TH E SPHINX, APRIL 1925
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who was visiting the city at the time and invited to speak at the meeting. So Eta Chapter is carrying on and putting forth its best efforts toward encouraging education generally, and higher educational standards among our people in and about New York. Yours cordially and fraternally, M YI.ES A.
PAIGE,
Secretary.
the 135th St. Y. M. C. A. as religious worker and secretary of that branch of work. Thence he was called to his present office and, as stated further by one of the leading newspapers of New York, "under the influence of Dr. Powell, has developed into one of the ablest ministers of his denomination." H e is vice-president of the New York State Baptist Convention, secretary of the Harlem League of Churches, assistant secretary of the Baptist Ministers' Conference, and a Mason, as well as the father of a fine young son, Marshall Lorenzo, Jr. Brother Shepard was initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha at Gamma Chapter in 1910, and has since been a most active member, attending two General Conventions as delegate, and is now president of Eta Chapter, New York City. Respectfully submitted by MYLES A.
,
Secretary
BROTHER COUNTEE, P .
PAIGE,
of Eta
CULLEN.
Poet, orator and scholar of the highest
BROTHER REVEREND MARSHALL L.
The most outstanding
SHEPARD.
young minister of his
denomination. Brother Shepard is well known to all the brothers who attended either the General Convention of 1023 at Columbus, to which he was Junior Delegate from Eta Chapter and figured greatly in bringing the li)24 General Convention to New York City, or to those who attended that convention here during the past Christmas week, when Brother Shepard was ever on the guard to guide its progress in the channels of greatest needs and possible good effect. H e is the most outstanding young minister in New York today assistant pastor of the, heretofore, greatest Negro Church in the world, the Abysinian Baptist Church, of which Brother Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell is pastor, and where the public meeting of the last General Convention was held. Brother Shepard was highly recommended by the pastor and his other assistants, as well as the congregation upon his successful management of the (livers and immense affairs of the Church during the absence of the pastor while on a three months' visit t<i Europe and the Holy Land. Brother Shepard received his training at the Slater State Normal School, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va., and also studied at the City College of New York, and the Union Theological Seminary, New York City. While at Virginia Union University, he was a member of the debating team which did the, almost, impossible in defeating the arguing stalwarts of the Howard University team in 1981. Since his advent in New York, he has been actively engaged in Christian work. First, he was the Harlem Missionary of the New York Bible Society from which position he went to
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Brother Countee P. Cullen has long been known to the public as one of the few poets of the purest and truest American type. Though only a very young man, as yet, his poems have been continually published in the leading newspapers and magazines of the country. The 'New York World, as an example, has devoted even full double columns in its Sunday issues to the works of this brilliant mentor of marvelous rhymes. The first volume of his work will be published next fall by the Harpers Publishing Company. This in itself is great evidence of a notable achievement. But his brilliancy is not restricted to poetic composition, for now it has extended over the whole field of literary endeavors. Brother Cullen is a senior in the College department of New York University, New York City, and has twice represented his school and won for it second place on both occasions in the world-famed Witter Bynner Intercollegiate Contest; and to culminate his collegiate activities, he has just won for himself the very highest scholastic honors, and election to Phi Beta Kappa. Brother Cullen is the son of Reverend Dr. Cullen. who is pastor of one of the largest churches of New York and his church has the greatest seating capacity of all. Brother Cullen is a true Alpha Phi Alpha man, as exemplified by his constant activities in Eta Chapter since his initiation. He will be remembered by the brothers who attended the Pilgrimage of the Seventeenth Annual Convention held here in New York City this past Christmas for his wonderful lines recited there; also to the readers of the last issue of the SPHINX.
Brother Cullen's extreme modesty in his own great accomplishments put me to the task of gathering this material and photo from other sources than himself. Respectfully submitted by M Y L E S A.
Secretary
PAIGE,
of Bta Chapter.
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Iota has just chosen her officers for the year of 1925, who are, Thomas Morris, president; L. Hamilton Maloney, vice-president; A. L. Demond, secretary ; Arthur L. Royster, treasurer; W. Lester Bryant, Sergeant-at-Arms. The chapter lamented the passing