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The

Sphinx

Volume 52

Number 2

May 1966

ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. P.O. Box 285 Lincolnton Station New York, N. Y. 10037

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Directory for 1965-1966 Jewel Henry A. Callis

Editor-in-Chief George Morris Daniels

3206 E Street, N.E., Washington. D.C. Contributing Editors Officers

General President — Bro. Lionel H. Newsom General Secretary— Bro. Laurence T. Young General Treasurer — Bro. Leven C. Weiss General Counsel — Bro. James H. McGee Editor, The Sphinx — Bro. George M. Daniels

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Contents

TOP OF THE MONTH The Sphinx of the Future

Features The Absent Father Haunts the Negro Family — Dr. C. Eric Lincoln

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A Case for Alpha Outreach — Otha N. Brown, Jr

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For more than fifty years now The Sphinx has been the voice of Alpha. At times, to be sure, it has served its purpose well. And without doubt it will continue to do so. There are those of us who feel, however, that the time has come when The Sphinx must face radical changes. Recent changes have only been minor; it doesn't take much to give it a preliminary face lifting.

With an artist available from time to time we could do much better, to say the least. Which brings us to another point: Circulation. Why not use The Sphinx to maintain lines of communication among our inactive Brothers as well as those who now receive it through payment of their Grand Tax and Chapter dues? Why not put The Sphinx on a subscription basis and offer it to all inactive Brothers! It might well assist the local chapters in reclaiming many of them.

The Pan-Hellenic Council — Walter Washington

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The Occupational Status Quo — LeRoy W. Jeffries

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No Alpha is An Island — Malvin R. Goode

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Tentative Program 1966 General Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc

Since last October The Sphinx has been undergoing one change after another.

Some have been for the better, we feel, and a few have not attained the results expected. In this process of strengthening The Sphinx, however, we have now added two new feature departments — Letters (to-the-editor) and original editorial cartoons dealing with dropouts, discrimination, narcotics addiction and numerous other sociological topics.

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Our Contributors

New Features

Departments Letters

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Editorials

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Frat Humor

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Graduate/Undergraduate Chapters

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News

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Alpha Workshop

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Our list of contributors is constantly growing and for the first time in many years The Sphinx is compiling a backlog of first-rate manuscripts on subjects that we feel should be of interest to most Alphamen — graduates and undergraduates alike. This month we publish more Alpha authors than in the previous three issues under new editorship. Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, professor of sociology, Portland State College, is author of several books, including Black Muslims in America. His article The Absent Father Haunts the Negro Family, first appeared in the New York Times Magazine. Brother Otha N. Brown, Jr., is a City Councilman, Norwalk, Conn., and his article Alpha Outreach is concerned with one of Alpha's newest thrust in the coming years. Brother Malvin R. Goode needs no introduction to readers. He has appeared on these pages before, but his current literary contribution serves as a timely warning to all Alpha Brothers not to feel to smug and secure in these most difficult times. Brother Walter Washington, president of Utica College, Utica, Mississippi, is national chairman of the National Pan-Hellenic Council. In March Wilberforce University marked its 110th anniversary. Founders' Day speaker was Brother Leroy W. Jeffries, vice president of lohnson Publishing Co., and a Wilberforce grad himself. His speech was on the occupational status quo of the American Negro. It appears herein and should be of special interest to undergrads.

Memo to Chapter Editors The October issue of The Sphinx will be largely devoted to convention activities, but reasonable space for chapter news will be available. To facilitate news coverage we are asking that all associate editors submit their news and pictures no later than August 1, 1966. We hope that as many associate editors as possible will attend the St. Louis convention. We hope to get the Sphinx staff together for a brief editorial session. Time and place will be announced in St. Louis.

LETTERS To the Editor

graduates, realize that we may be wrong in many things, but are they willing to help us correct these mistakes.

Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, continue to rekindle the fire that was set blazing years ago, for Alpha Phi-Alpha is the light and we brothers are a great part of that eternal light. Let us try to become one in Alphadom and strive for those same goals, ideas and aims set up by the founding fathers. Let us join together and enjoy the blessings of God so that our fraternity's praises can be sung in every heart, mind and country.

Let us join together for a brighter Alpha Phi Alpha for the youth who may see this great light in the future, and may walk in the right path, spreading the name Alpha Phi Alpha around the world.

BROTHER CARL E. WILLIAMS DELTA N U CHAPTER MARYLAND STATE COLLEGE PRINCESS A N N E , MARYLAND

Undergraduates Confused?

Dear Sir: It is with a great concern on the part of undergraduate brothers all over the country that I, an undergraduate brother in the bonds of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, write to you regarding graduate and undergraduate relations. Some sixty years ago, our beloved fraternity was founded on an undergraduate level, without regard to race, spiritual or family background.

I am sure that the founders of this fraternity had in mind at its founding, brotherhood interest, concern and love to be displayed not only on the graduate level, but on the undergraduate level as well.

We, the undergraduates, have fallen somehow outside of a great organization. We have the feeling that the graduate brothers are far above us in that they are better able to promote and guide the fraternity.

However. I feel along with so many others, who may be undergraduates, that what might well be established among the graduate and undergraduates is a fatherson relationship rather than a (top kick).

For various reasons there seems to be among many brothers the idea that our

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Graduate brothers are far above us or far apart. Brothers, this should not be the case. We should get away from this stereotyped condition. We all should realize that we are living in a changing world, one of many modes, some of utter confusion to you of age, but life still moves on.

We as young men are confused and many times one might ask the question, "Isn't all America a bit confused, as well as the world?" In spite of all of these and many other ramifications, there are many who prove the reverse by preserving, climbing, laboring, and who have the willingness to do so by word or deed (not just talk ). Undergraduates, I think, are a good example; for all we want is the chance to prove that we can help to promote and guide the fraternity.

Our beloved fraternity has vowed that all marks of discrimination must be erased, and we have made progress in our undertaking. Yet, there is a question in the minds of every undergraduate. That is, are the graduate brothers discriminating against us in lack of interest, support and understanding? Are they there when we need a helping hand? We, the under-

New Format Dear Sir: Please accept Eta Tau Lambda's strong interest in our "new" Sphinx and let us know of any area in which we may cooperate to make your efforts easier.

LLOYD SHEPHERD ASSOCIATE EDITOR TO THE SPHINX ETA TAU LAMBDA

Dear Sir: We have noticed the change in the format of the official organ of our dear fraternity. Alpha continues as in the past to be concerned with the plight of our brothers of color, for we definitely should not and can not remain complacant in this the age of the Negro. The quality of the material submitted and published has remained on the highest level, but we are greatly concerned over the direction in which the magazine is heading.

Possibly, we are in error for wanting to cling to the past in this time of rapid change, but there are several things about the past that we would like to see continued. We see no need to have reduced an excellent magazine of quantity and quality to one of shallow triviality. It is indeed

tragic that we, the undergraduate chapters, no longer are bound through communications to our fellow undergraduate brothers. We do note that there is chapter news; however, it does not truly represent the main body of which Alpha is composed. From this chapter's experiences, we know that several articles and pictures have been submitted and not published. It is a grave injustice to all undergraduate chapters when their news is not faithfully reported by their fraternity. We are sure that you will readily agree that the undergraduates are closer to the fold than the graduates.

Dear Sir: May I offer my sincere congratulations on the tremendously improved appearance, layout, format, organization, and contents of The Sphinx. All Alphadom is talking about and proud of the new SPHINX. On behalf of the Chapter, as instructed at a recent meeting, I convey our sincere appreciation of, congratulations for, and pride in the great new The Sphinx.

Not only are the undergraduate chapters neglected, but Alpha is slighted. The first issue of The Sphinx we received after we saw the light contained the photographs of many prominent brothers of whom we are justly proud, but sadly this policy has been discontinued. We do not wish to change your whole format because we found faults; we do, however, want you to incorporate the basic ideas and concepts, which evidently were behind former magazines, into your present effort.

Dear Sir: 1 congratulate you on the recent issues of the Sphinx. They show class as well as progress.

It is our hope that we can build an even greater organ of Alpha Phi Alpha. We would like this letter to be an open letter to all brothers of Alpha, and we further hope that others will come forward with their criticisms and/or praise.

DAVID B. MITCHELL DONALD L. GRAHAM

Dear Sir: In reading one of our most recent newsletters from the National Office, commendations were expressed to you for doing such a fine job on the December issue of The Sphinx. Our membership raised several questions: Why did we go back to black and white? It gives such a drab appearance compared with the most recent past. And the articles seem to lack punch and quickness. Why? They seemed long and drawn out.

BROTHER J. E. BURKE PHI LAMBDA

EDGAR A. T O P P I N PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND Nu

LAMBDA EDITOR-TO-THE

SPHINX

BROTHER J. H.

COOPER

CHI LAMBDA

Sphinx Aids Initiation Dear Sir: I wish to take this opportunity, on behalf of Eta Beta Lambda, to thank you for the extra copies of the Sphinx that you recently provided us. They were a valuable asset in aiding us to put over a Sphinx-initiation.

BROTHER ARMAND M. ROBINSON CORRESPONDING SECRETARY ETA BETA LAMBDA

Foundation Tax Exempt Dear Sir: The Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation, Inc., is at long last an established, functioning agency of the Fraternity. The Foundation is a tax-exempt corporation. As such, it is authorized to accept contributions which are deductible by donors as provided by Federal law.

The establishment of the Foundation is a landmark in the development of our Fraternity's program of education and community service. The corporate and tax-exempt character of this arm of the Fraternity should prove to be just the catalyst we need in order to enrich, enlarge and diversify our education and community service program.

Long ago we became committed to these improvements. Now, we have the

mechanism necessary to carry out that commitment. But to realize the full potential of the Education Foundation it is necessary that a considerable number of Brothers lend their support, perhaps even make some sacrifices to guarantee the successful operation of the Foundation.

Clearly, the successful operation of the Foundation depends, in some measure, upon public support; its corporate character suggests as much. More important, however, is the support it receives from members of the Fraternity. As members of the Fraternity, you and I are morally — yes morally — bound to support this program of our own making. Certainly it would be presumptuous for us to ask non-Fraternity members and organizations to assume the full responsibility for the maintenance of an agency of our creation—an agency whose successful operation will, ultimately, be a credit to the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

Because we cannot legitimately, in good conscience and in self-respect, ask others to do what we ought to do, we must do what we ought to do. We must support the Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation, Inc. To speak clearly—and yes, bluntly—Brothers, unless we support this Foundation the self-praise we periodically heap upon ourselves in ceremonial circumstances, such as Founders Day, will hereafter be substantially hollow and vain.

Our obligation is definite, our course is clear, and follow it, we must. To this end, therefore, the General Secretary is prepared to accept financial gifts for the Foundation. Any gift made to this corporation may be deducted by the donor when he files his Federal income-tax returns.

Please send your donation to the Fraternity's General Secretary. He will forward il to the General Treasurer to be deposited in the special account of the Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation, Inc. OSCAR W. RITCHIE FOR THE ALPHA PHI ALPHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC.

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Under pressure of law, public opinion and Negro militancy, progress in civil rights has reached the point where many Americans assume that the practical end of discrimination is only a matter of time.

But even the end of formal discrimination falls hort of the distant goal: full integration of the Negro into American life. Nor can true integration be achieved until the nation—and the Negro—solves a crucial and immediate problem: how to "Americanize" the fragile, fractured Negro family.

The Negro in America was never a "black Anglo-Saxon," though sometimes he tried to be. He was never simply "another ethnic group" to be assimilated into the mainstream. His family structure is unique in American society.

The U. S. family is primarily patriarchal. The husband and father is the chief breadwinner, carrying the responsibility for his wife and children. Even in families

aggressive females. In fact, the blame rests on the horrors of a slave society which stripped the Negro male of his masculinity and condemned him to a eunuchlike existence in a culture which venerates masculine primacy.

Males in Slavery There are no discontinuities in history.

Negroes today (like any other people) are largely the product of yesterday. And American slavery, the "yesterday" of the American Negro, ended only 100 years ago. For 250 years before emancipation, slavery ordered the lives, the thinking and the behavior of white people in one way, and the Negroes in quite another.

American slavery was a different institution from contemporary slavery in South America, Portugal, Africa, or from ancient slavery in Greece and Rome. It developed its own institutionalized values uniquely designed to promote its own ends. Its peculiar impingement upon the

THE ABSENT [ F M K haunts the negro family where husband and wife supposedly share equally in making decisions, our society regards the male as "more equal." The law defines this relationship; custom supports and rewards it. But the majority of Negro families do not follow the U. S. custom and are appropriately penalized.

Because women have assumed primary responsibility as head of the family, the matriarchal Negro household is at a distinct disadvantage in competing for its rightful share of benefits offered by society.

About 25 per cent of Negro families are headed by women who have no husbands. These are families where the male is absent because of divorce, separation or desertion, and do not include families with illegitimate children which have never included a male parent.

The easy explanation of the shattered Negro family puts the blame on the Negro male, caricatured as shiftless and lazy. A more socially acceptable reason attributes the matriarchal family structure to super-

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by C. ERIC LINCOLN

Negro in America inescapably conditioned his values, his behavior and his future.

When Negroes were slaves, neither the law nor the slave owners recognized marriage between slaves. Males of prime physical condition were mated with females, like so many cattle. Children were left with the mother, giving the Negro mother an early, exclusive interest in the family and forcing upon her full responsibility for its care. In those instances where a male and female were permitted to live together longer than necessary for procreation, the Negro father (he could hardly be called a husband) had absolutely no control over his family or its fortunes. Children were seized and sold.

Often the father himself was sold away from his family, never to see them again.

The psychology of castration was viciously applied in other ways, too. No Negro man was given a title of respect, a practice which continues in much of the rural South today. A Negro man was

simply "Sam," "Jim," or frequently "boy," no matter what his age. He was never "Mister." If he was "living with a woman"—the nearest thing to marriage — he was known as "Hattie's Sam" or "Mandy's Jim," again denying him a position as head of the family. And if the white man wanted Hattie or Mandy for himself, the Negro male had to step aside; interference as a "husband" meant severe punishment, and, not infrequently, death.

When the Negro was freed from bondage all the laws Congress could muster was not effective in wholly transferring him from the category of slave to the category of citizen.

The slaves were freed without any provision for their economic or social wellbeing. They were almost totally uneducated, for to have educated a slave was a criminal offense. They had no money and no homes. And they were concentrated in a politically and economically distressed society hostile to their presence as freed-men. Even those who made their way to the North quickly found themselves unwelcome, for as indigents with low skills they threatened to glut the unskilled labor market and become a burden on the tax-paying citizenry.

Females in Slavery Because of her peculiar relationship to the white woman as a servant, and because she was frequently the white man's mistress, the Negro woman occasionally flouted the rules of segregation. Her impunity was by no means absolute, but because she often reigned supreme in the white man's kitchen and nursery she could, in times of crisis, "talk to the man" and get concessions that made life a little more bearable for herself and her children.

The practice of sending the Negro woman to do business with the white man became quickly established in the Negrowhite pattern of relations. In the ruptured economy of the postwar South, Negro women were frequently paid more than their menfolk and they could ordinarily find jobs in domestic service while their men walked the streets looking for work.

"Freedom" did not improve the image of the Negro male or give him a sense of security as head of the family. He re-

mained a semi-slave, and his slavery was rooted in the centuries he had spent in America.

If you want to understand his hatreds, his resentments, his castration as a husband and father, look back 100 years.

And if you ask why in 100 years he has not overcome the past, it is because the past has never died: every day, every hour of that 100 years of semi-freedom has had to be rewon day by day from the prejudice which still promotes, openly or covertly, the old ways of slavery. The Negro did not earn rewards for being manly, courageous or assertive, but for being accommodating—for fulfilling the stereotype of what he has been forced to be.

We may note, in the interest of keeping perspective, that some stable Negro families with male heads existed before and after slavery. Before the Civil War, some free Negroes in the South and the North maintained family structures and customs as closely analogous to those in the prevailing white culture as circumstances would permit. A few upper-class Negro families, mostly along the Atlantic Coast, have an unbroken tradition of more than 100 years of social stability and cultural progress. And in the Deep South a handful of Negro families that date to slavery, or the first decades after emancipation, testify to the Negro's determined attempt to overcome the scars of thralldom.

The symptoms of the Negro family's enduring sickness are everywhere evident today.

