. Robinson. Associate Editor to Sphinx and Dr. Earl M. Stewart, Sergeantat-Arms.

Brothers Lynch and Johnson were selected as delegates to the National Convention in Columbus. The Alternate delegates were Brothers Earl M. Stewart and Romeo J. Robinson. Rev. S. S. Booker, a life-long member of Alpha Phi Alpha, and past president, attended the Convention also.

The Brothers enthusiastically endorsed the movement to bring Mother Singleton to the Convention in Columbus. They felt such an event would be most inspiring and uplifting.

In September, the membership campaign of the Y. M. C. A. was again a great success. Brother James E. Smith, Executive Secretary, announced that the top men in the Drive were Brothers Graham A. Lynch, president of the Beta Rho, Brother Stewart and Brother Robinson.

On Dec. 1, 1946, the Warren, Ohio Urban League presented Dr. Mordecai H. Johnson, president of Howard University. This forum meeting, the first of the series was attended by a large group from Warren and surrounding towns.

Brother A. J. Love, of Beta Rho Lambda Chapter presided. Brother Love is active in Civic Affairs of Warren, and exemplifies the true Alpha spirit. Beta Rho Lambda shall continue to hold the light of Alphadom high through the noble deeds of its members.

Fraternally yours.

ROMEO J. ROBINSON, Associate Editor.

XI CHAPTER Wilberforce University Greetings Brothers: Alpha Phi Alpha Ship Xi is still sailing to destinies and heights unknown in the waters of achievement. The new crew on the good ship Xi are: Brothers Robert Carter, president; Theodore Simpson, vice president; Walter Jordan, recording secretary; George Cooling, corresponding secretary; Richard Blackburn, assistant secretary; John W. Brown, president ex-offico; William Brown. financial secretary; Emmett M. Paulin. Associate Editor to Sphinx; Cecil Howard, chaplain; Ralph Blye, Sergeant-atArms; and Clarence Pruitt, parliamentarian.

With such a competent crew to steer us, the good ole ship is bound to have smooth sailing throughout the remainder of the school year.

Our delegates to the General Convention were Brothers E. M. Pauling. Robert Carter, and LaMar E. Ellis (alternate). Many of the other Xi brothers were present during the sessions. All reported a very successful conclave and feel that the undergraduate brothers hold the key to the future success of the fraternity at large.

The Education for Citizenship Committee is working diligently on a very effective program for the coming celebration.

Congratulations on achievements of Xi men go to Brother James Rickman who was selected to Alpha Kappa Mu Honorary Fraternity on the basis of his scholarship; Brothers William Shropshire, Wilmoth Baker and E. Max Paulin, who have been elected to the Forcean Stall for '46-47.

As Alpha goes upward, so does Xi Chapter. With this in mind we bid all of you good brothers Adieu until the next Sphinx publication.

Fraternally yours.

E. MAX PAULIN Associate Editor

OMICRON LAMBDA CHAPTER Birmingham, Ala. Greetings Brother Alphas: The year 1946 was an epochal one In the history and activities of the Omieron Lambda Chapter. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity of Birmingham. In it was spiced many noteworthy and outstanding events. The, first event of note and interest was the appearance of the National President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.. Attorney Belford V. Lawson during "Go to High School, Go to College" week celebration. This was a grand and momentuous occasion bringing credit to the Alpha Fraternity in general and the Omieron Lambda Chapter in particular.

Much good was derived from this special pjblic program which was held at the historical and beautiful edifice of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Following this great public program was the annnual picnic given by Omieron Lambda Chapter for its wives, sweethearts and friends. It was well attended and thoroughly enjoyed by all present.

After a two months vacation from fraternity activities and meetings, regular meetings were resumed in mid-September. From all indications all the brothers returned for the fall with renewed fervor and bubbling over with enthusiasm for continued notable work and service for Alpha. This spirit was the treasured possession of every brother and seemed to permeate the activities of each meeting.

During the fall season five pledgees were accepted by the Omieron Lambda Chapter for entrance Into the great Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. These pledgees were Dr. S. F. Harris and Dr. E. H. Ballard, outstanding Birmingham physicians and civic leaders; Mr. P. D. Davis, Jr., efficient co-owner and operator of a grocery store; Mr. Clarence Reeves, principal of Westfield High School and noted educator and Mr. Claude A. Wesley, High School instructor. Social Service and Civic Worker of Brimingham. All men who will wear well the mantle of Alpha Phi Fraternity, Inc., and always reflect credit upon it. After passing through the proper courses of probation and orientation these pledgees were formally initiated on Wednesday evening. December 4, 1946. The ceremony was beautifully carried out, completely representative of our Fraternity.

Thus through proper pomp and ceremony these men were ushered into the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and became brothers. The initiation ceremony was followed by a grand banquet at the Bob Williams' Little Savoy Cafe located in the heart of downtown Birmingham. Here the brothers joined in gay and hilarious feasting and fellowship until the wee hours of the morning. The neophyte brothers were made to feel welcome and thoroughly impressed with Alpha and the achievements of its members. With the induction of these five neophytes, the total active membership of Omieron Lambda Chapter reaches an all time high of thirtythree. With this group the incoming administration of 1947 contemplates the great-

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XI CHAPTER, WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY . . . Members of X i Chapter, Wilberforce University. Shown, left to right, seated, they are: B r o t h e r s Cecil DaCosta, William Barnes, J. A. Holmes, chapter president; J o h n W. Brown, secretary; F r a n k Reid, and M. Paulin. est and most active year In the history of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.. in Birmingham.

Two days following the initiation ceremonies, Omicron Lambda Chapter staged for its fellow greeks and friends its annual fall soiree. This dance which is the outstanding social event of the fall in Birmingham each year was held on Friday evening. December 6. 1946. In the beautiful ball room of the Grand Terrace, artistically painted and decorated, the Alphas greeted and were gracious hosts to their hundreds of guests, both from in and out of town.

Starting at 10:30 p. m., and lasting until 2:30 a. m., the lovely ladies in their beautiful ensembles accompanied by the gallant gentlemen escorts, tripped the light fantastic to their hearts content as they listened to and were encouraged to swing and sway by the lilting and inviting tunes of Whatley's Famous Vibro Orchestra. It was truly a wonderful party and a good time was had by all. As usual. Alpha sets the pace in the presentation of gala events and this was no exception. The most beautiful spectacle of the evening was the circle of Alpha brothers with hands joined singing the most beautiful song in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Song, as they were presented as hosts of the evening to their guests. At 2:30 a. m.. the Alphas and their . guests departed with joyous hearts and happy feelings each to his separate homes having been wonderfully entertained for the evening.

At the regular election of officers the following Brothers were elected: Waymon C. Matherson, president; Fred O. Curtis, vice president; C. L. Shepard, secretary; H. L. Mosely, assistant secretary; W. J. Dowdell,

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Second row, reading from left: Brothers Pinson, T. Simpson, William Shorpshire, lin, J. Baker, R. Blye. and William Hill.

Third row, from left: Brothers H. Carr, man. W. Baker, L. Skipper, R. Carter, G. ton, W. B a r r y and C. P r u i t t .

treasurer: W. Wesley Whetstone. Associate Editor of Sphinx: L. R. Hall, chaplain; and Noah E. Wills, Sergeant-at-Arms. With this fine corps of officers Omicron Lambda Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is destined to do a greater job than ever before in Birmingham.

Fraternally yours, W. W. WHETSTONE, Associate Editor.

ETA CHAPTER New York City Greetings Brothers in Alpha: We, the members of Eta. look forward to making 1947 one of the most successful in the history of the chapter.

Our first meeting for the new year was held January 2nd at the home of Brother Dr. Joel Bolden, 243 West 138th Street, here in the city. At this meeting there was the installation of officers by Brother Attorney Andrew R. Tyler; a social welcoming the neophytes to their first meeting, and the report of our delegates from the General Convention.

One of the greatest undertakings of Eta and other chapters in the Metropolitan area will be acting as hosts to the Eastern Regional Convention which convenes here in the future. The date has not been designated as yet.

Aside from making plans for the Regional Conference there has been outlined a tentative chapter program for 1947. Our goal is 200 financial brothers. A committee on public affairs to deal with the problems relating to minority groups, locally, nationally. and internationally, has been set up. At least three public meetings are planned,

W. J o r d a n , Thomas A. Ward, O. S u m G. Larkin, J RickCollins, L. Middle-

along with a series of public forums. There has been a revival of the personal progress committee whose duty it will be to take cognizance of individual achievements.

Everyone is looking forward with â&#x20AC;˘great enthusiasm to the banquet to be given in February, for the purpose of renewing the drive for an Alpha House.

There is being conducted a campaign to see that each brother is a member of the NAACP. A number of brothers have subscribed for membership, and several others have pledged to do so.

Eta Chapter made a contribution of ten dollars to the Sydenham Hospital Drive.

This hospital is the only voluntary interracial hospital in the nation.

Speaking of achievements that our Chapter has made, we pause here to say a few words about some of our brothers in the world of sports.

