The SPHINX | Fall 1954 | Volume 50 | Number 3 196405003

CONVENTION %• ISSUE W3

October 1964

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OCTOBER

VOLUME L/3

1964

(CONVENTION ISSUE)

CONTENTS: 1

OCTOBER, NOVEMBER . . . AUTUMN FROST AND BREEZES

ARTICLES 2 3 4 5 8 9

WORLD-WIDE HONOR TO BRO. MARTIN LUTHER KING HOUSING IN CALIFORNIA A GLANCE INTO THE FUTURE THE HISTORICAL SPHINX PAST GENERAL PRESIDENT CANNON ENTERS MATRIMONY PRESIDENT'S CONVENTION CALL

DEPARTMENTS 10 FROM THE GENERAL SECRETARY'S DESK 11 FRAT FUN (A Convention Report) " . . .

TO SAY I WAS THERE" (50TH ANNIVERSARY REPORT) 14 16 REFRESH YOUR MEMORY 16 EDITORIALLY SPEAKING 17 BOOKS 18 CONVENTION SCENES 20 ALPHA WORKSHOP 22 MUSING WITH THE POETS 22 DIRECTORY 23 CHAPTER ACTIVITY 35 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL STRUCTURE 36 FRATERNITY IMPROVEMENT PREFERENTIAL CHECK LIST COVER1964 marked the Golden Jubilee of The Sphinx, official magazine of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. - Fifty years of service and communication. The theme of the celebration was: Communication - Excellence . . Key To Equality.

The major activity of this celebration was a drama depicting the history of the fraternity built around the story of The Sphinx: Alpha - Endless Procession of Splendor This drama was staged during the General Convention, Sunday, August 14, 8:00 p. m , in the Grand Ball Room of the Commodore Hotel, New York City.

Pictures on the cover are scenes from the drama as staged.

Organizing Editor, 1914: Raymond W. Cannon * * * EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: C. ANDERSON DAVIS THE SPHINX: P. O. BOX 1420, BLUEFIELD, W. VA. 24701

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CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: O. Wilson Winters, Laurence T. Young Charles Wesley Stenson E. Broaddus, Robert F. Custis, Charles A. Broaddus, Malvin R Goode, J M. Ellison, Belford V. Lawson, Lionel H. Newsom, Frank L Stanley, Sr A Maceo Smith, T. Winston Cole, Kermit J. Hall, W. Barton Beatty, Maceo Hill, L W. Jeffries Martin L. Harvey, David A. Dowdy, Floyd Shepherd, Gus T. Ridgel, Samuel A. Madden, L. H. Stanton, Henry Crawford, (Staff Photographer).

EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: J. Herbert King, J. E. Martin Felix Warren John H. Johnson, Samuel A. Madden, Frank Ellis, Malvin Goode, Marshall H a r ris, Moss H. Kendrix, T. Winston Cole, Lionel H. Newsom, Belford V. Lawson, Laurence T. Young, Floyd Shepherd, Gus T. Ridgel L. H. Stanton, Kermit J. Hall.

The Sphinx is the magazine (Official Organ) of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., 4432 South Parkway• Chkago ^ l L T. Winston Cole, President; Laurence T. Young, Genera Secretary; C Anderson Davis EditorV P u s h e d ^ o u r ^ ™es a year, February, May, October and December. Copyright, 1964 by The Sphinx, Alpha hi Alpha fraternity, inc.

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O Suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together.

You cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

When on the ground red apples He In piles like jewels shining, And redder still on old stone walls Are leaves of woodbine twining; O Suns and skies and clouds of June, Count all your boasts together Love loveth best of all the year October's bright blue weather. —

Helen Hunt Jackson

"Those who dwell upon ivory towers have heads of the same materials."

OCTOBER, 1964

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WORLD-WIDE HONOR TO BROTHER MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER One of the most cherished and important world-wide honors has been bestowed on one of our most outstanding brothers. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Bro. Martin Luther King, J r . Bro. King stated: "The prize is a tribute to 'millions of gallant Negroes and white persons who followed a nonviolent course' in the Negroes' struggle for equal rights. It

TIME COVER OF "Man of The Year"

JAIL IN BIRMINGHAM - Among the 3.300 arrested in Birmingham were SCLC President Martin Luther King, Jr. and Treasurer Ralph Abernathy.

is fclso gratifying to know that the n a tions of the world recognize the civil rights movement in this country as so significant a moral force as to merit such recognition." Bro. King further stated that he intends to spend eyery dollar of the prize money, $53,123.00, on the civil rights movement.

Bro. King is a native of Atlanta, Ga. where he now resides. He was born J a n u a r y 15, 1929, and is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr. He is married to Mrs. Coretta King and has four children, Yolande Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott and Bernice Albertine.

He attended the public schools of Atlanta, received his A. B. degree from Morehouse College, 1948; the B. D. degree from Crozer Theological Seminary (Chester, Pa.) 1951; studied at the University of Pennsylvania, 1950-51; studied at Harvard, 1952-53, and the Ph. D degree from Boston University, 1955, in the field of Systematic Theology.

(Thesis: "A Comparison of God in the

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Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman"). He has received the following honorary degrees: LHD, Morehouse College, 1957; D. D., Chicago Theological Seminary of the Federated Faculties of the University of Chicago, 1957; LLD, Morgan State College, 1958; LHD, Central State College, 1958; D. D., Boston University, 1959; LL.D, Howard University, 1957; L.L.D, Lincoln University, 1961; LL.D, University of Bridgeport, 1961; Doctor of Civil Laws.'Bard College, 1962; Doctor of Letters, Keuka College, 1963. He was initiated into Alpha Rho Chapter, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga. Bro. King is co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. where his father is pastor; president-emeritus of The Montgomery Improvement Association, Inc. r and president of the South-

ern Christian Leadership Conference of which he is founder.

In 1957, Gallup Poll revealed that he was one of the most admired religious leaders in the world. In 1957, TIME magazine selected him as one of the ten most outstanding personalities of the year. He is listed in Who's Who in America. He has received more than 125 citation awards for his work in civil rights. In a poll conducted by LINK magazine of New Delhi, India, he ranksd as one of the sixteen world leaders who had contributed most to the advancement of freedom during 1959. In 1963, TIME magazine selected him as its 37th Man of the Year, stating that he had become "The unchallenged voice of the Negro people and the disquieting conscience of the White."

Some of his publications are: Stride Toward Freedom - The Measure of a Man - Strength To Love. A biography of Bro. King entitled "Crusader Without Violence" by Lawrence D. Reddick, traces his life story from birth in A t lanta through his leadership in the Montgomery Movement and the Civil Rights struggle.

Bro. King has travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. In 1957, at the invitation of the Prime Minister, he attended the independence celebration of Ghana, West Africa. He has lectured in more than one hundred and fifty colleges and u n i versities in the United States.

We salute Bro. King on his great achievements and this most magnificent achievement, winning the Nobel Peace Prize which is a signal global honor for all of us.

PHOTEST IN ATLANTA—Teaching oH • promt a i M d n Atlanta, Ga., become of the city'i false image and refusal to meet desegregation demands, a crowd of some 2,500 authored In freezing weather in Hurt Park on Dec 16 to hear SCLC (•resident Martin Luther King, Jr. (in photo at left) tell them that "Negroes are disappointed with Atlanta."

Some 25,000 people gathered In treating weather In Hurt Park. Atlanta Ga.. to hear Bro. King

THE SPHINX

By

HOUSING . . .

IN CALIFORNIA

Bro. Byron Rumford

One of the major unresolved prob- rent such property to such person or fornia is one in which the extreme lems of our democratic society is the persons as he, in his absolute discretion, right groups are attempting to spell inability of a great number of Ameri- chooses." Actually, what the CREA out in the constitution the right to cans, particularly those of minority is attempting to do here is to adopt a discriminate on the basis of race, color, groups, to function effectively in the constitutional amendment which would creed or ancestry. mainstream of urban and community provide for legal discrimination against Propostition 14 has created internalife because they are prevented from American citizens in the State of Cal- tional interest because of the backsecuring proper housing. ifornia. ground of California, a so called libIn researching the CREA magazines eral state. Some people have said that Newcomers to American cities have been relegated to the central core areas as far back as 1927, it has been dis- the extremists are testing the effort to where slums, blight, and unhealthy closed that this association has long destroy all civil rights programs in conditions predominate. This trend had a program designed to establish California, and it is predicted that if property they are successful here that their toward the city has taken place since perpetual restrictions on next step will be to attack laws in the World War I and has affected most of based upon race, religion, or ancestry. our larger cities both in the East and In September, 1948, the CREA a t - various states and also attack the enin the West. tempted its members to campaign for tire civil rights program recently adopted by Congress.

The California Legislature, in 1963, a federal amendment to the ConstituThose of us of Alpha are pleased cognizant of the inaccessability to good tion to "guarantee enforcement of prophousing for all Abericans and at the erty restrictions against minorities." that the Fraternity in its wisdom saw Just recently, Nolan Forzelle, former the need to assist the fight in California request of Governor Brown, adopted California's Fair Housing Law. After president of the California Republican to retain one of our basic freedoms five months of deliberation in com- Assembly, said, "the essence of free- the right to acquire property. If this mittees and on the floor, the bill was dom is the right to discriminate - dis- vicious legislation is not defeated in passed during the closing minutes of crimination means free choice. In California, civil rights programs will the Legislature. A standing ovation socialistic countries, they always take have been set back for more than fifty was given its author - the first time away this right in order to complete years in this great state. this has happened in the history of the their take over."

Governor Brown has taken a strong passage of any legislation . position in opposition to Proposition 14, and the Democratic party has gone on The California Fair Housing Law was record against it. The Republican adopted after its sponsors had reviewed party officially has taken no position, the success of fair housing laws in some but the California Republican Assemnine other states. Some of its basic bly which is the right arm of the Reprovisions were adopted from the New publican party is supporting ProposYork law which was enacted in 1957, ition 14. embracing private property.

Tremendous strides have been made Immediately upon the passage of in the last two weeks to defeat this this legislation, the California Real Esvicious constitutional amendment. It tate Association set about to secure is predicted that when November 3 a r enough signatures to have a referenrives, with the strong support of the dum or a repeal of the Rumford Fair League of Cities in California, the Housing Act. This attempt at repeal League of Women Voters, numerous was abandoned. The CREA then b e church groups, the San Francisco gan to secure sufficient signatures to Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, obtain an initiative measure which the Sacramento Bee, the Fresno Bee, would - instead of repealing the Rumthe Modesto Bee, and numerous other ford Fair Housing Law - put into efCalifornia newspapers which are in o p fect in the California Constitution a position to Proposition 14, this measure prohibition against all attempts, whethShall Th« Negro b» legally r*l»g&led will be defeated. er by state, county, or city authorities, to ah»Jto»? to act against any housing discrimination.

In Los Angeles in a recent debate on This initiative measure or Proposition Proposition 14 before the Los Angeles EDITOR'S NOTE - Bro. William Byron 14 as it is now known, sponsored by Forum, an official of the CREA said, Rumford of Los Angeles, Calif, is a the CREA, says, "neither the state nor "we should have the right to discrim- member of the California Legislature any subdivision or agency thereof shall inate - the right to discriminate against and is author of the Rumford Amenddeny, limit, or abridge, directly or in- a person is very basic in American so- ment. He is a former Western Vice directly, the right of any person who ciety."

President and is a practicing pharmiis willing or desirous to sell, lease, or Hence, the basic fight here in Cali- cist.

OCTOBER, 1964

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By. Bro.

A GLANCE INTO THE FUTURE

Atkinson, Jr.

An Address delivered at the Historical Session of The Sphinx Golden Jubilee We live in an age of communication; a world made frightenly small by telephones, telegraph cables, satellites, and the printed word. We can watch live television programs from Europe; listen to the people of Asia on short wave radio; and call Australia simply by dialing operator.

We have become dependent upon communication in this world. President Kennedy and Chairman Krushchev saw fit to install a direct telephone line between Moscow and Washington. During the Cuban confrontation of 1962, careful analysis will show that every move by each participant was carefully communicated to the other before it actually occured. And just this year a Counselor Relations Treaty was signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to insure that all feasible lines of communication remained open between the two countries.

Alpha Phi Alpha has also become dependent upon the printed word, and so it is particularly fitting that in this age of communication we honor the Sphinx in its 50th anniversary year. Brothers, can you imagine an organization as large as ours without a central organ for communication? I would venture to say that without the Sphinx magazine. this Fraternity would have decayed by now into numerous fragments of the golden dream postulated over a half century ago by our Jewels. With the Sphinx we have become a truly united Fraternity, not only on one college campus or in one particular area, but rather throughout the world. This is the real reason it is proper and necessary that we pay tribute to this magazine. C. Anderson Davis summed up this idea when he wrote of the founders of the Sphinx, "these men saw the need for a media of communication, a binding force, an organ through which brothers could express their views . . " I have heard it said that we are giving a greater celebration to the Sphinx, than we gave to the Fraternity in its anniversary year. Yet, Brothers, while all segments of this Fraternity are necessary, if it is to meet the challenge of the sixties and seventies, a responsible

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organ of communication is a must the heart necessary to pump the life giving blood into Brothers across the nation. The only alternative is decay and eventual death.

Let me give you an example of what can happen when communications break down. During the year we had hoped to stage an undergraduate conference in the Eastern Region, whereby all undergraduates would come and discuss the problems facing Alpha Phi Alpha. Such a conference was vitally necessary; for too often in past years undergraduates, while having justifiable grievances, have been unprepared in one way or another to meet the challenges presented to them. Our conference was designed, not to widen the gap between graduate and undergraduate Brothers, but rather to enable the undergraduate to be better prepared in presenting his views to the Fraternity.

The conference failed because of poor communication. We were unable to remain in contact with the Chapters in the region, because in many instances these chapters had failed to provide the Sphinx magazine with their proper addresses.

The Sphinx is therefore vitally important for we are obligated to remain constant to the principle that only through communication can we keep this Fraternity informed of the views of all Brothers - from the oldest Executive Council Member to the newest neophyte.

The results of the "Decade of Decision" therefore to a large extent lie with the success of the Sphinx magazine. In recent years we have heard much about the reorganization of Alpha from our national leaders. Whether these constitutional reforms are fitting and proper must ultimately be decided by the dedicated Alpha Men who cannot always be in attendance at general conventions. Their decision will depend upon how well the issues are communicated to them via the Sphinx magazine.

Ever since the vote for PresidentElect was removed from the convention floor, we have had to commit ourselves to the principle of universal suffrage within the Fraternity. Therefore, if

we allow even one Brother to cast his vote in ignorance of the particular assets and liabilities of the candidates involved, then we will be acting contrary to the democratic beliefs of Pericles in ancient Greece, contrary to the principles on which this great nation was founded; contrary to the traditions postulated by our seven founders and r e dedicated by the 30,000 men of Alpha Phi Alpha. Thus again, the responsibility falls to the Sphinx to insure that we have an enlightened and an informed Brotherhood.

But the burden resting upon Alpha Phi Alpha and the Sphinx is even greater. Alpha was created not only to fulfill the needs of its members, but also to meet a very important deficiency within the nation. Ours, was the monumental task of making a better world by striving for all, black and white, to have an equal opportunity in life. We were charged by seven men in Ithaca, New York some 58 years ago to help in promoting the free and continuous discussion of ideas; not to rest on our own individual personal achievements until all could look forward to a better life; and finally, with making this a better world for all men to live and die in.

In more recent years it has been maintained that our national image is in decline; that we have lost touch with the young people involved in the civil rights struggle; and that we have become complacent by our own individual success.

Let us answer this indictment, not by defending our past record, brilliant as it is, let us sound our answer by r e newed, responsible, positive action. ,Recently, I had the good fortune of attending a national student foreign affairs conference at the United States Naval Academy. On this occasion, one of the delegates who happened to be white inquired of me as to whether I belonged to a Fraternity. I responded that I was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. He said, "Hello Brother."

At this moment I realized how far Alpha had come and advanced since 1906. Why then could not Alpha Phi Alpha also sponsor a national confer(Continued on page 26)

THE SPHINX

THE HISTORICAL

SPHINX

LOOKING BACKWARD TO THE PAST AND FORWARD TO THE FUTURE The long sweep of history makes provision for two views, one of looking backward and the other of looking forward. On the basis of the backward view an organization or an individual can have the dual view which makes possible the background, and which lays upon its foundation the forward look.

In his famous volume of all Utopias published in 1887, "Looking Backward" Edward Bellamy declared, " . . . that nowhere can we find more solid ground for daring anticipations of human development during the next one thousand years, than by 'Looking Backward' upon the last one hundred years."

