ALPHA OFFICERS
ALPHA DELTA LAMBDA OFFICERS
SIGMA RHO LAMBDA OFFICERS
Brother Anthony Branch—President Brother Daron Patterson, Sr.—First Vice President Brother Rex Gipson—Second Vice President Brother LeSedrick Pollard—Recording Secretary Brother Calvin Burrows—Financial Secretary Brother Tyrone Davis—Treasurer Brother Quincy Beasley—Director of Educational Activities Brother Aaron Hinton—Historian Brother Frederick White—Chief Dean Brother Rudolph Gray, Jr.—Chapter Dean Brother Louis Holmes—Chaplain Brother Larry McHatch—Associate Editor of the Sphinx Brother Wayman Thomas—Sergeant –at-Arms Brother Willie Davis, Jr.—Parliamentarian
Brother Alexander Marshall—President
ALPHA MEMPHIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OFFICERS
THE JEWEL GUILD FOUNDATION OFFICERS
Brother Vearnon Woods—Chairman
Brother Derek Renfroe —Chairman
Brother Daryl Lewis—Vice-Chairman
Brother James Whittaker—Vice-Chairman
Brother Evan Arrindell—Treasurer
Brother Larry McKinnie—Treasurer
Brother Glenn Vaulx—Secretary
Brother Todario Harris—Secretary
Brother Alex DeJarnett
Brother Stanley Dandridge
Brother Robert Johnson
Brother Marcus Stansberry
Brother Anthony Sledge
Brother Leonard Porter
Brother Frederick White
Brother Kent Griffin
Brother Kelvin R. Bowen—Vice President Brother Antonias Hawkins—Recording Secretary Brother Anthony L. Miller, Sr.—Financial Secretary Brother Kent Griffin - Treasurer Brother Emmanuel Blair—Director of Educational Activities Brother Craig LaShawn Williams—Historian Brother Larry Allen McKinney, III—Dean of Membership Brother Marcus Stansberry Sr. - Chaplain Brother Amario M. Cole—Associate Editor of the Sphinx Brother William Taylor – Sergeant -at-Arms Brother Leonard Porter—Parliamentarian
Brother Dallas Palmer Brother Roger Brown Brother Clinton Miller
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117th FOUNDERS’ DAY | 2023
117th Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration
“TORCH FOR THE FUTURE: ALPHAS LIGHTING THE WAY” Mrs. Yvonne Cleveland-Holmes
Processional
Bro. Louis B. Holmes, Jr. ΑΔΛ Chaplain
Invocation
Bro. Marcus Stansberry, Sr. ΣΡΛ Chaplain Bro. Alexander Marshall President - ΣΡΛ
Welcome
Musical Selection Cordova High School Concert Choir Necrology
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Bro. Rex Gipson Vice President - ΑΔΛ Bro. Kelvin Bowen Vice President - ΣΡΛ
Jewels Presentation - Beta Xi | seated at LeMoyne-Owen College - Kappa Eta | seated at the University of Memphis - Nu Eta | seated at Christian Brothers University & Rhodes College Musical Selection Cordova High School Concert Choir
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117th FOUNDERS’ DAY | 2023
117th Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration
“TORCH FOR THE FUTURE: ALPHAS LIGHTING THE WAY” Introduction of Speaker
Bro. Metrick Houser Immediate Past District Director
Founders’ Day Address
Bro. Louis R. Vick Southern Region Executive Director Bro. Anthony Sledge Pan-Hellenic Counsel President Past President - ΑΔΛ
Pan-Hellenic Pause
Awards, Recognitions & Closing Remarks Bro. Anthony Branch - ΑΔΛ Chapter President Bro. Alex Marshall - ΣΡΛ Chapter President Closing Remarks Bro. Anthony Branch - ΑΔΛ Chapter President Mrs. Yvonne Cleveland-Holmes
Greek Medley
Recessional
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Brother Louis R. Vick
Brother Louis R Vick is a proud 1995 initiate of the Beta Omicron Chapter seated at Tennessee State University where he received a double bachelor’s in healthcare administration and business. After graduation he went on to spend 21 years in a combination of the U.S Army, US Air Force and Air National Guard where he retired as an officer. During his military time, he was an Army pathfinder, Paramedic, Air Evac nurse and he also managed to complete his MBA. As an Alphaman, he has held many leadership roles to include: • Past District Director of TN • Beta Omicron Chapter President • Omicron Sigma Lambda
Chapter President
• Chapter Advisor (Kappa Xi-MTSU) • South Central Area Director TN • Southern Region Co-Chair of Grievance &
Discipline Committee
And currently he serves as the Southern Region Executive Director. If that is not enough, in his professional role he is an Executive with a Global Information Technology company and a business owner.
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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!