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114 Year Founders Day Program
“The Fierce Urgency of Now” Invocation Bro Louis B. Holmes, Jr. - ΑΔΛ Chaplain Welcome The Honorable Bro Torrey Harris, TN House of Representative, District 90 Musical Selection Bro Oscar Sueing Necrology Bro Brian Davis Jewel Presentation led by: Bro. Jerome Cole - Nu Eta Jewel Henry Arthur Callis Bro Kyler Leasure - Kappa Eta Jewel Charles Henry Chapman Bro Leland Summers Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones Bro Steafon Parson Jewel George Biddle Kelley Bro Patrick Parnell - Beta Xi Jewel Nathaniel Allison Murray Bro Keland Martin Jewel Robert Harold Ogle Bro Kedron Pryor Jewel Vertner Woodson Tandy Bro Jermario Brown 3
114 Year Founder’s Day Program
“The Fierce Urgency of Now” Musical Selection Bro Will Graves Introduction of Speaker Bro Daron A. Patterson, Sr Founder’s Day Address Gen President Elect Bro Dr. Willis L. Lonzer, III Pan-Helenic Pause Delcenia Pegues Pan-Hellenic Counsel President Chairman’s Salutations Bro Daron A Patterson, Sr Awards Bro Anthony Branch, 1st Vice-President Bro Vearnon Woods, Chapter President Recognitions & Closing Remarks Bro Vearnon Woods, Chapter President Greek Medley Mrs. Yvonne Ceveland-Holmes Recessional
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ro. Dr. Willis L. Lonzer, III is a native of Richmond, Virginia, where he attended the Henrico County Public Schools. He matriculated to Delaware State University, where he was a Charles Waples Scholar in chemistry and earned Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. While at
Delaware State, he joined the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. through the Gamma Sigma Chapter on November 15, 1986. Brother Lonzer also holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree in biochemistry from The University of Akron, where he was a prestigious Patricia Roberts Harris Predoctoral Fellow. After completing his doctoral training, Dr. Lonzer was awarded a National Institutes of Health sponsored Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Fraternally, Brother Lonzer has served as a Chapter President at the college and alumni levels; College Step Master; College Chapter Advisor; Area Director; District Director of Ohio; and has been a member of multiple committees on the regional and national levels of the fraternity. He is the Immediate Past Midwestern Regional Vice President and a member of the Xi Lambda Chapter in Chicago, IL. On July 24, 2020 in Baltimore, MD, Bro. Dr. Lonzer was announced to be the 36th General President-Elect, where the results of the fraternity wide election by the membership of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. were certified during the meeting of the Board of Directors. In addition to his service and leadership in Alpha, Brother Dr. Lonzer, after a brief stint in medical academia, moved his professional career pursuits to the pharmaceutical industry. He has 20 years of global corporate experience having held positions in Global Research & Development and Medical Affairs with AstraZeneca, the Ortho Biotech Division of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, Global Medical Affairs Division of Abbott Laboratories, Global Medical Affairs Division of AbbVie Inc, and the Global Medical Affairs Division of Shire Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda Pharmaceuticals). Currently, Brother Dr. Lonzer is a Regional Medical Director with Horizon Therapeutics, in Lake Forest, IL. Brother Lonzer has authored papers published in both peer-reviewed scientific and non-scientific journals and has presented at major medical and scientific meetings. He is also a contributing author of the book: Brothers of the Academy: Up and Coming Black Scholars Earning Our Way in Higher Education. Brother Lonzer is a Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, The Original Forty Club of Chicago, and The Druids Club of Chicago. Brother Lonzer is married to Mrs. Pamela Lonzer and is the proud father of two adult sons and a daughter who is enrolled at Spelman College. The Lonzers reside in Chicago, IL and are members of Greater Institutional AME Church.
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ALPHA DELTA LAMBDA OFFICERS Vearnon Woods - President Anthony Branch - First Vice President Daron Patterson - Second Vice President Robert Williams - Corresponding Secretary LeSedrick Pollard - Recording Secretary Calvin Burrows - Financial Secretary Tyrone Davis - Treasurer Damon Hunter - Director of Educational Activities Aaron Hinton - Historian Daryl Lewis - Chapter Dean Louis Holmes - Chaplain Joseph Jones - Associate Editor to the Sphinx Wayman Thomas - Sergeant-at-Arms Anthony Sledge - Immediate Past President Willie Davis - Parliamentarian
ALPHA MEMPHIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OFFICERS Chairman - George Jones III Vice-Chairman - Bobby Peters Treasurer - vacant Secretary/Director - Brian Scurlock Remaining Directors Tim Pearson William Yates Michael Dexter Geoff Lewis Kevin Gautreaux
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The House of Alpha By Bro. Sidney P. Brown GOODWILL is the monarch of this house Men, unacquainted, enter, shake hands, exchange greetings, and depart friends. Cordiality exists among all who abide within. I am the eminent expression of friendship. Character and temperament change under my dominant power. Lives, once touched by me become tuned, and are thereafter, amiable, kindly, fraternal. I inspire the musician to play noble sentiments, and assist the chemist to convert ungenerous personalities into individuals of great worth. I destroy all ignoble impulses. I constantly invoke principles which make for common brotherhood, and the echo resounds in all communities, and princely men are thereby recognized. Education, health, music, encouragement, sympathy, laughter: All these are species of interest given of self-invested capital. Tired moments find me a delightful treat, Hours of sorrow a shrine of understanding, At all times I am faithful to the creed of companionship. To a few I am the Castle of Dreams, Ambitious, successful, hopeful dreams. To many, I am the Poetic Palace where human feeling is rhymed to celestial motives. To the great majority, I am the Treasury of Good Fellowship. In fact, I am the College of Friendship; The University of Brotherly Love; The School for the Better Making of Men.
I AM ALPHA PHI ALPHA!
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