A contrary view is voiced by Macbeth in the Shakespearean drama, now in its own 400th anniversary year, as he refers to the tomorrows and the yesteryears: Says he, "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps on this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.

Out. out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.

Despite this Macbethean contrary view, life, past, present and future, always signifies something; and the Bellamy opinion still stands as a test of time. For a man is what he remembers, and he signifies what he remembers. Whenever we blot out the m e m ory of yesterday, we lack both the motive and the plan for today and for tomorrow. One of the sad pictures in modern life is the amnesia victim who, while physically hale and hearty, has lost his connection with his past and the memory of it. We are what we remember.

This is a fact manifested in the life and history of nations, peoples and or-

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ganizations, each of which as it has developed and as it attracts current attention realizes that it needs a history and an historical tradition. The emerging nations of Africa manifest this current need. Some are taking ancient and historic names for themselves - Ghana instead of Gold Coast, Malagasy instead of Madigascar, Malwi for Nyasaland. It is not at all strange then that we too look back upon history's background and cry out: Judge of the nations, spare us yet Lest we forget - lest we forget!

The historical background of our Sphinx must not be forgotten for both in history and concept it extends not only to 1914, but in symbolism back into ancient Africa, the historic land of the darker peoples. The records of our ancient heritage indicate that the oldest civilized people in the Western World lived in the valley of the Nile.

One of the first outstanding kings of Egypt, of whom we have permanent records, was Manes, who, about 4,500 B. C , united the black and brown peoples of the Nile Valley under one government with his capital at Memphis.

Centuries after Manes, a series of kings began to build pyramids and carve the records of their reigns - the Fourth Dynasty - upon the stones of the p y r a mids during the era 3700 to 3550 B. C. The pyramids and the sphinxes have been the wonders of the centuries in Africa, although there are sphinxes in Greece. The combined massive buildings in Egyptian Africa represent a monumental sculptured type which has left their impress upon world history.

With the pyramids, there stands the most famous of the sphinxes, the Great Sphinx of Gizeh, a gigantic sphinx with its head representing King Khafre of the IVth Dynasty. It has the body of a lion, while the head has the customary headdress with the uraeus serpent on his brow, and two wings attached to its sides. With a man's head on a lion's body, there was the signifying of the union of the intellect and physical power.

This was massive building by the people of this land who were the dark peoples who had come out of lower Africa, for civilization came out of the southern part of Egypt and moved northward from Nubia and from the

By Bro. C h a r l e s H. Wesley

better known Ethiopia, the land of the sunburnt people. Only a people who had concepts of the laws of physics and mechanics could have built these massive structures. The Great Sphinx covers 13 acres and reaches a height of 45 feet. Its body is 187 feet long, its head is 66 feet high, and it measures twentysix feet from the chin to the crown of the head. According to Herodotus, the Father of History, one hundred thousand men labored twenty years in its erection. It is said that the head is seen mainly now, for much of the Sphinx form has become concealed by the century-long heaped up sands of the desert. Later Thutmos IV was the first Pharaoh to excavate the drifting sands which partly covered the Great Sphinx. In 1926-27, the Egyptian Government again freed it from the encroaching sands. On a granite ste'a between the forelegs of the Great Sphinx there is carved a folk-tale of Thutmos IV, which demonstrates that this Great Sphinx was a publication source in the Fourth Century, B. C. Our symbol of the Sphinx was then selected for two reasons, first because of its form and beauty and second because the writing on its stela is symbolic and also a realistic precursor of our Sphinx with its writings.

Many comments have been made concerning the Great Sphinx as a source of communication. Professor Flanders Petrie, British Egyptologists, states, "The first thing that strikes us is the enormous driving power of the man, the reeling nature which it seems impossible to resist, the determination which is above all constraint and all opposition. As far as force of will goes, the strongest characters in history would look pliable in this presence There is no face quite parallel to this in all the portraits we know - Egyptian, Greek, Roman or Modern." This historical background gave to the founders of our Sphinx the concept which was the foundation of and the motivation for the title of our Journal. It was to be our source of communication. The concept of it was begun in 1913 and its first issue was brought out in the year 1914 - fifty years ago. However, there was at that time none of the accepted realities of our day. Cars were drawn (Continued on page 6)

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risen in circulation to over one thousHoward University Alma Mater song.

The first number of The Sphinx, and subscribers, with a budget of over with Brother Raymond W. Cannon as one thousand dollars. by horses and motor cars were few. Editor-in-Chief and Brother Julius C. Our Sphinx by the twenties had thus There were early model radios and the McKelvie as Business Manager with become a journal of larger proportions "wireless," as it was called, carried each chapter having an associate editor, and subject matter than its founders about one hundred words a minute. was issued in March, 1914. , had envisioned in 1914. It had exThere were few electric lights and The second issue came out in May, panded to undergraduate and chapter there was no television and yet, this 1914, and the third issue in November,, interests to participation in the larger world of yesterday seemed to be r e 1914. These three issues were paged program of graduate and undergradlaxed, dominated as it was by concepts pamphlets 9%" x 6V4", and were r e - uate participation and cooperation. of peace and progress. ferred to repeatedly as "The Paper." The graduates undertook to improve Then suddenly on J u n e 28, 1914, in The first issue was of four pages, the these relations not in a paternalistic the village of Sarajevo in Serbia, a second of six, and the third of eight way but in the Alpha Phi Alpha way nineteen year old partly demented r e - pages. The promised publication of of creative activity through opporvolutionary, Gavrillo Principp, fired eight issues a year, making it a month- tunity for participation by all brothers, two shots from a Browning pistol which ly, did not develop and the journal b e - graduate and undergraduate jointly. were heard around the world and set came a quarterly. Under its second This compact continued to be emphain motion the turmoil of w a r among Editor-in-Chief, Brother Lucius L. Mc- sized by Bro. P. Bernard Young, Sphinx the nations. By Christmas 1914, war had Gee, The Sphinx appeared in heavy Editor, who wrote in 1931 that "Alpha's spread in a wild rage across Europe paper backs and was twelve pages. ideals were inextricably wrapped up as nations for the first time joined in It is of interest to observe also the in the full cooperation of undergradtotal conflict. Then too, on August 15, close relation which these efforts bore uate and graduate groups, that the 1914, the first steamship made its pas- in their opinion to The Sphinx as a experience and training of its gradsage through the newly completed Pan- channel of communication. Then too, uate members are essential to that a b ama Canal. Thus a peaceful scientific those of us who are concerned about le direction without which Alpha canand engineering feat competed with graduate influence and graduate chap- not reach those goals its founders enwar. ter growth today should recall that visioned and its membership through It was upon this background that the this influence was once sought and the years have charted." immediate foreground witnessed the cherished in 1914 and has had its valIn 1933, after my first election as birth of a Journal authored by the ues in our history.

General President in December, 1931, brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha. DesI gave my first convention report d u r That the graduates were important ing the Depression, and among its refpite these events of w a r and in the midst of the strife caused by men, who to the Fraternity continued to be e m - erences was the following: wielded their pens in the hatred and phasized by The Sphinx. In December, "Our Fraternal organ, The Sphinx, division of brothers, our brothers in 1916, a special issue was devoted to has shown continuous improvement them.

Articles with pictorial accomAlpha Phi Alpha also conceived and in appearance, subject matter and created with their pens a Journal of paniments were contained in this jourformat under its present editorship. brotherhood, our Sphinx. Thus, the nal issue. Bro. D. O. W. Holmes, then We are still desirous that this imcloud of w a r in 1914 had at least two of Beta Chapter and retired President provement shall continue.

But we silver linings - the opening of the P a n - of Morgan State College, wrote on "The must remember that we cannot cripama Canal and the establishment of Fraternity and the Alumni." Bro. N. P. G. Adams of Beta Chapter and r e ple The Sphinx and at the same time our Sphinx. tired Dean of Howard University Medexpect to have The Sphinx appear There were two small background ical School, contributed an article e n regularly and be as fine a magazine influences and motivations which led titled, 'The Aim of Alpha Phi Alpha as we desire it. And yet we must to the action establishing the magazine Fraternity." Bro. A. L. Foster of Xi endeavor in these days to do more to be called The Sphinx. The first of Chapter and later of the Chicago Urban with less. With our cooperation, our these influences had grown out of the League was the author of the words magazine can continue as a high type increase of our fraternity alumni, and of a song to the alumni. It is imporjournal bringing our brotherhood inthe second influence grew out of the tant to observe that the undergraduto contact, one with the other, across actual concept of THE Sphinx as a ates who started and organized our the miles separating us."

Journal.

Fraternity were in 1914 seeking to In line with this viewpoint, our GenWhen the Sixth Annual Convention bring the graduates closer to the General Presidents, individually and as a of the Fraternity met at the seat of eral Organization and fifty years later group have given consistent and conBeta Chapter, Washington, D. C , D e - the graduates are concerned about the cember 29-31, 1913, there were 23 dele- undergraduates and would bring them tinuous support and cooperation to the editors of The Sphinx, as it has faced gates present with visiting brothers and closer. the issues of the passing years in Negro three graduates. President Charles H. Our journal was not only for Frater- life.

Garvin made his report including a One of the historically significant proposal for a fraternity journal. His nity news but also for subjects of inrecommendation was adopted by the terest and value to college men. A De- numbers of The Sphinx was the May, Convention. President Garvin then partment of Negro History was estab- 1935, issue with its treatment of the appointed a Committee on the Frater- lished in The Sphinx in 1921, with ref- New Deal agencies and their relation nity Journal composed of Julius C. Mc- erences to "Ancient Africa" as a result to the employment of Negroes. This Kelvie of Beta Chapter as Chairman; of our ritual and tradition and our was the first effort to secure an o b J. D. Malone, Iota Chapter; Thomas R. reverence for the Ancient Sphinx of jective study of the Negro under the Davis, Beta Chapter and J. H. Brooks, Egypt, and Bro. Leo Hansberry now New Deal. I recall that our investiBeta Chapter. It is interesting to o b - in Africa contributed several such ar- gator of government employment of serve in passing that J. D. Malone and ticles. By 1923 under the editorship of Negroes was taken into a large area J. H. Brooks were the authors of the Bro. Carl J. Murphy, The Sphinx had of secretaries and with some derision THE HISTORICAL SPHINX (Continued from page 5)

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THE SPHINX

he was told by his guide as he pointed, "there is our token Negro secretary."

This incident was pinpointed with facts in the printed report in the special issue of The Sphinx. How different this situation is and can be today!

When World War II was under way, it was a Sphinx writer who declared that, "Alpha men as well as other Negroes are serving in practically every branch of the Armed Forces. They are participating in all war theaters.

They are fighting for the Four Freedoms and to win the peace." The years since the close of World War II, the breakup of Europe's colonial empires, the Communist conquest of China, the Space Age, and the use of nuclear power, have witnessed the continuation of great and worthy services of our Sphinx through its editors and associate editors. They have repeatedly and consistently maintained the values which we have cherished and which we seek to make universal values accepted by all men. This was another period of years when national and local fraternities were under criticism and when demonstration of the values of organized fraternalism was necessary.

The hell-raising days and the empty shouting were over. The Fraternity was becoming a place for intellectualism and a fellowship of common ideals and a crusade for freedom, all of which had the atmosphere of books and knowledge and of friendship rather than snobbery and middle-class graces. This was again a time when the ideals of the Founders were needed, and the Sphinx was in the best of positions to give these, and it did not fail us as its pages were filled with worthy evidences.

words of Edward Bellamy, lies ahead of us rather than behind us.

From the viewpoint of a worthy background, we look ahead to a challenging foreground. This fifty-year celebration must not be exclusively a time of congratulation, self-satisfaction and pride. But upon our past accomplishment, let us build more worthily the future with a greater Journal. R u mors of war are again with us. They come imperciptively as in 1914. From Vietnam, Laos, Cyprus and Southeastern Asia, events and trends raise their crises again. While learning to live in such crises, the symbols of brotherhood have meaning for us and all mankind, as they did in 1914.

Across this period of fifty years, marked changes have taken place in our world. Here in the United States we have moved forward from a largely agricultural people to an increasingly powerful industrial, mechanical and urban people. We have moved forward from a world little understood to a world of reality. Its mysticism and superstition have been considerably r e duced and we have moved forward with a wider mental outlook. We have moved away from a concept of aristocracy of blood, family and wealth or intellect to a concept of an expanding democracy, an individual freedom and the forward movement of all the people. We have moved forward from a few select men in colleges and u n i versities to an increasingly larger n u m ber in the college and the development of a growing number of Fraternity alumni. We have moved forward to the confident belief that our greatest period of usefulness both for The Sphinx and for the Fraternity, in the

The second witness is one of courage among these founders. Their publication of The Sphinx was a witness of their courage rather than their hesitation. Journals and magazines among Negroes were few and many of them were rather shortlived ones. The first of the Twentieth Century magazines were the Colored American, beginning in 1900; the Voice of the Negro, during the same period; Alexander's Magazine in Boston in 1905; and each of these existed for only a short period.

In November, 1910, the Crisis, the organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, appeared and it definitely was a new step in Negro magazine publications. The publication of The Sphinx in a day such as this was a manifestation of courage for there were few predecessors which could serve as guideposts. They met this crisis in their lives with courage and as courageous pioneers in a worthy cause. Will we of today meet our challenges in similar ways?

OCTOBER, 1964

In order to continue to move forward as a Fraternity we need to draw from our past the definite fundamental qualities of which these incidents of the establishment and continuation of The Sphinx have given concrete witnesses.

Let us call forth witnesses from the legacy of the past, for this semi-centennial is not only a day of self-commendation, it is also a day of new r e sponsibility.

Today, fifty years after the rise of our Sphinx in 1914, when there was the origin of a first World War in the small town in the Balkans, now there are " unannounced revolutions of the peoples in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Revolutions with the prophetic cry of "freedom" are continuing in Cuba, the Congo, China, the United States, and around the world. We march in the streets for freedom. We prepare ourselves for new opportunities for we are aware of our new r e sponsibilities.

We have needed courage to win the battle of rights and we now enter the new era of making them real. This too requires courage, but of another type, one of readiness, of being prepared for the opportunity. We must have the courage not only to march in the streets, but to march to voter registration and urge it upon others. We can revive our slogan voiced in The Sphinx of "A voteless people is a hopeless people," for Northerners, who stay away from the polls of their own volition and for Southerners who fear to vote. And yet, the past two years have seen the increase of colored voter registration in the South of over a half million.

But has Alpha Phi Alpha been active in this cause and what of the North?

The backlash of white Americans and the conservative drive must be defeated, if freedom is to grow, and the vote of colored Americans in northern states and cities can make the difference between success and failure and determine how youth of the future shall live.

The third witness developed by this journal was the witness of loyalty.

This was manifested in these years by the men who gave reality to our historic journal - President Charles H. Garvin, President Henry Lake Dickason; first Editor Raymond W. Cannon; Business Manager Julius B. McKelvie; Secretary Roscoe W. Ross, and many who were unnamed and unsung, but whose voices in the General Conventions contributed to the thinking, planning and processing of the journal cross the years. No character within Alpha Phi Alpha has been worthy of a place in our history who did not m a n ifest loyalty to ideals in action rather than expediency in action.

As we face the future, our task t o day is as great as theirs, and even greater, for the times in which we live are again at odds in 1964; but the backward glance enables us to see the work of these witnesses in this centennial celebration - witness of faith, witnesses of courage, witnesses of loyalty. We are the heirs of those brothers who have carried the torch of this great tradition. Let us hallow them and pass on their torch. They threw to us the torch of The Sphinx as we look backward, be ours to hold it high as we look forward!

EDITORS NOTE - Charles H. Wesley is president of Central State College and historian of Alpha.

The above address was prepared for delivery at The Sphinx Golden Jubilee Historical Session during the New York Convention.

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PAST GENERAL PRESIDENT CANNON ENTERS MATRIMONY times. However, when Mayor Hubert The world is filled with surprises ward Oliver James, was Assistant Su- H. Humphrey desired his services as pervisor of freight rates for the Chiand the good brothers of Alpha Phi a member of the Minneapolis Fair EmAlpha will be pleased to learn of this cago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad. ployment Practices Commission, the The bride's mother was a Washingtonevent which, in part, clarifies the fact first municipal FEPC in the country, of his absence from the general con- ian. and the bride's great grandfather, he accepted. He and the now Vice the late Rev. John F. Cook, founded vention in New York. the F i f t e e n t h Street Presbyterian Presidential Candidate are very well Before a small group of friends and acquainted, and it was Bro. Cannon, Church in Washington. relatives, Miss Rachel Louise James some years ago, who secured Senator Bro. Cannon, also is from a pioneer of Saint Paul, Minn., became the bride Hubert H. Humphrey to address us at of Bro. Raymond W. Cannon in a sim- Minnesota family, his maternal grand- the general convention in Atlantic City ple wedding ceremony on Friday, J u n e New Jersey.