Brother Alexander Jordan was chosen as captain of the cross-country team at N. Y. U. lasl fall. Under his captaincy the accomplishments of the team were considered the best in the history of N. Y. U. The championships won at this time were the Metropolitan Inter-collegiate cross-country meet, the Senior Metropolitan meet, and the IC4A. The team placed second in the C. A. A., and ' second in the National A. A. U. The Callender twins. Brothers Maurice and Stanton, are members of the cross-country team and are co-captains of the indoor track team.

Brothers Homer Gillis. Alexander Jordan, Maurice and Staton Callender participated in the Inquirer Charities Championship in Philadelphia recently. Other trips that were to have been made at this time were to Boston, to take part In the Knights of

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The specialties of the brothers are Brother Homer Gillis. sprinter and broad jumper; Brothers Maurice Callender, quarter miler; Brother Stanton Callender, Middle distance.

We would like to mention Sphinxman Frank Dixon of N. Y. U.'s track team, who before the war was considered the most outstanding miler in the country.

Brother Homer Gillis, Royce Philips and Robert Clarke, neophyte Brothers, we apologize to you for not having included your names In the list in the last issue of the Sphinx.

We feel that we owe a great deal of appreciation to our outgoing president, Brother Lester W. Bryant who had to step down from office before the expiration of this term. due to illness. It is he who kept the "ball rolling" in the trying days during the war.

He remains active with the chapter. We wish him much success, happiness and a long life.

Eta is ever striving to keep its rightful place at the top, so keep watching us.

Fraternally yours, HAROLD SIMMONS. Associate Editor.

BETA EPSILON LAMBDA Boley. Oklahoma Brothers in Alphadom: Beta Epsilon Lambda is still holding up the name of Alpha Phi Alpha.

The first meeting of this year was held In the home of Brother L. G. Ashley on January 15, 1947, eleven brothers were present and all seem to be energetic and willing to put on a servicable program.

Brother Wesley, the chapter's delegate to the General Convention at Columbus, Ohio. made an excellent report to the chapter on all activities carried out at the general Convention. Brother Wesley was one of the influencing brothers in obtaining the General Convention to be in Tulsa this year, the chapter gave Brother Wesley a rising vote of thanks for his very excellent report to the chapter.

BETA EPSILON LAMBDA HAS A NEW HOME On the recommendation of Beta Epsilon Lambda Chapter, the General Convention approved of moving the seat of Beta Epsilon Lambda Chapter from Wewoka to Boley.

There are five brothers living in Boley, which is more than any other one place, where brothers are connected with this chapter.- Boley is an all Negro town with a population of about 1.000 people, it has a Bank, Post Office and Telephone System. which is owned and operated by colored personnel and it has some of all other kinds of business that might be found in a town of its size. Beta Epsilon Lambda chapter has a membership radius of 200 miles which will make Boley a nice place to meet.

During the last meeting a committee was appointed to work out plans for a Founder Day banquet and to report at the next meeting'. Several plans and suggestions were discussed at the last meeting on a spring project for the chapter to sponsor for the benefit of the youth and for Alpha men to display themselves to the public.

Beta Epsilon Lambda is very glad to know that the General Convention will be in our great state of Oklahoma and we are planning to make this one of the best Conventions of Alpha history.

Fraternally yours, C. D. ASHLEY. Associate Editor.

ALPHA MU LAMBDA Knoxville. Tenn.

Greetings Brothers of Alphadom: Here at the gateway of the Great Smoky Mountains and In the heart of the Atomic Area, Alpha Mu Lambda is really "on the march." The pressure of the war slowed us down momentarily, but we have emerged stronger, more active and more determined than ever.

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The recent January meeting at the palatial home of Brother George McDade was no exception when the attendance closely approached the 100 per cent mark. For ten consecutive months each Alpha meeting has been synonymous with crowd. (It's a secret, ask any Knoxville brother!)

At the last meeting, the following new officers were installed by Brother Lloyd Imes, President of Knoxville College: President, Otis Hogue; Vice President, Monroe Senter; Secretary, Claude Woods; Assistant Secretary, James Harper; Treasurer, James Jefferson; Financial Secretary, Lewis Sinclair; Sergeant-at-Arms, William Holt and Associate Editor to the Sphinx, Leonard Jackson.

Our biggest project of the year was the running of Brother Carl Cowan for the office of Justice of the Peace in the August Primary Election. Although Brother Cowan had six white opponents, he was selected by an appreciable margin. Brother Cowan is 43 years of age and was bora and reared in Knoxville. Alter receiving his A. B. Degree from Knoxville College, he entered Howard University where he received his LL. B. degree. Brother Cowan has successfully practiced law in Knoxville for the past ten years and is a member of the Knoxville Bar Association. He is now the only Negro sitting on the thirty-seven member Knox County Court.

Brother M. D. Senter, the principal of Beardsley Junior High School and our retiring president, was our chief delegate to the National Alpha Convention in Columbus. He made a vivid and thrilling report of the- history making session during the holidays. His report was briefly supplemented by our alternate. Brother Carl Cowan.

Brother N. A. Henderson has built a practice and a record in the city of Knoxville that may be enviable to any physician of any race. He Is at present the only Negro on the staff of the local hospital.

Another "first" for a local Alpha is that of Brother George McDade, attorney-at-law who is the first Negro in the city to fly his own plane.

A few other examples of Alpha pioneering are: Brother J. I. Sealls, first Negro director of Veteran Education; Brother Harold Hodge, first full-time Boys' Work Secretary at Cansler Branch Y. M. C. A.; James Harper, first Negro director of Diversified Occupations in the Knoxville City Schools; Brother James Jefferson, first Negro file clerk with the Tennessee Valley Authority; Brother William Holt, first and only Negro Housing Project manager; John Rhinehardt, first among our fold of ex-GI's to return to school. He is now working on his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin.

All of our local brothers In the service of the U. S. Army have returned by two Brothers Lt. Jack Johnson who is recuperating in the sunshine of San Francisco, California and Captain Darby Ervin who is now In Leghorn, Italy. Brother Ervin has been the recipient of many coveted awards and citations while serving with the 92nd Division.

The most welcomed news from the National Convention was that of the National body granting us the permission to set up an undergraduate chapter on the campus of Knoxville College. Co-chairman P. M. Alexander and C. A. Cowan are closely supervising and directing the "would be" Alphas on the K. C. campus. Their committee is planning a gala week-end in connection with the establishment of this chapter. The exact date will soon be set and we hope brothers far and near will find it convenient to come to the "Atomfc Area" and aid us In administering lasting impressions on those who are to continue forward with the ideals which all of us cherish and love.

Fraternally yours.

LEONARD A. JACKSON Associate Editor.

February, 1947 BETA DELTA CHAPTER State College Greetings Brothers: Beta Delta Chapter is happy to chat with you in these columns and let you know that we are still alive and pressing forward as usual. We wish to greet all chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha in this issue of the Sphinx because we are wishing you much s u c e s s this year. 1947.

We have begun the new year with our capable president. Brother Frank J. Toland who, has with the cooperation of the brothers, done and is continuing to do things thai are a credit to the true spirit of Alpha.

Early in December Beta Delta Welcomed six new members, and they as well as the old brothers are striving to make this the most prosperous year that Alpha Phi Alpha has ever witnessed.

The new brothers are: Robert Chatman.

Henry Hare, Wilbert Holcomb, Lewis Joyner.

Augustus Simpkins and Julius Wise.

WILBERT HOLCOMB, Associate Editor.

BETA PI CHAPTER Lane College Greetings Brothers: Beta Pi started the new year off with a bang by installing the following new officers: Brothers ExRhodes Barham, president; Horace G. Jackson, vice president; Riley T. Bandy, recording secretary, Virgil May, corresponding secretary; Deander Meeks, treasurer; O'Neal Goodrich. Sergeantat-Arms; James L. Cummings, parliamentarian and historian; Richard O. Bass, chaplain and Jack Gilmore, Associate Editor to the Sphinx.

Beta Pi, with addition of thirteen newly made brothers is now thirty-two strong. The following brothers were made during the fall Probation: Frank R. Bryant, Jonas Prather. Jr., Mar T. Floyd, Floyd W. Cunningham. Randolph Esterwich, Alex P. Houston. John Jounson, Jr., William C. Jernigan John Kolheim. Otis A. Sangster, James Utley.

Edmond Hawkins, and Benjamin Hardy.

Brother Richard O. Bass represented the college at the Annual Youth Conference of the NAACP held at Dillard University in New Orleans.

Brother James H. Utley represented the college at the Third National Assembly of the Student Christian Movement, held at the University of Illinois from December 27th to January 3rd.

Beta Pi was well represented at the 32nd General Convention held in Columbus, Ohio.

The brothers present were: Virgil May, Senior Delegate; Richard O. Bass, Junior Delegate: Dalton W. Glenn, and Horace Jackson, visiting Delegates; and James I. Cummings. who was re-elected as Lay Member of the Executive Council.

At the close of the first Quarter the Alphas were represented on the Honor Roll.

Heading the list was Brother Otis A. Sangster and little Brother J. P. Persaud, who has straight "A" averages.