Pathology of the Past The Negro crime rate is higher by far than the national average. The rate of illegitimacy is higher—regardless of inconsistency of reporting procedures—and may be as high as 25 per cent. Negro addiction, especially among juveniles, is much higher than among whites—dramatic evidence of the attempt to escape the rigors of living in a society which for them bears little promise of a better future. The percentage of Negro high-school dropouts, again far above the national average, reflects the same sense of Negro hopelessness.

This is a social sickness of epidemic proportions, and it spreads with the steady

deterioration of the Negro family.

As the basic unit of socialization for the young, the family needs the presence of both parents if children are to learn the values and expectations of society. But socialization is a continuing experience which affects not only children, but parents as well. A "family man" is much less likely to lapse into criminal activity than one without ties and responsibilities.

The absent father has not been, until recently, a particularly disturbing factor among Negroes themselves (except for educated Negroes who were particularly sensitive to the white man's blanket charge of racial immorality). Any male in the average Negro family might function as a father-figure: uncles, older brothers, grandfathers, even cousins.

ny, what does your father look like? Is he big and tall?' and Johnny says he doesn't know. And finally they say, 'Well, all right, Johnny, what is your father's name?' And Johnny says he doesn't know."

The divorce rate among Negro families is 5.1 per cent, compared to 3.8 per cent among whites. But divorces are expensive, and the rate of desertion—the poor man's divorce—is even higher. In many cases, the psychological strain of being a member of a family he cannot support because of unemployment or lack of skills is too much for the Negro husband, and he simply disappears. More often he "deserts" so that his family may become eligible for relief payments, since the family is often better off on relief than depending

Similarly a grandmother or aunt was frequently "mama" to a brood of children not biologically her own.

Television has been one factor in sensitizing the Negro child to the fact that his family is different. Another increasingly important factor is the integrated school. In their association with white children from complete families, Negro kids learn early that something is different about their own households. This awareness is sharpened even further by white teachers who have Negro pupils for the first time. As a Negro teacher in a newly integrated school explained it: "My white colleagues get so frustrated when they ask little brown Johnny, 'What does you father do?" and Johnny says he doesn't know. Then they ask, 'Well, John-

on the uncertainties of a job. In any event, only a minority of Negro children will complete high school in a two-parent home.

Middle Class Male Among middle-class Negroes the battered male ego is frequently a factor in divorce or separation. The Negro professional is in actual or vicarious contact with the American mainstream. He knows his white counterpart is the chief breadwinner and head of the family in his home, and the Negro is acutely sensitive to the possibility of his own failings in these respects.

As tangible goods accumulate, and increasingly important decisions are made, most Negro men become restive and uncomfortable if they are married to women

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who outearn them, and who assume the prerogatives of family leadership as a corollary to their earning power. In Atlanta, for example, 1 asked a young Negro woman. a teacher, "Who is head of the family at your house?" She thought for a moment, then answered: "Well, Jack is now, but when I get my raise, I'll be head, because I'll be making $27 more than he will."

The problem is considerably more formidable than such naivete, I assure you.

Hie Negro female has had the responsibility of the Negro family for so many generations that she accepts it, or assumes it, as second nature. Many older women have forgotten why the responsibility devolved upon the Negro woman in the first place or why it later became institutionalized. And young Negro women do not think it is absurd to reduce the relationship to a matter of money since many of them probably grew up in families where the only income was earned by their mothers; their fathers may not have been in evidence at all.

Even in middle-class Negro families where the husband earns more than his wife, the real cement holding the marriage may be status and "appearances" rather than a more fundamental attachment. The Negro wife who grew up in a matriarchal home finds it difficult to assent to male leadership in the family; the Negro husband with a similar family history may be over-anxiously insistent on male prerogatives in order to align his family in what he conceives to be the American tradition.

I know a prominent professor in Atlanta who has taught there for 15 years while his wife worked as a teacher in her hometown several hundred miles away.

They see each other at Christmas and for a brief period at the end of his summer term. This respectable arrangement obviates, or at least postpones, the problem of who will be head of the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at the price of maintaining a one-parent household.

The task of giving the Negro husband and father a status in keeping with the larger society requires a basic change in established patterns of Negro education, training and employment.

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Education for Whom?

More Negro women go to college than men, just the reverse of the white educational pattern. Six per cent of all female professionals are Negroes, while just a shadow over one per cent of all male professionals are Negroes. Negro females do better in school too, probably reflecting the low incentive of the Negro male who frequently feels that even if he graduates, he still won't be getting anywhere.

The long tradition of educating the girls in the Negro family is rooted in the system of segregated employment which limited sharply the Negro male's prospects of finding a job commensurate with college training. In the typical Negro family the boys leave school and go to work early, frequently pooling their earnings for the education of their sisters. The process inevitably produces a pronounced imbalance in the ratio of educated women to educated men, reinforcing the disproportionate power and prestige of the Negro woman in the family.

Having to "marry down," if she marries at all, is a common experience of the Negro woman and one which perpetuates the matriarchal pattern while fostering dissatisfaction, desertion and divorce. For that reason, certain Negro colleges are famous as hunting grounds for eligible men, and the tuition of many an indigent medical school student has been paid by the doting parents of aspiring daughters.

The ratio of Negro college men to women is changing slowly as employment opportunities for Negro men are broadened. In time, the existing disparity as a distinctive feature of Negro life may disappear, but not until Negroes can try for success in fields closed to them for so long, and not until the incentives of Negro youth can be sharply increased.

The problem of education is, of course, interwoven with the question of jobs.

Since 1930, the ratio of Negro unemployment to white unemployment has hovered steadily at about two to one.

The working husband of any race is usually the key to family stability; when the husband loses his job it represents the point at which the family may begin to deteriorate. His loss of self-esteem, the inability to support his family, dependence

upon some social agency or the wife's earningsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all these factors generally presage more difficult problems to come. In the case of the Negro family, with its historic weaknesses and the tentative nature of male leadership, a prolonged period of unemployment can be disastrous.

The family may break up completely and in the long run society has to pay.

Law is Not Enough The problem is far larger than the individual Negro family; it is bigger than the limited resources of the Negro lower class, which is most affected. The Johnson Administration, using the pioneering report on the Negro family by Daniel P. Moynihan as a point of departure, has recognized the dimensions of the crisis and inaugurated the most comprehensive series of social rehabilitation programs ever designed by the Federal establishment.

Even that will not be enough. The Government can make available better schools, better housing and better opportunities for employment. It can enforce the laws protecting the franchise and the right to public accommodations. But the Government cannot establish a pattern of family relationships which will foster the values needed to make all this meaningful and effective. Only the Negro can save the family. The substantive help of law and the Government is essential, of course, but the incentive, the motivation which can transform the Negro predicament into a shining achievement of the Great Society must come from within the group.

The white man destroyed the Negro family and kept it weak by preserving the psychology of slavery, thinly disguised as racial discrimination and prejudice. But the white man cannot give back the values he took away.

For years, myopic but well-meaning whites have been challenging the Negro to pull himself up by his own bootstraps, even though the Negro didn't have either boots or straps. The white man was looking at his own boots and imagining the Negro owned a pair, too. The "straps" of the Negro's family problem are not encouraging, but he must work with what he has.

Editorials Negro vs. Negro In an appraisal of our (American Negroes') overall program for progress, there is soon to be discovered the almost-total absence of constructive criticism, Negro vs. Negro.

Scan the various communications media with eye and ear and you find it easier ferreting needles from haystacks than it is to run across Negro critics of Negro affairs who speak, not from the vineyard of sourgrapes, but from the mountain-top of their convictions that we aren't paving a perfect road to equality.

A prominent Negro businessman once said, "Being a Negro leader is the most thankless job in the world." It should be added: To be a Negro critic of Negroes is to be the loneliest, perhaps the most unpopular, man in the world.

There are, to be sure, sound sociological and psychological explanations of "why" this is true. It is natural to crave approbation and, understandably, American Negroes, having enjoyed less of it over the years, crave it more than most. Criticism runs counter to this desire.

There is, also, some feeling that public criticism of a Negro by another Negro is a form of racial treason. But this is shallow thinking. One has only to stop and consider how much less of a democracy America would be today were constructive criticism outlawed to realize how important constructive criticism is.

Putting it another way: One may discern quite easily that the most effective delivery of constructive criticism against the battalions of bigotry is being made today by the Caucasian communications media.

Say whatever you will about the weaknesses of the "system" of sociological and economic life operated by American Caucasians, but you must admit that, even in this age of the publicist and the obvious workings of managed news, the constructive critics, the rightful rebels, the second part of the two-party system, the guardians of what is, or what is believed to be, the right of expose or investigation or expression of honest, meaningful dissatisfaction or conviction will not be silenced for long.

But, whereas Negroes deliver limitless criticisms against Caucasians, they well nigh ignore altogether the assets to be achieved through constructive Negro vs. Negro criticism.

Almost all Negro vs. Negro criticism is either negative or destructive. personal or petty. Consequently, it contributes little, if anything, to the progress of the racial group.

What makes all this much more of a tragedy is the fact that,

while Negroes are terribly slow to take advantage of the avenues of constructive criticism within the racial group, they can be inveigled into knocking each other in communications media owned and operated by another racial group. Hence we have magazine articles as "The Negro Now"â&#x20AC;&#x201D;in which several Negro leaders quoted prominently make the non-unique point of knocking other outstanding Negroes.

We are moved to write this article, however, not so much * by what was said in other white magazines by Negro writers, but what was said in a column by a respected Negro writer who wished to envelope in a curse all Negroes who refused to accept the currently-publicized No. 1 Negro leader (whoever he is) as the all-holy and untouchable Negro leader. "Curse be unto you," this writer said, in essence, "if you dare criticize this All-Holy Negro leader."

We wish to submit that there is no one person in this nation, colored or white, who is, by himself, capable of managing all the myriad divisions and complexities of the "Negro situation."

In so-called "white America," one finds thousands of great leaders in the dozens of areas of important human endeavor.

There are at least 20 million Negroes in this nation and, before we begin to approach equality of status as citizens, we must develop thousands of leaders, too, and, when we develop them, we must be willing to give them credit for what they accomplish.

Our system of "accepting" great leaders is tied, basically, to "popular thought" or "current fads." Anyone who doesn't fit comfortably herein is summarily ostracized and quickly diminished. Booker T. Washington, who had a great deal to say constructively, was virtually read out of the race by some simply because, or largely because, in one speech in a far different time from today he had made a statement which cut against the racial grain. George S. Schuyler who, though obviously making statements subjectable to debate, has had many constructive criticisms to contribute, is described in many places as "the black Westbrook Pegler." Jackie Robinson, who possesses the fine quality of speaking his mind, has been driven from pillar to post by many Negroes who resented, as they resent today, the fact that he has the guts to stand up and be counted.

The easiest thing in the world is to be a crowd-follower.

And for that reason, if for no other, constructive criticism should be welcomed when someone, speaking obviously from no vineyard or sourgrapes, wishes to, and is willing to, critically appraise certain people and their programs for progress.

There are dozens, hundreds, of Negro leaders who need to be recognized, who need to be developed more completely in their areas of concentration.

For, the truth is, we have yet to unhitch our wagons from the ditch. We have yet to hitch our wagons to the stars. We have yet to form self-help, or Let's Go! groups in the many, many areas where we can help ourselves more than we are doing currently. And, we arc spending too much time trying to hide, and knocking, those many thousands of American Negroes who battle daily to "do their little bit," which is vastly important, simply because they refuse to live in slums or refuse to move South to walk picket lines.

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A Profile of Poverty Every person lives and grows in a particular way of life in his environment, with a "design for living," a cluster of customs, rules and habits that are passed on from one generation to the next. The child breathes in the culture of his family as he breathes in the air around him. Directly or indirectly, it is through parents that each question comes to terms with its hei itage. The "war on poverty" campaign has made us keenly aware of the principal factors that make up the culture of the slum-dweller. The culture of the poor refers to those who have always been poor, whose ancestors were poor, whose children will no doubt be poor. Visiting in the foul-smelling tenements housing these people, one realizes that poverty is not merely a state of economic circumstances; it is also a state of mind.

Psychologically, the whole way of life of the poor is different.

They live close to the edge of starvation. Their fight for mere survival makes them social cripples.

The culture of the poor is a way of life, continued from generation to generation. What are the more general aspects of this culture: poor people usually have only a makeshift "schooling." They are not members of labor unions, clubs or community centers. Banks, doctors, and ministers are distrusted.

A deep-rooted superstitious fear of hospitals, which are considered "places to die in," is implanted early in their minds.

They suspect government officials, and have overt contempt for the police. Theft, murder, fornication, desertion are a part of their lives. They are a marginal people who know only their own troubles, their own local conditions, their own neighborhood, their own way of life. Lacking education or perception, they are unable to see the similarities between their problems and those of their counterparts elsewhere in the world. Slums thwart mutual understanding between slum-dwellers and their fellow citizens outside the area.

Hoarding pennies, scrounging for broken-down second-hand furniture, bargaining over near-spoilt fruit and vegetables, wearing family hand-me-downs and strangers' castoff garments, shivering all winter and suffocating all summer their lives are marked with misery. They are convinced that the world is against them. Their evidence—the grocery bill (sky-high prices for inferior goods), the rent and their poor health. Simply staying alive is a major concern and keeps them quite tired, cither from working or from worry. All of this produces a state of anxiety which isolates them still further from the world.

Often, when they could improve their own lot, they continue to live in their slum world. There are reasons. It is the only environment they know.

They often experience—security of a sort from this type of communal living—a sort of misery loves company feeling.

Many times they have blood relations living in the same

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slums and are afraid to move, where they will find only strangers.

As a consequence, they feel no choice is open but to continue to live in rundown low-rent areas. Clinging to slums, but hating despair and potential violence.

The very poor do not have the unity of family life so essential for advancement. Generally, the household is a femalecentered one.

In the life of the poor, the child grows up in an unsatisfactory physical condition which results from more than lack of proper food, shelter and medical care. Children at ten and twelve are defeated, discouraged hopeless, empty. The world is hostile and their only refuge is their own block or neighborhood. Little wonder then that in the world of the have-nots education is just one more burden. Education, a nation-wide religion, is a demand to be avoided if and when possible not because the child does not want to be educated but because he dislikes school. He dislikes it because in school he is a second-rate citizen. Teachers and other students often do not like him nor respond to him. The general attitude is that the poor child is a slow child. Finally, in despair after heart-breaking experiences with the school authorities, unsympathetic teachers, the poor student frequently rebels by becoming a dropout.

In conclusion, we must consider the fact that this culture within our world society took generations to develop; that the victims of the slums are not going to change overnight into "decent" members of the middle class. Also, a people who has suffered three centuries of hardships, rebuffs and blows from society will not suddenly feel humble gratitude upon being offered a chance for a new way of life.

Revolution in Africa Problems in Africa, such as the outbursts in Nigeria and Ghana, are put in perspective by a young Nigerian lawyer who remarked, "It took the West two hundred years to go through the industrial revolution—and we have to do it in two generations. Isn't it reasonable that some of the strife and injusitce of your two hundred years will be compressed into our two generations?"

In this perspective, the main thing isn't whether communism or capitalism are ahead today in Africa. By the day after tomorrow, either one will be substantially changed in the process of revolutionary change in Africa. Systems are always subordinate to the needs of men. The basic and continuing question everywhere is whether, however haltingly, the dignity of man is being served.

We have no crystal ball with which to answer 'yes' or 'no' for Africa. Africa must answer for herself. Our task is to make our own land more of a model for the realization of human dignity.

A CASE FOR ALPHA OUTREACH A New Concept of Go-To High School Go-To College

By OTHA N. BROWN, Jr. The Eastern Region of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., has embarked on a bold program to encourage potentially able Negro boys to complete their secondary education and enter college. The program is called: Alpha Outreach â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Voluntary Guidance Program For Community Youth.

This new concept of Go-To College was designed to implement the ideas of former Eastern Vice-President, Frank Morris, expressed at the regional conventions and steering committees during his administration to develop a co-ordinated program of education in the region.

Pursuant to the request of the present Eastern Vice-President, Bro. Frank J. Ellis, plans are being made to intensify and add greater depth to a venture in the experimental stage.

The program will deal mainly at the outset with Negro boys 8-12 from disadvantaged families. These students will be identified in communities, where Alpha men are organized, as ones who are most likely to profit from the program and its objectives. The program will seek to help these boys recognize the need for further education and to help them solve personal problems that may seriously frustrate

their attempts to achieve, complete their schooling successfully, and block their search for self respect as productive members of society.

