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RHO CHAPTER Philadelphia, Pa. Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha— Greeting: Since our last communication with the SPHINX Rho Chapter has bestirred herself quite energetically. With all modesty she reports the following activities: Last spring, Rho Chapter presented to the Philadelphia public Prof. Carl Kelsey, who holds the chair of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. The meeting was held in the auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. Quite a large group heard Prof. Kelsey give his views on the Haitian situation. Dr. Kelsey spent many months in a thoro investigation of conditions and came to us with a wealth of material for a lecture. And whlie his diagnosis and prognosis did not seem to be the same as that given by our own Dr. DuBois and James Weldon Johnson, yet we were deferential to Dr. Kelsey for his open-minded analysis and the total absence of Caucasian palaver on that occasion. We are indebted to Bro. Dehaven Hinkson for the opportunity to hear the distinguished sociologist on a subject very near to us. On Monday, June 12th, Bro. Dr. Leonidas Crogman, of Atlanta, Ga., one of the charter members of Rho Chapter, like the proverbial rabbit returned to the scene of his nativity. He brought us a message of cheer and optimism and expressed pleasure at the growth and consistency of the chapter. In a letter breathing the hospitality of the tropics and bearing the currency of the United Kingdom in the form of Grand Tax remittance Brother T. T. Nichols M. D., of 34 Robb street, Georgetown, British Guiana, S. A., stirred us to admiration of the maternal manifestations of Alpha Phi Alphaism at a distance. With the characteristic professional and business-like sagacity that has enabled him to reach the heights of his profession that he now enjoys, Bro. I. Marion Lawrence, D. D. S., better known as "Ike", in the Barcoe-Allen-Lawrence football days at Howard, has associated with Dr. Dorsey, formerly of Tennessee and has opened sumptuous offices in the Professional Building, 16th and Lombard streets, Philadelphia, Pa. He proposes to specialize in Radiodontia and Exodontia. Brothers P. I. Bowser, Raymond Hackney, and R. N. Gordon graduated from the Temple University College of Dentistry in June. Brothers Hackney and Gordon have been appointed as internes at the Forsythe Dental Infirmary, Boston, Mass. Brother Warren Bowser graduated from the Temple University College of Pharmacy in June. .... In a party of prominent men who visited the grave of John Brown in New York
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State was Brother T. S. Burwell. Speeches were made and many wreaths placed on the grave. Dr. J. Max Barber and Brother Burwell were the principal speakers. Rho Chapter was represented at the annual reception and banquet given at Nu Chapter, Lincoln University, June 5th. Bro. P. I. Bowser, D. D. S., officiated for Rho. Brother Theodore Penny with a wealth of sociological facts and plans spoke at Bethel Church, Bryn Mawr, Pa., pn June 20th. Brother Penny is the originator of a new idea in juvenile culture. Disclosing it to several prominent national figures brought responses of interest from Brig. Gen. Sawyer, President Harding's physician. Rho Chapter joyfully celebrates the return of Brother Russell Nelson, M. D., of Bryn Mawr. Brother Nelson, jealously owned by both Psi and Rho Chapters, has become nationally known by the exceptionly work he has done at Bellevue Hospital as chief of the maternity ward. His <;ontributions to the health column of the Philadelphia Tribune weekly have been wholesome and eluciidating to many modes; little households. Unabashed by their failure to fittingly observe "Go to High School-Go to College" week, the chapters of Rho and Psi gave a substantial scholarship to the ranking pupil of the Philadelphia grammar schools on Thursday, June 21, 1922. Dr. Walter F. Jerrick, president of Rho Chapter, a graduate with high honors at University of Pennsylvania in 1918 and a postgraduate of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, made a fitting address to the pupils and graduating class of Durham school at the event of awarding the scholarship. We are still trying to observe the principles of Alphaism, maintain scholarship, promote race advance, uplift man and womanhood and construct the chapter on a basis of solidarity that will stand for years to come. Fraternally, O. WILSON WINTERS, Chapter Editor. O
EPSILON LAMBDA CHAPTER St. Louis, Mo. Epsilon Lambda met in regular monthly conclave at the Pine Street Y. M. C. A. Brothers Hampton and Watts, hosts for the occasion, furnished a collation calculated to tickle the palate of the most fastidiously Epicurean gastronome. The old ecclesiastical fowl was much in evidence and satisfied many a short brother with a long appetite. With Brother Gray at the piano, Brother Evans conducted the brothers through the inspiring lines of a fraternity ode composed by Brother D. D. Jones. Then Brother Jos.