Preparation for our Founders Day Program which is to be held February 23rd, is well under way. Brother Heron Debose, Chairman of the Program, is working ardently to make this the most inspirational Founder's Day Program in the history of Beta Phi. Plans are also under way for the Annual "Go to High School, Go to College Campaign," and the "Education for Citizenship program."

Brother May heads the Committee making preparations for these programs.

The Basketball team of Lane College is the strongest in the history of the school. Again the Alphas are well represented with Brothers Riley T. Bandy (Capt.) William Jernigan, H. C. Diggs, Jr., Clifford West, and Jack Gilmore on the varsity.

A Reclamation Program, headed by Brother Cummings is now under way. It is expected that at least fifteen brothers will be reclaimed. In closing, we, the brothers of Beta

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Pi, wish all members of Alpha Phi Alpha much luck and success for the year 1947.

Fraternally yours.

JACK GILMORE Associate Editor. s

ALPHA ZETA LAMBDA Bluefield, West Va. Brothers of Alpha Zeta Lambda chapter wish to extend to all the Brothers in our Fraternity every best wish for the ensuing year with the hope that our fine organization will continue to make rapid strides in terms of progress for the well being of mankind in general and of all Alpha men in particular.

We of Alpha Zeta Lambda chapter who were fortunate to attend the past General Convention held in the city of Columbus, Ohio, have the highest praise for the chapters sponsoring the conclave; for the committee on arrangements for the excellent job done in every respect; for the citizens and enterprises of the capitol city for their most sincere cooperation; for the members of the Pan-Hellenic Council in their overall contribution; for the manner in which all meetings were conducted in relation to the time and decorum; and finally for the splendid conduct of all Alpha Brothers everywhere and every place for which high tribute was paid by all agencies and citizens.

In our minds, the Columbus session will go down in history as one of the most outstanding and most successful conventions which Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity had held anywhere. A personal salute to Brother Maceo Hill, the efficient chairman of the committee on arrangements, appropriately called by one of our better known columnists—"Mr. Alpha."

Twenty-nine brothers were present for the January meeting of the chapter with the brothers of McDowell County acting as hosts at the home of yours truly, the chapter editor the Sphinx, in the city of Kimball. Brothers H. L. Dickason and S. A. Calhoun the senior and junior delegates respectively to the General Convention, gave most interesting reports on all phases of the conclave further enhanced by the viewpoints of the alternate delegates. Brothers P. R. Higginbotham and Claud Kingslow. The highlights of the assembly and associated activities were expressed by Brothers Clarence Shelton, P. G. Howard. Harold Calhoun and D. T. Murray. In the estimation of those brothers who attended the meeting and had the opportunity to participate in all activities. the contacts made have to them a renewed spirit which will aid in giving impetus to chapter programs for the ensuing year.

The following officers were installed with appropriated ceremony with Brother H. L. Dickason, past General President of the Fraternity in charge. Brothers Clarence Shelton. president; P. R. Higginbotham, vice president; E. W. Browne, secretary; Brother Keene, assistant secretary; John Franklin, chaplain; D. T. Murray, Editor to the Sphinx, and Brother Claude Kingslow. treasurer.

We expect this to be a banner year for Alpha Zeta Lambda pointing to the reclamation of inactive Brothers in this area; our annual service with General President Belford V. Lawson as Guest Speaker; our annual Prom; Alpha Phi Alpha week in May; the presentation of some prominent artist for the Benefit of the General Public; the annual smoker to which our associated undergraduate chapter is invited.

Fraternally yours.

D. T. MURRAY, Associate Editor.

ALPHA RHO LAMBDA Columbus, Ohio Greetings from Alpha Rho Lambda to Brother Alphas everywhere: After a very severe case of Conventionitis on our hands, we are recovering normally.

We will be bigger and stronger because of the great work and experience that was ours in that great undertaking.

We had our installation of officers for the

A L P H A ZETA LAMBDA OFFICERS—Alpha Zeta Lambda Chapter, Bluefield, West Virginia, presents its officers for 1947. Reading from left to right, they are: Brothers Keene, assistant secretary; E. W. Browne, secretary; Clarence Shelton, president; D. T. M u r r a y , associate Sphinx Editor; P. R. Higginbotham, vice-president; J o h n Franklin, chaplain; and Claude Kingslow, treasurer.

S C H O L A R S H I P RECITAL SUCCESS—Brothers of Alpha Delta Chapter, University of Southern California, and Beta Psi Lambda, Los Angeles, highlighted t h e late 1946 season on the West Coast by contributing to the outstanding success of the Scholarship Recital, featuring B r o t h e r J a m e s Patton.

S h o w n in the accompanying picture, sitting, left to right, are: B r o t h e r s Dewey D. Davidson, president of Beta Psi L a m b d a Chapter, and Regional Director; and Herbert Simmons, president of Alpha Delta Chapter. Standing, from left: B r o t h e r s J a m e s Patton, featured in t h e recital as pianist; Wendell Green, A l b e r t Jones, P e r r y P a r k s , Roy Andrews, A r t h u r Lewis, and Don Barksdale.

Brothers Davidson and J o n e s represented their respective chapters at t h e recent Convention in Columbus, Ohio. It became Brother Jones' distinction to be t h e first u n d e r g r a d u a t e to deliver t h e important Convention Address at a G e n e r a l Session. His message was so impressive t h a t t h e delegation elected h i m as Lay Member of the Executive Council. year of 1947 last week and the new officers began right away to dig in on the new program. Our brother, Charles Allen, has just returned from a honeymoon trip. We wish to say to the brother Alphas who were here to the convention that we have only one

regret, and that is: We regret that we were unable to do more in the time and with the facilities at our command.

We are very appreciative of the very fine letters that have come to our chapter with words of praise for our conduct in being

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The brilliant Brother Joseph McDuffie has passed the Missouri State Bar examination with flying colors.

With Brother McKnight as Supt.. Brother Dr. Sinkler as Medical Director, Brother Wilson as Chemist. Brother Dr. Blache as Pathologist, Epsilon Lambda continues to play a leading role in the administration of Homer G. Phillips Hospital.

Fraternally yours, ROBERT P. WATTS. Associate Editor.

'Hosts'; especially those messages from some of the general officers which praised and asked what was our technique.

This leaves us with our working clothes on and ready to work to the end that we shall have a bigger and better chapter.

I wish to report that one of our little brothers, Darius Worsham, who designed the convention badge is confined to the hospital.

With best wishes for Alphas wherever found, I remain Fraternally yours.

A. F. COY, Associate Editor.

ALPHA CHI LAMBDA Augusta, Georgia

BETA XI LAMBDA CHAPTER Omaha. Nebraska Greetings; In the wake of the new year, members of Beta Xi Lambda Chapter extend best wishes to all chapters The activities for the year of our chapter got off to an enthusiastic beginning in the home of Brother A. L. Hawkins, recently New officers were installed and the program for the year was announced.

New officers for the year are: President, R. L. Meyers: Vice President. A. B. Pittman; Secretary. S. B. Hanger: Treasurer, Herbert Wiggins; Associate Sphinx editor.

John W. Sims: Parliamentarian, Joseph Mosely; Chaplain. John Favors: and Sergeant-at-Arms. Joseph Owen Aims of the new Administration are to present the activities of the chapter through broader channels than heretofore have been attempted. Definite steps have been taken in the direction of organizing cultural, social. civic and scholastic programs for the year.

It is hoped that through the efforts of the present administration, delinquent brothers will be reinstated and that this year will be one of the best in chapter history.

Fraternally yours, JOHN W. SIMS, Associate Editor.

BETA UPSILON CHAPTER Alabma State College, Montgomery Greetings Brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha: Brother Ralph Harris' report of the Columbus. Ohio Convention was the highlights of our initial meeting in 1947. His inspiring report was well received by all members.

Brother Harris, a Junior in Science was elected president of the chapter for the new year.

A feature on the yearly agenda of Beta Upsilon is a city-wide lecture campaign during the National Negro History Week Observvance. Plans were 'made for this observance began on February 9th and extended through February 17th. This program included lectures in the various city schools by members of the chapter. Themes of these lectures were the outstanding achievements and activities of the Negro and problems of the Negro in contemporary society.

We are proud to have such capable men in our chapter as Brothers Willie Gohlston. who is an honor student in Science, Leo Clayton, Jefferson Underwood and Everette Debrow who not only have attained recognition scholastically and academically, but are spearheads on the Hornet Basketball team which is a strong contender for the 1947 conference championship.

Chapter sweetheart for the year is Miss Mary Lee Steward of Courtland, Alabama.

Miss Steward, a senior in Education is recognized for her outstanding attainments socially and in scholarship. At this writing Miss Steward is "Crossing the Burning Sands" into the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

It is in true spirit of Alpha Phi Alpha that we look forward to a successful year for all brothers in Alpha.

F'-aternally yours, JOHN B. HALL, Associate Editor.