The chapters will "adopt" these students and furnish them with guidance, cultural opportunities, and financial assistance toward the completion of their education. For those students who show unusual promise, every effort will be made to provide the opportunity of entering prep schools and other advanced educational programs. While techniques may vary in the different chapter programs, all will be geared toward carrying out activities of tutorial help, cultural exposure, financial aid, "Big Brother" relationships and other activities to foster and improve the "male image". It is important that such students be selected at such an early age for the record of failure and retardation for many dropouts goes back to the first three grades, and it is at this time that diagnosis, prognosis, and proper treatment be rendered for maximum results.

Drop-outs High I am gratified that so many chapters have made favorable responses to the program and project directors all over the Eastern Region have begun to set up the

framework to launch this long range effort.

I am convinced that there is a strong case for such a program as "Alpha Outreach" and I am even more convinced that Alpha Chapters over the nation should and must put it into action.

Students in our nation's schools are dropping out at a rate approaching forty per cent before completing high school.

There is an "American Tragedy", for our country is in desperate need of these young people to contribute to the critical man-power needs and the important business of effectively participating in the demands of a democracy. It is also a personal tragedy for each of these students.

As dropouts they will surely face a harsh future in a skilled and automated labor market that will have little or no use for them.

Studies indicate that most of these dropouts are sixteen years of age, rarely go beyond ten years of schooling and come from low income group families.

Studies further show that these students are for the most part identifiable in the initial three grades of schooling and if given the proper help, they may reverse their original pattern of learning behavior and make a successful adjustment to the traditional school curriculum.

During this decade, we are encountering the baby boom which will usher in use the twenty-six million new young workers in the economy. A third of them will have less than a high school education and more than two million of them will have less than eight years of schooling. These figures are enough to cause great alarm when we consider that a person with less than fourteen years of education has little hope of getting a decent job and yet so many of our young people will not even graduate from high school.

The Culturally Deprived Children from low income families compose the greater number of this group and pose special problems. They not only face failure in school due to poor preparation in slum schools, but the educational level of their parents and the attitude toward education in their neighborhoods will also but seal their fate to a life of frustration, futility and helpless-

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ness. These children who have been described as "culturally deprived" are potentially able but are most likely to end up as unskilled, school dropouts and even juvenile delinquents. While many people disagree with the term used to describe these youth, we can hardly quibble with Dr. Frank Riessman, a teacher and psychologist who in his book The Culturally Deprived Child clarifies his meaning of

cultural deprivation by referring to "those aspects of middle class cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;such as education, books, formal languageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from which these groups have not benefitted."

He makes it quite clear that if these youth are to have a successful school life and an opportunity to learn, programs and instructions must be modified. This would imply that "the business as usual", and other conventional approaches must yield

to more unique and creative techniques that are tailored to meet the individual needs of these students. Furthermore, community and fraternal groups must marshal their resources and join the schools in this all important effort.

It is estimated that one out of every ten in the fourteen largest cities in 1960 was in the category of the "culturally deprived," and it is predicted that by 1970, there may be one deprived child for every two in the schools of these same large cities.

It is not surprising to discover that Negroes comprise the highest percentage of the disadvantaged. Since the end of slavery to the present, the Negro has been the victim of a most vicious circle of poor education leading to poor jobs and low pay which leads to poor housing with the natural consequence of poor schooling all over again.

The average Negro family income today is about $3,233 or about 54% the average $5,835 for whites, we are told.

Recent studies show that white families can spend most of their earnings on education, medical care and cars while Negro families have barely enough to take care of poor expensive housing and food.

The 'New Society' The walls of discrimination in the economic life of our country are beginning to crack due to our commitment to the concept of the "New Society," but Negro youth are not preparing themselves at a commensurate pace to take advantage of the new opportunities to share in the good life. There is substantial evidence that the dropout rate typically among Negro students is sixty per cent greater than their white counterparts. Last year the U. S. Government made a study of Negroes twenty-four years of age and found out that about 50% were dropouts. Therefore, we can understand, at least in part, why 80% of Negro workers are in the lowest occupational categories, while only 40% of whites are in such jobs.

While we cannot, we must not forget the racial discrimination faced by Negroes, wc must recognize the changes taking place in this area and prepare to meet head-on another serious reality. Whitney M. Young, Jr., describes it in these terms:

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"Continued migration and urbanization will find a steadily increasing number of Negro citizens residing in large urban centers where technically or legally they will not face visible barrier to jobs, housing, education or other facilities, but where, due to historical deprivation and injustice, they will be handicapped economically and socially in their efforts to realize the better life they seek."

Mothers Replace Fathers We hear much said about the fear of our country becoming a matriarchal society in which the male is replaced as head of the family by the mother who becomes the chief breadwinner and thus assumes the primary responsibility for care of the family.

Among Negroes, this fear is presently a reality. I need not document this assertion here. One needs only to observe.

In my own state, it was reported that Negro women earned more money last year than Negro males or white women.

It is especially significant for our consideration that more than twice as many Negro girls go to college than boys, while almost twice as many white boys go to college than do white girls.

Dr. Byrl Shoemaker, President, American Vocational Association, recently announced the shocking news that only one out of three students graduate from college. It was also revealed that eight out of 10 high school students begin preparation for college; one out of eight is accepted into college, and 50 per cent of those accepted do not finish their freshman year.

These are some of the problems the nation faces as in general. But there are some facts that become even more specific and applicable to our program.

Studies show a glaring disparity between the proportion of Negroes in the population and their representation among college graduates. It is estimated that only 50 per cent of Negro high school graduates go on to college.

Finally, there is a great need for our young people to take advantage of the many excellent prep schools in the country. Successful completion of these schools will almost assure them of entrance into some of the most competitive colleges in the land.

All of our discussion here points up vividly, I think, that there is very little in the average Negro boy's experiences or environment that will provide the proper motivation to achieve and aspire to the responsibilities of manhood. He has no male model; Negro mothers are often more preoccupied with the interests of their daughters than their sons; and he lacks evidence or assurance that education will provide a way out of his status of futility.

We must do something about this crisis â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Alpha Phi Alpha must be in the vanguard in this struggle. A fraternity of college trained Negro men all over the country has the greater potential in the resolution of this acute problem than any other or group. Alpha has had a unique experience in this area when it instituted the "Go to High School, Go to College Program" years ago. We have been away too long and we must return to the scene of battle and, perhaps, save the day.

Outreach Program Suggestions Project directors will need to make a thorough diagnosis or assessment of the needs of students selected for the program. However, the following are some activities that would merit consideration.

I. Tutorial Services A. "Cram School" could be instituted.

1. Discussions of Test-taking Techniques.

2. Study Procedures.

B. Use of more able students as tutors.

II. Forums and Workshops School text book material may be supplemented by providing a rich experience with the history of the American Negro and other minorities.

III. Provide Cultural Experiences A. Visitations to theater, museums, home of Brothers, etc.

B. Lectures on the Arts, Music, and Literature.

C. Arrange for camps, services, and other tours.

IV. Vocational Guidance A. Use audio-visual aids to present the roles of minority group individuals in the World of Work today.

1. Photographs 2. Slides 3. Movies 4. Ebony's "Speaking of People," etc.

B. Career Conferences.

V. College Information Service A. Prep Schools B. Scholarships C. Work-Study Programs VI. Planned Activities for Parents with Students A. Study carefully the "Banneker Program" in St. Louis for more insights about involvement of parents in educational programs.

B. Seek their aid in planning of some programs.

C. Advise them concerning problems of children at school or home.

D. Plan social activities involving parents and children.

VII. Develop a Placement Resource in the community to encourage and aid the students to get jobs. Encourage students to work in offices of professionals for experience contact.

VIII. Conference with School Officials A. Progress of Students B. Curriculum development C. Resources for Referrals

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Eight Greek Letter Organizations Strive for Common Polieies and Goals through the...

PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL The National Pan-Hellenic Council has just concluded a hearty national convention at the Hotel Statler Hilton, New York City. For the first time in the history of the National Organization all the presidents of the eight affiliated Greek-letter organizations were present (Mrs. Mildred C. Boone, Grand Basiteus, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority; Mrs. Julia B. Purnell, Supreme Basileus, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority; Mrs. Annie W. Neville, Grand Basileus.

Sii;ina Gamma Rho Sorority; Dr. Geraldine P. Woods, National President, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; Attorney Thomas Bradley, Grand Polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity; Dr. Lionel Newsom, General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Mr. George F. Meares, Grand Basileus of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and Mr. Maurice A. Moore, National President of Phi Beta Simga Fraternity).

The real historical achievement of the New York convention was the adoption of a manual on rushing, pledging, and initiation, which was written by Mrs. Carey B. Preston, administrative secretary of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, upon the request of the National Council.

Each of the eight organizations ironed out the major differences that have affected them during the fifty years of their existence. Now all the eight Greek-letter organizations, speaking through the PanHellenic Council, will have a common policy on rushing, pledging, and initiation and other general policies governing their organizations on college campuses.

One of the major problems facing PanHellenic Council is the misinterpretation

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of its purpose by the public. The major purpose of the Pan-Hellenic Council is to make policies and coordinate the activities of the eight member organizations.

In many instances, the public feels that the Pan-Hellenic Council is an organization that projects programs and projects, same as the eight member organizations.

This is not its function. Its function is policy making.

So often, the questions are asked, "What is Pan Hellenic Council doing?"

"Is it dead?" What is implied by these questions is the expectation of the sponsorship of some big project by the Council, which is outside of the purpose of the Pan-Hellenic Council. So, these questions should be answered by Greeks by saying Pan-Hellenic Council does not sponsor programs and projects; it makes the general policies and coordinates the activities of the member organizations.

Now that we have unity as it relates to the undergraduate sector of the PanHellenic Council, the next major problem facing the Council is to strengthen our graduate city chapters and make them in their coordinating function support the undergraduate program on the college campuses.

The Pan-Hellenic Council plans to move in three directions by the next convention, which will be held in Richmond, Va., in March, 1967. A board meeting will be called in Chicago to take a hard look at the constitution and set up the machinery for the implementation of many of the resolutions passed by the New York Convention; contact the col-

By Walter

Washington

lege presidents of the colleges where most of the chapters of member organizations are located and get their support for the manual on rushing, pledging, and initiation; and in the fall a summit conference of all the eight Greek presidents and executive secretaries will meet, possibly in Atlanta, to set up ways and means by which Pan-Hellenic Council can request jurisdiction on the campuses where chapters of member organizations are located.

The General President, Brother Lionel Newsom; General Secretary, Brother Laurence Young; and Chairman of the Housing Commission, Brother Alexander of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, made great contributions to the unity of Greekdom in their support of Pan-Hellenic Council. They have not only represented the Fraternity at the convention and various summit conferences, but they have been most resourceful. Alpha Phi Alpha has a right to be proud of the contributions they have made.

Brother Alexander gave all the Greeks an opportunity to see the extensive approach that Alpha has made to undergraduate housing and suggested that all Greek-letter organizations study this plan and see to what extent they can use it for their organizations.

Every Alpha man, whether in college or in adult life, should put his influence and effort behind the strengthening of the PanHellenic Council in his locality. The time demands that Greek-letter organizations come together in unity. Either we stand together as one, as one delegate stated at the convention, or we shall perish.

Alpha Phi Alpha General President Newsom (r.) is one of eight Greek letter presidents receiving awards from the National Pan Hellenic Council at its 38th national convention in New York March 19. Brother Walter Washington (I.), president of Utica College, Utica, Miss., is national chairman of the Council. A hove is the coronation of Miss Lynda Rhodes as "Miss New York Inter Greek Queen."

A Brooklynite, Miss Rhodes is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and attends Brooklyn College. She was selected by the undergraduate chapters of the four fraternities in metropolitan New York: the Alphas, Omegas, Sigmas and Kappas.

Frai

Humor

Girl's father: "Young man, we turn the lights off at ten-thirty around here."

Boy: "That's okay, sir, we won't be reading." * * * Most of few of us more than know how

us know how to say nothing; know when. And you know you think you do when you little you know. * * *

Frustration is telling the nice lady which you are following up the ship ladder that the seam in her stockings is crooked, only to find out that she is not wearing stockings.

by 0. Wilson Winters

"Spring is here the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is? Today I heard a silly thing, they said the bird is on the wing. No dumber thing was ever heard; you know the wing is on the bird." * * * Scientists says a man will eventually be able to live beneath the sea. I hope it's soon, I'm barely holding my head above water now. * * * A rose by any other name still would smell; but a chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell. * * * The mother-in-law of a neighbor arrived for one of her frequent and protracted visits and the dutiful son-in-law welcomed her with appropriate and most insincere expressions of joy. "Make yourself completely at home, mother," he urged. "I want yb*u to look upon this house just as though it was your own." She did. She sold it. * * * Ronald was bussed to school in a new neighborhood. The teacher asked him where he was born. Ronald said, "Of course I knew I was born in Bellvue hospital, but that sounded too sissy so I told her I was born in Yankee Stadium." * * * 14

Frustration is marrying the boss' ugly daughter only to find out the company is bankrupt. * * * Frustration is finding that a chip on the shoulder is the heaviest load a man can carry. * * * Frustration is like taking a shower, one wrong turn and you're in hot water. * * * Each student was asked to parse a word for the mid year test in grammar.

Everett Michell turned in the following: " 'Kiss' — this word is a noun and it is sometimes used as a verb; but it is usually Used as a conjunction; it is never declined and is more common than proper. It is not very singular that it is generally used in the plural. It agrees with me." * * * When asked why gentlemen walk on the street side when escorting ladies on the city streets, Kenneth Jones quickly replied: "So they can spit in the gutter."

What is love? asked the cynic. The lover answered, "Love is misery — sweetened with imagination, salted with tears, spiced with doubt, flavored with novelty, and swallowed with your eyes shut." * * * At the mental hospital one of the inmates who was asked why he was emptying the water from the fire buckets replied: "Because it says on these buckets, 'for fire only'." * * *

Another inmate sat thru an address by the social service visitor with eyes glued on the speaker, drinking in very word. At the end of the extended remarks, the flattered speaker asked the inmate what were his thoughts while listening to the address.

He replied, "I was thinking, just listen to that junk; why am I in here and he is out!" » * * "Daughter," said her mother, "you have your darling little baby; you and your husband should be very happy."

Daughter said: "baby just lies there in his crib and talks to me by the hour, while George talks and lies to me by the hour." * * * The rich matron was much chagrined at the zoo because the monkeys didn't come out even though little Archibald threw many bags of peanuts into their compound. "It is their mating season, madame," explained the guard. "Would they come out if we threw in some bananas?" she asked. The guard gave her a withering look and said, "would you?" * * * Because his car has an automatic transmission the driver explained to the lady who so kindly offered to give his stalled car a push, "You will have to get up to 30 to 35 miles an hour in order to get me started."

The lady nodded wisely and the stalled driver climbed into his car and waited for her to line up behind him. He waited and waited. Then he turned around to see where the woman was. She was there all right — coming at him 30 to 35 miles an hour.

The crash was good for $300 damage to his car. * * * A swarm of bees was travelling across the country. The queen bee explained that at every fifty miles they would swarm and rest at Atlantic Refining gasoline stations.

At the first Atlantic station in Scranton they stopped — all stopped except one bee, he kept on flying. Thirty miles away they caught up with him resting at an Esso gasoline station. The queen bee looked at him and said to the other puzzled bees, "oh well, in every swarm of bees there's bound to be one Esso bee. * * *

£>T[bout thirty years ago, Rube Foster, Gravely Finley, Woof Thornton, Bill Martin, Red Hayes, Arthur Stokes and I were having a highly critical bull session in room 118, in Emery Hall. The bull session was critical because 1933, 1934 and 1935 were critical years. We were juniors and seniors who were soon to be graduated into a cruel depression-ridden world. And believe me, this fact left a terrible, shocking fear in all of us.

We not only had to face a run-down economy where jobs were scarce and industry was dry-rotting at a jet speed clip, but we had to face a sometimes hostile white society—a white society that had firmly designated certain low esteemed job categories to Negro workers. For example, Negro college graduates, in a preponderance of cases, could not aspire to white collar jobs "downtown," in a nation where free competitive enterprise had created more jobs and wealth than in any other nation in the history of the world.

White collar jobs as accountants, chemists, engineers, salesmen, brokerage customer executives, advertising account executives, even typists, clerks, and secretaries, were out of bounds in practically all white-oriented businesses downtown and uptown. The rule was ironclad. Any position that carried with it a modicum of dignity in a white-oriented business, North or South, was taboo to the Negro applicant.