12, 1964, at the home of the bride. FathBro. Cannon entered Alpha Phi Aler Denzil A. Carty, Rector of St. Philpha, April 6. 1912. He has served this lip's Episcopal Church, officiated. The fraternity extensively, having been bride was given in marriage by her General Vice President 1913-1914, when brother, Mr. George Victor James. Mrs. there was only one vice president.

John M. Patton was Matron of Honor, When some of the stalwarts approached and Bro. John M. Patton, Gamma XI him about the General Presidency, he Lambda attended the groom as best declined and urged the election of J e w man. Following the ceremony a beauel Callis whom he nominated, and who tifully appointed wedding breakfast Was elected, the latter thus becoming was served the bride and groom, close the only founder to serve in this cafriends and some members of the facpacity. Bro. Cannon was the first edulty of the school where the bride itcr of The Sphinx. Later he was teaches. A reception was later held called upon to serve Alpha again as that afternoon to which friends from Midwestern Vice President, after which both Minneapolis and Saint Paul were he was chosen to lead the fraternity invited. A number of fellow attorneys as General President, which office he and their wives, friends of Bro. Canheld for four terms, two of which were non, were present. by unanimous vote. He declined to BRO. RAYMOND W. CANNON AND BRIDE On the evening prior to the wedding, CUT WEDDING CAKE serve longer in this capacity. The Frathe bride and groom were guests of ternity then created the Department honor at the annual party given by of Educational Activities and chose Bro. Omicron Boule, Sigma Pi Phi Frater- parents having left North Carolina and Cannon once mere. After four years nity, for Archusa, a dinner at the fam- settled in the then territory of Minne- as director he again resigned. Since sota in 1857, and his father came to that time he has at various times fulous Capp Towers.

Minnesota as a child with his folks filled special assignments.

Mrs. Cannon is a senior science teachfrom Missouri a few' years after the er in Roosevelt High School, St. Paul.

Civil War. She received her early education in the Bro. Cannon holds degrees from the public and high schools of St. Paul; atYOUR CHANGE OF ADDRESS tended Howard University, then r e - University of Minnesota and the MinIS IMPORTANT turned to the University of Minnesota, nesota College of Law. He also attendTO US where she previously had been a stu- ed the College of St. Thomas, and has dent, for her Bachelor and Master d e - done graduate work at the University Returned copies of The Sphinx are grees. She was elected to member- of Minnesota. He was admitted to ship in Delta Kappa Gamma interna- practice before the U. S. Supreme very costly and cause a lot of extra work and time. Please send your cortional society of women teachers and is Court on motion made by Bro. Belford a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sor- V. Lawson who then was General Pres- rect change of address to the Editor ident of our fraternity. He was a mem- and General Secretary today. ority.

On her father's side, the bride is a ber of the Minnesota and Hennepin Whenever your address changes, we member of one of Minnesota's pioneer County Bar Associations, the American need to know about it. families; her mother, the late Mrs. Bar Association and a Life Member of Gladys James, was from the School of the National Bar Association. He was Thanks For Your Music of the University of Chicago and very active when in Minneapolis in civic, social, political and human relaCooperation widely traveled in Europe. She had been Assistant Librarian of the St. Paul tions fields. He has declined appointPublic Library. Her father, the late Ed- ment to national public office several

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THE SPHINX

PRESIDENT'S CONVENTION CALL DELIVERED AT THE NEW YORK CONVENTION the desire to reach our highest potenBrother Chairman, General Officers, tial - there in Alpha Phi Alpha is real- Brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha: For me, this moment is a distinct ly no limit to our productivity and adhonor. It is really a privilege to be vancement. Alpha's watchword in this "DECADE OF DECISION", therefore. able to call you, who sit before me, must be Alpha's education.

Brother!

Our founding Jewels established for For many years, I have cherished my membership in this oldest of Greek us, and for all mankind the unlimited letter organizations which is ALPHA possibilities which can be realized when PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, Incorpor- men desire to be creative.

In the American dream, education porated, and to finally stand here as your General President, even for a has always been the watchword, the short while more, - is a realization be- talisman, the open sesame to opportunity, - Education is what our founding yond my fondest dreams.

Our theme: "Alpha's Role in this fathers so revered - what Lincoln Decade of Decision" is a momentous gained by firelight, what Carver cand challenging one. In my opinion, chieved through experience - in fact, this decade has sounded a clarion call education is the living proof of the sacfor education and excellence. A call rifices made by one generation for the next. which Alpha must obey.

What shall we leave as Alpha's legAlfred North Whitehead has said, and I quote: "In the conditions of modern acy to the future? We all know that Jife, the rule is absolute, the race which changes of great magnitude, such as at does not value the trained intellect is no previous time, are taking place in doomed: Not all your heroism, not the American economy, and they are all your social charm, not all your having a forceful impact upon the life wit, not all your victories on land of every citizen, every business, and or at sea, can move back the fing- every institution and every organizaer of fate.

Tomorrow, science will tion in this Country. have moved forward yet one more We live in a hectic world of change. step, and there will be no appeal from Our generation has gone from Radio to the judgment which will then be pro- Television - from an earthbound race, nounced on the uneducated, and the to one in which men orbit the globe unprepared." from bombs that could destroy a block The most important capital which to BOMBS THAT CAN DESTROY any economy can possess in the skills MANKIND. The fact is - shrinking space has telof its people. Human talent and trained "know how", then, in a word - escoped and compressed the world's education is the greatest of all invest- melting pot of cultures, creeds, colors, and conditions of men into a pressure ment.

Our National leader - President Lyn- cooker. The revolution in the sciences don B. Johnson has said, and made the and technology of nature has given us one world physically - before the following - and I quote: "In a world that some times seems science and transformation of human vexed by change and wearied by doubt, nature has prepared us to live in this there is little need for the next-best, one world, intellectually and spirituthe almost completed, and the nearly ally.

As the Red Queen in "Alice in Wonas good! The noblest search of today is the search for excellence. In every derland" said: "Now you must run endeavor, there simply cannot be al- twice as fast to stand still!" lowed any lessening in this search. In In these changing times, we must run every challenge we face, the very best twice as fast to stand still, for we have we can do is the only thing we must inherited a series of revolutions. We do. have inherited a social revolution, an If we will exercise our minds and our educational revolution, a scientific r e imaginations, - if we will develop the volution - how else could you account desire to think, the desire to achieve, for the death of two men in Georgia

OCTOBER, 1964

By Bro. T. Winslon Cole

on mere suspicion. - the denial of two Bishops of a church the right to w o r ship in Mississippi, - the assassination of the President of the United States in Texas?

Today, the United States is in a position of leadership in a world which is in turmoil - and you and I, whether we like it or not, - are a part of that leadership and a part of that turmoil.

Yes, today our nation stands at the P'nnacle of world domination. Its contribution to mankind constitutes a staggering achievement. Its success in surmounting the age old obstacles of h u n g er, ignorance, poverty and disease is not excelled in history. Our record is one of ceaseless, driving progress which has run the entire gamut of h u m a n a c complishments - with one exception that of civil rights and human relations - and even in this area, barriers are falling, jobs are being created and man is viewing his fellowman with new perspective. This, too, is a part of out heritage - in this "DECADE OF DECISION." Let it not be said that the opportunity presented itself and Alpha Phi A l pha was "not prepared". To employ a Negro simply because he is a Negro - as a symbol of integration - is even now GONE WITH THE WIND. America is fast realizing that unless we are willing to yield un our destiny of greatness among the civilizations of history, all American citizens must be about this business of resolving the challenge we face. We must continue to break down barriers already t u m b ling with education and preparation we must advance the era of equal opportunity and equal employment - and we must insist on EDUCATION. As time goes on, my brothers, your opportunities and mine will be in direct proportion to our developed and disciplined abilities.

I should like to then submit the following as recommendations for the consideration of this Convention: FIRST - The reorganization of our beloved Fraternity so that we are not hampered by an archaic structure, but strengthened by the effectiveness of a vehicle which can really move forward.

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From The General Secretary's Desk BROTHER LAURENCE T. YOUNG

The 58th Anniversary Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated was concluded in a blaze of glory. It was truly the best General Convention held in the history of the Fraternity.

Credit should be given to the General Convention Chairman - Brother Aaron Brown, and his hard working co-Chairman - Brother Marvin N. Riley, along with the many Committees - and to the six host chapters whose co-operation made the convention a memorable one.

A News Letter has been released from National Headquarters giving in some detail the highlights of the Convention, the official minutes which are now in the hands of the printer, and will be distributed to the chapters and interested individuals within the next ten days, will bring the picture more into focus.

It is difficult to pick out at random things which would interest my good brothers, but I must mention a few: 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF "THE SPHINX" "Alpha - Endless Procession of Splendour" - the stylized Terpsichore and vivid, unified dramatization of the story of Alpha Phi Alpha, with emphasis on its official magazine "The Sphinx" was performed to an audience of greater than two thousand persons, delegates, - their families and invited guests on Sunday, August 16th, in the Grand Ball Room of the Commodore Hotel at eight o'clock P. M. It was just simply marvelous strictly on "Broadway production" time.

NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS: Midwestern Vice President, Bro. Billy Jones; Assistant M. W. Vice President, Bro. Robert L. Harris; Southern Vice President, Bro. W. Dewey Branch; Assistant Southern Vice President, Bro. Charles M. Johnson; Western Vice President, Bro. Oscar V. Little; Assistant Western Vice President, Bro. Paul N. Johnson; Assistant Eastern Vice President, Bro. E. Vincent Merry; Assistant S. W. Vice President, Bro. Rufus L. Caine, Jr.; General Treasurer, Bro. Leven C. Weiss.

SCHOLARSHIPS - FELLOWSHIPS: ,—«»*« . ,»• 19 Scholarships - Fellowships were awarded, valued at $10,000.00. A Specal Award of $500.00 to the Mississippi Summer Project - to the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee.

CONVENTION STATISTICS: , . _ Registered delegates and visiting Brothers 750; Chapters Represented 120; Rooms Reserved in Convention Hotel site 600; Attendance at Banquet 1,157.

APPROVED: , . . , _. . . . , J Report of Committee on Internal Structure, having emphasis on an introspective study of Alpha Phi Alpha by each chapter, and region, - culminating in new structure to be reported in 1965 at the Chicago Convention.

ADOPTED: A program of voluntary assistance to local efforts under the Anti Poverty Program.

Continuing support of the NAACP with special emphasis on voter-registration campaigns, Life Membership drives, and re-training programs under the Manpower Act. .

Public Policy statement, as to relevant issues of the day under headings: Civil Rights, Economic Opportunities, Citizenship Responsibility, Education, Housing and Public Relations, and Community Responsibility.

Copies of anv or all of these important documents may be had upon request. All such requests are to be addressed to the Office of General Secretary, 4432 South Parkway, Chicago 53, Illinois.

AWARDS - ACHIEVEMENTS: _ . „ ' , _ L nr™v.

Alpha Award of Merit: To Bro. Floyd Bixler McKissick, Atty, Civil Rights Leader, National U r n . , COKE Alpha Award of Honor: To John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Posthumously) Scholar, Humanitarian, 35th President of the United States; Outstanding Undergraduate: Bro. Flloyd Shepherd, Univ. of Akron, Akron, Ohio; Outsflftding undergraduate Chapter: Beta Kappa, - Langston University; Outstanding Graduate Chapter: Alpha 4eta Lambda, Bluefield, W. Va. OMFCA

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Bro. Cornell Osborne Cromer, Evanston, 111.; Bro. Clifford M. Prince, Pasadena, Calif.; Bro. Frank Alexander Walker, New York Coty, N. Y.; Bro. Wayne J. Hardy, New York City, N. Y. I do so wish space would permit me to go on, but more appears in News Letter and in Official Minutes.

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CONVENTION ECHOES This column has been "invited" to give the post convention echoes of the 58th Anniversary Convention which met in New York August 14 to 20 at the Hotel Commodore.

This type of reporting restricts the freedom of satire, anecdotes and the appellation of the column long known as Fraternity Fun. Whatever misgivings I have had from time to time about the effect and the receptivity of the column by the readers of The Sphinx have been dispelled by the many words of praise from those who greeted me at the Convention.

So as I report I will address my words to dear friends of Alpha whom I missed most. First of all is Brother Raymond W. Cannon, the first editor of the Sphinx.

We had a very fine Convention, we made history and we relived history. To chronicle the complete convention, assaying the contributions of the personalities that made up the conclave would preempt this entire issue. So I shall only give you echoes, Brother Cannon. The main feature, the central theme and the piece de resistance was the drama, entitled Alpha's Endless Procession of Splendor.

This feature alone showed us what an entreprenuer we have in our own editor, Bro. C. Anderson Davis. It was a drama historically informative and continuously entertaining. It could have been lifted bodily from the converted stage at \he Commodore ballroom and shown at the theatres and music halls in any location where there is an Alpha Chapter. It was a stupendous endeavor and artistically produced. If you can recall the early days of your life as a pharmacist send Brother Davis the formula for producing aspirin wholesale and tell him the best ulcer remedy for the toll, I am sure, the Golden Jubilee Edition exacted from him.

To my friend and old classmate which began in 1912 at Howard University. Brother Attorney Sydney P. Brown, refugee from Jackson, Mississippi in 1911 and author of the famous classic "House of Alpha," known by all Sphinxmen, I'll say, we missed you this year but hope to see you in Chicago at the 59th General Convention in 1965. We convened at the Hotel Commodore, a typical convention hotel but but we had to share our importance with two other conventions. One was the New York State Order of Odd Fellows (Nordic version) and they were indeed well

named. We also shared the elevators with as much p a tience as we could. I didn't mind too much the elevators transporting the heavy'traffic for twenty-two floors in a vertical traffic pattern but too many times it seemed that the elevators were travelling horizontally and were taking the people to their rooms.

The sessions were spirited and on schedule. An innovation of fraternal value is the insertion of many seminars which make the sacrifice of our usual summer conventions worthwhile. Yes, Brother Leroy Jeffries still had the most popular hospitality area sponsored by the Chrysler Empire and the Johnson Publications of Ebony, Tan, Negro Digest and Jet Magazines. My visit there at 2012 enabled me to join ex-prexy Hale in a toast to Soror Larzette Hale, newly elected head of Alpha Kappa Alpha.

That's love, folk! "Greater love hath no man than this."

- Yep, we toasted her again and again and again.

Cabaret Party? Omitted. Pan Hellenic Dance? I plaved hookey. I attended the Sphinx Jubilee Anniversary Luncheon. Everybody was in high spirits and r a r e form awaiting the arrival of our guest speaker, Senator Pierre Salinger. Mai Goode our first CBS staff member was more eloquent and spell binding in apologizing for Salinger's inability to effect transportation schedule than Salinger himself would have been in his address had he come. Belford the Great, commonly known as the suave Lawson lawyer beguiled us with some new Lawsonion oratorical rhetoric in his function as em cee. And Brother Earl Brown of the New York City government brought greetings from Mayor Wagner and some good advice. He

Representative of Mayor Wagner w e l c o m e s Alphas to N e w York

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Thanks For The Souvenirs

told of a New York tourist who sought a meal at one of the finest restaurants. The waiter suggested soup but the tourist said he didn't want any soup. At another Cafe after ordering his steak for which the Cafe was famous, the waiter advised him to select soup, that it was the featured menu item. The tourist rejected the advice although the waiter insisted that the soup was excellent, and had brought much gastronomic fame to the establishmen. Now irritated, the man said: "I-don't-care-for-soup-and-I-don't - w a n t - n o - X X soup. After a long sight-seeing walk he retired wearily to his hotel room and flung himself down on his bed to rest, leaving his door wide open. The occupant of the room next door became ill from over indulgence and had summoned the hotel medical forces. They

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rushed upstairs, entered the open door, hastily "positioned" the tourist and very promptly gave him a thorough enema.

Returning home he spoke of the wonders of New York, the great Metropolis, but warned that "if you ever go there, the first time they offer you soup; take it!"

The banquet" Lucullus in all his glory never a p proached such culinary satiety. History is replete with abbreviated cognomen of men who became famous and men who became infamous. Alpha has personalities to whom I can ascribe appropriate appelations. Even the shallovvist history scholar remembers: Eric the Red, Peter the Great, Philip the Great, Frederick the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Cato the Younger, Alexander Dumas. Pere and Alexander Dumas. Fils, yet the Alpha banquet produced

the squads stood before him, he yelled: "all men without hold up your hands." Another summary order like Brother Riley's was given by a salesman who went to his assignment in a Pullman coach and found it occupied by two young beautiful girls. He looked at his Pullman car ticket stub and said: "Girls, there must be some mistake, this is my berth and one of you girls must get out."