February, 1947

EPSILON LAMBDA P R E S I D E N T Brother Virgil McKnight, native St. Louisan. is the newly elected president of Epsilon Lambda Chapter. He is a g r a d u a t e of S u m n e r High School. St. Louis; of the University of Illinois, and is Superintendent of Homer G. Phillips Hospital, largest of its kind in the world, with a staff of one thousand, and having 800 beds, 21 Laboratories and 11 different services. s

EPSILON LAMBDA CHAPTER St. Louis, Mo. Epsilon Lambda continues enthusiastic meetings. Its new officers are as follows: Virgil McKnight. president; Booker T. Blackwell. vice president; Henry S. Williams, financial secretary; G. V. Quinn. recording secretary; John D. Buckner, corresponding secretary; Dr. T. G. Benjamin, treasurer; Robert P. Watts, Associate Editor to Sphinx; Rev. Milton Thompson, chaplain.

The delegates to the Columbus convention were Brothers J. D. Buckner, and Virgil McKnight; alternates. Brothers T. G. Benjamin and G. V. Quinn. Brothers Dan W. Bowles and Julius Streater also attended the Convention. These men made inspiring reports on the conclave and aroused the brothers to new heights of enthusiasm and of determination to make 1947 the banner year in the history of Epsilon Lambda.

Brothers voted unaminously to drive toward the reclamation of all inactive Alphas in this area, to compile a history of Epsilon Lambda, to continue spearheading the campaign for a Pan-Hellenic House which has the unanimous support of the eight member organizations in St. Louts. Brother Robert P. Watts, president of the St. Louis Pan-Hellenic Council, is ably assisted by Brother Joseph McDuffie.

Among those becoming regular at the Chapter meetings are Brothers Lemons. Gunnell, Wardlow. Dabbs of the Washington Technical High School, Brother Busch of the War Finance Center, Brother Tunstall of Sumner High School and Brother Tatum of Stowe College.

Brother Von Hindenberg Avery recently of OPA is now on the Urban League staff.

Brother Sidney Redmond is planning an intensive campaign for a seat in the local Board of Aldermen. Brother Leo Stephens of the Urban League is rendering valuable service in the schools as a Vocational Counselling Coordinator. Brother Lamar Smith's Champion Sumner High School Football team has caused him to be given the nod as Coach of the year.

Brother Dr. Marion Johnson, recently out of the Army, was named president of the Alpha Chi Lambda chapter at a meeting of the chapter recently in Augusta. Georgia.

Brother Johnson had just returned to Augusta and set up his office. He completed a course in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Elected along with Brother Johnson were Brothers Franks.

Tutt, Evans. Lockett. Reese and Griggs.

The program for the year was worked out tentatively at this meeting. It was decided to emphasize the "Go to High School. Go to College" movement; to sponsor a team in the Y. M. C. A. League for Brother Thompson. and to plan a fraternity basketball game under direction of Brother Tutt.

Brothers Butler and Bennett entertained the chapter during the evening.

Fraternally yours.

CHARLES BUTLER. Associate Editor.

BETA PSI LAMBDA Los Angeles, Calif.

Greetings: We of Beta Psi Lambda congratulate you upon the successful achievements of Alpha during 1946, and join you wholeheartedly in the effort to make the year 1947 even greater than the past.

Our delegates to the convention, Brothers Dewey Davidson and J. B. St. Felix Isaac. have returned imbued with the Spirit of Alpha.

The brothers of Beta Psi Lambda voted confidence in the past administration by unanimously electing the old officers almost in entirety. The officers are as follows: Brothers Dewey Davidson, president; Author Mitchell vice president; Edward C. Strong. recording secretary; Samuel Brown, corresponding secretary; Earl Reason, financial secretary; H. L. Richardson, treasurer; Perry Parks, Associate Sphinx Editor; Newell Easoii, chaplain; George C. Cannady, parliamentarian; and McHenry Norman, Sergeantat-Arms.

The Budget Committee with Brother Grant Venerable as chairman has submitted a wellrounded program of social, educational, cultural and atheletic activities that will be a vital factor in our reclamation efforts. The first of these was a close party at the home ot: Brother Dr. N. Curtis King on the first evening of the new year, honoring visiting brothers who were here for the "Angel Bowl" and Rose Bowl Games.

We are all very proud of the wonderful progress made by the Alpha Wives Auxiliary under the leadership of the charming Mrs. Dewey Davidson. Their enthusiasm coupled with the determination of their husbands augurs well for the future of Beta Psi Lambda.

The rank of the chapter has been augmented by the addition of many brothers from various parts of the country, with the possibility of many more coming into the fold.

As we go to press the attention of the brothers is focused upon the Installation.

Banquet and the preparation of the basketball team to retain their Inter-Fraternal Championship.

Fraternally yours, PERRY C. PARKS, JR. Associate Editor.

February. 1947 GAMMA MU LAMBDA Tallahassee. Florida Dear Brothers: Under the leadership of President William Morris, together with a membership of thirty-two active brothers. Gamma Mu Lambda is forging ahead with its extensive program for 1947. Our activities were initiated by a one hundred dollar contribution to the Florida A. and M. College Hospital Fund which was considered by all brothers as a significant step in the Alpha Phi policy of civic improvement. Plans are already under way for a forum on a current topic of interest to be presented before the student body and faculty of Florida A. and M. early in the spring. It is hoped that the services of outside Brothers may be obtained for this event so that it will fully represent Alpha.

On January 18, the brothers gave a party honoring their wives and sweethearts at the 77 Club. At this time. Brother James Hall. basso, who had been presented in a concert under the auspices of the Florida A. and M. College in its guest artist series, was our guest also. This affair was labeled by the wives and sweethearts as a truly great affair—typical of Alpha Phi Alpha.

Gamma Mu Lambda is working very closely with the undergraduate chapter at Florida A. and M. College in preparation for its annual Educational and Citizenship Week Program. It is felt by the brothers of Gamma Mu Lambda that united activity on the part of all chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha is the mechanism by which these essential programs can become truly fruitful.

With renewed energy, more inspiration. and determined resolutions, our representatives, Brothers George Bawls and Lee Royal Hampton returned to us trom the 32nd convention. The new life which permeated their being has given momentum to our program and the acceleration is noticeable in all of our activities.

The Scholarship Committee has submitted its report ahead of schedule. Its proposal. which has been accepted, affords an award for the most well-rounded student on the campus. It is specified that this student must not be connected with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. A further proposal is to give an award to the student having the highest scholastic average.

Our officers for 1947 are: Brothers Lee Royal Hampton, president; Robert Kemp Wright, vice president; Alphonso Tyrone Allen, Dean of Pledegees; Charles Zellarder Smith, secretary; Josephus Abram, assistant secretary; Forrest McKinnie, treasurer; Everett Lucere Butler, parliamentarian; and Dave Perte Johnson, Associate Editor to Sphinx.

Fraternally yours.

CHARLES U. SMITH Retiring Associate Editor.

DAVE P. JOHNSON, Associate Editor-elect

GAMMA BETA CHAPTER North Carolina College Greetings Brothers: Gamma Beta chapter is both proud and happy to relate to you its progress during the past school months.

Gamma Beta has sponsored several programs designed primarily to bring about a closer and better association between students. Toward this goal a get acquainted day was observed at the college, with each student wearing a tag containing the classification and name of the person. To further this effort, the Fraternity in collaboration with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, sponsored a dance to entertain all freshman and new students.

Gamma Beta also contributed to the success of the homecoming day at North Carolina College, by printing a homecoming pamphlet, highlighted by a photograph of its most attractive, recently elected queen Miss Allayne C. Turner, daughter of Brother Al-

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bert L. Turner, Dean of the Law School at North Carolina College.

To climax the observance of Alpha's Fortieth Anniversary, Gamma Beta sponsored a special chapel program with Brother J. W. Smith of Charlotte, N. C , as the guest speaker.

Perhaps the most outstanding accomplishment of the year for Gamma Beta was the awarding of a $50.00 scholarship to William R. Johnson, of Oxford, N. C. The award which is an annual gift from the fraternity was presented by Harold T. Epps. of Asheville, N. CM president of the local chapter, at a special chapel program.

This award is presented to encourage young men of the freshman class to improve their scholarship during their first year in college.

Johnson had maintained a scholarship average of 2.6 (above B) for the first quarter giving him first place among the men of his class. In second place was Perry Gilliard, of Philadelphia who maintained an average of 2.5 and he received $5.00 from the fraternity.

During the year Gamma Beta has welcomed one new brother into the fold of Alphadom. Brother Curtis M. Quick of Ili.'li Point, North Carolina.

Fraternally yours, HAROLD T. EPrS Associate Editor.

ALPHA ALPHA CHAPTER Cincinnati, Ohio To all Brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Alpha Chapter Sends Greetings: A review of the pa«t year indicates that mil achievements, individually and collectively, are worthy Of more than passing mention.

This chapter gave whole-hearted support to inir national program for reclaiming brothers. We are .justifiably proud of the fact that the end of the year finds us with ninety active, financial brothers. And even though the 32nd General Convention was held over 100 miles away. Alpha Alpha had a representation of more than 40 brothers in attendance. Our sense of pride at the reelection of Brother William N. Lovelace to the office of First Vice President is unanimous.

The largest and best initiation in the history of Alpha Alpha was held during the month of November. Twelve men of honor and integrity saw the light.

