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BROTHER ALONZO MORON RECEIVES FIRST MAJOR HOUSING APPOINTMENT Eta Lambda presents Brother Alonzo Moron, who saw the light of Alpha at Sigma Chapter in 1931. We selected Brother Moron because his job is one of the first housing positions allotted to Negroes in the country. That brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity may become better acquainted with Brother Moron, Eta Lambda herewith presents the following excerpt from an article taken from the Atanta Daily World:— Alonzo G. Moron, has been appointed assistant housing manager for the new University Hemes, federal low cost housing project which is shortly to be opened in the vicinity of Atlanta University. Announcement of the appointment was just received by the local Advisory Committee on University Housing. Mr. Moron will begin his work immediately. Notification of the appointment came directly to the local citizens advisory committee from Washington. This committee was created in 1934 by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to act in conjunction with the federal government in the furtherance of this federal slum clearance and low cost housing project. President John Hope of Atlanta University, a prime mover in the effort to provide low cost houses for the Negro groups in Atlanta, was its chairman, and since his death, President Florence M. Read of Spelman College has acted as its head. Other members of the committee are Dr. Will W. Alexander, E. M. Martin, Jr., L. D. Milton, A. T. Walden, S. W. Walker and Kendall Weisiger all of Atlanta, and Dean Sage of New York City. The appointee to the position of assistant manager of the first major Negro housing project to be completed in this country was graduated from Hampton Institute in 1927, and from Brown University in 1932. At college he was an honor student in sociology and a member of Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. In 1932-33 he attended the University of Pittsburgh as an Urban League Fellow, and received his Master of Arts degree in sociology. Upon his graduation he was appointed a social worker by the Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission, the first member of his race to be so named. In November, 1933 Mr. Moron was appointed Commissioner of Public Welfare of the Virgin Islands by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. In this position he organized a department to carry on the social service work necessary to the administration of the federal emergency relief program in the islands. His duties consisted of the organizing and supervision of work projects for men and women, as well as the setting up of a social work program, which included organized family welfare, old age assistance, and community work. During 1934 he conducted a housing study which was used as the basis of the extensive home building program undertaken by the government the following year. Duiing the winter of 1935-36 Mr. Moron attended the Management Training School, which was conducted at Washington by the National Association of Housing Officials with the active co-operation of the Public Works Administration.. The appointee is a member of the National Conference of Social Work, the American Public Welfare Association. of Housing Officials. He resides at 188 Chestnut Street, Southwest, Atlanta. Brother Frank Madison Reid has moved one more step nearer the Bishopric. He has been transferred from Louisville, Ky., to St. Louis, Mo., to St. Paul A. M. E. Church, where they make Bishops. I am still pulling for you, "Rev."
HOUSING EXPERT
BROTHER ALONZO G. MORON Former Commissioner of the Virgin Islands, g.aduate of Hampton Institute and B r o w n University, with A.M. from the University of Pittsburg, was appointed assistant manager of the A. U. Housing Project. In college days, he earned Phi Beta Kappa honor.
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TESTIMONIAL DINNER IN HONOR OF BROTHER MYLES A. PAIGE On Saturday evening, November 7, 1936, at a testimonial dinner at the Fifth Avenue Restaurant of New York City* AlÂŁ>ha Gamma Lambda honored Brother Myles A. Paige on his appointment as City Magistrate in New York City. At this banquet, attended by over 175 Alpha men and their wives and lady friends from points as far as 250 miles away from the city, Brother Dr. F. R. Allen, President of Alpha Gamma Lambda, served as chairman, and Brother Elmer A. Carter acted as toasimaster. Among the speakers of the evening were: Hon. Jacob Gould Schurman, Chief City Magistrate, Hon. Charles E. Toney, Justice Municipal Court, New York City, the only non-Alpha man present; Brother Joseph H. B. Evans, National Secretary; Brother Justice lames S. Watson, Justice Municipal Court, New York City, Brother Charles H. Westley, National President; and Brother Myles A. Paige, the newly appointed City Magistrate. A telegram from Mayor F. H. LaGardia, who made the appointment, expressed the regrets of the Mayor and Mrs. LaGardia because of their inability to attend and wished for Brother Paige a happy and successful career. The chief Justice and the Chief City Magistrate emphasized in their speeches that there is great need for the service of trained Negroes in all the branches of the city and state judiciaries, that the appointment of Brother Paige was based solely on merit, and that this appointment is merely a first step toward the full recognition of the ability of Negro jurists to serve the government equally (Continced on page 31)