What about my historical personalities comparison'' Suppose we select Frank Ellis as Peter the Great, Brother Sidney Jones, Jr. as Cato the Younger, Brother Walter Holland and his son Walter, Jr. as the erudite Alexander Dumas. Pere and Alexander Dumas, Fils respectively. We selected Life Member, Brother Dr. Lawrence Lackey of Detroit as Ivan The Terrible because of the legislative

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Bro. Judge Thurgood Marshall thanks convention for SI,000 donation to the J. F. Kennedy Memorial Library. The Alpha Award of Honor was oiven posthumously to President Kennedy.

Bro. L. W. Jeffries (center) chats about convenEbony Courtesy tion Suite

Bro. Malvin Goode congratulates Bro. C. Anderson Davis for a great Sphinx Golden Jubilee.

historical counterparts. We had Bill, the Brown, barrister, is em cee. (I am awaiting permission from Brother Martin Luther King to repeat Brother Brown's opening anecdote).

Brother Judge Marshall, the Thurgood received a $1,000 Kennedy Library donation check from Brother Prexy T. "Winsome" Cole. A most Talliferous Harris, chairman of Awards, did his duty with his characteristic dignitv. Brother Lionel, the Newsome prexy spoke very proudly of his mother's prescience when she predicted his present eminence at a time when Alpha, to his childhood mind, was onlv a biblical verse "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: the Rose of Sharon." Very poignantly he sooke of his family, his children and his wife who shared with him the great pride in being what he knew he would one day be; the president of Alpha Phi Alpha.

Without any pretense at histrionics, he said: "I love her very much and I miss her at this great moment in my life."

Brother T. Winston Cole's farewell address on "Inner Securitv. Lost or Found" will beguile you more in the reading of it than in my mentioning it. I could not do justice to it. He introduced his lovely wife and talented children who were present at the banquet. He spoke of his son, Tom Cole, Jr. who had just taken unto himself a new wife. Brother Cole used the expression a "new wife" and some wag sitting near me (evidently someone in the automobile business) said: sotto voce "I give him credit for not taking under himself a "used" wife."

Brother Dr. Charles H. Wesley deviated from his historical bent and inducted the new officers with an architectural thesis on "Temple Building".

Several incidents occuring during the banquet brought out the humor in me. Brother Marvin Riley, convention Host Secretary, admonished the banqueting brothers to have their banquet tickets ready so the waiters could collect them when they were served. He souted: "men without tickets, leave the room." That reminded me of an army sargeant drilling recruits during World War II. As

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Bro. L. H. Stanton congratulates Bro. Wyall T. Walker, former Executive Director of Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Bros. Davis and A. Maceo Smith present copies of the Golden Jubilee Record Album and magazine to Mrs. Robert H. Ogle, wife of the late Jewel Ogle.

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Brother John W. B o w e n Reports on Seminars

Brother John Buckner, Convention Secretary

scare he precipitated at one seemingly benign session. For the record I believe the best impression made upon the convention by an undergraduate was made by Brother Nolan N. Atkinson. Assistant Eastern Vice President, a Frank Morris protege. The most ubiquitous, peregrinating, ingratiating personality was Brother "Heine" Crawford with his photographic recordings. The most revered and hondred was Jewel Henry A. Callis.

The most surprised and frustrated brothers were those voracious souvenir collectors who elbowed the ladies out of the way in their rush to the ballroom entrance for banquet souvenirs. They got one, two and some three boxes of Mx Dxss.

The most treasured information was that Brother Dr. Charles Garvin of Cleveland ended an address in 1914 with this peroration, "It is not what Alpha Phi Alpha can do for you but what you can do for Alpha." Doesn't that sound familiar to you?

Brilliant repartee by Brother Teemer, deputy assistant to Governor Peabody of Massachusetts in Amarillo Texas at a Holliday Inn Steak House when service was slow and evasive and the manager asked him: "Who recommended our establishment to you? The instant reply was, "the 88th Congress of the United States."

Most lonesome and compassionate - Bro. Assemblyman Byron Rumford without wife, Elsie.

Mrs. Herman Carter of Washington, D. C. - "Lucky is he who can love his enemies as well as his friends."

Brother Attorney Herman Carter - He's luckier if he can tell them apart. Lapsus linguae by Brother Vernon Forshee of Muskogee, Oklahoma reading the report of Resolution Committee - "That the Executive Council give further consideration of a New Administrative officer

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Bro. M. G. Ferguson Outgoing Treasurer, T h a n k s Bros.

For Cooperation

Bros. Davis, Sissle, Mr. Perry Watkins, report on Sphinx Drama

Brother James Huger Reports

(Field Secretary) - with a salary "commenstrate" (commensurate) as it relates to his responsibilities."

(Columnist note - Monthly payments, eh?)

Brother editor Davis, this only scratches the plioform surface of the convention of the satirical aspect seen in the eyes of a humorist. Time, space, bedtime and literary propriety admonishes and prevents further disclosures. I didn't even mention the California luminaries, philosophical Grandvel Jackson and millionaire bank president E. H. Ballard; the pudgy competent college administrator, J i m mie Huger, the cool Wayne Chandler, the fiery Gus Ridgel, the indefatigable Allan Durrant, the efficient John Buckner, or Brother Charles W. Turnbull, P. O. Box 2265 St. Thomas, Virgin Island who asked me to autograph the Convention Program. When asked what he would do with it, he replied, "Show it to the virgins back home."

You can't prevent me from remembering that gem of a secretary, Mrs. Turner, of the Sphinx Office Staff.

Impossible to forget - the concentrated course in heart massage by chest sternum pressure and the improved mouth to mouth resuscitation conducted in room 20xx by the "Palmyra Nurses."

Tis exactly 2:27 A. M. now, Long past bedtime and past Sphinx deadline and I leave you with this toast: Here's to you as good as you are Here's to me as bad as I am As good as you are And as bad as I am I'm as good as you are As bad as I am.

Thanks for listening!

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Historians tell us that in May, 1865, the Grand Army of the Republic held its last review in Washington, D. C. before its members were mustered out of service.

For two days the sun burned, battle tested veterans of the Union Army, marched past the reviewing stands.

Their tattered flags called to the minds of spectators memories of Bull Run, Shiloh, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, Gettysburg, and Appamatox. One Union officer remarked after the review, "It was worth ten years of a man's life to say, 'I was there'."

Those who witnessed and shared in the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Sphinx at the New York Convention will, for a long time, be grateful that we were at this convention.

Beginning with the Endless Procession of Splendor, the spirit and dreams of our fraternity were dramatized with consumate skill and imagination.

The initial program on Sunday night - Alpha, The Endless Procession of Splendor, was an excellent dramatic presentation in song, dance, music and the spoken word, of not only the history of the fraternity, but of the struggle of black men for freedom from the days of ancient Egypt to the present.

It was a professional job - it was in excellent taste, it was fast moving yet serious, and it was entertaining. The

Sphinx Panel and Forum participants: L-R: Brothers Frank W. Morris, James Robinson, C. Anderson Davis. Randall Maxey. Henry A. Callis, Eddie L. Madison (not shown). T h e title of the Forum was: "Communication - Excellence . . . Key To Equality".

S. R. O. audience in the Grand Ballroom of the Commodore Hotel gave those responsible for the pageant a standing ovation The Panel and Forum Monday, under the chairmanship of the Editor of the Sphinx, brought four brothers to lift up the importance of communication and excellence as they related to efforts for full equality. Each of them spoke not just theoritically but from practical experience in their respective fields on this emphasis. As so often happens there was insufficient time for them to speak in depth about this emphasis. The

Above Left: Bro. Malvin Goode speaks at Sphinx Luncheon honoring our undergraduate brothers. A b o v e Right: Bro. Robert L. Harris delivers the undergraduate a d d r e u at luncheon.

Persons responsible for producing and staging the Sphinx Drama: Alpha - Endless Procession of Splendor. L-R: Ves Harper, Costume Designer; Frank Gaskin Fields, Music Composer; S. Carroll Buchanan, Choral Director; William Allen Bairn, Adapted script for stage; Perry Watkins, Producer and Technical Director; Miss Cynthia Sissle, Stage Manager; Brother C. Anderson Davis, Author; Marvin Gordon, Director and Choreographer; Benjamin F. Jones, Personnel Manager, and Bro. Noble Sissle, E x e c u t i v e Producer.

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program was too important to be limited to about an hour.

The Golden Jubilee Luncheon was designed to give recognition to the struggles of the Negro scholar and to emphasize the importance of excellence.

An undergraduate statement was made

by Bro. Robert L. Harris. Unfortunately, the featured speaker, Senator Pierre Salinger, of California, failed to appear, nor apparently did he send any message indicating that he could not fill this commitment. Brothers Belford Lawson and Malvin Goode filled in with their own inimitable oratory.

The committee also produced a Gold-

Brothers w h o h a v e b e e n Alpha m e n for 50 years or more were honored at When the Sphinx birthday cake w a s cut it was served to these honored brothers.

eluded an exhibit at the convention of early issues of the Sphinx and other memorabilia, and the Golden Jubilee Edition of the Sphinx which was mailed to all financial brothers in July. This 120 page edition is a really magnificient job - one which every brother has found to be an item he will wish to refer to through the years.

Too much praise cannot be given to the Sphinx Golden Jubilee Committee, headed by the Editor of the Sphinx.

The work of the committee has shown

LEFT: Golden Jubilee Edition of The Sphinx.

RIGHT: Bro. Earl Brown gives greetings o n behalf of the Mayor and city at luncheon.

foresight, imagination, thoroughness, and follow-through. The mountainous detailed work which has gone into the efforts of the committee are truly staggering. The Fraternity owes the committee, and especially Editor C. Anderson Davis, a great debt of gratitude.

Those of us who witnessed-the Golden Celebration of the Sphinx will always be grateful that we were there.

Sphinx Golden Jubilee Record Album

en Jubilee L. P. record album as a part of the celebration.,It contains a group singing the Alpha Hymn, and sweetheart and pep songs. Those who heard the splendid music on the Endless P r o cession of Splendor, were delighted that the record also contains much of the special music written for the drama, and a short narrative telling about the Fraternity.

Undergraduate chapters will find this record especially helpful for their rush parties.

Other features of the celebration in-

luncheon.

Bro. Warren r e v i e w s Golden Jubilee Edition of Sphinx in front of part of the Sphinx Exhibit.

MARTIN L. HARVEY is Dean of Students at Southern University, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

He is a member of Beta Iota Lambda Chapter and is a life member of the Fraternity .

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Sphinx Colden Jubilee Luncheon Honoring Our Undergraduates

OCTOBER, 1964

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Editorially Speaking THE SPHINX GOLDEN JUBILEE Fifty-eight years have passed since the organization of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Many things have taken place since that time within and without the fraternity. The nation has progressed materially as well as in its attitude toward putting into practice t h e principles of true democracy. The nations of the world have moved forward and many of the nations of Africa, which were under colonial domination and economic slavery, have won their freedom and have set up governments of their own.

Q. Who is the only living Jewel of Alpha?

A. Bro. Henry A. Callis, 2306 East Street, N. E., Washington, D. C. Q. When and where was the fiftieth anniversary convention held?

A. August 7-11, 1956, Buffalo, N. Y., with headquarters at Hotel Statler. There was a pilgrimage to Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., the birthplace of Alpha Phi Alpha, Saturday, August 11. A Memorial Luncheon was held at the Statler Inn. Q. Who was General President at the time of the anniversary?

A. Bro. Frank L. Stanley, Sr., editor of the Louisville Defender, Louisville, Ky. Q. When was the national headquarters purchased and who was General President at the time?

A. July 6, 1954. Bro. A. Maceo Smith, Dallas, Texas, was General President.

Q. When was the first edition of the history of Alpha Phi Alpha published?

A. It was published in 1929, edited

by Bro. Charles H. Wesley, who was then and is now our fraternity historian. He is now president of Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio.

Q. When and where ivas the first national convention of Alpha held?

A. Howard University, December 28-30, 1908. Bro. M. A. Morrison was elected first General President.

Q. Where may Alpha pins and other materials be purchased' A. National Headquarters, 4 4 3 2 South Parkway, Chicago, 111.

Q. Where may The Sphinx Golde?i Jubilee Record Album be purchased?

A. National Headquarters. $4.00.

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Our fraternity has grown from a small group of students to one of the nations most outstanding organizations of college men. It has given aid to thousands of deserving students and has added dignity and new hope to the lives of countless numbers.

It was very fitting and proper that we should celebrate the Golden Jubilee of The Sphinx, official magazine of Alpha, and lift up the role that it has played in the progress of our fraternity. The celebration was a grand success in spite of the many barriers that were set in its way. Men of Alpha can be justly proud of the history and the role of The Sphinx over the past fifty years for it has been a bright and shining light in the path of this great organization.

Anniversaries mean very little unless they serve as a stepping stone and a new fresh incentive for the future.

The celebration was a great promotional and inspirational activity and should give new impetus to a functional and modern program and t h e sincere practice of t h e great ideals of Alpha.

We have received numerous compliments from our fraternity brothers and friends relative to the Sphinx Golden Jubilee, partucularly about the Golden Jubilee edition of The Sphinx, the drama; Alpha - Endless Procession of Splendor, and the record album. I wish to take this means of thanking all of you for these kind words and expressions which I believe came from sincere hearts. Again, w e offer our thanks to all of those who helped to make the anniversary possible.

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT Those who decry the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on the Goldwater grounds that discrimination cannot be legislated out of existence are begging the question. We make no such claim for this law no more than we would make a similar claim for laws against murder, thievery, rape, etc. These laws give society a framework for action against such evils.

The greatest tragedy of modern American life is that the Negro has been excluded from the duties as well as the rewards of citizenship. And this has been done with the sanction, too often, of the law and the courts. In the South there was an accepted feeling expressed in these words: "We know what is best for the Negro. "In the North the Negro was ignored and simply left out of the main stream of society while being forced to live in ghettos stricken with poverty.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 puts the United States on record to the effect that discrimination and segregation practices because of race, creed or nationality are illegal and sets up machinery to punish those who persist in them. The law cannot force anyone to love the Negro but it can regulate how h e demonstrates his dislike. We encourage Negroes everywhere to study the law and to use all of the resources at hand to see that it is enforced.

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WHAT ARE OUR RIGHTS? In spite of all of the faults of the United States, it is still the best nation on earth in which to live. It offers the greatest opportunity to its citizens that any form of government yet known has to offer. Every citizen has certain rights that cannot be taken away, even by the courts. It is hard to appreciate the system of government under which we I've without taking a close look at the various forms of governments and systems, past and present, and then comparing them with "America the Beautiful." We may criticize the President, the courts and even our constitution. Any person may run for office (eventhough his chances of election may be zero), and any person may rise as high as his inward and outward capacities permit - what a nation! This may seem idealistic, but it is true. Certainly, there are factors that may deter the fulfillment of our hallowed ideals, but he who is fit to endure to the end shall see the glory of his noble ambition, if not in one capacity then in another.

Let me hasten to say that one does not have to hold a great office or a position of high salary nor a place of great public acclaim in order to reach the highest ideals of our nation. Our glory is not in t h e heights to which we climb but rather the depths from which w e ascend. If one reaches the highest level of which he is capable, or does the best that is within one to do, or fulfills the dut'es of a servant in the highest sense of dedicated service, or strives for excellence in all things through honest endeavor, then one has arrived in our society.

An outstanding senator once cried out on the hallowed halls of Congress, "If the Negro is not satisfied with the American way of life, then let him go elsewhere." What this gentleman did not realize is the fact that the very foundation of our democracy is based on the right to protest. One has the right to go or to stay, to like or dislike - this is America.

The Declaration of Independence speaks of unalienable rights, rights that cannot be given nor taken which are endowed by our Creator.

The first ten of the twenty-three amendments to our Constitution are labeled "The Bill of Rights". Under our system of government, one does not have to appeal to a dictator or beg for mercy at the feet of some monarch in order to enjoy these Rights. Thy must be protected by the government which is responsible to the people. No one by birth nor by election has a "divine right" to tread upon the rights of another. The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments might be placed in a class of a second Bill of Rights, for they too guarantee certain rights that are essential to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

These are rights guaranteed to all American citizens, yes, responsible citizens, for without responsibility in the full sense of the word and the will to be free, one cannot enjoy the full measure of these rights nor respect the right of others to enjoy them.