Brother Willard Stragel, Jr., recently returned from the Armed Forces, earned for himself a "triple crown" of distinction. It was his courageous performance on the gridiron which enabled the University Bearcats to have such a successful season that they were invited to play in the Sun Bowl Game at El Passo, Texas—even though the color line made Stargel conspicuous by his absence from the line up on New Year's Day. He is the third Negro in the United States and the first from the University of Cincinnati to be initiated into O. D. K., national honorary fraternity, whose members are chosen not only on the basis of scholarship but also on their participation in extracurricular activities. His crowning achievement was his induction into the realm of matrimony as he has lately taken unto himself a beautiful and charming wife. A goodly number of brothers took time out on December 20th to celebrate the 25th birthday of Alpha Alpha Chapter and to pay tribute to Brother Stargel at a formal banquet.

The Queen City was the scene of the 23rd Annual Conclave of the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa. Alpha Alpha Chapter joined hands with the Cincinnati Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi in sponsoring a dance and cabaret party for the visiting delegate of this sorority. This affair was a huge success and an inspiring example of cooperation with our fellow "Greeks."

Our recently "civilianized" Brother, William A. McClain, waged a successful fight for admission to the Lawyer's Club as his application for membership was approved

on January 16th. Wc feel sure that his service in this organization will more than compensate for that of the undemocratic member who resigned immedately following the admission of Brother McClain.

We look forward to 1947 with hope and confidence. Our hope is that our contribution to the community will be even more significant this year than last. Our confidence is in the organization of which we are a part for we are "First of All—Servants of All!" Fraternally yours.

WILLIAM R. McCALEB Associate Editor.

GAMMA GAMMA CHAPTER Allen University Greetings Brothers: Although Gamma Gamma is one of the youngest chapters in the fold, we assure you that it is making rapid strides toward becoming a recognized constituent of our great brotherhood. Having been granted a charter in March of 1946, Gamma Gamma has experienced a very full and eventful year.

Retrogressing a bit, during the month of October, we shared honors with the graduate Chapter. Alpha Psi Lambda, in serving as host to the large number of visiting brothers who attended the Southern Negro Youth Congress. Among the brothers in the city were Brothers Paul Robeson. Max Yergan, and W. E. B. DuBois. Friday night.

October 18. we gathered together informally for a smoker at Columbia's Nylon Hotel.

Gamma Gamma was represented in the Youth Legislature officially by Brother Ronda A. Gilliam, one of our charter members, who took a very active part in the assembly.

Our first initiation took place during the month of December and new brothers welcomed were Brothers William Mims, Alvin R. Means, and Joseph Reynolds. Although our chapter was composed for the most part of neophytes, we were ably assisted in our initiation ceremonies by brothers from the graduate chapter.

P a g e 40 As our Queen for the year 1946-47. we have chosen the charming and beautiful Miss Gloria J. Means, who if you will confide in our judgment, measures up to all the standards and specifications set forth by Alpha men everywhere, including the fundamentals: Scholarship, personality, and ease on the eyes.

We sent as our first delegate to the National Convention Brother Robert Price, a student-faculty member who has distinguish- ed himself admirably as director of the album of Faith Singers, a campus group which by its unusual arrangements and renditions of songs, old and new, has established a place for itself among choral groups.

We have a very competent staff of officers for this year. They are: Brothers William J. Murray, president; Frederick W. Ford, vice president; Thales Mims, secretary; Alvin P. Means, assistant secretary; and Joseph Reynolds, treasurer. We are looking forward to a year of achievement, ever advancing the noble ideals and aims for which Alpha stands.

Fraternally yours, EDWIN MORRIS BARRETT, Associate Editor.

TAU LAMBDA Nashville. Tennessee Greetings brothers in Alpha: Tau Lambda chapter of Alpha here in Nashville, under the leadership of a very dynamic President, Brother Aaron Allen whom the delegates to the Convention at Columbus will remember among other things as the sponsor of the useful Metal Arts Alpha Souvenirs, has geared its 1947 Calendar to that progressive tempo which is indicative of pragmatic leadership. The reports of the chapter delegates to the National Convention given by Brother Allen, Brother Attorney W. D. Hawkins. Chairman of the National Auditing Committee, Brother M. G. Ferguson. Alpha's General Treasurer, and Brother Attorney Campbell were aweinspiring to say the least. They made the entire chapter fell as though it had sat in Columbus hearing verbatim Brother Paul Robeson and Brother Channing Tobias, both Internationally famous, and Brother Albertus Brown Conn, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for the State of Ohio, and my high school classmate.

Brother D. A. A. Taylor, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Fisk University, is the chapter representative at Fisk for the reception that is being planned in honor of Brother Dr. Charles S. Johnson, Internationally renowned Sociologist who will inaugurate his new duties as President of Fisk University on July 1st.

Brother Dr. St. Elmo Brady, Head of the Science department at Fisk, is the Chairman of the Chapter Budget Committee and, he and his Committee have begun already to delineate the Tau Lambda path of expenditures for 1947.

Brother Dr. George Gore, Dean of Tennessee A. & I. State College, in collaboration with Fisk University has instituted an Adult Education program for the citizens of Nashville and Davidson County through the community centers and public schools that is leading many adults into the usefulness and happiness of functional citizenship.

Brother Wendell Fant, Program Director for boys and men at Bethlehem Center, has organized a City-wide basketball league that is resulting in tremendously good returns to a large number of boys and girls in the city of Nashville on the basis of health and good sportsmanship.

Announcement was made recently of the eminent prospect of an additional building at Meharry to serve the unfortunate victims of infantile paralysis, Brother Dr. Bent who presides as Dean of the College of Medicine at Meharry plays a distinctive role in shaping the medical careers of future physicians and the health destiny of millions of citizens throughout the nation.

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tist, during his chairmanship of the Chapter Program Committee brought such civic and educational speakers to the chapter monthly meetings as Mayor Cummings of Nashville: Mr. Gerald Gimae of the Housing Authority; and Dr. Walter Davis. President of Tennessee A. & I. State College.

Tau Lambda is indeed glad to welcome back home its capable secretary, Brother Alfred Galloway. Brother Galloway who served as a Technician with the U. S. Navy Forces at San Diego. California, is a graduate of Fisk University with an M. A. Degree from the University of Iowa and is the efficient manager of the J. C. Napier Homes in Nashville.

Our chapter takes justifiable pride in Brother Dr. Nelson Palmer, of the Fisk faculty who served as visiting Professor at the University of Michigan the past summer.

We welcome to Tau Lambda Brother John Hope II. of Atlanta who is a Professor in the Social Science Department at Fisk University.

Tau Lambda Chapter officers are as follows: President. Brother Aaron Allen, Metal Arts Executive; Vice President. Brother Petway. Principal of Meigs School; Secretary.

Brother Alfred Galloway. Mgr. J. C. Napier Homes; Assistant Secretary, Brother Benjamin Cox, retired Principal of Avery Institute; Treasurer, Brother Raleigh Wilson, Professor at A. & I. State College; Parliamentarian, Brother Webster, Baptist Publishing Board Executive; Associate Sphinx Edi- â&#x20AC;˘ tor, Brother Alpheus Booker. Director of the South Street Community Center.

Fraternally yours, ALPHEUS BOOKER, Associate Editor.

February, 1947 Brother Joseph Burns. Dr. R. C. Bryant.

E. L. Hairston, Harry Ward. Willie D. Combs, and Robert L. Fairchild performed magnificently to make the party go over in Alpha Style. Once each year it is the program of Alpha Tau Lambda to sponsor a party of this type. It is fitting to invite other brothers to attend. Send in your reservation ahead of time.

Brother E. W. Woods. Sr.. has been made an honorary member of the Board of Management of the Hutcherson Branch of the Y. M. C. A. The Annual Membership meeting was held Sunday. January 20. and at this meeting Brother Woods was awarded a plaque, acknowledging his outstanding service for the Y. M. C. A., for the past thirty years. Brother Woods expressed himself as being grateful and look forward with much anticipation for the good he can do in time to come.

Fraternally yours, ROBERT L. FAIRCHILD, SR. Associate Editor.

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have embraced with intensified zeal t h e doctrine of h u m a n i t a r i a n i s m .

Moreover. the new Alpha spirit is not now. R a t h e r it is a recrudescence of a spirit in Black man which is as old as the b i r t h of this nation. A spirit which found its most beautiful expression in the last words of (he immortal Crispus Attucks, who while he lay bleeding u n t o death on Boston's bloody commons opened his eyes, looked ALPHA TAU LAMBDA up at his oppressors and h u m b l y whisTulsa, Okla. pered, "Tell t h e m how m u c h black men Greeting Brothers: love freedom, too."

The year started off in fine f&jhion.