This was the crux of the bull session in Emery Hall, room 118, some thirty years ago. The seven of us, Woof, Grav, Bill, Rube, Red, Art and I, as well as students in other bull sessions in many Negro colleges at that time, and every articulate Negro in the United States were pondering the big basic question: When will America awaken to her great potential by making the words of our Constitution live, work and breathe equally for all her citizens regardless of race, creed, color or national origin?

For a moment, let us reflect on the Emery Hall conferees and see what they are doing today! Doctors Jerry Thornton and Graverly Finley are successful physicians and businessmen in Detroit and Oklahoma City respectively. Mr. William Martin, a Ph.D., is a distinguished mem-

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THE OCCUPATIONAL STATUS 0U0 —*8®e*—

By LEROY W. JEFFRIES

ber of the Department of State for African Affairs. Mr. Earl Foster is a successful Chicago businessman in the transportation field. Mr. Taylor Hayes owns one of the largest mortuary establishments in Memphis, Tennessee.' Arthur Stokes, a distinguished educator, is on the faculty of the oldest and highly honored, Wilberforce University.

This little story is significant in its own way because it tells of the aspirations and desires of all Negro people throughout the breadth of our land. It sets the stage for the period before and during World War II, and the period after and now.

Here we have seen the minds of seven confused students struggling like drown-

ing men, grasping to reach an unfriendly shore to understand the meaning of a world within a world—a white world where all things are good—a black world where all things are bad!

For a moment, we began to look far beyond our immediate selfish needs. We began to look at America with the millstone of discrimination and prejudice hung heavily around her neck, weighing down and smothering the true words of her great Constitution. But somehow, then, we knew that our generation would play an important part in casting off this ugly, debilitating yoke, even if we had to defy bloody violence itself to do it.

From Our Past During the late 1930s and early 1940s, under the aegis of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for the first time in the history of the nation, thousands of white collar jobs opened up for Negro college graduates and other poential Negro white collar workers. Through many new government agencies along with state, municipal and county subdivisions set up by the "New Deal" to combat the depression, Negroes found a new haven where they crossed over to a white collar campground that gave them a sense of dignity and prestige they never had or knew before.

During this period, many other Negro college graduates worked as redcaps in New York Central and Pennsylvania Railrcaa Terminals, as well as in other diverse occupational categories not commensurate with the dignity and stature of their educational achievements. I recall that Earl Brown, a Harvard graduate, who had the distinction of pitching a "no-hitter" game for the University, and who later became the borough president of Manhattan in New York City, worked as a redcap for fifteen to twenty dollars a day in the New York Central Terminal, "rather than go down South and teach for ninety dollars a month."

When history finally records the deeds of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his outstanding contribution might well be the bringing of the Negro closer to the dignity of man by giving him an opportunity to compete with other Americans for white collar jobs on a basis of merit and equality.

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Since that time, and during the fabulous 1950s, Negro college graduates have made tremendous strides. Negroes have excelled in medicine; there are over 5,000 Negro doctors in our nation today. Negroes are excellent social workers and college professors and administrators.

Negroes are succeeding as writers, reporters, editors, accountants, engineers, statisticians and scientists.

We all know of the success of John H. Johnson, the editor and publisher of Ebony, Jet, Tan and Negro Digest Magazines. We know of the famous story of millionaire, A. G. Gaston, the Birmingham Alabama, insurance, business school, mortuary, and motel tycoon. Yes, we as members of a fortunate group in our society. who have been able to acquire an education, are reaching for the established goals of attainable success. We have focused on a rigid group of occupations that have seemed relatively safe in competing for. Yet, we have done well in these occupations, especially, since we have had access to them for such a short span of time.

Challenge of Tomorrow But have we really been scanning the new job marketâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;taking stock of the movement of well qualified, ambitious Negro men and women into the top echelon of jobs in the main stream of the American economy?

1 challenge you to travel with me through a great maze of occupations in the creative fields of business, communications, salesmanship, and marketing.

1 challenge you to remove your dark tinted glasses of the occupational status quo. and view with the naked eye of reality, jobs that pay from twenty to sixty thousand dollars a year.

I challenge you to reach not for the fertile valley of mediocrity, but reach for the rugged mountains where the going is a little tougher in the beginning, but the rewards are much more abundant and sweeter in the end. Like Caleb, who spied on Cannon for forty years for the prophet Moses, his reward entitled him to an inheritance, the lush valley of Hebron. But instead, he asked for the mountains of Hebron, where the Anakims, an hostile, warlike people lived. Caleb banished war

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in Hebron and became a great man among the Anakims because he had the faith and courage to tackle the tougher problems and apply himself to the limit.

Are you reaching, then, my young friends, for the mountains in an era when industrial, governmental and social organizations are begging for your talents?

Major corporations such as National Cash Register, R. C. A., Boeing Aircraft, American Brake Shoe, Chrysler Corporation, Standard Oil, Armco, Ford, General Motors and I.B.M., and many other companies are actively recruiting on our campuses today.

Let us look at the achievements of some highly ambitious, and successful men and women who have planned a little more, prepared a little more and used a little more imagination in building opportunilies for themselves.

Today's Pioneers For example, Bill Jones . . . a super salesman with Spitzer Ford in Cleveland, sold three-hundred and sixty cars in 1965.

One hundred sales a year is considered a good record for the average salesman . . .

Georg Olden, vice president and art director of McCann-Erickson, the second largest advertising agency in the world, earns a salary in excess of sixty thousand dollars a year . . . Mrs. Patricia Harris, an outstanding lawyer and law professor at Howard University, is the American Ambassador to Luxembourg . . . Thirty-nine year old. Dr. Andrew Brimmer moved up from Assistant Secretary of Commerce to become the first Negro appointed to the Federal Reserve Board, which sets the nation's monetary policies . . . Mrs. Yolanda H. Chambers, a lawyer, is vice president of Davidson Bros., In., a three-state department store chain . . . E. Fredric Morrow, former White House assistant to President Eisenhower, is an assistant vice president of the Bank of America International, the world's largest privately owned bank . . . Kenny Washington, of football fame at U. C. L. A., is vice president of the J. V. Elliott Co., distributors of Cutty Sark, the world's fastest selling Scotch Whiskey . . . Jim Brown, former high school basketball coach and thirtysix year old Kelvin Wall, are top market-

ing executives with the world famous Coca-Cola Company.

Thirty-nine year old Thomas A. Woods, heads a multi-million dollar data processing firm in Teaneck, N. J. Woods is president of this inter-racial firm which last year grossed two and a half million dollars . . . Thirty-five year old, Berry Gordy, heads up one of the top record producing companies in the world. One of his prize packages is the fabulous Supremes . . . Harvey C. Russell was just promoted by Pepsi Cola from vice president of ethnic markets to corporate vice president. His job now entails future corporate planning for the large soft drink company . . . Thirty-four year old, Attorney Lowell Perry, an All-American football star at the University of Michigan, is an executive in the industrial relations department of Chrysler Corporation where he negotiates union contracts.

Negroes have made tremendous success in the field of insurance. In the world of life insurance, the "millionaire" â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the agent who writes at least a million dollars worth of new business each yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a man apart, the darling of an industry in which corporate love and favors are won on the basis of cold figures.

Probably, the top "Million Dollar Round Table," Negro member is thirtysix year old, Cirilo A. McSween, who consistently maintains his membership in the exclusive group. Recently, he was made Western regional vice president of New York Life Insurance Company. Langford Spraggins and Theodore R. Tillman, round out other New York Life Insurance Company "Million Dollar Round Table" salesmen.

In Shaker Heights, Ohio, Theodore R. Dixson, is a "million dollar" agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., . . .

Richard L. Evans, is a Metropolitan "Millionairs" salesman and consultant in Chicago. . . . Gay Lloyd E. Smith, was the first "million dollar" producer for Western and Southern Life Insurance Company. . . .

Arnold R. Pinkney of Cleveland, was the first Negro "millionaire" salesman with Prudential Insurance Company. Right near us in Dayton, Sanders Stone, cracked the "million dollar" club with Mutual of Omaha. Other companies such as Equita-

ble Life Assurance, Mutual Benefit, Wisconsin Life, North Carolina Mutual and several other companies are looking for Negro salesman who possess an extra bit of desire and motivation.

For some time now, the airlines have

been employing Negro hostesses, pilots and flight engineers. There are now seven or eight Negro pilots with major airlines.

And for the past several years, airline companies have been recruiting Negroes in all job categories.

I wonder what Rube Foster, Graverly Finley, Woof Thornton, Bill Martin, Red Hayes and Art Stokes would do if they were students at Wilberforce University today?

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no alpha is an I am in the 35th year of membership in Alpha Phi Alpha. During that period there have been many occasions when my pride in Alpha was unbounded . . . my first convention, the Silver Anniversary meeting in Cincinnati in 1931, when, on the closing night, more than two hundred Brothers sang the Alpha hymn in the circle which had all the living Jewels. I can still see the tears streaming down the face of Brother Chapman.

There was the summer convention in Chicago in 1934 when most of us had to stay at the Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A., the 1946 gathering when Bro. Paul Robeson sang nine songs and then spoke for fifty five minutes to an audience that was virtually mesmerized by his brilliance as he challenged us to "reach down and help someone else"; the 1960 meeting in Washington when Brothers Patrick, Belford Lawson and others warned the management at our host hotel to cither open the swimming pool to delegates and their families or there would be a wholesale exodus. The next morning I walked out in the pool area to see Alpha Brothers and their children splashing through the water of that pool.

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island There are 'Promises to keep and Miles to go before we sleep.'

MALVIN R. GOODE 1 well remember the 1953 convention in Detroit when Brothers Robinson, Ward, Scruggs, Harmon went all out to provide what many old timers still consider one of the greatest of all conventions.

These are just a few of the moments of pride in my Alpha membership.

Since joining the staff at The American Broadcasting Company, I've been privileged to appear before twenty two chapters

of my fraternity from San Diego to Philadelphia. The thrill of three carloads of Brothers welcoming me to Cincinnati, the warm and congenial spirit at the speciallycalled meeting by the brothers in Los Angeles, the Founders' Day Banquet of the Detroit Brothers in 1963, the wonderful three days as guest of the Atlanta brothers and the hospitality of General President Newsom, the two days in Newport News with Brothers from the Tidewater section, the dance at the Man-of-the-Year Award of my home chapter, Alpha Omicron Lambda in Pittsburgh last June, and 1 won't soon forget the experience at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago last August when several Brothers followed me to the corridor after addressing the convention.

There have been virtually hundreds of bright spots, so heartwarming, so fraternal, and 1 want to believe there are still more ahead in whatever short time may be allotted to me.

In recent months, however, there have been some hurting momemts that made me almost ashamed of my fraternity but I would rather put it another way . . . I've been ashamed of some of my fraternity

brothers for their apathy, lethargy, and general unconcern for Civil Rights and the welfare of Negroes in their respective communities.

In Los Angeles there were some "lucky" Brothers (those who have it made) who just did not seem to care less what happened in the area of decency and rights.

In Mississippi 1 learned of one Brother, the head of a school, who promised and reportedly signed a contract to the effect that he would in no way become involved in the demonstrations or the efforts for equality. In Virginia I found a Brother, considered by the white power structure as the most influential Negro in the town . . . one engaged in a business which was totally Negro, and the town's NAACP President told me she had to make two and three trips to his office each year of the membership campaign before finally obtaining a $2.00 membership. In Chicago, a brother Judge had the audacity to make a public statement criticising Dick Gregory, the Urban League and NAACP for its efforts to bring about quality education for Negro children in that city's ghettos.

In New York, another "lucky" Brother in the city administration stupidly boasts of "the great city of New York where many Negroes have good jobs just like me."

And what is New York like? It is a city that has only three Negro school principals out of 878, where City College, publicly supported, has less than 3 percent of its student body Negro, where there are only five Negro captains in the Police department out of 264.

In Pittsburgh and Boston, two outstanding Brothers constantly are telling public audiences about the shortcomings of fellow Negroes without any emphasis on those factors which cause the shortcomings . . . the lack of jobs, the ghetto schools, the shameful ghetto housing, the broken homes. And so it has been in most of the seventy five cities visited since 1962; I have found recalcitrant, disinterested, cruelly unconcerned members of Alpha who just don't want to be identified with the struggle for equality. Some of them are professional men who were educated with collections taken up in little churches, with funds provided by lodges and civic groups but this background has

been forgotten as they wallow in their affluence, believing they are somebody special and forgetting the warning given us by leaders since the days of Lovejoy and Russworm that "no Negro is free until every Negro is free."

There have been some bright signs, too.

In my travels I have met Alpha men who are dedicated to this cause. They know that Alpha is the fraternity that started the Go-To-High-School, Go-To-College campaign more than three decades ago; they know that Alpha led and helped to finance the destruction of the Jim Crow car; they know that Brothers like Thurgood Marshall, Belford Lawson, Arthur Shores, Richard Jones, and hundreds of other lawyers have stood before the courts of our land to bring about these changes legally.

They remember that after crossing the sands we all agreed we must be "Servants of AH".

This writer believes like most Alpha men that "We are our brother's keeper" and may I urge that each chapter establish this theme as a part of our year-round program fully convinced that we must take some responsibility to open the door to Freedom and Equality for every American, and remembering the words of Brother Whitney Young Jr. . . . "If we would

not have angry men in our streets, let us make those streets avenues of hope and not despair."

Yes, "No man is an island unto himself" and let no Alpha man in America ever forget it for there is not one among the 30,000 of us who has not at one time or another, felt the sting of bigotry and second class citizenship . . . doctor, lawyer, minister, writer, mortician, plumber, contractor. We must work tirelessly, contribute generously, speak out fluently, fight religiously until every American is free.

We must recall those founders of Alpha, our Jewels, way back in 1906 were organized on the premise of mutual help and development for all. To them, now in Omega Chapter and Jewel Brother Callis, still with us, we have Promises to Keep and miles to go before we sleep.

Shortly before his tragic death President Kennedy said . . ."The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism, nor capitalism . . . neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile. It is man's eternal desire to be free and independent." Alpha Men, blessed with the advantage of a good education in a normally free society, have an obligation to make that "eternal desire" a reality for their Brothers across this land.

In recent years the author (c.) has appeared before 22 chapters and toured over 75 cities visiting Alpha Brothers. Here Brother Goode accepted Man-of-the-Year award of Alpha Omicron Chapter, Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1965. At (I.) is Bro. Leroy Patrick and (r.) Bro. Woodford A. Harris.

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TENTATIVE PROGRAM 1966 GENERAL CONVENTION OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. August 15-18, 1966 SHERATON-JEFFERSON HOTEL Twelfth Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION THEME: INDIVIDUAL PREPARATION FOR GROUP RESPONSIBILITY; LAWS ALONE ARE NOT ENOUGH PRE-CONVENTION Saturday, August 13th 10:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

OFFICE OF GENERAL SECRETARY, Brother Laurence T. Young

12:00 Noon

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

.Lunch

Sunday, August 14th 12:00 Noon 2:00 P.M.

Lobby — Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel

REGISTRATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING GENERAL CONVENTION Monday, August 15th

8:00 - 10:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MEETING REGISTRATION

Lobby — Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel

OPENING BUSINESS SESSION 1:00 P.M.

FIRST BUSINESS SESSION Brother John D. Buckner, Presiding WELCOME ADDRESSES Host Chapters and City Officials Official Opening of Convention Brother Billy Jones, Midwestern Vice President Response Brother Lionel H. Newsom, General President Report of Committee on Rules and Credentials Brother Andrew J. Lewis II Appointment of Convention Committee and other Officials KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Brother Robert P. Daniels, President, Virginia State College

MEMORIAL SERVICE TO DEPARTED BROTHERS Brother Martin L. Harvey Reports of Assistant Vice Presidents Brother Frank J. Ellis, Presiding First Report of the Budget and Finance Committee Bro. Gus T. Ridgel, Comptroller FRATERNITY HYMN 10:00 P.M.

'Bait-a-Date Reception"

Greek Delight (Informal)

Tuesday, August 16th SECOND BUSINESS SESSION 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

REGISTRATION

9:00 A.M.

Call to Order and Presiding Report, General Secretary

9:30 A.M.

Public Program Pilgrimage to Old Court House, Site of the Dred Scott Decision Alpha's Award of the Century Address Brother Thurgood Marshall. Solicitor-General USA, Washington, D. C. LUNCH

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Lobby — Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel The General President Brother Laurence T. Young

THIRD BUSINESS SESSION Presiding Brother Kirby Kirksey, Southern Assistant Vice President General President's Annual Report Brother Lionel H. Newsom Reports of Vice Presidents FRATERNITY HYMN Presiding Introduction of Founder FOUNDERS ADDRESS: 8:00 P.M.