May our Creator give us the vision to appreciate these rights and the good sense to want them for everyone else. God bless America and keep her forever free free from herself and free from others.

OCTOBER, 1964

fiaa/zd "Mary McLeod Bethune'' a biography by Rackham Holt. Doubleday & Company. Inc.. Garden City. New York, 306 pages, $4.95.

"I would not change whatever I am for any other that I have seen."

These are the words of Mary McLeod Bethune, a great woman who devoted her life to improving the social and educational position of her fellow Negroes - particularly Negro youth - and who is the subject of a biography by Rackham Holt, the author of the biography "George Washington Carver".

"Mary McLeod Bethune" is the story of a Negro woman, who was born on a small farm in South Carolina shortly after the Civil War but who grew up to represent the United States Government at such events as the United Nations Charter Conference in San Francisco in 1945 and the second inaugural of President Tubman of Liberia.

Her parents, although uneducated former slaves, realized early that Mary Jane, the 15th of their 17 children, was different and wanted her to receive an education. Starting at a new Presbyterian school for Freedmen, Mary Jane went on, with the help of a charitable Denver school teacher, to receive a higher education.

Wanting to help other Negro girls, Mrs. Bethune founded a small girls' school in Florida that grew, under her guidance, into co-educational Bethune-Cookman College. She also worked for two decades on behalf of the National Council of Negro Women, which she founded in 1935, and was appointed by President Roosevelt to the National Youth Administration as Director of the Division of Negro Affairs. Mrs. Bethune, who died in 1955, was the recipient of eleven honorary degrees and six medals and decorations.

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FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN VICE PRESIDENT Greetings - Brothers in the Southwestern Region: You are aware, I am sure, that the statement, "Ask not what Alpha can do for you, but what you can do for Alpha," was made more than fifty years ago by Brother Charles H. Garvin while he was General President. The statement has greater significance today than ever before. Perhaps it can serve as a guide for men of Alpha during the decade of decision. How? Let me suggest the following ways that chapters - yes, and individual

Bro. Robert Harris, Jr.

Etlk FROM THE ASSISTANT MIDWESTERN VICE PRESIDENT Brothers of the Midwestern region I take this opportunity to thank you for the confidence which you have shown in selecting me to be your assistant midwestern vice president. It is with

Bro. W. D e w e y Branch

FROM THE SOUTHERN VICE PRESIDENT Now that the fanfare and glamour of our recent national convention is beginning to wane, one finds himself assessing the many variables of our historic and dramatic fraternity.

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brothers - "can do for Alpha," First, brothers - "can do for Alpha." First, let us develop a program of rededication to the precepts and ideals of the F r a ternity. Those of us who attended the 59th General Convention in New York City and listened to the wisdom of Jewel Callis, the philosophy of Brother Wesley, the lessons from the drama Alpha - Endless Procession of Splendor gained new insight, enthusiasm, courage, a feeling of achievement; a r e dedication. We enjoyed the spirit of b r o t h e r h o o d and rejoiced at the achievements of brothers whose devotion to Alpha began more than forty years ago. Can this feeling of purpose, of accomplishment and service, be translated into an activity program for our chapter?

Second, we can develop workable programs of reclamation. The records show that only one out of four brothers initiated into the Fraternity is active today. Why are brothers inactive? Are we - the financial ones - guilty? Do

w e invite these brothers to our meetings, encourage them to become active, utilize their talents, plan programs which will capture and hold their interest, keep dues reasonable, and develop a genuine feeling of brotherhood within the chapter. A critical evaluation of chapter activities may be in order.

Third, if we are to be successful in developing programs of rededication and reclamation, more effective communication and a greater desire to achieve excellence are essentials. Each of us can contact, either personally or by letter, inactive brothers and can demonstrate by outstanding achievement that the precepts and ideals of the Fraternity - "Manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind" - still live in our hearts and are practiced in our daily lives. This, it seems to me, is our task; our challenge.

"Ask not what Alpha can do for you, but what you can do for Alpha." What about it Brothers in the Southwest?

honor and pride that I embark upon the task of representing the greatest region in the fraternity.

School has just started and, like all college students at the beginning of the semester, we are abounding with energy. My brothers, now is the time in which we set the foundation in our respective college courses. Now is the time that we set the pattern to either be A or B students (for no man in Alpha settles for a C ) . Likewise, now should be the time that we set the foundation for our chapters and should start setting the pattern for a strong and fruitful year ahead.

Let us contact every brother on our

campus and in our vicinity and make sure that they become financial. Let us reassess our pledge and chapter programs and assure their success through strength and practicality. Today, we must act for tomorrow or we will find ourselves faced with a newsemester and the same problems growing to greater magnitude.

Plans for the coming year have already been formulated and sent to the various chapters. If your chapter did not receive correspondence from this office, please write immediately to Robert Harris, Jr., Assistant Midwestern Vice President, 1321 S. Avers Ave., Chicago 23, 111. 60623.

For those who witnessed the "Extravaganza" depicting Alphas' glorious history, while attending the convention; it is understood if they sat starry eyed and proud to be part of such a fabulous and yet such a human organization. Truly, '(first of all, servants of all, we shall transcend all." Our hat is off to Bro. C. Anderson Davis and his Committee for holding the "name" high . . . Alpha Transcendent Art Thou.

The Southern region is anticipating a great year in continuing the program set by the late Bro. W. W. Whetstone and Bro. Walter Washington. There is much to be done in two very critical areas, namely (1) reclamation (2) Under-graduate affairs. These two areas

of concern will obtain priority treatment in our region. However, our program does not end here, for it has many tenets that we expect to approach and systematically attack. Our state meetings will begin in early October and continue until we will have touched each state within the region. We shall have a tremendous climax of our years activities when we meet in the Space "mecca" of the World-Huntsville, Alabama, on Easter weekend. We are planning, with the brothers in Huntsville, to have representatives from each graduate and under-graduate chapter in the Southern region. With these things in mind we should remember the words "let us continue."

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FROM THE ASSISTANT SOUTHWESTERN VICE PRESIDENT

quires very hard work. One also r e alizes that the life's blood of our fraternity is in our undergraduates like you once were. We need your support, experience and patience for we too are striving for bigger attainments which seem far away at times and there is an urge to hasten our steps.

With all great organizations there are great points and points to be improved on. Our communications must be improved and this requires a joint effort by all. One person alone can't and won't keep it going but as Alpha

men with determination this improvement will be a reality and not a dream.

Reorganization is also needed in such fields as chapter programs, houses, scholarships and participation in r e gional conventions.

We can continue to maintain our leadership with the guidance and advice from our Southwestern Vice President, Bro. Jacob T. Stewart. There appears to be a special concern for undergraduates problems.

So, watch the southwestern regional for a stronger role in Alpha Greatness.

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES This is a summary of a selected part of the most recent Annual Report of the Director of Educational Activities.

This Report was presented to the FiftyNinth Anniversary Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August, 1965.

(Erroneous, you say? Not at all..

Perplexing? Perhaps. Confusing? Not necessarily. Bear with me, won't you?

Read on).

Pursuant to the pledge by the FiftyEighth Anniversary Convention last year in New York City - without a dissenting voice - we have actively supported the national War on Poverty.

The Educational Foundation, you perhaps recall, was charged with the r e sponsibility of implementing our decision to participate in the War on Poverty. To this end, we carefully planned, organized and directed a program, which, we have reason to believe, made a significant contribution to the War on Poverty. That program, we are pleased to note, not only received widespread support from Brothers and Chapters

throughout the Nation, it was they who made the effort the significant success that it was.

Because it may have helpful implications in the organization and prosecution of other service programs, the preliminaries and procedures involved in our efforts in the War on Poverty are outlined below.

1. We studied the provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 under which the War on Poverty is being carried out.

2. We received, collated, and classified questionnaire responses from Brothers and Chapters regarding the nature of the services and resources they were prepared to volunteer for the War on Poverty.

3. We contacted the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and offered, in the name of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., certain specific services and resources in support of the War on Poverty.

4. Upon the acceptance of our offer and in accordance with the indicated needs in that acceptance, we facilitated direct contacts between the Office of Economic Opportunity, including certain of its constituent agencies, and the Brothers and Chapters committed to provide specific services and resources.

5. Once this program of support was launched, the Educational Foundation maintained, through the Office of the Director of Educational Activities, continuing contacts with the Office of Ec-

onomic Opportunity and the Brothers and Chapters directly involved in the War on Poverty; kept records of the reported activities of these Brothers and Chapters; promoted, coordinated, and facilitated these activities when called upon to do so; and continually sought to enlarge and enrich the services and resources of this total effort.

Such, in summary and up to this point, is the nature of Alpha Phi Alpha's direct involvement in the War on Poverty. Or - now to move from the level of projection or anticipation such will be our contribution if . . .

If Brothers and Chapters respond promptly and fully to the relevant inquiries of the Director of Educational Activities. If Brothers and Chapters volunteer and provide whatever needed services and resources in the War on Poverty they may have. If Brothers and Chapters encourage other Brothers and Chapters to redeem Alpha's pledge to support the War on Poverty.

Finally, the "premature" Annual Report of the Director of Educational Activities to the Fifty-Ninth Anniversary Convention set forth above can become a reality only if the above "iffy" conditions are met.

Quite clearly - and admittedly - the responsibility for implementing this program rests directly upon the Educational Foundation. But lets face it, Brothers, without your full cooperation "our battle" in the War on Poverty cannot be won.

PRESIDENT'S CONVENTION CALL (Continued from page 9) Our committee on Internal Structure is working diligently with this aspect of our program and your interest and your support will be of inestimable v a l u e in making this planning a REALITY. SECOND - More effective under-

graduate program and participation. A new source of information and inspiration is needed for the cooperative effort of graduate and undergraduate brothers - merging the enthusiasm of the young with the wisdom of the old forging from this union, the stuff out of which greatness is made - YOUTH, INSIGHT, MATURITY, VISION. Our

Committee on Graduate and Undergraduate development has accepted this major responsibility, and that committee is already shaping a proposal to present to this Convention - a proposal which needs your help for its fulfillment, and a program which, - with your guidance will assure for the fab(Continued on page 22)

Bro. Rufus L. Caine, J r .

With your confidence in me, the office that I'm assuming is accepted with a continuing belief in Alpha. I am accepting a challenge to succeed, along with you, by continuing to be a leader, continuing for higher scholarship, continuing for manly deeds, and love for all mankind.

One does not have to think twice before realizing that to be a leader re-

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Oscar Ritchie

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MUSING WITH THE POETS ODE TO

ALPHA

A man rode a wooden horse long ago In a town called "Jerusalem" Its gait was slow And its body strong Women gathered in their sarongs To see the warrior as he passed them by Alpha was first Very first His name was

CHRIST! — Lionel Greene Ranger

BOLD

HEART

ADMIRE THE SILENT

Day follows the dawn, which followed the night before, which succeeded the previous day; do you dare to question the things that to you are owed to ask candidly who are we to make the revolutionary suggestion That the heart may be made bold.

Why do tears of sadness fill your eyes? the darkness is rent with subtle cries a louder noise shall fill the air into which you now so blankly stare and sCon, very soon courage fills the breast Wherein innate fear now meekly rests That the heart may be made bold.

Admire the silent Sphinx Who neither hieraco nor crio grew But rose andro. methinks, From brawn of Ethiopian crew.

With negro noble frozen face Eastward - hard and enduring; To gaze silently is also grace When the vista is admonishing.

Foregoing then powers of speech, A wise one, he has known: Silence has power to teach As certain apes have shown.

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A L P H A PHI A L P H A FRATERNITY, INC. Directory For The Year 1964-65 JEWEL MENRY A. CALLIS. 2306 E Slreet. N. E., Washington. D. C. OFFICERS General President - Bro. T. Winston Cole ._ __.

Wiley College. Marshall, Texas General President-Elect - Bro. Lionel H. Newsom Barbaca-Scotia College, Concord, N. C. General Secretary - Bro. Laurence T.. Young . 4432 South Parkway, Chicago, 111.

Editor - "The Sphinx" - Bro. C. Anderson Davis , Box 1420, Bluefield, W. Va. General Treasurer - Bro. Leven C. Weiss _ - 2920 Kendall, Detroit. Michigan General Counsel - Bro. James H. McGee 1526 W. 3rd St., Dayton, Ohio Pir of Educ. Activities - Bro. Oscar W. Ritchie 4778 Lakewood Road, Ravenna, Ohio VICE PRESIDENTS Eastern - Bro. Frank W. Morris, Jr. _ _ 11 Wayne St., Dorchester, Mass.

Midwestern - Bro. Billy Jones _ 342A Broadway, East St., St. Louis. 111.

Southern - Bro. W. Dewey Branch 2801 - 14th Ave., North, Bessemer, Ala. Southwestern - Bro. Jacob T. Stewart _ P. O. Box 365, Grambling, La. Western - Bro. Oscar V. Little - — — 5835 Ernest Ave.. Los Angeles, Calif.

ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENTS Eastern - Bro. E. Vincent Merry _ Midwestern - Bro. Robert L. Harris, Jr 1321 South Avers Ave.. Chicago 23, 111.

Southern - Bro. Chas. M. Johnson Rm 203, Smith Hall, J. C. Smith Univ:, Charlotte, N: C: Southwestern - Bro. Rufus Caine, Jr. Arkansas A N & M College, Pine Bluff, Ark. Western - Bro. Paul N. Johnson _ _ _ STANDING COMMITTEES Budget and Finance - Bro. Kermit J. Hall 100 Fairview Ave., Yeadon, Penna.

Election - Bro. LeRoy Patrick 233 Mayflower St.. Pittsburgh. Penna.

Standards and Extension - Bro. Edward T. Addison 2217 - 10th Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Housing - Bro. William M. Alexander J 4772 Washington St., St. Louis, Mo: Historical Commission - Bro. Charles H. Wesley ._ Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio

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CONVENTION CALL (Continued from page 21) ric, which is ALPHA P H I ALPHA FRATERNITY, Incorporated - PERMANENCE, SECURITY, and even GREATER INSPIRATION AND LOVE FOR ALL MANKIND. THIRD - Dedicated and educated leadership. We need to develop an acceptance of the time in which we live - this "DECADE OF DECISION." We shall do this, I hope, through our Seminars - giving ALPHA MEN, yes. - but MORE SIGNIFICANTLY TO ALL MEN, a glimpse of the really great issues of our time, - an International and National awareness, a realization of what Man Is in his involvement with other men, in the total life of this Nation.

We have some of our best brains at work here these six days - and we will be derelict in our duty if we fail to capture their mental alertness of the present - and their cherished dreams and recommendations for the future.

If you, as a Fraternity - forget or d e stroy all else of the Presidential tenure which you have allotted to me to serve as your national leader, - hold fast always, I implore you, to this unprecedented contribution to the world and programs of Greek letter organizations and NEVER - NEVER relinquish these SEMINARS as an integral part of the program of Alpha, - for I submit that in my humble opinion, these and such programs will become the "Open Sesame" to understanding and greater intelligence in the national.program of Alpha Phi Alpha in the United States.

For, in the final analysis, - the ultimate purpose of man is not merely to fly from Chicago to London in seven hours. The great goal of free men is not simply to create a self-satisfied culture of comfort, leisure and fun.

The lasting achievement of mankind is not even the size of its fall-out shelters. or the destructiveness of its bombs.

THE FINAL MEASURE OF GREATNESS, - OF CHARACTER - and of ACHIEVEMENT is whether YOU and I, by our individual lives, - HAVE INCREASED THE FREEDOM OF MAN, - HAVE ENHANCED HIS DIGNITY, and HAVE BROUGHT HIM NEARER TO THE NOBILITY OF THE DIVINE IMAGE IN WHICH HE IS CREATED, - remembering, each in his own way.

Henry David Thoreau's admonition: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions — Let him step to the cadence which he hears - Perhaps his is a distant drummer."

These three objectives, then, I leave (Continued on page 34)

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BROTHERS OF NU ARE ON THE MOVE

by Bro. Ronald E. Butler

Inierfraternal Committee composed of brothers from Psi. Delta Pi. Nu. Rho. and Zeta Omicron Lambda Chapter!, Philadelphia, Pa., with Bros. E. Frederic Morrow and Frank Morris.

ZETA OMICRON LAMBDA

by Bro. James W. Hewitt The brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha in the Philadelphia areas c e l e b r a t e d Founders' Day, J a n u a r y 24, 1964, at their fourth Annual Banquet. The banquet was sponsored by the IntraFraternal Committee composed of brothers from Psi, Delta Pi, Nu, Rho and Zeta Omicron Lambda Chapters.