With this spirit, Brothers of Tulsa, w e Brothers Lloyd H. Williams and Dr. R. C. are coming to you. We are coming to you Byrant. who were delegates for the chap- as men of goodwill with a renaissance of ter at the General Convention returned with a fine report. Brother Dr. E. L. Hairston also the spirit of freedom which is our com attended as an alternate delegate. The 1947 mon heritage and a determination not Convention will be held in Tulsa. This news only to enjoy those rights and privileges made the chapter very happy. Plans are which this freedom should embrace but under way now to make this Session the out- also to try with other men of goodwill. standing convention in the history of Alpha to extend the blessings of freedom to Phi Alpha Fraternity. Brother Dr. Tollie the oppressed peoples of t h e world. We Harris has been chosen as the General Chairman of the committees. Brother Harris a r e coming to you. Brothers of Tulsa, rededicated to t h e ideals of real Ameriis very energetic and has the cooperation of the many hard working brothers of the chap- canism and a decent regard for all bill of ter backing him one hundred percent. I am rights for all peoples e v e r y w h e r e in the personally happy that the General Conven- world. Not the professed ideal of evil tion will be held in Tulsa, for it will be men b u t the practical application of real the first time I have had the opportunity ideals of liberty b y m e n of good will. to attend. I shall be most happy to see many of the brothers whom I know throughout We a r e coming to you, Tulsa, with the safe spirit of courage with which m a n y the country. of our Alpha Brothers gave their last full Brother S. D. McCree is improving rapidly m e a s u r e of devotion on t h e battlefields now. Brother Alpha E. Calhoun who has of the world with t h e echo of the been seriously ill is on the mend and is expected to be discharged from the hospital. promise of the four freedoms ringing in their ears. We a r e coming to you, We are sorry to report that Dr. Dekovan French, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, lost his life Brothers of Tulsa, to join you in raising in a car accident shortly after Thanksgiving high in one hand the b a n n e r of Alpha Phi Day. He too has joined the Chapter Alpha liberalism to Alpha's honor, Alpha's Omega of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He glory, and Alpha's r e n o w n and carrying has served well and those who knew him high in the other h a n d the torch of freecan truthfully say, "Well Done Thy Good dom for all mankind. We are coming and Faithful Alpha."

Friday, January 17, this chapter gave its to Tulsa w i t h a n e w declaration in our annual party at the Recreation Hall of Lin- hearts and on our lips. Not a declaration coln Park. The party was given in honor of independence from, but r a t h e r that of the wives of the brothers of the chapter. which is much more vital to h u m a n h a p A delicious dinner was served to the seventy pinessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a declaration of interdependence, odd guests during this party. This, the out- spiritually, economically, culturally, and standing event of the year, was given to h u m a n l y and socially with men of goodshow appreciation of the wives of the will of all races, all creeds, all colors, all brothers. Brothers from far Western Okla- ideologies e v e r y w h e r e in the world. We homa were present, and they with the remainder of the brothers proclaimed the are coming to join hands and hearts with party a complete success. One of the out- you. Brothers of Tulsa, in r e n e w i n g t h e faith of common people e v e r y w h e r e in standing caterists prepared the menu, and what a "jam-up job she performed." Colors the ultimate triumph of righteousness. of the fraternity were used to decorate the understanding and decency in h u m a n rehall for the occasion. lations t h r o u g h o u t the universe.

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54. B E T A K A P P A — L a n g s t o n U n i v e r s i t y , L a n g s t o n , Okla.; A m o s S t e v e n s o n . L a n g s t o n U n i v e r s i t y , L a n g s t o n , Okla.; S e c r e t a r y , E d d i e F . J o r d a n , L a n g s t o n . U n i v e r s i t y , L a n g s t o n , Okla.

55. B E T A M U — K e n t u c k y S t a t e College. F r a n k f o r t , Ky.; P r e s i d e n t , H a r o l d V. S m i t h , K y . S t a t e College, F r a n k f o r t , Ky.; S e c r e t a r y . Cecil C r u m , K y . S t a t e College, F r a n k f o r t , K y .

56. B E T A N U — F l o r i d a A. & M. College. T a l l a h a s s e e . F l o r i d a ; P r e s i d e n t . L e e R. H a m p t o n , Fla. A. & M. College, T a l l a h a s s e e , Fla.; S e c r e t a r y . C h a r l e s Z. S m i t h , F l a . A. & M. College. T a l lahassee, Fla. 57. BETA X I — L e M o y n e College. M e m p h i s , T e n n . ; C h a r l e s B o d y e , P r e s i d e n t ; 158 Gilbert, M e m p h i s , T e n n . ; S e c r e t a r y , G e o r g e D. Clark. J r . . 813 I o k a . M e m p h i s , T e n n .

58. BETA OMICRON—Tenn. A. & I. S t a t e College. N a s h v i l l e , T e n n . : P r e s i d e n t . C l a r e n c e K i m b r o u g h . T e n n . A. & I. S t a t e College, N a s h v i l l e . T e n n . ; S e c r e t a r y , J o s e p h T h o m a s , T e n n .

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59. B E T A P I — L a n e College. J a c k s o n . T e n n . : Louis J. F l o w e r s , L a n e College. J a c k s o n , T e n n . ; S e c r e t a r y , Virgil May, L a n e College, J a c k s o n , T e n n .

60. BETA R H O — S h a w U n i v e r s i t y . Raleigh. N . C ; P r e s i d e n t , Alfred R. S m i t h . S h a w U n i v e r s i t y , Raleigh, N . C.; S e c r e t a r y , W. H. Q u a r l e s . J r . . S h a w U n i v e r s i t y , Raleigh, N . C. 61. BETA SI^iMA—Southern U n i v e r s i t y . S c o t l a n d v i l l e . La.; H u e l D. P e r k i n s . P r e s i d e n t ; S o u t h e r n B r a n c h P. O. B o x 9385.

B a t o n R o u g e . La.: S e c r e t a r y . L e o n a r d S. W a s h i n g t o n . S o u t h e r n B r a n c h P. O. Box 9385, B a t o n R o u g e , La. 62. BETA T A U — X a v i e r U n i v e r s i t y , N e w O r l e a n s . L a . : P r e s i d e n t .

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Lionel A. A. D e s b o r d e s ; S e c r e t a r y , Louis J. B e r n a r d . D i l lard U n i v e r s i t y . N e w O r l e a n s . La. 65 BETA C H I — P h i l a n d e r S m i t h College. Little Rock. A r k .

66. BETA PSI—Oxford U n i v e r s i t y . L o n d o n . E n g l a n d .

67 GAMMA A L P H A — T e x a s College. T y l e r . T e x a s . P r e s i d e n t , J a m e s T h o m p s o n . T e x a s College. T y l e r . T e x a s ; S e c r e t a r y , L u t h e r C. S i m o n d . T e x a s College. T y l e r . T e x a s .

68 GAMMA B E T A — N o r t h Caroli la College. D u r h a m , N. C ; P r e s i d e n t . H a r o l d T. E p p s . Box 528. N. C. College. D u r h a m .

N. C ; S e c r e t a r y . T h o m a s Cole. Box 528, N o r t h C. College, D u r h a m . N. C. 68 GAMMA GAMMA—Allen U n i v e r s i t y . C o l u m b i a , S. C , P r e s i d e n t . V e r b u s C o u n t s . Allen U n i v e r s i t y . C o l u m b i a , S. C ; S e c r e t a r y . T h a l e s E. Mims. Allen U n i v e r s i t y . C o l u m b i a , S. C. 70. GAMMA D E L T A — A r k a n s a s A. M. a n d N. College, P i n e Bluff. A r k . ; P r e s i d e n t . A n d e r s o n P e r r y m a n , A r k a n s a s A. M. a n d N. College. P i n e Bluff. A r k a n s a s . ; S e c r e t a r y , T y r e e Webster. A r k . A. M. a n d N. College. P i n e Bluff. A r k .

71 GAMMA E P S I L O N — U n i v e r s i t y oi Wisconsin. Madison. Wis.; P r e s i d e n t . T. D a w s o n . 740 L a n g d o n Ave.. Madison. Wis.: S e c r e t a r y . Ronald S. B y r d , 740 L a n g d o n Ave.. Madison, Wis. 72, GAMMA ZETA—Ft. Valley S t a t e College. F o r t Valley, Ga.; P r e s i d e n t . William A n d e r s o n , F o r t Valley S t a t e College, F o r t Valley, Ga.; S e c r e t a r y . R o b e r t H. S i m m o n s . F o r t Valley S t a t e College. Fort Valley. Georgia.

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B r o a d d u s . Box 271. H a r r o d s C r e e k . K y . : S e c r e t a r y , L. C. C u r r y . 1702 Magazine. Louisville, Ky. kn 102. BETA L A M B D A — G r e a t e r K a n s a s City; D a n i e l W. L e w i s .

P r e s i d e n t . 1204 E v e r e t t . K a n s a s City. K a n s a s ; Secretary.

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W h i t e . 4752. Cecil. D e t r o i t 10. Mich.: S e c r e t a r y , G r o v e r D. Lange, 571. Algar. D e t r o i t 2. Mich. kn 104. DELTA L A M B D A — B a l t i m o r e . Md.. P r e s i d e n t . W. T. Dixon, 1933 McCulloh. B a l t i m o r e 17. Md.; S e c r e t a r y . D r . F . H. D e s m o n d . M o r g a n S t a t e College. B a l t i m o r e 12. Md. kn 105. E P S I L O N LAMBDA—St. Louis. Mo.: P r e s i d e n t . Virgil M c K n i g h t . 2601 N. W h i t t i e r St.. Louis 13. Mo.; S e c r e t a r y . J o h n D. B u c k n e r , 4246. W. N. M a r k e t S t r e e t , St. Louis 13. Mo. kn 106. ZETA L A M B D A — N e w p o r t N e w s , Va.; P r e s i d e n t . H. W. Ridley. 2404 M a r s h a l l A v e . . N e w P o r t N e w s , Va.; S e c r e t a r y , Dr. E u g e n e W. H u n t e r . 174 W. Q u e e n St.. H a m p t o n , Va. T kn 107. H E T A L A M B D A — D a y t o n . Ohio; P r e s i d e n t . D. D. A l b r i t t o n .