Brother Rufus Skillern Brother T. Winston Cole, Past General President Founder Brother Henry A. Callis

Moonlight Cruise on the S. S. Admiral FRATERNITY HYMN Wednesday, August 17th FOURTH BUSINESS SESSION

9:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. 12:30 P.M.

Call to Order and Presiding Reports of General Officers and Committees CONVENTION LUNCHEON Report of Achievement and Awards Committee

Brother Lionel H. Newsom

Brother Tolly W. Harris

FIFTH BUSINESS SESSION 2:30 P.M.

10:00 P.M.

Presiding Constitution Committee Personnel Committee Standards and Extension National Headquarters General Convention Committee Panel: Study of the Undergraduate Situation Public Policy Committee

Brother W. Dewey Branch Brother Bennie Harris Brother Bennett M. Stewart Brother Walter Washington, Chairman Brother A. Maceo Smith, Chairman Brother Kermit J. Hall Brother Randell Maxey, Chairman Brother Frank Stanley, Sr.

Formal Dance (Closed) Thursday, August 18th SIXTH BUSINESS SESSION

9:00 A.M.

Presiding Brother Jacob Stewart Alpha's Role in the Period of Transition Follow-up Report on Reorganization Brother Lionel H. Newsom Discussion of Ritual, Initiation and Undergraduates Activities Scholarship and Financial Aid to Undergraduates SEVENTH BUSINESS SESSION

2:00 P.M.

Presiding Pan Hellenic Council Final Report on Housing Foundation Recommendations and Resolutions Final Budget and Finance Committee Report Report of Election

Brother Lionel H. Newsom Brother Walter Washington Brother William Alexander Brother Brother Gus T. Ridgel Brother Edward Addison

FRATERNITY HYMN Daiquiri Reception Convention Banquet (Closed)

Past General President Brother Charles Wesley

Friday, August 19th 9:00 A.M.

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news from the chapters Alpha Donates $1,000 Gift for Scholarships A $1,000 gift has been donated to Nu Lambda chapter, in Petersburg, Virginia.

The donor is Bro. Ross W. Newsome, Sr., who made the contribution for the Ross W. Newsome 4-H Club Loan Fund.

In honor of his 35 years of service to agriculture, the Virginia State Agricultural Advisory Board in September, 1965, at its annual meeting gave him $1,000.

Bro. Newsome in turn gave the entire gift to the chapter for the establishment of a trust fund. The earnings, after ten years of accumulation, will be used for scholarship loans to help 4-H young people in Virginia go to college, regardless of race.

The loans are repayable after graduation.

Bro. Newsome began as a county farm agent in 1930. Since 1945 he has been State Agent of the Virginia Agricultural Extension Service.

Nu Lambda chapter has an additional scholarship fund. In a $5,000 fund drive, under the direction of Bro. Reuben R. McDaniel, the brothers have donated nearly $3,000. They are giving, not raising, the money. This fund is invested in the Virginia State College Credit Union with the interest going for scholarships.

In addition, the chapter budget includes an annual supplement for scholarship giving.

Dance to Spotlight Artists' Works Members of the Zeta Phi Lambda chapter, in Norwalk, Connecticut, are busily preparing for the 1966 gala social event â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the annual Scholarship Benefit Dance.

The affair will be held June 19 in Stamford.

The dance's highlight will be an art ex-

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The chapter's educational activities also extend to deprived youngsters in Petersburg, Virginia. Nu Lambda President James F. Nicholas, a leader of the Virginia Council of Human Relations, is adviser to the college's Council of Human Relations. This student group administered a nine-week cultural-tutorial program to aid disadvantaged youth. The chapter contributed funds to aid this project and its.education committee, chaired

by Bro. William B. Bradley, who assisted with the project. His committee is also directing the chapter's Alpha Outreach Program, designed to sponsor promising youngsters from elementary school through college training.

Apart from chapter activities, Nu Lambda brothers show concern with community service, such as Bro. President Robert P. Daniel of Virginia State College who is on the advisory committee of the Chesterfield County School Board and Bro. Robert L. Clarke who was appointed recently to the County Library Board.

Bro. Walker H. Quarles, Jr., Nu Lambda's longtime secretary, has also been president of the Virginia Association of Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha, since its founding.

Bro. Bryant N. Wyatt has been appointed director of the Alpha Outreach Program in Virginia by the regional director of Alpha.

Nu Lambda officers for 1966 are Bro. Nicholas, president; Br. Jesse J. Mayes, vice president; Bro. Edward L. Smith, re-

hibit of works by local artists who have won acclaim for their works and also for promising beginners. Last year the works of Tracy Sugarman of Westport were displayed. Sugarman gained national recognition by traveling throughout the South to put on canvas the many facets of the Civil Rights struggle which were later presented on the CBS television network.

Paintings by Mrs. James Young, wife of a chapter member, were also displayed.

cording secretary; Bro. Quarles, corresponding and financial secretary; Bro. John H. Christian, treasurer; Bro. John L. Dickson, chaplain; Bro. William M. Hall, Jr., parliamentarian; and Bro. Morgan J. Edwards, sergeant-at-arms.

The 46-active-member chapter, while attempting to sign up the few non-affiliated brothers in the vicinity, has pledged three new candidates, an ROTC officer and two local school teachers.

Alpha Tau Lambda Scholarships Awarded With a fine sense of fraternalicity, the Alpha Tau Lambda chapter celebrated many notable events during 1965 and early 1966.

The second annual Scholarship and Fashion Dance last May featured a sweetheart contest. Mrs. Andrew Key, wife of Bro. Andrew Key, was elected sweetheart of Alpha Tau Lambda for 1965-66. Bro. Q. T. Williams chaired the social committee which supervised the d^nce activities, assisted by Brothers Dr. Charles Lewis, Otis Autry, Booker Brown, Dr. E. L. Hairstone, Dr. R. B. Taylor, Jr., C. D. Vaughn, Paul and Dr. Hobart Sanders.

Five hundred dollar scholarships have been given to three young men upon graduation from high school. Scholarship Committee Chairman Bro. J. L. Creadington, with Brothers C. D. Vaughn, A. L. Morgan, Robert Jackson, Otis Autry made the selections.

On January 22, 1966, members of the chapter celebrated their annual wives and sweethearts party in the Greenroom of St. Augustine Recreation Center.

Chaired by Bro. Q. T. Williams, the social committee members are Brothers Dr. Charles Lewis, Otis Autry, Booker Brown, Dr. E. L. Hairston, Dr. R. B. Taylor, Jr., C. D. Vaughn, Paul Young, and Dr. Hobart Sanders.

Bartlett Heads Pasadena Chapter The officers of Eta Pi Lambda chapter, Pasadena, California, are Brothers Ray W. Bartlett, president; Edward C. Strong, vice president; Louis S. Harris, recording secretary; Frank Nicholson, corresponding secretary; James Lites, treasurer; Clifford M. Prince, sergeant-at-arms; and Arthur E. Prince, editor of The Sphinx.

Although the chapter is small in number, its members are outstanding in their respective fields and in community leadership. It boasts of a high school principal, an elementary school principal, a high school counselor, an elementray school counselor, two Los Angeles County probation officers, a Pasadena Police detective lieutenant, a retired elementary school district superintendent, a pharmacist, two Douglass Aircraft engineers.

Eta Psi Lambda Elects New Prexy The 1966 officers of Eta Psi Lambda, in Tucson, Arizona, are Brothers Melvin Dixon, president; Marshall Franks, vice president; Charles Todd, treasurer: George Jackson, recording secretary; Felix L. Goodwin, corresponding secretary and Sphinx editor.

Bro. James T. Boddie, the newest chapter brother, was formerly affiliated with Alpha Nu Lambda chapter at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. A regular Air Force Captain, his present assignment is as Flight Instructor at Davis-Monthon Air Force Base in Tucson.

Bro. Felix L. Goodwin, a Lt. Colonel, has been reassigned from Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to U.S. Army Headquarters in Japan. He is a career Regular Army Public information officer with 27 years of service.

A native of California, Eta Psi Lambda's new president is a graduate of Howard Medical School, and is a practicing dentist in Tucson.

Alphas At Clark Set Busy Pace The even-dozen brothers of Alpha Phi chapter have been and are active in all phases of Clark College endeavor.

Bro. Ernest Long is currently a scholarship graduate student at Georgia Tech, studying physics and mathematics. A member of the 1964 fall line, he has been honored by Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.

Bro. Robert Marcus was similarly awarded a scholarship to UCLA for further study in physics.

Bro. John R. Shockley, selected to visit Russia during the summer of 1964, was elected head of the Alpha Phi chapter as a neophyte. He has been the recipient of

numerous honors, among them the Alpha Kappa Sorority Citizenship Award and induction into Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.

Miss Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Phi chapter, for 1965-66, is the beautiful Miss Andrea Mundy, a senior from Atlanta, Georgia. Her court consists of two young ladies of similar endowments, Miss Dorothy Washington, a sophomore from Birmingham, and Miss Leneice Allen, a sophomore from Atlanta.

Alpha Phi chapter officers for 1965-66 are Brothers Leon Kennedy, president; Robert Calhoun, vice president; James Dean, corresponding secretary; Johnny L. Patrick, recording secretary; Edward Johnson, dean of pledgees; Donald Eaton, chaplain; Jimmy Johnson, treasurer; William Hammond, associate editor of The Sphinx.

Otha Brown Wins City Council Post Bro. Otha N. Brown, Jr., a regional director and life member of Alpha, has been re-elected to the 17-member Norwalk City Council, Connecticut. A Democrat, Bro. Brown is the only Negro on the Council, and is the only one in an elective office in the city.

During his last term in office, Bro. Brown introduced the controversial Fair Rent Ordinance, designed to provide control over rent gouging by slum landlords.

Instrumental in getting a Negro appointed to the Redevelopment Agency and The Housing Authority, he has caused an investigation of public housing by the Connecticut State Commission on Civil Rights.

A guidance counselor at Rippowam High School in Stamford, Bro. Brown is a graduate of Central (Ohio) State College and the University of Connecticut

where he earned the bachelor and masters degrees. He received a sixth year professional diploma in educational administration from the University of Bridgeport, and a Certificate in Guidance and Counseling from New York University, where he is now working towards the doctorate.

In addition to serving as vice president of the local branch of the NAACP, Bro. Brown is vice chairman of Project Intergroup, Inc., in Norwalk, and holds membership in Corinthian Lodge No. 16 F & A M, Prince Hall Affiliate, and the William Moore Lodge No. 1533 IBPOE of W (Elks). Other affiliations include Phi Alpha Theta, a national fraternity of history, and Kappa Delta Pi, an honor society in education.

Bro. Brown is married to the former Marjorie Gay, a Bennett College graduate from Farmville, North Carolina.

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Tate Award to Allen F. Killings

Alphas At Hampton

Bro. Allen F. Killings received the E. Bruce Tate, Sr., Award for 1965 at the Eta Tau Lambda chapter's annual Founders' Day Banquet. The award was established in 1962 in memory of the late E. Bruce Tate, Sr., a charter member of the Akron, Ohio, chapter, and is presented to the chapter member who, during a oneyear period has made outstanding con-

Guest speaker was James R. Tanner, administrative assistant to Cleveland's Superintendent of Schools. He was introduced by Martin O. Chapman, principal of Crouse Elementary School in Akron.

Evening activities included viewing of slides concerning chapter activities by Robert L. Brown, historian, and installation of new officers. They are: Curtis

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tribution to the fraternity and community.

President of Eta Tau Lambda from 1963 to 1965, Bro. Killings achieved during his tenure the "Outstanding Graduate Chapter" honor for the Midwestern Region of Alpha Phi Alpha.

Bro. Killings has been involved in community life activities. They include membership on: the United Community Council Committee on Aging, NAACP Life Membership Committee, Board of Trustees of Lane Community School, Urban League, Activities Committee of Frontiers International, Pre-Kindergarten (AntiPoverty) Program.

Previous recipients of the coveted award are Bro. Atty. Norman Purnell, 1962; Bro. Robert L. Brown, 1963; and Bro. Atty. James Williams, 1964.

Bro. Dr. Allen F. Killings (second from right) receives the E. Bruce Tate, Sr., plaque honoring him as 1965 Man of the Year from officers of Eta Tau Lambda chapter. From left, Brothers James R. Williams, Founders' Day Banquet chairman; William Miller, treasurer; and James Rushin, vice president.

Washington, president; James Rushin, vice president; Robert Morrison; William Miller, treasurer; David J. Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x17E; historian; Norman Purnell, recording secretary; Lloyd Shepherd, chapter editor; Allen Jackson, director of educational activities; Richard Edwards, chaplain; Allen Killings, sergeant-at-Arms.

Bro. James Williams chaired the banquet committee. Bro. Norman Purnell was master of ceremonies.

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The 12 Brothers of Gamma Iota of Hampton Institute are doing many things in many ways and locations.

Brothers James Copeland, Douglas DePriest, Donald Scoggins and Robert Williams have been elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.

Brothers Webster Langhorne and Donald Scoggins served in Operation Crossroads Africa programs during the summer of 1964 and 1965, respectively. Bro. Scoggins worked in Kenya and traveled through London, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Spain.

Bro. Langhorne worked in Egypt, Sudan, and Kenya. He was also one of the first students to participate in the Hampton Institute Foreign Study Program at France's L' Universite de Poitiers.

Bro. Douglas De Priest was at Harvard University last summer studying mathematics, a participant in the university's Co-operative Study Program. Gamma Iota president Donovan Lewis served at Western Electric Co., in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as a technical writer, a first participant in the Hampton Institute Co-operative Study Program which was initiated as an industrial study to give practical significance to classroom study.

Another participant in this program is Bro. Robert Williams, an accounting major and chapter treasurer, now serving at Ford Motor Co. in Detroit.

Other Gamma Iota Brothers also are serving Hampton Institute. Bro. Paul Ford is president of the student government; Bro. Langhorne is ROTC Battalion Commander, president of Hampton PreAlumni Club, and public defender for the student court. Bro. I. Emerson Bryan is chapter vice president. Bro. Scoggins is vice president of the men's council, executive officer of the school's National Society of Pershing Rifles unit, and chapter corresponding and recording secretary.

Bro. Archie Blakely, dean of pledges, is co-chairman of the tutorial staff. Bro. Copeland is treasurer of Beta Kappa Chi

National Scientific Society and Hampton Pre-Alumni Club. Bro. DePriest is president of Beta Kappa Chi, the Senior Class and a member of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society.

Last year was highlighted by an AllCollege Assembly Program, designed to promote the Co-operative Study Program.

Roy L. Wooldridge, dean of Co-operative Education at Northeastern University. was guest speaker.

While four Brothers are scheduled to graduate, there is an anticipated eight Sphinxmen to take their places. They are Paul Bowes, Vaughn Bradley, George

Brown, Jack Carson, Reuben Hensley, Kenneth Jones, Wayne Kauffman and Willie Moore.

Raney Directs Rights Projects An outstanding educational, civic, fraternal and religious leader in Newport News, Virginia, has been appointed Director of all projects under Title I and Title II of the 1965 Civil Rights Act. He is Bro. G. Wesley Raney of Zeta

Lambda chapter. He will supervise all supplementary and remedial instruction, cultural enrichment programs, new guidance and counseling services for the youth and their families, and projects which provide instructional materials which were not available from the local school authorities previously.

At the time of Bro. Raney's appointment he was principal of the Newport News' Walter Reed Elementary School.

A graduate of Lincoln (Pa.) University, he worked as a social studies teacher at Huntington High School, and served as its assistant principal for several years.

RHO L A M B D A G R O W T H S T R O N G The Host Chapter of the 1956 National Convention, Rho Lambda, of Buffalo, New York, has during the last three years grown in active financial membership as well as in the educational, social, and civic aspects of its chapter program. The success story of Rho Lambda might well serve as a blueprint for inactive chapters or those chapters on the verge ot inactivity.

James R. Heck, Rho Lambda president, says, "In order for a chapter to prove successful, that chapter must first design a program containing objectives which involves every facet of the total membership in some kind of constructive activity during the course of the fraternity year.

Leadership within a chapter must be dynamic, but simultaneously recognize the fact that all its power is group derived, or 'status leadership'."