The guest speaker was Bro. E. Frederick Morrow, Vice-President of African-American Institute and author of "Black Man In The White House". Bro. Morrow's address was tremendously inspiring as well as informative.

Awards were presented to an outstanding undergraduate and graduate brother. Melvin Garner, Psi, past Assistant Eastern Vice President was the recipient of the undergraduate award.

Bro. Garner is also a member of the Etta Kappa Nu, National Honorary Fraternity of electrical engineers.

The graduate award was presented to Bro. Thomas Georges, Sr. of Rho Chapter. Bro. Georges has been a member of the fraternity since 1919, when he was initiated at Beta Chapter.

In 1922, he transferred to Rho and has been active in Rho for forty-two years.

He is presently in charge of the tuberculosis department at Mercy Douglas Hospital, a staff member at Mercy Douglas Hospital, a member of the National College of Chest Physicians. He has served in the Public Health Department for twenty-five years. He operated one of the first medical clinics in Philadelphia and is presently in charge of the Columbia Medical Clinic.

He is a member of the Board of the Philadelphia NAACP Branch, and the Christian Street "Y". He also has served as vice president of the local NAACP. He has been active in church work and has been awarded the Afro Church Award. He was awarded a medal by our late President John F. K-annedy for twenty-five years service at the local draft board. Bro. Georges is married and has two children who have both distinguished themselves in the medical profession.

ETA RHO LAMBDA CHAPTER

by Bro. Treadwell O. Phillips Greetings from the graduate chapter in Rochester, New York. After a slow start this year, we are now making great progress in fulfilling our obligations to the community, as is expected of "Alpha Men". Our chapter has r e cently participated in sponsoring a very successful tea, honoring three of the Negro leaders in our community. One of the honorees, Stanley J. Thomas, is a very active member of our chapter and is proving to be an inspiration to the youth of our city.

Our chapter is working very hard

to develop practical means to reach the youth in our community, and to inspire them to reach for definite goals in their lives. To accomplish this, we are conducting regular meetings in the neighborhood settlement houses with the youth, at which time they are given an opportunity to converse and discuss their problems with successful Alpha men.

During the month of May, 1964, we are planning a large dance in one of the large hotels in the City. We expect a capacity crowd, and sincerely feel that this event will be a credit to the name of Alpha Phi Alpha.

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The banquet was attended by eigthytwo brothers including the Eastern Vice President and the Assistant Eastern Vice President.

The brothers of Nu, Lincoln University, Pa., are proud not only of the brothers who have gone forth into the world, but of those who are presently active in the chapter.

Bro. Noble Thompson, who was accepted into medical school, was the past president of the Student Government Association and was president ot the Glee Club for two years. He is a dean's list student, and has received numerous awards for excellence in scholastic ability.

Bro. Egbert Addison, who has been elected president of the Student Government Association for the school year 1964-65, has displayed enormous leadership ability, and has served as president of his sophomore and junior classes, and of the Human Relations Club.

He has also been a member of both the wrestling team and the track team for three years.

Bro. Andrew McBride, who is also a dean's list student, was elected president of the chemistry club and the Lincoln University Players.

With brothers like these, it is no wonder that the chapter for three out of the four years has won the Phi Beta Kappa award for the highest scholastic average.

Under the leadership of Bro. James Woods, the chapter will try this year to extend its "week of community service". This program which was introduced by Bro. Charles Dickerson last year is designed to help those needy families in the community. This program is not, however, limited to the brothers for the student body is also encouraged to participate.

ALPHA ACTIVITIES IN PHILADELPHIA

by Bro. Ronald A. Bond Psi Chapter, Philadelphia, Pa., has been rather lively this year sponsoring several social affairs in the city. The last of these was the Annual Penn Relay Formal co-sponsored by Zeta Omicron Lambda and Psi Chapters. Psi held a Cocktail Party for queen nominees, and selected their queen and her court. The queen was crowned at the formal.

Before this affair Psi and Nu chapters jointly sponsored a mid-winter r e treat. This cabaret had been an a n nual affair sponsored by Nu Chapter but this year the two chapters combined their efforts to make the affair a success. Both chapters received full (Continued on page 24)

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ZETA IOTA LAMBDA CHAPTER

by Bro. William F. Strother The last three months have been of special interest to the brothers of Zeta lota Lambda Chapter, of Trenton. New Jersey.

In November, 1963, the founders of this chapter were honored at the chapter's First Annual Fellowship Breaklast. Bro. Jerry Martin, State Coordinator of Chapters in New Jersey, awarded certificates of Meritorious Service to the following brothers. William D. Clark, Meynard Stephens and Dr. William F. Strother of Trenton, New Jersey; James H. Smith and Dr. P. T. Williams of Lawrenceville, NewJersey; Dr's. Collins E. Lewis, E. Gaylord Howell and Herman P. Mowrer and Rev. Charles H. Shelton and William L. Reid of New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Attorney Bryan V. Moore of Princeton, New Jersey. Awards were also made to Dr. Charles A. Broaddus of Trenton, New Jersey, for his outstanding work as Eastern Vice President of Alpha Phi Alpha and for his continuing inspiration to Zeta Iota

Lambda, and to Mr. James Kearney, publisher of the Trenton Times, for his paper's excellent coverage of all matters of community, national and international concern.

Also at the Fellowship Breakfast Zeta Iota Lambda presented Mrs. Catherine Kelsey Graham, president of the Trenton Branch NAACP, a subscription for life membership in the NAACP. During November, 1963, the Delta Upsilon Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity awarded Alpha brother P r o fessor William F. Strother a plaque for outstanding achievement in the field of education. Brother Strother is a professor at Princeton University. On January 1, 1964. Bro. Strother was appointed to the Ewing Township Planning Board, the first Negro so appointed. He is currently a candidate for a seat on The Ewing Township Board of Education, this is another Negro first.

Zeta Iota Lambda already has two of its members serving on boards of education. Brother James H. Smith has served for a number of years on the board of education in Princeton, New Jersey.

RHO CHAPTER TO CELEBRATE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY

by Bro. Herbert C. Johnson Rho Chapter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania announces and invites all brothers to its Fiftieth Anniversary Banquet and Harvest Moon Ball to be held on Thanksgiving Eve., Nov. 25, 1964 at the Sheraton Hotel. The banquet speaker will be Bro. Malvin R. Goode.

Awards will be made to brothers who have made outstanding contributions to Alpha and the community. Special awards will be given to Bro. Kirksey L. Curd, one of the founders of Rho and its first president, and to Bro. DeHaven Hinkson who has been active in Alpha for more than fifty years. Recognition will be given, posthumously, to Bros. Walter F. Jerrick and J. Otis Smith, Sr.. notable past presidents of Rho; Bro. Emile Raven, one of the charter members and active in our chapterfor forty-nine years; and Bro. William E. Smith who passed into Omega Chapter, December last, just two months of fifty years in Alpha.

Organized on Nov. 3, 1914 by Bros.

Kirksey L. Curd of Alpha Chapter and Bro. Taylor of Nu Chapter, Rho has been continuously active in Alpha affairs. At present Rho has a financial membership of ninety-six brothers.

The following brothers have life membership in Alpha: Dr. Allan Durrant, Dr. Harold Taylor, Dr. O. Wilson Winters and William Ross. Rho has been actively involved in community affairs since its founding. The Annual Career Conference is considered by educators a notable contribution to civic welfare.

ALPHA ACTIVITIES IN PHILA. Brothers in attendance at the Zeta Iota Lambda Annual Fellowship Breakfast at Palmer Motor Inn. Princeton, N. J. L-R: (Seated) Brothers Maynard Stephens. James Kelley, Everett Mills, A. C. Williams, Simeon Moss, T o m m y Thomas, Armour MacDaniel, Herbert FitzCerald and Jerry Martin. Second Row - L-R: William F. Strother, Charles Stewart, Clarence Rainer. William Clark. Bryan Moore, E. Brandon, C. E. Williams. William C. Bowser. Carl Briscoe. John Purdy and Leslie Hayling. Back Row - L-R: Collins Lewis, R. L. Johnson, James H. Smith. William Reid. Charles Broaddus, James A. Parker and P. T. Williams.

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(Continued from page 23) support from the two local graduate chapters, Rho and Zeta Omicron L a m b da. There is an improving relationship between the undergraduate and graduate chapters in Philadelphia.

During the Thanksgiving Holidays, Psi sponsored a Thanksgiving Dance.

Visiting brothers attended from Delaware State College, Maryland State College, and from Boston, our Assistant Eastern Regional Vice President, Nolan Atkinson.

At the Annual Founders' Day Banquet, Bro. Mel Garner of Psi chapter received the Undergraduate Award for service to Alpha and Drexel Institute of Technology where he is a senior. He is an Electronics Engineer major and has had many outstanding achievements since becoming a brother in 1960.

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This year is proving to be a very active one for Epsilon Chapter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The brothers of Epsilon are diligently doing their part in fraternity activities and in personal achievements, thus showing to the campus that Alpha is truly a "living" fraternity of men dedicated to objectives of brotherhood and "the better making of men."

In its endeavor to make known to the unacquainted students that Alpha is indeed an active fraternity on this campus, Epsilon presented its annual "Alpha Smoker". The "smoker" was very successful and even more so with the attendance of guest chapters: Western Michigan (Epsilon Xi). Michigan State (Gamma Tau), Eastern Michigan .Epsilon Eta), and the Ann Arbor Graduate Chapter (Theta Zeta Lambd a ) . The guest speaker was Bro. Elmer C. Collins, Midwestern Vice President. He was introduced by Bro. Dr. Ralph Gibson, Instructor of Psychology in the University of Michigan Medical School.

The theme of our observance of National Negro History Week was "How Far The Promised Land?: The Negro's Continuing Quest For Total Equality".

Epsilon chapter originated the idea of sponsoring a campus observance of the week but requested the co-sponsorship of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, all of which cooperated. The four Greek organizations presented a citation to Dr. Albert Wheeler, University of Michigan Medical School Professor and President of the local chapter of the NAACP for his long labor in the local civil rights field.

Brothers Attending Smoker of Epsilon Chapter

The whole week's program was designed to stimulate local Negro pride and to inform the local community and campus about the achievements and status of the Negro. Particular attention was given to the effect of African independence upon American foreign and domestic affairs, and to the Negro student's view of the University of Michigan.

To further strengthen Alpha Phi Alpha's ideals, Epsilon Chapter firmly supports SNC, CORE, and other local civil rights organizations on campus.

The well known entertainer, Bro. Dick Gregory, was presented with a citation during a performance of his at the University.

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As a gesture of our good will, the chapter sent to each young lady on campus a Christmas card and a Valentine's Day card. They were well r e ceived in each instance.

The chapter is developing a body of Fraternity Literature. We have compiled a list of Brothers which includes all of those attending the University, both undergraduate and graduate, as well as all brothers living in the Ann Arbor area. A song book of standard Alpha songs, as well as regional favorites of more recent origin, has been printed. The chapter is completing work on a Sphinx Manual for the training of pledges.

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FOUNDERS' DAY CELEBRATION

by Bro. Henry C. Crawford Delta Alpha Lambda, Cleveland, Ohio, held its annual Founders' Day Dinner Dance, J a n u a r y 25. This year in addition to observing Founders' Day, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of The Sphinx and the 50th anniversary of Pi, Cleveland's undergraduate chapter.

Bro. Armen G. Evans, one of the two living charter members of Phi was present. Bro. Quinn F. Montgomery introduced the speaker, Bro. Judge P e r -

ry B. Jackson, who in turn installed the officers for 1964.

Presiding at the program was Bro. Charles L. Nunn, retiring president of Delta Alpha Lambda. Other program participants included: Bros. Hatcher A. Day, Sr., Paul Woodring, president of Pi chapter, and two national officers, Bros. Elmer C. Collins, Midwestern Vice President, and Oscar W. Ritchie, National Director of Educational Activities. Following the installation of new officers, the president, Bro. James Tanner, spoke briefly.

Sphinx 50th Anniversary Celebrated

NNIVEPSA&Y OF THE ! SPHINX

REVIEWING THE YEAR WITH ALPHA XI LAMBDA, TOLEDO, O.

by Bro. A r t h u r L. Roach

ISM Officers oi Delta Alpha Lambda. Cleveland. Ohio. Seated - L-R: Brothers Hatcher A. Dan, S r - Chaplain; William B. Richardson, Vice President; James Tanner. President; Joseph •R. Malone. Financial Secretary; William F. Young, Corresponding Secretary. Standing. L-R: S a m u e l Brooks, Sergeant at Arms; Charles H. Williams. Recording Secretary; Robert V. Hawkins. Treasurer; Henry C. Crawford. Associate Editor. The Sphinx.

Delta Alpha Lambda, Cleveland, Ohio. L-R: Brothers Judge Perry B. Jackson, Paul Woodring. A r m e n G. Evans, James Tanner, Joseph R. Malone.

A GLANCE INTO THE FUTURE (Continued from page 4) ence of young people on some pertinent issue.

I submit that our future generations must not only be dedicated to a worthy cause, but also be eloquently prepared to rationally argue the facts with even the most bigoted of minds. At such a conference I could envision men of A l pha as well as whites from segregated schools debating the issues, and at least for our part rationally rather than emotionally. I further submit that the most just cause - equality of opportunity - would prove to be the most righteous in every instance. In addition, we would be teaching our young that whether they stand in the Cham-

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bers of the United States Senate, or in the fields of Mississippi, that no matter how just the cause, reason and not emotion is the stuff which sways the minds of men.

As was said earlier the Sphinx is the string which binds this Fraternity together. Now, it must become the sword which penetrates into the world of ignorance. It must offer the challenge to the world of that which is right.

Through such a conference I believe that the stage would be set for the communication of our beliefs to the world; and likewise, we would be stimulating that ideal of excellence within our young people.

For indeed, in this "decade of decision" surely the "key to equality is communication, excellence."

We, as a chapter, experienced a year which served as a great challenge to us - a challenge in the sense that we must do more if Alpha Xi Lambda is to make the imprint needed in our changing community. With this r e view having been made of our 1963-64 program, fruitful plan? are being made for our 1964-65 program. All segments of our chapter exhibited from a slight glance the readiness needed for a successful 1964-65 working year.

Alpha Xi Lambda ^nd guests wholesomely enjoyed a well planned spring formal dance. The theme of our dance was centered around the oOth anniversary of The Sphinx Magazine. Historical segments of our fraternity were developed into decorative, as well as meaningful display by Bro. Harold Dillon.

About two or three weeks later Bro. Roger Ramsey exhibited love or b r o ther!* >od to many Alpha men who attendee.: t h t dance. Bro. Ramsey surprised many brothers by sending them a snapshot of their guests and t h e m selves without cost. This kind gesture executed hy Bro. Ramsey served a worthwhile purpose, not for himself especially, but also for the chapter. We feel that this type of brotherhood is not only needed in our local chapter but in all chapters making up the great Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

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WIVES OF ETA NU L A M b u A - L-H: M n . Ted Martin, Mrs. Curtis Coleman. Miss Joy U s sery. Miss Gail Williams. Miss Helen Russau. Mrs. Julius Franks. (Bro. Sidney Adams), Mrs. Benjamin Williams, Mrs. John Letts, Mrs. W. W-. Plummer. Mrs. Edward A. Jones, Jr.

ALPHA MAN INSTALLED AS HEAD OF PHARMACISTS Bro. Eugene K. Peterson was installed as president of the Greater K a n sas City chapter of the American P h a r maceutical association at the third annual installation banquet held Thursday, January 30, at the Bellerive Hotel.

More than fifty persons heard the new president deliver his acceptance speech.

The newly elected officers and executive committee chairmen were installed by Mrs. Cora Cox of Jefferson City, executive secretary of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association. Atty.

John L. Rose, also a pharmacist and secretary-manager of the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association presented the main address entitled "Physician Owned Pharmacies". Dr. William Rost of the UMKC pharmacy school staff served as master of ceremonies for the program.

A check for $100 from the local chapter was presented to Dean L. Eisenbrandt of the UMKC school of p h a r macy for its building fund.

BROTHERS OF ETA NU LAMBDA - L-R: Brothers Ted Martin. John T. Letts. Julius Pranks.

Fred Crawford, Giles Williams. Curtis Coleman, Benjamin Williams. W. W. Plummer. Charles Waugh, Edward A. Jones. Jr., Timothy Johnson. Jr.

Bro. I. F. Bradley, Jr.

MAN OF THE YEAR

by Bro. John Henson At the recent Founders' Day program of Beta Lambda, Kansas City, Kans., Bro. I. F. Bradley, Jr. was named "Alpha Man of the Year". He received the award for his outstanding contributions to the cultural, civic, social, and religious life in Kansas City and for his many contributions to the chapter's total program. He is a native Kansan

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and a product of the Kansas City schools and received his law degree from the University of Kansas.