85 B r a g g P l a c e . D a y t o n . Ohio; S e c r e t a r y . R o b e r t H. Show.

2404 McCall S t r e e t . D a y t o n . Ohio. kn 108. ETA L A M B D A — A t l a n t a . Ga.; P r e s i d e n t . Nelson C. J a c k s o n , 250 A u b u r n Ave., A t l a n t a 3, Ga.; S e c r e t a r y , G e o r g e L. E d w a r d s . Room 602. 250 A u b u r n Ave.. A t l a n t a . G a .

Spurling kn 109. IOTA L A M B D A — I n d i a n a p o l i s . Ind.; P r e s i d e n t , C l a r k . 431 W. 29th S t r e e t . I n d i a n a p o l i s 8. Ind.; S e c r e t a r y , E v e r e t t E d w a r d s . 4113 C o r n e l i u s . I n d i a n a p o l i s 8, I n d . kn 110. K A P P A L A M B D A — G r e e n s b o r o , N . C ; P r e s i d e n t . Dr. G e o r g e H. E v a n s . 908 Salem St., G r e e n s b o r o . N. C : S e c r e t a r y , R. D. C r o c k e t t . 535 Macon St.. G r e e n s b o r o . N . C. kn 111. MU L A M B D A — W a s h i n g t o n , D. C ; P r e s i d e n t . V e r d i e L. R o b i n s o n . 2803 13th St.. N. E.. W a s h i n g t o n . D. C ; S e c r e t a r y , C. C. H o u s e . 2824 14th St.. N. E.. W a s h i n g t o n . D. C. kn 112. N U L A M B D A — P e t e r s b u r g , Va.; P r e s i d e n t . Odell H a r r i s . 907 Wilcox St.. P e t e r s b u r g , Va.; S e c r e t a r y . H. C o l m a n J a c k s o n .

Va. S t a t e College, P e t e r s b u r g . Va. kn 113. X I LAMBDA—Chicago, 111.; P r e s i d e n t . T h o m a s M. C l a r k e .

417 E. 47th St.. Chicago. 111.; S e c r e t a r y , Victor D. L e w i s .

Sr.. 6142 St. L a w r e n c e Ave., Chicago 37. 111. kn 114. OMICRON L A M B D A — B i r m i n g h a m , Ala.; P r e s i d e n t , W a y m a n C. M a t h e r s o n . 412 10th Ave., N., B i r m i n g h a m 4, Ala.: S e c r e t a r y . C h a r l e s L. S h e p a r d . 13. 10th Ave.. N. B i r m i n g h a m . Ala. kn 115. P I LAMBDA—Little Rock. A r k . ; P r e s i d e n t . C. F r a n k l i n B r o w n . 1019 Cross St.. Little Rock. A r k . ; S e c r e t a r y . A. A. A r n o l d . 2224 Rock St.. Little Rock. A r k . kn 116. RHO LAMBDA—Buffalo. N. Y.; P r e s i d e n t , Dr. W. B . H o l land. 357 William St.. Buffalo 4. N . Y;. S e c r e t a r y , Russell N. S e r v i c e . 125. G l e n w o o d Ave.. Buffalo 8. N . Y. kn 117. SIGMA L A M B D A — N e w O r l e a n s , La.: P r e s i d e n t . Dr. Wesley N. Segre. 2326 U p p e r l i n e St.. N e w O r l e a n s , La.; S e c r e t a r y , W a l t e r E. Morial. 1433 T o u r o St.. N e w O r l e a n s . La. kn 118. T A U LAMBDA—Nashville. T e n n . ; A a r o n A. Allen. P r e s i d e n t . 1601 18th Ave., N.. N a s h v i l l e , T e n n . ; S e c r e t a r y , Alfred C. G a l l o w a v . 2018 Clifton Road. N a s h v i l l e 4, T e n n . kn 119. U P S I L O N L A M B D A — J a c k s o n v i l l e . Fla.; P r e s i d e n t . T. M. C h r i s t o p h e r , H a r l e m P h a r m a c y , F o u r t h a n d Davis; S e c r e t a r y , Dr. Nelson W. S p a u l d i n g , 539 West U n i o n St., J a c k s o n v i l l e .

Fla. kn 120. P H I LAMBDA—Raleign. N. C . P r e s i d e n t . H. C. P e r r l n . 725, S. B l o u n t St., Raleigh, N. C ; S e c r e t a r y . W. C. D a v e n p o r t .

909 E. H a r g e t t St.. Raleigh. N . C. kn 121. CHI LAMBDA—Wilberforce, Ohio; P r e s i d e n t .

Wendolyn T e r r e l l . 323 E. C h u r c h St.. X e n i a . Ohio: S e c r e t a r y . C l a r e n c e H. Mills. Sr.. P. O. B o x 129. Xenia, Ohio. kn 122. P S I L A M B D A — C h a t t a n o o g a . T e n n . ; P r e s i d e n t . Richelieu W. S t r a n g e . 1027 E. 10th St.. C h a t t a n o o g a . T e n n . ; Secretary.

S a m u e l W. Seals. 642 Maple C o u r t . C h a t t a n o o g a . T e n n .

S. kn 123. A L P H A A L P H A L A M B D A — N e w a r k . N. J.; C l a r e n c e J a n i f e r . 208 P a r k e r St., N e w a r k . N. J.; S e c r e t a r y , A r t h u r C. Williams. 158 Lincoln St.. M o n t c l a i r . N . J. kn 124. A L P H A BETA L A M B D A — L e x i n g t o n . Ky. LAMBDA—New York City; P r e s i d e n t , kn 125. RAoLbPeHr tA T.GAMMA Custis. 771 St. Nicholas, N e w Y o r k 31. N . Y.; S e c r e t a r y , C. A r t h u r J a c k s o n , 400 C o n v e n t Ave., N e w Y o r k 31. N. Y. President, k n 126. A L P H A D E L T A L A M B D A — M e m p h i s . T e n n . ; C h a r l e s H. T a r p l e y . 299 L e a t h . M e m p h i s , T e n n . ; S e c r e t a r y , M a r v i n E. T a r p l e y . 1491 Felix, M e m p h i s . T e n n . k n 127. A L P H A E P S I L O N L A M B D A — J a c k s o n , Miss.; S e c r e t a r y , D r .

J. B. Dillard. V i c k s b u r g , Miss. k n 128. A L P H A ZETA LAMBDA—Bluefield. W e s t Va.; P r e s i d e n t , Dr. H e n r y W h i s i k e r . 811 B l a n d St., Bluefield, W. Va.: S e c r e t a r y . E. W. B r o w n e , Bluefield S t a t e College. Bluefield, W. Va. k n 129. A L P H A E T A L A M B D A — H o u s t o n . T e x a s ; P r e s i d e n t , J o h n E. Codwell. 5508 T r e m p e r , H o u s t o n 10. T e x a s ; S e c r e t a r y , Clifton L. B a n k s . 3420 D e n n i s . H o u s t o n , T e x a s .

k n 130. A L P H A T H E T A L A M B D A — A t l a n t i c City. N. J.: P r e s i d e n t , C. M. Cain, 1711 A r c t i c . A t l a n t i c City, N. J.; S e c r e t a r y , Austin J . M a r t i n . 128 W. Greenfield Ave.. A t l a n t i c City. N. J . k n 131. A L P H A IOTA L A M B D A — C h a r l e s t o n . W. Va.; P r e s i d e n t E. L. J a m e s . I n s t i t u t e . W. Va.: S e c r e t a r y . W m . J. L. Wallace.

Box 102. I n s t i t u t e . W. Va. kn 132. A L P H A K A P P A L A M B D A - R o a n o k e . Va.; P r e s i d e n t , Dr E D. D o w n i n g , 36 C e n t e r Ave.. N. W.. R o a n o k e . Va.; S e c r e t a r y , R o b e r t C o l e m a n . 312 G i l m e r N. W., R o a n o k e Va kn 133. A L P H A MU L A M B D A — K n o x v i l l e . T e n n . ; P r e s i d e n t Otis T. H o g u e . 217 South C h e s t n u t . K n o x v i l l e . T e n n . ; S e c r e t a r y M o n r o e D. S e n t e r , 200 McConnell St.. K n o x v i l l e 15 T e n n k n 134. A L P H A NU LAMBDA—Tuskegee.