The life blood of any graduate chapter is usually the social aspects of its program, but members of Rho Lambda feel that during this era of social struggles, man cannot live on the basis of his social activities alone. If Alpha is to remain alive and strong, they feel, it must adapt its program to meet the social and intellectual needs of the present and future generations.

award to a deserving local high school graduate. The committee has an additional one thousand dollars in the treasury and plans to make awards during

1966. One fifth of each brother's chapter dues goes directly to the education committee treasury and is subsequently allowed as a contribution on his tax return.

Education During the past three years Rho Lambda has established a tax-exempt education committee which has given a $500 cash

GUEST OF HONORâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dr. Walter B. Holland (c.) receives plaque commemorating forty years of meritorious service to Rho Lambda chapter of Buffalo, N. Y. Flanking Brother Holland are Brothers Dr. V. T. Levey (I.) and Dr. Charles Lunsford, both charter members of Rho Lambda. Chapter was founded in 1925.

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The Ways and Means Committee, headed

by Brother James Home, sponsors an annual Monte Carlo event and a portion of the proceeds are donated to the Education Committee.

Last spring the Education Committee sponsored a "Career Day" for the juniors and seniors at a local high school. These young men visited Alpha men on their jobs to get a close look at the careers and professions of their choice. Brother Kenneth Echols was program chairman for Career Day. Social

The Social format for Rho Lambda has changed considerably during the past three years. The chapter sponsors an annual Spring Formal Dance which is not only well-attended but thoroughly enjoyed by all who attend. The brothers play host to all whom he invites and each guest sits

with his host.

Each year in the fall, Rho Lambda sponsors a closed Dinner Dance in honor of Alpha Wives and Sweethearts. The theme of the most recent Dinner Dance was, "Forty Years On The Niagara Frontier With Rho Lambda." Brother Dr. Walter B. Holland was the honoree and received a plaque for meritorious service to Rho Lambda and the community of Buffalo.

Bro. Holland has the record of longest service to Rho Lambda of any living brother. Brothers Dr. Charles T. Lunsford and Dr. V. T. Levey were also honored as the two charter members of Rho Lambda.

Rho Lambda was established on March 28, 1925. Both charter members are residents of Rochester, New York.

Wichita Chapter Activates Sphinx Club Eta Beta Lambda Chapter of Wichita, Kansas, celebrated a dual occasion with

a dinner and festive evening on March 18, honoring three Brothers for their 25 year participation and the successful activation of the Delta Mu Undergraduate Sphinx-Club.

The three Brothers honored and their originating chapters are: Fred Adams, Beta Kappa; Wendell Looney, Beta Chi and Otha Paul, Beta Omicron. The second event was prompted through the effort to re-activate the Delta Mu Chapter at the Wichita State University, in which six members were initiated into the Sphinx Club.

Through such an undertaking by the graduate chapter, it has also been planned for early May to present an Alpha banquet for some 75 high school seniors about the city, of which the primary purpose is to expose these young men to Alpha objectives and achievements.

Bro. W. Hale Thompson of Zeta Lambda, of Newport News, Virginia, died on January 30, 1966. A civil rights lawyer, he was a dynamic civic and fraternal leader. Funeral services were held at Hampton Institute on February 2. Bro. Thompson's participation in scores of Civil Rights cases, beginning with equilization of facilities in Tidewater cities of Virginia, involved him in several desegregation suits against peninsula schools. In recent years, Bro. Thompson had worked for further fair employment practices at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. A graduate of Hampton Institute, he received his law degree from Howard University in 1945. He taught at Newport News's Huntington High School and Hampton Institute.

Brother Robert T. Custis, Alpha Gamma Lambda Chapter, died on April 6 after a short illness. He was 65. Brother Custis was employment manager for the New York State Employment Service. Funeral services were held at Bolden Funeral Home on April 11. Fraternal services on April 9, with Brother James B. Herbert, president, Alpha Gamma Lambda, officiating.

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Some of the men and officers of Gamma Alpha Lambda, of the Charlottesville-StauntonCovington-Lexington, Virginia. Front row, left, Bro. B. T. Reaves; Bro. Dr. Ralph Brown, vice president; Bro. Stephen Waters, secretary; Bro. Ray Bell, treasurer; Bro. William Smith, editor to The Sphinx; Bro. G. G. Lomans; Bro. Dr. B. A. Coles. Standing, from left, Bro. Dr. A. W. Pleasants; Bro. Eugene Williams; Bro. Chelsea Clark; Bro. Dr. John Chiles; Bro. E. A. Anderson; Bro. Dr. Charles W. Waller; Bro. George D. Hill; and Bro. Dr. M. T. Garrett. Gamma Alpha Lambda officers and members not pictured are Bro. A. R. Ware, president; Bro. Rev. James O. Powell, chaplain; Bro. Kenneth Jones; Bro. Harry Wood; Bro. U. B. Broadneaux; and Bro. Dr. Walter Johnson.

GRAND AFFAIRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mu Lambda chapter celebrates the 59th anniversary of the founding of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D. C. Seated (l.-r.) Brothers Jewel Henry Callis, Belford V. Lawson, General President Lionel H. Newsom, and Charles H. Wesley, historian. Standing (l.-r.) Brothers Rayford Logan, Victor R. Daly, Frank J. Ellis, Eastern Region Vice President; J. Clinton Hoggard, Louis H. Russell, Daniel W. Edmonds, Eugene L. C. Davidson and George Windsor, president, Mu Lambda. Other chapters represented were Beta, Omicron Lambda Alpha, Theta Rho Lambda and Eta Eta Lambda.

UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTERS 1. Alpha G. Alex Galvin 401 W. State St. Ithaca, New York

20. Phi C. Douglas Thomas # 6 Church Street Athens, Ohio

41. Alpha Upsilon Tim Heard 1437 Virginia Park Detroit, Michigan

2. Beta Walter Evans 1800 New Hampshire, NW Washington, D.C.

21. Chi George A. Breaux Meharry Medical Center Nashville, Tenn.

42. Alpha Phi John R. Shockley, Jr. Clark College Atlanta, Georgia

22. Psi Robert W. Ferguson 1409 Radfield Philadelphia, Pa.

43. Alpha Chi Maurice H. Shane 1211 N. 5th St. Nashville, Tenn.

23. Alpha Alpha Wadsworth Douglas 5039 Anderson Place Cincinnati, Ohio

44. Alpha Psi Robert Coleman Perry Hall, Lincoln University Jefferson City, Mo.

24. Alpha Beta Herbert Sands Talladega College Talladega, Alabama

45. Beta Alpha David W. Swan O'Connell Hall, Morgan State College Baltimore, Maryland

3. Gamma John Touchstone Virginia Union University Richmond, Va. 4. Delta Harold Stith Huston-Tillotson College Austin, Texas 5. Epsilon Francis Kornegay, Jr. 114 Green House, E. Quadrangle, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich.

6. Zeta Richard C. Tolbert 3040 Ezra Stiles, Yale University New Haven, Conn.

7. Eta Harry D. Mayo, III A<t>A House, 282 Convent Ave. New York City, N. Y.

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26. Alpha Delta Rickard Reid 1026 W. 20th Los Angeles, Calif.

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8. Theta Richard L. Hooper 7948 S. Greenwood Chicago, III. 9. lota McKinley Young Morris Brown College Atlanta, Georgia 10. Kappa Edward Jackson, Jr. 1127 E. 19th Av. Columbus, Ohio 11.

Mu Harold Payne 453 Girard Terrace Minneapolis, Minn.

12. Nu Joseph Reed, Jr. Box 426, Lincoln University Lincoln University, Pa. 13. Xi Raymond Fomby Emery Hall, Wilberforce University Wilberforce, Ohio 14. Omicron Ernest M. Myers 3508 Webster Av. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15. Pi Edwin Dale Patton 1084 Parkside Cleveland, Ohio 16. Rho Walter L. Gordon 1519 Baird Av. Camden, New Jersey 17. Sigma Thaddas L. Alston Winthrop Hse. F-31, Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.

18. Tau Walter R. Dale 602 E. White Champaign, Illinois 19. Upsilon Bertram Caruthers, Jr. 1014 Mississippi Lawrence, Kansas

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Alpha Gamma Ralph Allen 846-48 Westminister St. Providence, R. I.

Alpha Epsilon (Inactive) University of California Alpha Zeta William Seymour Prillerman Hall, West Virginia State College Institute, W. Va.

29. Alpha Eta Auther C. Ray 4226A Easton Av. St. Louis, Missouri 30. Alpha Theta (Inactive) University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa

63. Beta Upsilon Roosevelt Harris 2147 Stella St. Montgomery, Ala. 64. Beta Phi William F. Taylor Box 655, Dillard University New Orleans, La.

66. Beta Psi (Inactive) Portland, Oregon & London, England

48. Beta Delta James L. Grainger, Jr. 640 Amelia St. Orangeburg, S. C. 49. Beta Epsilon James M. Wilder 423 Dudley St. Greensboro, N. C. 50. Beta Zeta Wayne Holmes Butler Hall, State Teachers College Elizabeth City. N. C.

52. Beta Theta Ronald J. Pitts Bluefield State College Bluefield, W. Va.

36. Alpha Omicron Richard Miller Box 581, Johnson C. Smith University Charlotte, N. C.

62. Beta Tau (Inactive) Xavier University New Orleans, La.

47. Beta Gamma William D. Beamer Box 3110, Virginia State College Petersburg, Virginia

32. Alpha Kappa (Inactive) Springfield, Massachusetts

35. Alpha Xi (Inactive) University of Washington Seattle, Wash.

Beta Sigma Richard C. Harris P.O. Box 10061, Southern University Baton Rouge, La.

65. Beta Chi Leroy Williams Philander Smith College Little Rock, Ark.

31. Alpha lota Marcellus Martin 3321 Birch St. Denver, Colorado

34. Alpha Nu (Inactive) Des Moines, Iowa

61.

46. Beta Beta (Inactive) University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebr.

51. Beta Eta Jesse Gurley, III Southern Illinois University Small Group Housing 111 Carbondale, Illinois

33. Alpha Mu (Inactive) Northwestern University Evanston, III.

60. Beta Rho Daniel Burrell 117 North Hall, Shaw University Raleigh, N. C.

53. Beta lota Coleman Freeman 2701 Raleigh Av. Winston-Salem, N. C. 54. Beta Kappa James Manns Langston University Langston, Oklahoma 55. Beta Mu Johnny R. Hill Combs Hall, Kentucky State College Frankfort, Kentucky

37. Alpha Pi University of Louisville Louisville, Ky.

56. Beta Nu Ronald Thompson P.O. Box 600, Florida A&M University Tallahassee, Florida

38. Alpha Rho James A. Reed, Jr. Morehouse College Atlanta, Georgia

57. Beta Xi Augustus W. Kelley 1573 Ash Street Memphis, Tenn.

39. Alpha Sigma Freddie Henderson Box 344, Wiley College Marshall, Texas

58. Beta Omicron Damon Lee Box 419, Tennessee State University Nashville, Tenn.

40. Alpha Tau Burton Jones Student Center - Box 32, Univ. of Akron Akron, Ohio

59. Beta Pi Fred Conwya Lane College Jackson, Tenn.

67. Gamma Alpha Bill Garrett Texas College Tyler, Texas 68. Gamma Beta Raymond C. Perry Box 98. Chidley Hall North Carolina College Durham, N. C. 69. Gamma Gamma Harvey Brown Allen University Columbia, S. C. 70. Gamma Delta Fred Turney Arkansas A.M.&N. College Pine Bluff, Ark. 71. Gamma Epsilon Hoyt H. Harper 5344 N. 64th St. Milwaukee, Wis. 72. Gamma Zeta George Moss Jeanes Hall, Ft. Valley State College Ft. Valley, Georgia 73. Gamma Eta Cramon J. Myers 404 W. 44th St. Indianapolis, Ind. 74. Gamma Theta Albert Thompson 621 Osmond Av. Dayton, Ohio 75. Gamma lota Donovan Lewis P.O. Box 6063.

Hampton Institute Hampton, Virginia 76. Gamma Kappa (Inactive) Miles College Birmingham, Ala. 77. Gamma Mu James R. Gavin, III Livingstone College Salisbury, N. C. 78. Gamma Nu Emmett B. Hagood, Jr. P.O. Box 164, A<I>A State College, Pa. 79. Gamma Xi (Inactive) Los Angeles, Calif.

80.

G a m m a Omicron Freddie L. West Box 133, K n o x v i l l e College Knoxville, Tenn.

300.

Delta Xi R i c h a r d A. Reynolds P.O. Box 79 W i l b e r f o r c e , Ohio

321.

Epsilon Nu Ronald Steele S t i l l m a n College Tuscaloosa, Alabama

111.

Mu Lambda George W i n d s o r 4 1 1 5 — 1 7 t h St., NW W a s h i n g t o n , D.C.

81.

G a m m a Pi L e o n a r d Foster B e n e d i c t College C o l u m b i a , S. C.

301.

Delta Omicron W. Odell M o n t g o m e r y 5215 Potrero Av. El C e r r i t o , Calif.

322.

Epsilon Xi J o h n W. Pates. Jr. Western Michigan University S t u d e n t Center Box 3 Kalamazoo, Michigan

112.

Nu Lambda Wesley F. T a y l o r V i r g i n i a S t a t e College P e t e r s b u r g , Va.

82.

G a m m a Rho Paul M. Jones 141 A n d r e w Place, Box 496 West L a f a y e t t e , Ind.

302.

Delta Pi David H. Pyatt 906 W. 3 r d St. Chester, Pa.

323.

Epsilon Omicron H a r o l d P. Owens 1235 N. T a y l o r T o p e k a , Kansas

113.

Xi L a m b d a B e n n e t t M. S t e w a r t 650 E. 8 8 t h Place Chicago, Illinois

83.

G a m m a Sigma Francis S e m b l y , Jr. A<I>A, D e l a w a r e State College Dover, Del.

303.

Delta Rho David Carr 2806 E. 4 0 t h St. Kansas City, M i s s o u r i

324.

E p s i l o n Pi L i n w o o d Holsey 4737 Bonney Road V i r g i n i a B e a c h , Va.

114.

Omicron Lambda Noah E. W i l l s 21 Green S p r i n g s Av., SW B i r m i n g h a m , Ala.

84.

G a m m a Tau J a m e s S. J a c k s o n 1716 E. Grand River East L a n s i n g , M i c h .

304.

Delta S i g m a Johnny Mouton P.O. Box 479 Grambling, Louisiana

325.

Epsilon Rho Troy E. S l a u g h t e r 2440 Rockwell B e a u m o n t , Texas

115.

Pi Lambda George I. Henry 1918 E. 6 t h Street L i t t l e Rock, A r k .

85.

G a m m a Upsilon W a l t e r L. Davis Tougaloo Southern C h r i s t i a n College T o u g a l o o , Miss.

305.

Delta Tau Leslie S m i t h , Jr. St. Paul's College L a w r e n c e v i l l e , Va.

326.

Epsilon Sigma Stanford Deckard 1519 E. H o u s t o n St. San A n t o n i o , Texas

116.

Rho Lambda J a m e s R. Heck, III 252 L a n d o n St. B u f f a l o , New York

327.

306.

G a m m a Phi W a l t e r T. Bowers Tuskegee Institute Tuskegge, Alabama

Delta Upsilon Clemmie McKinney P.O. Box 7, H e p b u r n H a l l , Miami University O x f o r d , Ohio

Epsilon Tau T h o m a s A. S m i t h 2945 N. First St. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

117.

86.

Sigma Lambda M a u r i c e E. Prevost 3884 Pauger St. New O r l e a n s , La.

328.

G a m m a Chi Ear! U n d e r w o o d 317 T r o u t H a l l , Kansas S t a t e College Pittsburg, Kansas

307.

Delta Phi L e o n a r d E. J a m e s J a c k s o n S t a t e College Jackson, Miss.

Epsilon Upsilon A n t h o n y R. D o n f o r 5726 Press Drive New O r l e a n s , La.

118.

87.

Tau Lambda Isaac H. M i l l e r 1717 W i n d o v e r Drive Nashville. Tenn.

329.

Epsilon Phi F r a n k l i n D. W a l k e r 122 Rock River A v e n u e Rockford, Illinois

119.

Upsilon Lambda H. J a m e s Greene 1539 W. 23rd St. J a c k s o n v i l l e , Fla.

330.

Epsilon Chi Ellis F. B u l l o c k , Jr. 2404 M a g a z i n e St. L o u i s v i l l e , Ky

120.

Phi Lambda R i c h a r d E. Ball 1509 S u m m e r v i l l e R a l e i g h , N. C.

88.

89.

90.

91.

92.

93.