Bro. Bradley was active in the preliminary work in getting Upsilon chapter at the University of Kansas. He is one of the charter members of Upsilon and also a charter member of Beta Lambda of Kansas City.

He served as special assistant to the Attorney General of Kansas, and in the same capacity under the Attorney General.

Bro. Bradley holds membership in many important cultural, civic, and worthwhile organizations in his community. Some of the more important ones are the Masonic Lodge, American Legion, Legion of Guardsmen, serving a term in 1959 as the commander; Trouveur Club, and is affiliated with several other civic and social organizations. He is a member of the First AME Church in Kansas City, Kansas.

Plans are being formulated for the Convention to be held In Chicago in August, 1965, to make this the "greatest yet." The leadership responsibility will be shared by these brothers. L-R: Brothers David Daniel. Chairman. Theta XI Lambda; Bennle D. Brown, General Convention Chairman; Bennett M. Stewart. Chapter President.

THE SPHINX GOLDEN JUBILEE RECORD ALBUM May be purchased from The National Headquarters (See information in inside back cover)

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NEW REGISTRAR AT NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE The appointment of Bro. Willie L. Bryant as registrar of North Carolina College, Durham, N. C. was recently announced. Bro. Bryant, former assistant director of admissions and records at Florida A & M University, has been named by Dr. Samuel P. Massie, president of North Carolina College, to succeed Mrs. Frances M. Eagleson.

He is a native of Quincy, Fla. and r e ceived his education from Florida A & M University.

Beta Lambda Installs Officers for 1964 - Seated, L-R: Bros. Herbert Thompson. Financial Secretary; Benjamin Boyd, Corresponding Secretary; Thaddeus Smith, Recording Secretary; Robert P. Lyons, President; Clarence Robinson, Vice President; Daniel Lewis, Historian; Donald Wilson, Custodian of Properties. Standing - L-R: George Haley, Parliamentarian, Russell Miller, Eugene K. Peterson. Wilbur Goodseal. Edwin Byrd, John Henson. Associate Editor of The Sphinx; Treasurer and Sergeant at Arms not shown.

Bro. M. Delmar Edwardt

Bro. N. L. Gregg

Bro. Willie L. Bryant

Bro. David H. Nunnally

Bro. Johnny N. Allen

KAPPA LAMBDA CHAPTER SALUTES BRO. N. L. GREGG Greensboro, N. C. - Bro. N. L. Gregg, a staunch member of Alpha Phi Alpha, is saluted by Kappa Lambda Chapter for his accomplishments in the areas of business and community affairs. He joined the fraternity by way of Alpha Omicron Chapter, Johnson C. Smith University, in the spring of 1926, and has given his support to its efforts with little interruption since that time. Bro. Gregg has been with the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company for thirty-seven years, and serves as Agency Director in charge of the company's operations in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. Kappa Lambda Chapter is also proud of Bro. Gregg's longtime service to the efforts of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People here in this area. He is a true brother and strong symbol of Alphadom.

• * * • ANOTHER FIRST Bro M. Delmar Edwards, who became one of the first Negroes to be admitted to the University of Arkansas School of Medicine over a decade ago, is about to establish another first. Having recently completed residency training in General Surgery at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Tuskegee, Ala., Bro. Edwards will become the first Negro slated for full surgical staff privileges under preceptorship leading to specialty board qualification at the newly-expanded 500-bed Medical Center in Columbus, Ga. Bro. Edwards attended Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga. and Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio. He earned the Master of Science degree from Atlanta University in 1952. Following graduation from the University of Arkansas Medical School and Internship at Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hospital, Winston-Salem, N. C , he engaged in private practice before entering residency training in surgery.

He is a native of Fort Smith, Ark., mari ried and has three children.

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MALE TEACHER OF THE YEAR The American Teachers Association named Bro. David H. Nunnally "Male Teacher of the Year" during its annual meeting held in Atlanta, July 27-29.

Bro. Nunnally, recipient of "System Teacher of the Year" and "Regional Teacher of the Year" awards, has been employed in the Georgia School system for seven years. He is a native of Athens, Ga. and received his early training at Union Baptist Institute, further training at Tuskegee Institute and Atlanta University. He is counselorteacher at Ed Stroud High School, Watkinsville, Ga., and served as summer residence counselor at Tuskeegee I n stitute.

He holds membership in the following organizations: American Teachers Association, Georgia Teachers Association, National Teachers Association, Social and Political League, Athens Voters League, West Ebenezer and Chestnut Grove Baptist Church and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Bro. Nunnally is married and has one child.

ZETA TAU LAMBDA CHAPTER

by Bro. Clarence L. Wright Bro. Johnny N. Allen, Zeta Tau Lambda, Amarillo, Texas, has been the head coach at Carver High School of Amarillo, Texas since 1949. He is a Sam Houston and Prairie View College* alumnus, and through the years, he has produced winning teams which have won many awards and trophies. This past year has been no exception for, again, he was a winner.

Bro. Allen's teams over the years have always made an excellent record in all of their endeavors, however, this year, more so than in the past, he has more to be proud of than ever. His football team was co-champs in their district, the basketball was second, and the track team was first.

The local shrine organization has recognized Bro. Allen's achievements, selecting him as "Noble" of the year a coveted award for any Shriner. Bro. Allen is a great coach and a great Alpha.

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BETA PI CHAPTER

by Bro. James McKinney Beta Pi Chapter, Lane College, Jackson, Tenn., deems it an honor to have many outstanding personalities on its campus among students of higher learning. Alpha Phi Alpha leads the way in whatever categories we find in college life. We have walked silently laying a foundation for others to follow. The achievements have been numerous and we wish to acknowledge only a few.

The student body is under the dynamic leadership of Bro. W. Cornelius McClure who has taken upon himself the responsibility to produce a democratic society which is needed in the modern institution of today. Academically, Bro. McClure leads the pack.

Bro. Chester Kirdendoll, Editor-inChief, our college yearbook, has been honored with being a member of Operation Crossroads, an organization which gives assistance to underdeveloped countries. Bro. Kirkendoll toured Kenya, studying the livelihood of our African friends.

Once before we, Beta Pi, saluted Bro. Willie Shaw, the small college scoring champion for Little All-American Basketball. It gives us great pleasure to announce that he has again accomplished this feat, of which he compiled a 40 plus average for the past basketball season. On a chapel program for the Founder's Day of Beta Pi, Bro. Shaw was awarded a trophy for his outstanding and unsurpassed achievement in athletics. He has been offered contracts with the Cincinnati Royals and the St. Louis Hawks - so, again we salute Bro. Willie George Shaw.

Other campus personalities include Bro. James McKinney, president of the College Chapter NAACP; Bro. Odis Dockery, vice president of our chapter and business manager of the Lanite; Bro. Robert Fowler, an attendant at the Model U. N. held in Nashville, Tenn. among students of all races representing various countries, and Bro. Oliver Mack, president of Beta Pi and Alpha Mu National Honor Society.

Bros. McClure, Kirkendoll, Shaw and Mack are listed in Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and U n iversities for the year 1963-64. All mentioned above are graduating seniors, along with Bros. John Reed, J o h n nie Lee, Michael Carr, Chester Visor, Ralph Goss, William Moloy. These men will move silently in life as they build ALPHA PHI ALPHA in all walks of life.

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Members of Phi Lambda. Raleigh. N. C , and their w i v e s at a banquet celebrating the founding of Alpha and the 50th Anniversary of The Sphinx magazine.

Members of the Halcigh Alphabet tes. all of w h o m are dressed in black and gold to show their devotion for the Alphas. L-R: Seated - Mesdames Mary Carter. Launa Jones. Phyllis Mann. Mary Culler. Elizabeth Barfield. Elizabeth Burke and Mildred Wilson. Standing. L-R: Mesdames Marguerite Exum, Mildred McDowell. Virginia Newell, Etta Toole, Ruth D a v e n port. Vivian Samson. Edwinlon Ball and Myrtle Crockett.

PHI LAMBDA CELEBRATES FOUNDERS' DAY AND 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SPHINX

by Bro. Joseph Jones, Jr. The members of Phi Lambda, Raleigh, N. C , observed the 58th year of the founding of the Fraternity and the 50th anniversary of The Sphinx Magazine with a Founders' Day Banquet in the swank "Cellar" of the Hamlin's Drugstore. Twenty-two members of Phi Lambda chapter and their wives attended the banquet. Also in attendance were Bros. A. J. H. Clements, III, Beta Theta Lambda; and Peter Golden and James Mason, Gamma Psi Chapter.

The main feature of the Founders' Day - 50th Anniversary celebration was an address by Bro. James E. Cheek, president of Shaw University. At the conclusion of the address, Bro. Joseph Jones, president of Phi Lambda, p r e sented, on behalf of the chapter, a check to Bro. Cheek for the general fund of Shaw University.

Another feature of the banquet was a talk by Bro. Harold L. Trigg who reviewed the history of Phi Lambda.

Recognition was given to various brothers and their wives for outstanding achievements during the year.

ZETA TAU LAMBDA (Continued from page 28) in a Jabberwock contest with seven other Greek-letter organizations and won the second place trophy. This fine showing was due primarily to the talented efforts of Bros. John Fitzpatrick and William Butler, II and their families. The brothers, with the accompaniment of their talented offsprings, rendered sparkling instrumental selections which favorably impressed all in attendance, including the judges. During the performance, our representatives wore unique chapeaus made of floor mops, courtesy of Mrs. Myrtle Fitzpatrick, wife of Bro. John Fitzpatrick and one of our talented Alphabettes.

Because of their efforts in the J a b berwock and other affairs, the Alphas are known and are highly respected in this part of the Lone Star State. It's great to be an Alpha.

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ALPHA WEEK AT FISK

by Bro. Pickens A. Patterson, Jr. After months of planning and preparation, Alpha Chi chapter, Nashville, Tenn., presented a very successful Alpha Week to the Fisk University campus.

Under the able leadership of Bro. Robert Moore, who was chairman of the Alpha Week activities, we were able to assemble a program containing all of our Alpha Week activities. Contributions were received from many Nashville businessmen, brothers throughout the nation, brothers at Meharry Medical College and Tennessee A & I University, Tau Lambda chapter, and general patrons. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who contributed to this project. The proceeds were presented to the United Negro College Fund.

We began our activities on Sunday, February ninth with the University Chapel Service. The brothers attended services in a group and other brothers acted as ushers. On Monday night the fraternity presented a sports film in the university International Student Center. The film was supplied by the Miller Brewing Company. On Tuesday night our annual mixer was held

with the sOrors of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Pi chapter. It was a very enjoyable occasion highlighted with p a r ty games, card games, and general conversation. On Thursday Alpha Chi chapter sponsored the University Convocation. The main speaker for the occasion was Bro. T. Winston Cole, general president of the fraternity. I am sure that all who attended the convocation were deeply inspired by Bro. Cole's address. Also at this time a certificate was presented to the highest ranking male freshman student, Judson Eneas. On Friday night the chapter presented a serenade. Many hours of practice were spent in p r e paring for this serenade. Under the superior musical abilities of Bros. W. Powell Garrett and William McEwen, the serenade scored a big hit. The highlight of Alpha Week was the coronation of Miss Alpha, Nina Iva Joyce Marks. Miss Marks is a Junior from Tyler, Texas, Dean's List student, e x change student, and soror of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. The brothers were dressed in tuxedos. The decoration for the occasion was extremely beautiful and I am sure that everyone will agree that the queen and her court were very lovely. The last activity of

Picture taken following a program at Shiloh Baptist Church. Gadsden, Ala. L-R: Bros. Johnny Rigby. E. N. Prater. G. W. Davis. Danny Littlefield, Brother Hardy of the Alabama State T e a c h e r s College; James Carey, J. T. Williams. Edward Jones and Spencer Thomas.

Brother Spencer Thomai. M. D.. second president of Theta Alpha Lambda. Gadsden. Ala.

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Brother J. T. Williams, principal of Carver High School, Gadsden. Ala. Theta Alpha Lambda's first president.

Alpha Week was held the following week at Pearl High School. The aim of the program was designed to inspire high school students to remain in high school and go to college. The speaker for the occasion was Bro. W. Powell Garrett, who presented a very dynamic address. He was supported witha beautiful solo by Bro. Maurice Roland, a member of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.

Special mention should be made of Bro. Donald Watson, who was instrumental in collecting ads for the p r o gram.

Alpha Chi chapter, being the only fraternity on campus, could sit back and be satisfied with its unique position. But we are not satisfied, we want to present to our public a good impression, perhaps to justify our existence, but most of all we want to prove that Alpha Phi Alpha is the best fraternity.

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by Bro. E. N. P r a t e r It gives me a sincere pleasure to let our brothers know what Theta Alpha Lambda, Gasden, Ala., is doing.

We have a unique chapter, all of the brothers are trying to give the community sound and good leadership not by mouth, but by deeds and examples. I would like very much to tell the brothers about our fine representation of manly deeds in scholarship; Bro. S. Thomas, president, is rapidly becoming our leading physician in the community; Bro. Danny Littlefield is an instructor in the James L. Cain Elementary School and also co-ordinator for the Adult High School Education; Bro. J. T. Williams, our first president, is principal of our leading high school, Carver High. Under his leadership, this chapter presented to this community our former general president, Bro. Belford V. Lawson, during Education for Citizenship Week. Bro. Johnny Rigby, secretary, is principal of one of our largest elementary schools, James L. Cain. He is president of the Etowah County County Teachers Association; chairman of the March of Dimes and president of Local Chapter of A&M College Alumni. Bro. James Carey, vice-president, is the owner and operator of a new and modern drugstore which is better known as the Skyliner Pharmacy; Bro. Edward Jones is an instructor of Science at the Carver High School; Bro. G. W. Davis is the assistant director of the Gadsden State Vocational Technical School, as well as treasurer. He is owner of the WatsonDavis Funeral Home and chaplain of our chapter; and Bro. E. N. Prater, founder of the Gadsden State Vocational Technical School.

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ZETA PSI LAMBDA CHAPTER Zeta Psi Lambda Chapter, Lake Charles, Louisiana, held its Annual Education for Citizenship Week Program, Sunday, April 5, 1964. The speaker for this most outstanding occasion was Bro. Blyden Jackson, Dean of the Graduate School, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Gamma Pi Neophytes, Columbia. S. C, L-R: Brothers Willie J. Williams, Willie Blackmon, John Humphrey, Amos James, John Gaines, Leonard Foster, Sam Simmons. Johnny Robinson.

GAMMA PI HOLDS INITIATION

by Bro, Willie Blackmon Gamma Pi, Benedict College, Columbia, S. C , recently initiated eight new members into the brotherhood.

The "Aping Eight" set the campus on fire with fancy steps and songs.

As is traditional, with Alpha Men, these brothers have many varied interests and hobbies. Their majors range from English and Elementary Education to Chemistry and Biology.

Quoting Dr. J. A. Bacoats, President of Benedict College, "They are a t r i b ute to Alpha Phi Alpha."

Presently we have brothers participating in the Y. M. C. A., sports, the College choir, the debating team, C. O. R. E., class activities and the N. A. A. C. P. Several brothers serve as class officers. Recently Bro. John Gaines received a scholarship from

C. O. R. E. for his activities in this organization. As is expected, our fraternity leads the others in scholarship.

Much of our progress is due to the diligent leadership of Bro. Frank Gilbert, Dean of Men, Benedict College,' who serves as our advisor. The entire chapter and advisor plan to attend the Southern Regional Convention to be held in Atlanta, Georgia. Several brothers will also attend the State meeting in Greeneville, S. C. We are now preparing for our annual "Stars of Tomorrow" program and Observation of "Education Week". Since twelve of our brothers were graduated last year, the newer brothers are again showing their value by ably filling the vacancies left and helping to produce our programs. These programs are held to bring about more talented and educated citizens of tomorrow through the leadership of Alpha Phi Alpha.

The theme for this most outstanding occasion was Citizenship in the 60's.

Bro. Jackson emphasized the theme in his address by pointing out very clearly that in the 60's man is living longer and living more abundantly, in this modern nervous stressful civilization, but in order to live a full enjoyable life as a true American, he must grasp every opportunity to become a full citizen in this our modern society. The opportunities are here, therefore it is ours

Brother Jackson on the left presenting Plaque to Brother Combre on the right in recognition of outstanding service. Alpha Man of the Year. Brother L. C. Breda, president of Zeta Psi Lambda, center, looks on.

to make life better not only for ourselves but for our children.