Ala.; P r e s i d e n t Dr R o b e r t D. Reid, P. O. B o x 953. T u s k e g e e I n s t i t u t e , Ala ; S e c r e t a r y , Dr. H. J. R o m m , P. O. Box 23. T u s k e g e e I n s t i t u t e Ala. k n 135. A L P H A X I LAMBDA—Toledo, Ohio; P r e s i d e n t Wm N T h o m a s . 653 H a m i l t o n . Toledo 2. Ohio; S e c r e t a r y L e o n j ' C a r t e r . 569 N o r w o o d Ave.. Toledo 2. Ohio k n 136. A L P H A OMICRON L A M B D A — P i t t s b u r g h . Pa.; P r e s i d e n t Dr. M c K i n l e y King, 603 G e a r i n g Ave.. P i t t s b u r g h Pa ; S e c r e t a r y , W i l b u r C. Douglas. 512 B a k e w e l l Bldg., P i t t s b u r g h 19 Pa. k n 137. A L P H A P I L A M B D A — W i n s t o n - S a l e m . N. C : P r e s i d e n t D r J. M. W a l k e r . Jr., 800 N . C a m e r o n . W i n s t o n - S a l e m 4 N C • S e c r e t a r y , A. P . M a r s h a l l . 848 N. C a m e r o n . W i n s t o n - S a l e m 4. N. C. k n 138. A L P H A R H O L A M B D A — C o l u m b u s . Ohio; P r e s i d e n t K e n n e t h A. Morris, 202 S. S p r i n g St., C o l u m b u s . Ohio; S e c r e t a r y A. D. V. Crosby. 159 W i n n e r Ave., C o l u m b u s Ohio k n 139. A L P H A SIGMA LAMBDA—Dallas.

Texas; W ' Barton B e a t t y . P r e s i d e n t . 2700 Flora. Dallas. T e x a s ; S e c r e t a r y O J F o u n t a i n e . 901 Allen. Dallas. T e x a s k n 140. A L P H A T A U L A M B D A — T u l s a . Okla.; P r e s i d e n t Tollie W H a r r i s . 326 N. G r e e n w o o d . Tulsa, Okla.; S e c r e t a r y . R o b e r t ' L. F a i r c h i l d . 2119 N. Quincy, Tulsa 6. Okla k n 141. A L P H A U P S I L O N L A M B D A — M o n t g o m e r y . Ala President Dr. C T. S i m p s o n , S t a t e T e a c h e r s College, M o n t g o m e r y .

Ala.: S e c r e t a r y , J . M. R e y n o l d s , S t a t e T e a c h e r s College M o n t g o m e r y , Ala. k n 142. A L P H A P H I LAMBDA—Norfolk.

Va.; P r e s i d e n t , Russell Chavois. 955 R e s e r v o i r . Norfolk, Va.; S e c r e t a r y , T h o m a s W Young, 721 C h a p e l St.. Norfolk. Va. k n 143. A L P H A CHI L A M B D A — A u g u s t a . Ga.; P r e s i d e n t . A u g u s t u s C. Griggs. H a i n e s School; S e c r e t a r y . J o h n M. T u t t s 1108 Phillips St.. A u s u s t a . Ga. k n 144. A L P H A P S I L A M B D A — C o l u m b i a . S. C ; P r e s i d e n t . R o b e r t W. N a n c e . 1429 P i n e St.. Columbia, S. C ; S e c r e t a r y H a r r y B. R u t h e r f o r d . 1330 G r e g g . C o l u m b i a . S. C k n 145. BETA A L P H A L A M B D A — J e r s e y City. N. J.. P r e s i d e n t . D r .

A r c h i e W. J o h n s o n . 169 C l a r e m o n t Ave., J e r s e y City N J • S e c r e t a r y , Donald A. T h i g p e n . 92 A t l a n t i c St.! J e r s e y City'. k n 146. B E T A BETA L A M B D A — M i a m i . Fla., P r e s i d e n t D r I P D a v i s . 1936 N. W.. 2nd Ave.. Miami, Fla.; S e c r e t a r y , C h a r l e s L. Williams. 1200 N. W.. 6th Ave., M i a m i Fla k n 147. BETA GAMMA LAMBDA—Richmond, Va.; President.

Georgia P e r e r s o n . 305'i E. Leigh St.. R i c h m o n d . Va.; S e c r e t a r y . S p i n g a r n D. B r i n k l e y . 710 N. Sixth St.. R i c h m o n d 19. V a k n 148. BETA DELTA L A M B D A — D a y t o n a B e a c h . Fla.: P r e s i d e n t .

G e o r g e W. E n g r a m . P. O. B o x 2348. D a y t o n a B e a c h . Fla : S e c r e t a r y , H. E. B a r t l e y . M. D.. 567 Second Ave., D a y t o n a Beach, Fla. k n 149. BETA E P S I L O N L A M B D A — W e w o k a . Okla.; P r e s i d e n t , B e n H. Hill. Box 247. Boley, Okla.; S e c r e t a r y . L. G. Ashlev. B o x 247. Boley. Okla. k n 150. B E T A ZETA LAMBDA—Jefferson City, Mo.: P r e s i d e n t , G. R o b e r t Cotton, Lincoln U n i v e r s i t y . Jefferson City, Mo.; S e c r e t a r y . A. E. P u l l m a n . Jr.. Lincoln U n i v e r s i t y , Jefferson C i t y t Mo. k n 151. B E T A ETA L A M B D A — O k l a h o m a City. Okla.; P r e s i d e n t . I T. A n d e r s o n , 615 N. E.. 5th St.. O k l a h o m a City. Okla.; S e c r e t a r y , Otis A. F r e e m a n . 531 N. K e l h a m St.. O k l a h o m a City4. Okla. k n 152. B E T A T H E T A L A M B D A — D u r h a m . N . C. k n 153. BETA IOTA L A M B D A — B a t o n R o u g e . La.; P r e s i d e n t . J o h n G. Lewis, J r . . B o x 72. Scotlandville. La.; S e c r e t a r y , Russell M. A m p e y . S o u t h e r n Br. P . O., B a t o n R o u g e , La. k n 154. BETA K A P P A L A M B D A — C h a r l e s t o n . S. C ; P r e s i d e n t . D r .

Winston W. J o n e s , 423 K i n g St.; S e c r e t a r y . Dr. E. B . B u r r o u g h s , 35 M o r r i s St.. C h a r l e s t o n . S. C. '»n 155. BETA MU L A M B D A — S a l i s b u r y . N . C. kn 156. B E T A N U L A M B D A — C h a r l o t t e .

N. C ; President, Dr. T h o m a s W a t k i n s . 329 S o u t h B r e v a r d St.. C h a r l o t t e , N . C ; S e c r e t a r y , Clinton B l a k e , 423 East First St., C h a r l o t t e 2.

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BETA XI LAMBDA—Omaha. Nebraska; President. Robert L. Meyers. 2416 N. 22nd St.. Omaha, Nebr.; Secretary. Savbert C. Hanger. 1915 N. 28th St.. Omaha 10. Nebr.

BETA OMICRON LAMBDA—Mobile, Ala.; President. Alphonse Russell. 204 Clay St.. Mobile. Ala.; Secretary. Marshall Robinson, 7 N, Dearborn. Mobile, Ala. BETA PI LAMBDA—Albany, New York; President. William F. Brown. DDS.. 146 South Pearl St.. Albany. N. Y.; Secretary, Crispin C. Hall. 4 113th St., North Troy. N. Y. BETA RHO LAMBDA—Youngstown, Ohio; President. Graham Lynch, 525 Kenmore Ave.; Secretary, James E. Smith, 2953 Karl St.. Youngstown, Ohio.

BETA SIGMA LAMBDA-Hartford. Conn.

BETA TAU LAMBDA—Ft. Worth. Texas; President. Wm. E. Brackeen, Jr.. 1004 New York Ave.. Ft. Worth 3. Texas; Secretary. Felix C. Thurmond, 1115 E. Leuda St.. Ft. Worth 3. Texas.

BETA UPSILON LAMBDA—Jackson, Tenn.; President, P. M Corruthers. Lane College; Corresponding Secretary, C. A. Kirkendall II, P. O. Box 467.-Jackson. Tenn.

BETA PHI LAMBDA--Savannahv Ga.; President. J. W. Wilson. 720 West Broad, Savannah, Ga.; Secretary, C. V. Clay.

Georgia State College. Industrial College. Ga. BETA CHI LAMBDA—Muskogee. Okla.; President. Dekoven A. Franch. 545 N. 7th St.; Secretary, Emory H. Jennings.

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BfJTA PSI LAMBDA—Los Angeles. Calif.: President. Dewev W. Davidson. 1162 E. 46th St., Los Angeles. Calif.; Secretaiv. Edward C. Strong, 230 Hammond St.. Pasadena 3, Calif.

GAMMA ALPHA LAMBDA—Charlottesville. Va.: President, Dr. C. J. Waller. 318 N. Augusta St.. Staunton. Va.; Secretary. A. W. Pleasant, Jr.. M. D.. Massie St.. Lexington, Va. GAMMA BETA LAMBDA—Frankfort. Ky., President, Sheley F. Lynem. Kentucky State College. Frankfort, Ky.; Secretary. Alexis J. Richards. Kentucky State College, Frankfort, Kv'

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