G a m m a Psi John Larkins St. A u g u s t i n e ' s College R a l e i g h , N. C.

Delta Chi (Inactive) B r o o k l y n , New York

309.

Delta Psi Gerald C a r t e r Florida M e m o r i a l College St. A u g u s t i n e , Fla.

Delta Alpha Alfonzo Green C l a f l i n College O r a n g e b u r g , S. C.

310.

Delta Beta R a y m o n d A. B u r n s , Jr. I l l Cookman Hall, B e t h u n e - C o o k m a n College D a y t o n a B e a c h , Florida

Epsilon Alpha Robert P h i l l i p s 818 T u n n e l St. Toledo, Ohio

311.

Epsilon Beta (Inactive) Fresno, C a l i f o r n i a

101.

Epsilon G a m m a (Inactive) B i s h o p College Dallas, Texas

Alpha Lambda Robert Dockery 1117 S. W e s t e r n P a r k w a y L o u i s v i l l e , Ky

102.

Beta Lambda

Epsilon Delta (Inactive) C l e v e l a n d , Ohio

Delta G a m m a P h i l l i p R. Redrick A l a b a m a A & M College N o r m a l , Ala.

312.

313.

Delta Epsilon (Inactive) B u f f a l o , New York

314.

Delta Zeta (Inactive) S y r a c u s e , New York

95.

Delta Eta William Martin S a v a n n a h S t a t e College S a v a n n a h , Ga.

96.

Delta Theta V a n c y H. B r i d g e s Texas S o u t h e r n U n i v e r s i t y , Box 408 H o u s t o n , Texas

97.

Delta lota (Inactive) New B r u n s w i c k , N. J.

98.

Delta Kappa W i n s t o n Fouche A l c o r n A & M College Lorman, Miss.

99.

Delta M u (Inactive) W i c h i t a , Kansas Delta Nu Louis R. Elliott M a r y l a n d S t a t e College Princess A n n e , M d .

331.

Epsilon Psi Eugene D. J a c k s o n A l p h a House, H i g h w a y 63 & Elm Street Rolla, M i s s o u r i

315.

316.

317.

Epsilon Epsilon S a m u e l E. Robertson 408 N. W a s h i n g t o n S t i l l w a t e r , Okla.

Epsilon Zeta J o h n n y B. C o v i n g t o n F a y e t t e v i l l e State College F a y e t t e v i l l e , N. C. Epsilon Eta (Inactive) Ypsilanti, Michigan Epsilon Theta J a m e s E. Miller, III B o w l i n g Green State U n i v e r s i t y , A<I>A B o w l i n g Green, Ohio

318.

Epsilon lota Charles G. L a n g h a m , III 1914 Nueces A u s t i n , Texas

319.

Epsilon Kappa L e o n a r d W. Crooks 1603 W. M a i n St. Peoria, I l l i n o i s (Inactive)

320.

Epsilon Mu (Inactive) San Jose, C a l i f o r n i a

Circle

121.

Chi Lambda T h o m a s J . Craft P.O. Box 252 W i l b e r f o r c e . Ohio

122.

Psi Lambda Bennie J. Harris 622 Gillespie Rd. Chattanooga, Tenn.

123.

Robert P. Lyons 2924 Askew Avenue Kansas City, Mo.

Alpha Alpha Lambda H u b e r t E. C r a w f o r d 344 S e y m o u r Av. N e w a r k , N. J.

124.

103.

G a m m a Lambda Leven C. Weiss 4 6 7 6 O u t e r Drive Detroit, M i c h .

Alpha Beta Lambda J a m e s R. T a y l o r 5 0 5 ' / 2 E. T h i r d St. Lexington, Kentucky

125.

104.

Delta Lambda Alonzo P. Moss 1047 B e n t a l o u St. Baltimore, Md.

Alpha G a m m a Lambda W i l l i a m J . Greene 151 W. 131st St. New York City, N. Y.

126.

105.

Epsilon Lambda Shelby T. F r e e m a n , Jr. 1209 N. G r a n d B l v d .

St. L o u i s , M o .

Alpha Delta Lambda J . W. W e s t b r o o k 1711 Glenview Memphis, Tenn.

127.

106.

Zeta Lambda Noel J . Pleasant 7 5 0 — 3 0 t h St. N e w p o r t News, Va.

Alpha Epsilon Lambda F. O. W o o d a r d 1612 W. Pearl St. Jackson, Miss.

107.

Eta Lambda Milton J. White 2924 H a n d l y Drive, NW A t l a n t a , Ga.

128.

Alpha Zeta Lambda H a r o l d P. Cooper

GRADUATE CHAPTERS

Delta Delta L e o n a r d R. M i n t e r A l b a n y S t a t e College A l b a n y , Ga.

94.

100.

308.

Box 103 Gary, West V i r g i n i a 129.

Eta Lambda Vivian Chagois 2 8 3 1 Stevens H o u s t o n , Texas

lota Lambda C r a m o n J . Myers 404 W. 4 4 t h St. Indianapolis, Ind.

130.

Alpha Theta Lambda George G. D i c k e r s o n 1317 A d r i a t i c A t l a n t i c City, N . J .

Kappa Lambda J u l i u s A. F u l m o r e 2006 New C a s t l e Road G r e e n s b o r o , N. C.

131.

Alpha lota Lambda D a v i d A. S c o t t 404 S h r e w s b u r y St. C h a r l e s t o n . W. Va.

108.

Theta Lambda Edwin M. C a n d l e r 4932 H a c k e t t D r i v e Dayton, Ohio

109.

110.

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Beta lota Lambda J a m e s J . Prestage Southern University, P.O. Box 9222 B a t o n Rouge, La.

Alpha M u Lambda Edward 0 . Hill 2643 L i n d e n Av. Knoxville, Tenn.

154.

Beta Kappa Lambda W a l t e r L. S a l t e r s 135-K C a n n o n St. C h a r l e s t o n , S. C.

Alpha Nu Lambda W r i g h t L. Lassiter P.O. Box 905 Tuskegee, Alabama

155.

Beta Mu Lambda (Inactive) S a l i s b u r y , N. C.

Alpha Kappa Lambda W i l l i a m P. J o h n s o n 9 1 1 S t a u n t o n Av., NW Roanoke, Va.

133.

134.

135.

Alpha Xi Lambda Roger R a m s e y 856 L i n c o l n Av. Toledo, Ohio

156.

Beta Nu Lambda J o h n A. Davis 1900 C r e s t d a l e Dr. C h a r l o t t e , N. C.

136.

Alpha Omicron Lambda W. A. H a r r i s 325 M e r c h a n t A m b r i d g e , Pa.

157.

Beta Xi Damian 4123 N. Omaha,

Alpha Pi Lambda Thomas Hooper, Jr. Hooper Funeral Home, 1251 N. H i g h l a n d Av. W i n s t o n - S a l e m , N. C.

158.

137.

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153.

132.

Lambda D. LaCroix 2 2 n d St. Nebraska

G a m m a Theta Lambda W i l l i a m S. Y o u n g 1217 T a t n a l St. W i l m i n g t o n , Del.

195.

175.

G a m m a lota Lambda Herbert Quick 479 D e c a t u r St. B r o o k l y n , N. Y.

196.

Delta Theta Lambda L e a n d e r R. P a t t o n A&M College Normal, Alabama

176.

G a m m a Kappa Lambda (Inactive) W i l m i n g t o n , N. C.

197.

Delta lota Lambda Robert L. W r i g h t 949 L a w y e r s Lane C o l u m b u s , Ga.

177.

G a m m a Mu Lambda B e n j a m i n H. G r o o m e s P.O. Box 4 5 6 , Florida A & M U n i v e r s i t y T a l l a h a s s e e , Fla.

198.

Delta Kappa Lambda George G. House 240 J e s s a m i n e St. D a r l i n g t o n , S. C.

178.

G a m m a Nu L a w r e n c e A. 1401 T a y l o r Lynchburg,

174.

Lambda Ferguson St. Va.

Beta Omicron Lambda C l e m e n t J . Hazeur 474 E. Creek C i r c l e Dr. M o b i l e , A.al

179.

159.

Beta Pi Lambda Peter M. Pryor 87 Paxwood Road D e l m a r , New York

180.

G a m m a Omicron Lambda J o s e p h S. D a r d e n , Jr. 515 Louis Av. A l b a n y , Georgia

160.

Beta Rho Lambda A n d r e w L. J o h n s o n 330 Oak Street B o a r d m a n , Ohio

181.

G a m m a Pi Lambda Frank W i n d o m 3215 A v e n u e M'/2 G a l v e s t o n , Texas

161.

Beta Sigma Lambda David Thompson 44 H a r d i n g St. Bloomfield, Conn.

182.

G a m m a Rho Lambda Montague Oliver 1111 E. 19th Av. Gary, I n d i a n a

162.

Beta Tau Lambda Reby Cary 1804 B u n c h e Drive Ft. W o r t h , Texas

183. G a m m a Sigma Lambda J. L a f a y e t t e Toles Ft. Valley State College Ft. Valley, Ga.

163.

Beta Upsilon Lambda H e r m a n Stone, Jr. 851 Lane A v e n u e Jackson, Tenn.

184.

G a m m a Tau Lambda Kelly O. Price 1 1 0 1 — 6 t h St. O r a n g e , Texas

164.

Beta Phi Lambda H o w a r d M. J a s o n 3119 G i l b e r t St. S a v a n n a h , Ga.

185.

G a m m a Upsilon Lambda N. H. A n d e r s o n 1407 U n i v e r s i t y M a r s h a l l , Texas

165.

Beta Chi Lambda Tanzy B. L o c k r i d g e General Delivery Boynton, Okla.

186.

G a m m a Phi Lambda H a r o l d Davis 691 C a l m a r O a k l a n d , Calif.

166.

Beta Psi Lambda T h o m a s W. Robinson 3824 D u b l i n A v e n u e Los Angeles, Calif.

187.

G a m m a Chi Lambda C a r l t o n A. A. Dias 949 B r o d e r i c k St. San F r a n c i s c o , Calif.

167.

G a m m a Alpha Lam bda W a l t e r W. J o h n s o n , Jr. 202 W a l n u t C o v i n g t o n , Va.

188.

G a m m a Psi Lambda A r t h u r R. E d i n g t o n 51 H o u s t o n St. A s h e v i l l e , N. C.

189.

168.

G a m m a Beta Lambda Gut T. Ridgel K e n t u c k y S t a t e College F r a n k f o r t , Ky

Delta Alpha Lambda J o s e p h R. M a l o n e 15706 B i l t m o r e C l e v e l a n d , Ohio

190.

169.

G a m m a G a m m a Lambda H. E. Hill Piedmont Pharmacy Seneca, S. C.

Delta Beta Lambda Edward N. J o n e s 200 E. P e m b r o k e Av. H a m p t o n , Va.

191.

170.

G a m m a Delta Lambda (Inactive) Beckley, W. Va.

Delta G a m m a Lambda H a l l o w a y C. Sells 135 M a r y Lane C i n c i n n a t i , Ohio

138.

Alpha Rho Lambda J a m e s A. W r i g h t 2207 Lisa Drive Columbus, Ohio

139.

Alpha Sigma Lambda Claude McCain 1911 L a n a r k Av. Dallas, Texas

140.

Alpha Tau Lambda C h a r l e s E. C h r i s t o p h e r 820 East Pine St. T u l s a , Okla.

141.

Alpha Upsilon Lambda L u c i o u s W. S m i l e y 1049 C a r t e r H i l l Rd. M o n t g o m e r y , Ala.

142.

Alpha Phi Lambda Wilbur J. Jordan 7112 C h r y s l o n Lane N o r f o l k , Va.

143.

Alpha Chi Lambda H. M. T h o m p s o n 1439V 2 T w i g g s St. A u g u s t a , Ga.

144.

Alpha Psi Lambda W. J. Davis 4 5 0 9 W i l l i a m s b u r g Dr. C o l u m b i a , S. C.

145.

Beta Alpha Lambda (Inactive) J e r s e y City, N. J.

146.

Beta Beta Lambda Paul J o s e p h 11605 S. W. 140th Terr.

M i a m i , Florida

147.

Beta G a m m a Lambda Nathaniel Lee 1605 S. M e a d o w St. R i c h m o n d , Va.

148.

Beta Delta Lambda H a r r y L. B u r n e y P.O. Box 248 Crescent City, Fla.

149.

Beta Epsiion Lambda C. D. A s h l e y Box 684 Bristow, Oklahoma

150.

Beta Zeta Lambda Kenner A. T i p p i n s 1002 E. D u n k l i n J e f f e r s o n City, Mo.

171.

G a m m a Epsiion Lambda Frank B. S i m p s o n B u t l e r Road H o p k i n s v i l l e , Ky

192.

151.

Beta Eta Lambda Frank Ford 1534 N. E. 16th Terr.

O k l a h o m a City, O k l a .

172.

G a m m a Zeta Lambda A n d r e w R. J a c k s o n 4 0 0 6 — 3 4 t h St. T a m p a , Florida

152.

Beta Theta Lambda E. T. B r o w n e 303 U m s t e a d St. D u r h a m , N. C.

172.

G a m m a Eta Lambda M a t t h e w D. E d w a r d s 5202 W o o d m o o r Dr. A u s t i n , Texas

G a m m a Xi Lambda A r t h u r C. H i l l 4624 C l i n t o n Av., S. M i n n e a p o l i s , Minn.

Delta Eta Lambda

Jessie L. Spearman 3320 W. 8th St. Topeka, Kansas

199. Delta M u Lambda (Inactive) Montclair,

200.

N. J .

Delta Nu Lambda (Inactive) Danville, Virginia

201. GENERAL ORGANIZATION Chicago, Illinois

202.

Delta Xi Cecil W. P.O. Box Orlando,

203.

Delta Omicron Lambda W i l l i a m C. Evans 1 3 7 — 1 s t Street Salisbury, Md.

204.

Delta Pi Lambda A. J . D u r g a n 412 B u c k e y e Av. Selma, Alabama

205.

Delta Rho Lambda U. J . A n d r e w s P.O. D r a w e r 1598 San A n t o n i o , Texas

206.

Delta Sigma Lambda George H o w a r d 329Vz M a i n St. Pine Bluff, Ark.

207.

Delta Tau Lambda Charles F. H a r l i n s 1846 E. D e v o n s h i r e Phoenix, Ariz.

208.

Delta Upsilon Lambda Edwin Holt 1136 Zeigler S h r e v e p o r t , La.

209.

Delta Phi Lambda M i l t o n M. W i l l i a m s 1 9 1 0 — 4 0 t h Av., College H i l l s Tuscaloosa, Ala.

210.

Delta Chi Lambda Hoyt H. H a r p e r 5344 N. 6 4 t h St. M i l w a u k e e , Wis.

Lambda Boston 5331 Florida

Delta Psi Lambda D o n a l d W. W i l s o n 3062 B e l l a i r e St. Denver, C o l o r a d o

212.

Epsiion Alpha Lambda C. D. H o d g e 2901 N. W h i t t e n Tyler, Texas

213.

Epsiion Beta Lambda Ulysses M a t h i s 318 F u l t o n St. M a c o n , Georgia

Delta Delta Lambda St. Elmo A. Greaux 6 3 8 — 6 t h St. West P a l m B e a c h , Fla.

214.

Epsiion G a m m a Lambda George R. E. Daniels 34 S c h u y l e r St. D o r c h e s t e r , Mass.

193.

Delta Epsiion Lambda Frank T. L y e r s o n 1601 M a r k e t Av. East St. L o u i s , III.

215.

Epsiion Delta Lambda J a m e s A. D u n n 1728 Cooper Anniston, Ala.

194.

Delta Zeta Lambda B u r n s T. W i l s o n S. C. S t a t e Collgee O r a n g e b u r g , S. 6 .

216.

Epsiion Epsiion Lambda R h u b e r t L. E w i n g , Jr. 2024 E. 10th St. Waco, Texas

238.

Zeta Epsilon Lambda Roland M. B r o w n 48 Garden Place New S h r e w s b u r y , N . J .

259.

Eta Delta Lambda W i l b u r f o r c e Moseley Box 964 Monroe, Louisiana

280.

Theta G a m m a Lambda C o n r a d L. N e w m a n P.O. Box 117 Newville, Alabama

239.

Zeta Zeta Lambda T h o m a s N. C o l e m a n 114-52 180th St. St. A l b a n y , N. Y.

260.

281.

Theta Delta Lambda Robbin E. L. W a s h i n g t o 3807 A l a m e d a Av. El Paso, Texas

240.