Bro. Warren Combre was presented a Plaque in recognition for outstanding service as Alpha Man of the year by Zeta Psi Lambda Chapter.

A Dinner and Cocktail Party was held at Club Oasis on the afternoon of the Program with the wives and guests of members of Zeta Psi Lambda along with Bro. Jackson, our guest speaker, and Mrs. Jackson.

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ETA GAMMA LAMBDA HOLDS ANNUAL INITIATION

by Bro. Coley M. Bellamy

Bridge, and the immediate surroundings of these areas. Bro. R. B. Jones. a 1929 initiate of Chi Chapter of Meharry Medical College, is serving his second year as president.

JUST CROSSED THE BURNING SANDS: Sealed, L-R; Bros. Matthew Augustine, D o m inic W. Malveaux, Jr., Edward Magee and Louis Lloyd. ^Standing, L-R: Kenneth J. Mouton, Ramon C. Derouen, M. Overton White. Alton W. Locks. Milton Francis. J. A. Vallien and Arthur R. Williams.

FRATERNITY FORMS SUNO CHAPTER

by Bro. E. W. Bashful The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has established an undergraduate chapter at Southern University in New Orleans.

Bro. Jacob T. Stewart of Grambling College, southwestern vice-president of Alpha Phi Alpha, presented the charter of the new chapter to Columbus at a chartering dinner held at Holiday Inn. Banks is the president of the new chapter, which bears the Greek-letter identity of Epsilon Upsilon.

In addition to Banks, others initiated into the Epsilon Upsilon chapter are James Conerly, Jr., Melvin DeGrange, George Overton, Reginald F. Roulette, Ernest Terry, and Clarence Smith.

Faculty advisors are Anthony Donfor and Eddie Jack Jordan.

The new undergraduate unit was sponsored by the graduate chapter, Sigma Lambda, which was chartered here in 1925. Bro. Karl L. Douglas, president of Sigma Lambda chapter, installed the new officers.

The principal address for the occasion was given by Bro. William R. Adams, prominent local physician. Brother Adams reviewed the ideals of the F r a ternity and challenged the neophytes to live up to these noble purposes.

west Region, awarded the charter at an installation breakfast. The St. Mary's chapter is the only integrated Alpha chapter in the Southwest Region, according to Bro. Stewart.

Delta Rho Lambda, graduate chapter of San Antonio, initiated the 16 charter Alphamen, December 7th.

Kenny Sampson, basketball star for the St. Mary's Rattlers, remained in San Antonio for initiation while his teammates traveled to Kansas City for the NAIA play-offs.

His chapter brothers then flew him to Kansas City

in time for the national tournament.

Bro. Sampson spirited the Rattlers to quarter-final competition where he was top scorer with 24 points.

Alpha Phi Alpha started with another superlative at St. Mary's University as the fraternity with the highest grade point average on campus. St. Mary's now has eight social fraternities and one sorority. Alpha Phi Alpha is the second national fraternity there.

Bro. Lawrence C. McMillan was elected president of the Epsilon Sigma chapter:

During the weekend preceding Easter, the brothers of Eta Gamma L a m b da, Opelousas, La., initiated into the fraternity five graduate brothers and six undergraduate brothers as associate members.

While an undergraduate chapter is being established at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, Eta Gamma Lambda has been granted permission to initiate associate member brothers from this university.

With this initiation the chapter now has thirty-seven active graduate m e m bers and ten active associate brothers who are attending the University of Southwestern Louisiana. The initiates will attend their first Alpha Ball at the Municipal Auditorium in Lafayette when the members of Eta Gamma Lambda entertain their wives, sweethearts and guests.

Eta Gamma Lambda Chapter was chartered in April, 1958. The chapter serves Opelousas, Lafayette, Crowley, Abbeville, New Iberia and Breaux

EPSILON SIGMA CHAPTER

by Bro. Bob Brischetto Another first has been set for Alpha Phi Alpha. The fraternity now has a fully integrated chapter in the South.

Epsilon Sigma chapter at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, received its charter as the 316th chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha. Bro. Jacob T. Stewart, vice president in charge of the South-

Bro. Jacob T. Stewart, right, vice president in charge of the Southwest Region, presents chapter charter to Bro. Lawrence McMillan, president of n e w Epsilon Sigma at St. Mary's ' University, San Antonio.

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ALPHA'S MOST RECENT ADDITION Charier m e m b e r s of Epsilon Sigma. St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas

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ALPHA TAU LAMBDA CHAPTER TULSA, OKLAHOMA

by Bro. Robert L. Fairchild, Sr. During the April meeting of Alpha Tau Lambda, a Founders' Day ceremony was held. Parts of the Founders' Day ceremonies included a reminder of the date the chapter, March 17, 1934, was founded. Bro. Tollie W. Harris. one of the charter members of Alpha Tau Lambda, was presented a plaque.

Brother D) R. B. Taylor, Sr., in his presentation >peech, said, "This brother has not only given his time and talents for the benefit of Alpha, but has joined in every worthwhile endeavor affecting the community and his fellowman."

It has been ten years since Alpha Tau Lambda has had an initiation of new men into the fraternity. On April 12, 1964, at 12:01 a. m., six candidates were placed on probation. April 18, 1964, the six candid-tes crossed the burning sands into Alphadom. The new brothers are: Dr. Charles H. Lewis, Howard University; Rev. Leroy K. Jordan, University of Toledo; Andrew C. Key, Tuskegee Institute; Rev. James G. Crowder, Livingstone College; Dr. Robert T. Willis, Howard University; and Ernest E. Dewberry, Langston University. The vice-president, Bro. Robert Waugh, who is dean of pledges and the members of the Pledge Committee worked diligently and energetically with the new men to be sure that all educational processes had been complied with, and all requirements to qualify for acceptance into the fraternity were met. Other members of the committee are the following: Paul Young, vice-chairman, A. L. Morgan, L. H. Williams, Jr., Q. T. Williams, Claxton Nails, and Thomas O. Chappelle.

The Burrough Elementary School, which has an integrated faculty, has a new assistant principal. He is brother Q. T. Williams. Reports are that the brother is doing a creditable job.

The Scholarship Benefit Fashion Show and Dance sponsored by the local chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity was held Saturday, May 16, 1964, at the Blue Moon Ball Room. More than 400 patrons participated in the benefit show and dance. The scholarship fund has benefited immeasurably, and a worthy graduating high school senior will receive a scholarship that will enhance his opportunity to acquire an education.

The social committee of the local chapter, and the wives of brothers of the chapter worked together to make the event a complete success. The chairman and members of the Social Committee are: Q. T. Williams, chair-

OCTOBER, 1964

Bro. Tolly W. Harris receives chapter award from Bro. R. B. Taylor, Sr., Alpha Tau Lambda, Tulsa. Okla.

man, Archie Morgan, Paul Young, Robert Taylor. Jr., Edgar Nicely, C. D. Vaughn, Dr. Hobart Sanders, E. L. Hairston, Otis Autry, and Booker Brown.

The chairman of the Alphabettes organization is Mrs. Jesse L. Greadington. Mrs. Greadington gave yeoman Service organizing, encouraging and motivating the women to perform an outstanding job.

The Alpha sweetheart of Alpha Tau Lambda is Mrs. Doris Williams. Other participants of the sweetheart contest are: Mrs. Edgar Nicely, Mrs. Paul Young, Mrs. L. H. Williams, Jr., Mrs. Robert Taylor, Jr., and Mrs. Charles Christopher.

The brothers of the local chapter are to be commended for an excellent job.

The dance show could not have been a success without the cooperation and hard work of all the brothers of the local chapter.

* * * * * ALPHA MEN IN LUBBOCK, TEXAS

by Bro. William R. Powell Recently, a new graduate chapter came to life in this southwestern city.

Theta Kappa Lambda was organized and established by seven men in Lubbock who felt that " . . . manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind" could reach momentum only by the unity so characteristic of Alpha Phi Alpha.

After receiving its charter in July 1963, the Theta Kappa Lambda chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. ignited the torch, thus illuminating this south plains area of Texas.

In the interest of the community, the

chapter has initiated a promising program of activities. For instance, the chapter has encouraged voter registration, and presently, it is represented in the organization of the local Pan hellenic Council.

In addition, the Brothers have initiated an album of the chapter's historical activities, and they have enjoyed a series of social events with their wives. The most important phase of the chapter's activities, however, is centered around the enhancement of community progress.

Since its establishment, the chapter has undergone a slight change in m e m bership. Bro. Earl Daye has transferred to a chapter in Oklahoma. Bro. Clarence Richardson, previously active with Beta Epsilon of North Carolina A. & T. College, again brought the number to seven. Bro. Richardson serves as chaplain and historian.

* * * * * ETA PI LAMBDA CHAPTER

by Bro. Herman A. Sanders The brothers of Eta Pi Lambda, P a s adena, Calif., are looking forward to a challenging and successful year, under the leadership of our president, Bro. Ray Bartlett, who is a very energetic and capable leader. We have a well balanced program planned which includes several cultural and social events. Most of our emphasis is being placed on education of the youth of this wonderful community in which we live. We have initiated a program aimed at preventing drop-outs. This is the area in which we are most concerned. We participate in the Frank Arnold Memorial Fund on the Pasadena City College Campus, the purpose of which is to give financial aid to needy athletes.

Our first social event was a formal dance held at Fort McArthur in San Pedro. This grand affair took place on the 21st of February at the excitingly different Officers Club. Approximately one thousand people attended this affair and fun was had by all.

Our chapter is composed of members who are serving our community in the true tradition of Alpha, and all are making worthwhile contributions.

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Bro. Lloyd E. Scott

Brother Lloyd E. Scott has been named assistant trust officer in the Pension Trust section of Bank of America's Trust Department in San Francisco. A graduate of Prairie View A & M College, Texas, and a native of that city. Brother Scott has been secretary to U. S. District Judge Michael J. Roche for the past ten years. He c a m e to San Francisco in 1953. and w a s with the U S. Court of Appeals here for a year before joining Judge Roche's staff.

ZETA BETA LAMBDA CHAPTER. Sacramento, California. Standing, L-R: Brother! Johnson, Redmond, Pres.; Trent, Garner, Aubert. Sgt-at-Arma; Moore, Baaehart. McGhee, Treas.; Mance. Seated, L-R: Brothers West, Tompkins, Chaplain; Woods, Hight, Recording Secretary; Johnson. B. Wilkina, Vice President; Drake, Corresponding Secretary. Brothers not pictured: Bolden, Parliamentarian; Adama, D e a n of Pledgees; Cooper, Mack, Mcintosh and Stewart.

CONVENTION CALL (Continued from page 22) with you - assured that their realization is already taking place in your thinking and that ALPHA PHI ALPHA is, as always, assured of her place in the Sun, - now and in the Future.

With these words, I declare the 58th Anniversary Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, - in the City of New York in the year of our Lord, now in session.

BETA PSI LAMBDA CHAPTER

by Bro. Henry A. Swain

BETA PSI LAMBDA, Los Angeles. California. - Installation of Officers: L-R: Brothers Porter.

Wicks, Tlllis. Epps. Honoree Cannon, Guest Speaker, Brother Lawson, Elected President Hobbs. Fletcher. Tatum and Hawkins.

BETA PSI L A M B D A - The c o m m i t t e e of brothers responsible for Alpha's Founders' Banquet. L-R: Brothers Demery, Evans. Chairman Osborne. Scott and Allen.

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Beta Psi Lambda, Los Angeles, Calif., starts the year with a new slate of officers.

Bro. Belford Lawson was the speaker for Alpha's Founders' day recognition by the chapter. During this occasion Bro. Lawson installed the new officers for the year 1964.

The chapter wishes to pay gratitude and deepest appreciation to our out going president Bro. Sterling for the job well done in guiding the organization the past three years. The activities for the chapter to this point are really beginning to hum. Bro. Hogan and the committee working out the Easter affair, from which the proceeds will advance our educational program, is moving along fine. The education committee chairman, Bro. Hawkins, r e ported to the chapter body an outlined program for the year, which was accepted most favorably.

Bro. Osborne and Bro. Swain of the chapter were assigned as liaison to the wives auxiliary for the year. We are very happy to see the enthusiasm shown by our wives. The chapters on the coast are looking forward to the 1967 convention here.

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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL STRUCTURE Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Greetings: Your Committee on Internal Structure, since its appointment in May, 1964. has reviewed the reports of general officers, regional and general conventions, recommendations of the last ten years, and surveys of the structure of similar organizations.

Many of the suggestions and ideas have been incorporated in a preferential check list on which you are asked to indicate suggestions that will improve the structure and organization of the fraternity. These preferences are to be requested from brothers, chanters and regions throughout Alphadom - active and inactive - graduate and undergraduate. These will aid in moulding guide lines for committee action. Complete the check list indicating your suggestions - detach and mail TODAY! We recommend that each chapter will devote a meeting in November, 1964 to the discussion of the basic services to be rendered by the general organization and the structure needed to accomplish these goals.

We recommend that each region will, at its next convention, discuss the internal structure of the fraternity as the priority theme. The Committee will furnish guides to regional workshop discussions and preferential check lists.

NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of the study of the basic structure of the organization is to describe the role and function of each facet of the organization, to define services, to identify organizational and operating principles, to examine financial resources necessary to support the structure, and to recommend the complete planning - modification mechanism to accomplish the stated goals and services within the framework of the structure to be proposed.

The nature of the report will include basic assumptions about the purpose of the organization and characteristics of its structure and function. The goals for basic core services to be rendered and basic structural organization to accompplish these service goals will be charted and described. The internal relationships of and among the General organization, regions, chapters, members and allied organizations will be defined. Additional recommendations for staffing and financing the structure will be made.

This committee will maintain its attention on organizational matters with no comment nor discussion of program related items. The fraternity's program is determined, appraised and reviewed by the General President and Executive Council.

The final report of this committee will be distributed to all chapters in the spring in time for chapter consideration before vacations and for final consideration at the Chicago convention in August, 1965. The committee will terminate with the presentation of its report. The allocation provided in the 1964 Budget will be sufficient to cover the cost of meetings of the committee until the assignment is completed.

Your suggestions and preferences are sought eagerly and will receive consideration.

Fraternally submitted, COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL STRUCTURE, John D. Buckner, Chairman James T. Adams, R. Maynard Banks, William H. Brown, III, Jesse S. Chandler, Elmer C. Collins, W. Byron Rumford, Joseph T. Taylor, Walter Washington OCTOBER, 1964

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Detach and mail to: John D. Buckner 4246 W. No. Market St. St. Louis 13, Missouri

ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY. INC. INTERNAL STRUCTURE COMMITTEE

Any initiated Alpha is eligible to complete this preferential list

Indicate your preferences by checking any and all items below that you feel will improve the fraternity. Feel free to write any other suggestions or comments.

PREFERENTIAL CHECK LIST BASIC ORGANIZATION PATTERN • • • •

Strong Strong Strong Retain

Executive Secretary President Executive Council Present Organization

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GENERAL CONVENTION • • •

Meet only on even numbered years Regionals meet on odd numbered years Need National Coordinator and Committee on Convention Planning Retain Annual Conventions

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ELECTION - VOTING • • • •

Provide National Nominating Committee Retain vote by every financial member Return to vote by delegate representatives Increase number of delegates per chapter

OFFICERS - NATIONAL OFFICES D D • • • • •

Retain President - Elect Eliminate President - Elect Reduce number of Vice Presidents Increase number of Vice Presidents Retain current ten Vice Presidents Hire Field Secretaries to supervise and energize More contact with chapters

SPHINX • • • • D • • • •

More issues Fewer issues More chapter activities More articles of general interest More articles of specialized interest More advertising Longer tenure of Editor No advertising Larger number of pages per issue

GENERAL COSTS • • Q D

Standardize cost to initiates Reduce initiation fee Reduce History cost Standardize Badge

More than one graduate per city Need intermediate groups Need senior groups Establish at Junior or Community Colleges Initiate and encourage new chapter organization

REGIONS - DISTRICTS • • • • !~1 n •

Limit to 100 chapters Limit to 50 chapters Limit to states Consider contiguous areas Relate to number of Alphas in area Create more regions or districts Make fewer regions

BUDGET - FINANCE D • • • • •

Pay direct - Generad Secretary to send Annual Renewal notice Lower cost of Conventions Rebate to regions and states Lower Grand Tax Require uniform Financial Accounting System Increase Life Membership Fee

HOUSING • • •

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Encourage local initiative Make short term loans and grants Spread to all areas

Membership list Sphinx Manual Convention Planning Guide Housing standards Steps in obtaining Frat House Civic Projects Sample chapter constitution Steps in organizing a new chapter Educational activities Alpha Wives Organizations Chapter program aids

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