ALPHA OFFICERS
ALPHA DELTA LAMBDA OFFICERS
Brother Daron A. Patterson, Sr. - President
Brother Rex Gipson - First Vice President
Brother Peter Smith - Second Vice President
Brother LeSedrick Pollard - Recording Secretary
Brother Brian R. Davis - Corresponding Secretary
Brother Calvin Burrows - Financial Secretary
Brother Tyrone Davis - Treasurer
Brother Glenn Vaulx, III - Director of Educational Activities
Brother Aaron J. Hinton - Historian
Brother Frederick White - Chief Dean
Brother Rudolph Gray, Jr. - Chapter Dean
Brother Bethel Harris - Chaplain
Brother Kyle C. Nixon - Associate Editor of the Sphinx
Brother Wayman Thomas - Sergeant-at-Arms
Brother Willie Davis, Jr. - Parliamentarian
Brother Anthony Branch - Immediate Past President
ALPHA MEMPHIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OFFICERS
Brother Vearnon Woods - Chairman
Brother Evan Arrindell - Treasurer
Brother Glenn Vaulx - Secretary
Brother Alex DeJarnett
Brother Robert Johnson
Brother Anthony Sledge
Brother Frederick White
COLLEGE CHAPTER PRESIDENTS
Brother Marvin Johnson - Beta Xi
Brother Christopher Starks - Kappa Eta
Brother Billy Manishimwe - Nu Eta
SIGMA RHO LAMBDA OFFICERS
Brother Alex Marshall - President
Brother Kelvin Bowen - Vice President
Brother Larry Everrett - Recording Secretary
Brother Antonias Hawkins - Secretary/Corresponding Secretary
Brother Anthony L. Miller, Sr.- Financial Secretary
Brother Kent Griffin - Treasurer
Brother Emmanuel Blair - Director of Educational Activities
Brother Sam Williams - Historian
Brother Larry McKinney, III - Dean of Membership Development
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 Andre Williams - Immediate Past President
THE JEWEL GUILD FOUNDATION OFFICERS
Brother Derek Renfroe, Esq. - Chairman
Brother James Whittaker - Vice-Chairman
Brother Pastor Larry McKinnie - Treasurer
Brother Todario Harris - Secretary
Brother Stanley Dandridge
Brother Pastor Marcus Stansberry
Brother Ramone Smith
Brother Malcolm Wallace
Brother Leonard Porter
Brother Kent Griffin
Brother Dallas Palmer
Brother Pastor Roger Brown
Brother Clinton Miller
118th Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration
“THE VOTES HAVE BEEN CAST – WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?”
Processional Ms. C’sara Strong Jasmine Fentress Soloist
Scripture/Invocation
Bro. Bethel Harris
Chaplain
Bro. Marcus Stansberry, Sr.
Chaplain
Welcome Brother Peter Smith
Bro. Kelvin Bowen Vice President - ΣΡΛ
Musical Selection
Whitehaven High School Concert Choir
Necrology College Brothers - 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
Whitehaven High School Concert Choir
118th Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration
“THE VOTES HAVE BEEN CAST – WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?”
Introduction of Speaker Bro. Alex Marshall
Founders’ Day Address
Pan-Hellenic Pause
Bro. Harvey Johnson
Former Mayor of Jackson, MS
Bro. Anthony Sledge
Pan-Hellenic Counsel President
Past President - ΑΔΛ
Awards, Recognitions & Closing Remarks
Bro. Daron Patterson - ΑΔΛ Chapter President
Bro. Alex Marshall - ΣΡΛ Chapter President
Greek Medley Ms. C’sara Strong
Recessional
Brother Harvey Johnson, Jr
Harvey Johnson, Jr. received a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from Tennessee State University, and a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Cincinnati. Johnson was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Tougaloo College.
Upon graduating from college, Johnson was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force, where he served as a signals intelligence officer, achieving the rank of captain. He is a member of American Legion Tyner-Ford Post 213. Johnson’s career in public service has spanned over 50 years; he has worked at the federal, state and local levels of government, as well as in the non-profit sector, working primarily in the field of planning and community development.
In 1997, Johnson made history by being elected Jackson, Mississippi’s first African-American Mayor. In 2001, Jackson voters chose Johnson for a second four-year term as Mayor of Mississippi’s Capital City. He was elected to a third term in 2009, leaving office in June of 2013. Johnson’s work while Mayor of Jackson is apparent throughout the City today. Most notably, he led the effort which resulted in the construction of the City’s first Convention Center, located adjacent to a state-of-the-art, high-tech Telecommunications Training and Conference Center, the location of which in Downtown Jackson was also spearheaded by Johnson.
Johnson has served on numerous national, regional and local boards and commissions, including serving as President of the National Conference of Black Mayors, a Member of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Advisory Council, and a Member of the Executive Committee of the National Democratic Party. He received a six-year gubernatorial appointment to the three-member Mississippi State Tax Commission and served on the first Mississippi Gaming Commission.
Johnson was a 1965 initiate into Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Beta Omicron chapter; and he is a Life Member of the Fraternity. He is a Past President of BO and of Alpha Epsilon Lambda chapters; and he previously served as an Area Director in the District of Mississippi. He was appointed to the Fraternity’s Public Policy Committee by 35th General President Everett Ward. He is a charter member of 100 Black Men of Jackson, Inc., where he has served as a two-term President, and as a mentor for middle school boys since 1993. He was selected 100 Black Men of America’s 2023 National Mentor of the Year. Johnson is a life member of the NAACP, and a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.
Over the years, Johnson has served in numerous positions at Jackson State University, including Assistant Professor, Director of the Technology Transfer Center, Founding Director of the Center for University-Based Development, and. as a consultant to the Institute of Government, where he taught leadership development courses and coordinated a training program for local elected officials.
Harvey Johnson, Jr. is married to Kathy Ezell Johnson, and they are the parents of two children, Harvey, III and Sharla. He is a member of Hope Spring Missionary Baptist Church, where he serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
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!