Zeta Eta Lambda W. G. Keyes 1504 B e a u f o r t St. New B e r n , N. C.

Eta Epsilon Lambda David N. H o w e l l YMCA, Box 147 M o n r o v i a , L i b e r i a , West Africa Eta Zeta Lambda A r n o l d C. Baker 16 N u r s e r y Lane Rye, New York

282.

Epsilon lota Lambda L l o y d Sykes P.O. Box 52 Capron, Virginia

241.

Zeta Theta Lambda J a m e s P. W a t s o n 60 Locust St. Bressler, Pa.

Theta Epsilon Lambda Charles W. T u r n b u l l P.O. Box 2265 — Charlotte Amalie St. T h o m a s , V i r g i n Islan

283.

Epsilon Kappa Lambda J a c o b T. S t e w a r t P.O. Box 365 Grambling, Louisiana

242.

Eta Theta Lambda J a m e s L. Ford 149 O r e g o n Rd., N. N o r t h B a b y l o n , N. Y.

Theta Zeta Lambda J o h n L. R a g l a n d 4 0 1 N. 4 t h Av. Ann Arbor, M i c h .

284.

Epsilon Mu Lambda J a m e s V. Gillis 814 Gulf B e a c h Hwy. W a r r i n g t o n , Florida

243.

Eta lota Lambda David H. N u n n a l l y 185 N. R o c k s p r i n g St. A t h e n s , Ga.

Theta Eta Lambda Robert H. S i m m o n s 2450 Quebec Av., S. St. P e t e r s b u r g , Fla.

285.

265.

Epsilon N u Lambda Elijah Jones 14 H o b s o n St. Portsmouth, Virginia

244.

Eta Kappa Lambda S a m u e l L. C a r t e r 423 N. 15th St. Ft. Pierce, Fla.

Theta Theta Lambda J o h n B. B r o w n , Jr. 28th Base Post Ofc. APO New York 09082

286.

266.

Eta Mu Lambda Joel C. M a r a b l e 407 Belvedere C i r c l e Kings M o u n t a i n , N. C.

Theta lota Lambda W i l l i a m Jones 144 Suffolk St. Springfield, Mass.

287.

267.

Eta Nu Lambda Timothy Johnson 164 O t t a w a St., SW G r a n d Rapids, M i c h .

Theta Kappa Lambda Charles E. H e n r y 1833 E. 2 5 t h St. Lubbock, Texas

288.

168.

Eta Xi Lambda J a c o b Parker, Jr. P.O. Box 641 Lawton, Okla.

Theta Mu Lambda David F. W a l t o n 1204 C a l i f o r n i a Av. Joliet, I l l i n o i s

289.

269.

Eta Omicron Lambda J a m e s E. J a c k s o n 409-A C l i n t o n Av. L a n c a s t e r , S. C.

Theta Nu Lambda Oliver N. Greene 712 P y r a c a n t h a Drive LaGrange, Ga.

290.

270.

Eta Pi Lambda C l i f f o r d M. Prince 742 A. R a y m o n d P a s a d e n a , Calif.

Theta Xi Lambda T h o m a s A. Bolden 3742 Belle Vista South Bend, Indiana

291.

271.

Eta Rho Lambda M a r c u s Alexis 130 M a y w o o d Drive B r i g h t o n , N. Y.

Theta Omicron Lambda Leslie C. B r i n s o n 204 H o u s e St. Goldsboro, N. C.

292.

272.

Eta Sigma Lambda J a m e s F. H a r l o w 6263 S h a d y g r o v e Ct. San Jose, Calif.

Theta Pi Lambda Isaac R. W h i t e 1801 J . Street, B l d g . C. Las Vegas, Nev.

293.

273.

Eta Tau Lambda Curtis Washington 889 H a r t f o r d A k r o n , Ohio

Theta Rho Lambda H e n r y G. G i l l e m 1009 S. Q u i n n St. A r l i n g t o n , Va.

294.

Theta Sigma Lambda J o h n I. H e n d r i c k s A l c o r n A & M College Lorman, Miss.

295.

Theta Tau Lambda Elton H a m m o n d s 62 L i n c o l n C o u r t s West H e l e n a , Ark.

296.

Theta Upsilon Lambda A n d r e w J . Dodson 1825 L u t h e r Ft. W a y n e , I n d i a n a

297.

Theta Phi Lambda Edward B. B u t l e r P.O. Box 3 B e n n e t t s v i l l e , S. C.

298.

Theta Chi Lambda J a m e s H. L o c k h a r t 3307 W o o d l a w n Av. S c h e n e c t a d y , New York

500.

Omicron Lambda Alpha E l m e r L. Green P.O. Box 3 3 3 , Howard University W a s h i n g t o n , D. C.

217.

Epsilon Zeta Lambda (Inactive) Portland, Oregon

218.

Epsilon Eta Lambda Coy W. F r a n k l i n Box 350 Charleston, Missouri

219.

Epsilon Theta Lambda Leon Eugene N e a r o n C h u r c h Street Hamilton, Bermuda

220.

221.

222.

223.

224.

225.

226.

227.

228.

262.

263.

245.

Epsilon Omicron Lambda Ernest L. Morse P.O. Box 595 S o u t h Hill, Va.

246.

Epsilon Pi Lambda J o h n Dukes, Jr. 908 N. W. 4 t h Place G a i n e s v i l l e , Fla. Epsilon Rho Lambda William Murphy P.O. Box 1098 F a y e t t e v i l l e , N. C. Epsilon Sigma Lambda (Inactive) T a r b o r o , N. C. Epsilon Tau Lambda Griff W. K e n d r i c k P r a i r i e View, Texas

230.

Epsilon Upsilon Lambda Frederick S. W a l l e r 511 E. W e l l i n g t o n Flint, M i c h i g a n Epsilon Phi Lambda V e n d o n Beck 748 Roosevelt Av. Port A r t h u r , Texas

Zeta lota Lambda T o m m y A. T h o m a s 18 W. End Street T r e n t o n , N. J .

264.

Epsilon Xi Lambda B. H. Cooper Box 1000 C l a r k s d a l e , Miss.

229.

231.

261.

247.

248.

249.

Zeta Kappa Lambda St. J o h n W i l l i a m s o n , Jr. 4 7 4 1 — 4 9 t h St. Des M o i n e s , Iowa Zeta Mu Lambda W. Leo E. Cole 3 0 1 6 — 2 1 s t St. Gulfport, Miss.

Zeta Nu Lambda J a m e s Reid 1412 E. 2 n d St. Plainfield, N.J. Zeta Xi Lambda Charles M. S m i t h 2142 Dewey Av. E v a n s t o n , III. Zeta Omicron Lambda J a m e s W. H e w i t t 6105 M a g n o l i a St. P h i l a d e l p h i a , Pa. Zeta Pi Lambda Fred Haynes 3 0 0 — 2 9 t h Av., East Seattle, W a s h .

Zeta Rho Lambda

Ulysses L. Oliver W m . H e n r y H i g h School Dover, D e l a w a r e 250.

Zeta Sigma Lambda Veil W y a t t 5328 Encina Drive San Diego, Calif.

251.

Zeta Tau Lambda Victor Smith 1701 N. W a s h i n g t o n A m a r i l l o , Texas

252.

Zeta Upsilon Lambda (Inactive) South Boston, Virginia

Eta Eta Lambda Aris T. A l l e n 62 C a t h e d r a l St. Annapolis, Md.

232.

Epsilon Chi Lambda D e M i n t Frazier W a l k e r P.O. Box 106 E d e n t o n , N. C.

253.

Zeta Phi Lambda W i l l i a m Decker Clarke 66 Dry Hill Road Norwalk, Conn.

274.

Eta Upsilon Lambda W e l d o n E. Elbert 3 2 1 Carver Odessa. Texas

233.

Epsilon Psi George W. 3616—13th Alexandria,

254.

Zeta Chi Lambda B r i n g e r H. B a r k e r Box 233 F r a n k l i n t o n , La.

275.

Eta Phi Lambda Eddie L. Irions 1106 N. 5 t h Av. Columbus, Miss.

234.

Zeta Alpha Lambda Raleigh R. Rawls 1018'/ 2 N. W. 6 t h St. Ft. L a u d e r d a l e , Fla.

255.

Zeta Psi Lambda J o s e p h Y. B e l l a r d 2436 K a t h e r i n e St. Lake C h a r l e s , La.

276.

Eta Chi Lambda W a l t e r C. B l o u n t , Jr. 13 Edgewood C i r c l e O r a n g e b u r g , N. Y.

235.

Zeta Beta Lambda W i l l i a m S. H i g h t 2 2 0 9 — 1 6 t h Av. S a c r a m e n t o , Calif.

256.

Eta Alpha Lambda George C o n q u e s t 197 S t a r r St. New H a v e n , C o n n .

277.

Eta Psi Lambda M e l v i n D. Dixon 1430 E. Magee Road T u c s o n , Arizona

236.

Zeta G a m m a Lambda J a m e s E. Ewery 1313 N. E. 13th St. O k l a h o m a City, O k l a .

257.

Eta Beta Lambda Fred A d a m s 1610 E. 15th St. W i c h i t a , Kansas

278.

Theta Alpha Lambda J o h n n y Rigby 1909 E. B r o a d St. East G a d s d e n , Ala.

237.

Zeta Delta Lambda Charles B a c o n 735 W. D i b e r t Av. S p r i n g f i e l d , Ohio

258.

Eta G a m m a Lambda R. B. Jones 503 Clay St. L a f a y e t t e , La.

279.

Theta Beta Lambda A n t h o n y T. G o r d o n 2902 Florida Av. R i c h m o n d , Calif.

Lambda Thompson St. La.

ALPHA Laurence T. Young,

General

Secretary

60th Anniversary Convention: The matter uppermost in our minds at this time is the 60th Anniversary Convention, which convenes at the SheratonJefferson Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri—August 14 to 18, 1966—and the motto is: Meet Me in St. Louis. The General President's CALL appears elsewhere in this issue of The Sphinx —in which it is urged that each brother come prepared to cut a new blue print for the execution of the grand plan adopted in Chicago—"TOWARD THE LIGHT." (See back cover.)

Deadline for Hotel Reservations is June 1st, 1966—the rates are: SINGLE ROOM $ 7.85 TWIN ROOM (2 in room) 12.85 TRIPLE ROOM (3 in room 15.85 SUITES, from 25.00 to 47.00 '(relates to undergraduates only) Flection of General President 1967-1968 Ballots for election of General President (1967-68) have been mailed to 7,500 active brothers. If any active brother has failed to receive a ballot, contact the General Office at once.

Approximately 250 ballots have been returned for various reasons, most—"moved and left no address". Again this points out the importance of notifying the General Office of any change of address. Returned mail is expensive.

Regional Conventions: Two regional conventions have been successfully concluded, and all praise and thanks go to the Vice Presidents for executing excellent programs:—Brother W. Dewey Branch, Southern Vice President; and Brother Jacob T. Stewart, Southwestern Vice President.

Due to conflicting dates, each convention being held during the Easter week end in Memphis, Tenn. and Muskogee. Okla.

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respectively, the General Secretary was able to attend only one —the Southern Regional.

The following named Regional Officers (to be elected to Board of Directors) will be recommended at the General Convention in St. Louis, come August: For Southern Regional Vice President: Brother W. Dewey Branch. For Assistant Southern Regional Vice President: Brother Victor Jackson of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga. For Southwestern Regional Vice President: Brother Ernest L. Wallace of Dallas, Texas.

For Assistant Southwestern Regional Vice President: Brother James Glover of Beta Kappa Chapter, Langston University, Okla.

Our General President—Brother Lionel H. Newsom appeared on the Public program as main speaker in Muskogee, Okla., at the Southwestern Regional Convention, and appeared as banquet speaker at the Southern Regional Convention in Memphis. Tenn.

Omega: Many of our good brothers have passed into Omega Chapter since the last Convention, but notably among them was the passing of Brother Robert T. Custis, of Alpha Gamma Lambda Chapter—April 6, 1966. Truly he was an outstanding brother of Alpha Phi Alpha, numbered among the many others.

Life Members of A<t>A: Such an up-surge in Life Memberships in Alpha Phi Alpha is unprecedented—seventy-five (75) since the last Convention—and the irony of it is that Epsilon Lambda (St. Louis) is talking in terms of having established a Chapter of Life Members.

At this writing—we have three other Regional Conventions to recognize—the Midwestern Regional—in Akron, Ohio, April 22nd. 23, 24, 1966; the Eastern Regional—in Richmond, Virginia, May 13, 14, 15, 1966; and the Western Regional in Las Vegas, Nevada—May 6, 7, 8, 1966.

But Above All, Brothers: The 60th Anniversary Convention— St. Louis, Missouri—August 15th. 16th, 17th, and 18th, 1966.

Have you received a preview of the cover of the Souvenir Program? If you haven't, you have something to look forward to.

Dominating the cover is a panoramic view of the City of St. Louis, with the 630 toot steel arch dominating the scene— the nation's tallest monument.

The General President: Brother Newsom continues to admonish chapters relative to initiation procedures, and is determined to stamp out forever all brutality and unnecessary hazing of candidates. Again may we make an appeal for chapter officers of indisputable integrity and remember that—a sense of responsibility is part of the price of living in a democratic society.

Our Horizons Must Change

essary to generate the needed momentum that will enable them to function as a dynamic force in the community leadership.

We as Alpha men must change our horizons and try to serve the Negro as part of community organizations so that

we can truly call ourselves leaders.

All of us have to think about this change from a limited concept to the more fulfilling and profitable concept, for the good of Negro America, for the good of America, and for our own pocketbooks.

BY L. H. STANTON We somehow have the habit of thinking that Alpha should only formulate new programs to be carried out by our fraternity, thus calling for new committees and sub-committees and new organizational machinery. This no doubt was appropriate at the time of our inception, when the Negro had but few organizations to speak for him.

But today the Negro has plenty of organizations. What he needs now is organization.

A community relations' organization should be set up in every city where there is an Alpha Chapter or Alpha Brothers.

It should be composed of every segment of Negro life. The leadership of Business, Legal, Medical, Educational, Dental, Civic, Social Service, Civil service, Welfare, Religious and Fraternal Organizations, should form this community relations council for the purpose of developing concerted action and coordinating the various leadership influences on the local community level.

By the nature of its geographic structure Alpha Phi Alpha is ideally fitted for this task as the initiating force. Chapters are located in some 100 or more population centers that form an aggregate of 60 per cent of the Negro population.

Our objectives should be: 1. To bring together the trained Brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha for the assumption of leadership in existing organizations needing regeneration.

2. To tap that reservoir of talent lying dormant in Alpha Phi Alpha.

3. The unification of effort on the part of these individuals will make attainment of these objectives possible.

Members of each profession or related interest will form a nucleus to develop ways and means to coordinate a program that can be carried to existing organizations. When this has been done, we will have the means of concerted effort, nec-

A COUNCIL OF THE HEADS OF ALL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WOULD COORDINATE THE PROGRAMS FOR CONCERTED ACTION.

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Lincolnton Station New York, N . Y. 10037 Return Requested

April 1, 1966

THE GENERAL CONVENTION CALL OF 1966 By the authority vested in me as General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, 1 hereby summon our lone living Founder, all past and present General Officers, Regional Officers, appointed officers, Delegates and other brothers not already designated to convene in the City of Saint Louis, State of Missouri, August 15th through 18th, 1966 for the purpose of conducting the 52nd General (60th Anniversary) Convention of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated.

Appropriate arrangements have been and are being made for your luxurious comfort in both the business sessions, and the social affairs which follow, at the beautiful SheratonJefferson Hotel located in the first major city west of the Mississippi River—the City of the Dred Scott decision, St. Louis—awaits your arrival.

Each brother in the Fraternity is urged to come prepared to cut a new blue print for the execution of the grand plan adopted in Chicago—"Toward the Light."

Our major task now is to implement the structural and functional changes accepted by you: New General Office Building; location of General Office Building; new Housing program with financial assistance from the Federal Government; larger financial grants in the Educational program and an Administrative Secretary with Field Secretaries as associates. We must find ways to use the vast resources of the Great Society in the interest of the Fraternity, and our poverty stricken neighbor.

By the aforementioned authority and obedience to Article VII, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the Constitution and By Laws of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, revised 1965—I direct the General Secretary, and the Chairman of the General Convention Committee to inform each chapter of the necessary arrangements to be made in convening the 52nd General (60th Anniversary) Convention.

LIONEL H. NEWSOM, General President Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated