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THE ALPHA HOUSE IN CHICAGO Continued From Page 24 torn folding chairs; lamps, paintings and card tables. You would think that enough in the brief period of two and one-half years of the ownership of the property; but, to further approach perfection, we puichassd a new adequate Fairbanks-Morse automobile coal stoker and a large Norge-Rollator Refrigerator. The purchase prices of this refrigerator and stoker are paid in monthly instalments. With the exception of these two items, and we have had and have been paying on those for more than a year, all of our furniture, fixtures, furnishings and equipment are completely paid for. As to the real estate, the balance due the Home Owners' Loan Corporation is less than Fifty-Five Hundred Dollars, payable principal and interest at Fifty-Fiv e Dollars and Ninety-Five Cents, per month, and these payments are paid to-date. This is the only indebtedness against the property, the other part of the purchase price having been paid out in full. Already our winter supply of coal has been ordered and partially paid for. A recital of these things does not complete the details of the picture of Alpha activities in Chicago. The quantity and quality of our other activities have increased many folds. Our regular dining department serves lunch and dinner meals daily and Sunday. Here, the Alpha men, their families and intimate friends enjoy delicious foods and social intermingling that we adore. We hold musicals, recitals and lectures, banquets, dances and cabaret parties, bridge parties for our ladies, Christmas parties for the Alpha kids, and our first picnic in August of this year— in the afternoon for the kids and in the evening for the grown-ups—has been acclaimed by the two thousand or more who attended.
SPHINX
These affairs are paid for by Alpha men, the average affair sponsored is participated in by more than a hundred Brothers. In May of this year, we decided to get the deed to our property and leave only the Home Owners Loan Corporation's indebtedness as the only lien on the place. To do this, we made the getting of the deed a feature of Founders' Day Banque't. The banquet fee was fixed at Five Dollars, per person, except for the fourteen (14) Brothers who had just been initiated and for them, the fee was fixed at One Dollar each. The result of this banquet was that one hundred forty-two Brothers paid the banquet fee of Five Dollars, each, aside from the fourteen new Brothers, who paid One Dollar, each, and in addition several Brothers who could not participate, contributed Eighteen Dollars, as a mark of approval. Thus, for this one affair, 163 Brothers paid Seven Hundred Forty-Two Dollars. After meeting the expenses in promoting the banquet and in payment for the elaborate and delicious dinner which was served on the 3rd floor of the Alpha House by our own dining department, we paid the seller the Five Hundred Dollars, balance due him and received the deed to our property at this joyful festive occasion. We believe that we are conservative in estimating that this physical plant and equipment we own are easily worth Fifteen Thousand Dollars, and the spiritual fabric which the program has woven is of unestimable value to us and to our fraternity. We believe we have gone a long way in the direction of doing a good job. We have not arrived but we are surely "on our way". This program required a great deal of business foresight, a dogged-determination to do a big job superbly and an unfailing, unfaultering spirit of cooperation on the part of a multitude of splendid Alpha men intuned with the great spirit of Alpha Phi Alpha.
BETA THETA CHAPTER, BLUEFIELD STATE
DEADING from left to right, top to bottom: Brothers Arthur M. Mitchell, Jr., John Flippen, and Matthew IT. Johnson, B r o t h e r Joseph W. Perry. Brothers Robert E. Moose, LeRoy B. Allen a n d Leo G. Stephens. Brothers George Barber, Robert Hum and Harry Junes.
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