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THE
SPHINX
February, 1938
Education
W e ek M a y 2 - 8 By Rayford Logan
To All Brothers: It is a great honor that you have conferred upon in electing me to servo you again as your Director Education. I shall attempt to fulfill my duties during next biennial with due regard for your confidence and the greater opportunities which the present time offers
me of the for us.
Go-to-High School, Go-to-College Campaign I am designating this year the week cf May 2 to 8 as that for our educational activities. If all chapters that are planning to conduct this campaign will write me at once I shall explain to them the work we are planning to do this year. Several new features will be added but those features can be determined only with the knowledge as to the number and location of the participating chapters. Education for Citizenship The wisdom of this campaign is clearly evidenced by the fact that one of the best known of our pressure groups has just launched a nation-wide campaign to arouse the interest of Negroes in voting. Once more Alpha can say that she has shown the lead to others. Because of this new inteiest by another organization we shall want to intensify our progiam this year more than ever. I suggest that all Brothers, individually and through their chapters, cooperate with the national organization and the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People during the coming year. We could hardly be criticized for mentioning the fact that Alpha Phi Alpha, since 1934, has been actively conducting a campaign for citizenship. A complete outline will be mailed to all chapters within a few days. In the meanwhile, I
BLUE SKIES GREET ALPHAS (Continued from Page 25) Jordan, J. R. Booker and F. P. Lytes. SIGMA LAMBDA—Clyde L. Reynolds and E. M. Coleman. TAU LAMBDA—W. D. Hawkins, Jr. and St. Elmo Brady; Alternates, Aaron L. Allen and Randall L. Tyus. PHI LAMBDA—Robert P. Daniel and H. C. Perrin;Alternates, L. W. Roberts and George Snowden. CHI LAMBDA—Milton S. J. Wright. PSI LAMBDA—L. L. Patton. ALPHA GAMMA LAMBDA — Gerald F. Norman and Ewart G. Guinier; Alternate, Charles L. Franklin. ALPHA DELTA LAMBDA—J. Edward Cotton and Hugh Gloster; Alternates, H. E. Latham and Marvin Tarpley. ALPHA EPSILON LAMBDA—Everett R. Lawrence and W. H. Williams; Alternates, Alan T. Busby and W. H. Porter. ALPHA ZETA LAMBDA—Henry L. Dickason and Edward W. Browne, Jr.; Alternates, J. Claude Kingslow and Thomas S. Branch. ALPHA ETA LAMBDA—G. Lamar Harrison. ALPHA IOTA LAMBDA-^J. Kermit Hall and William A. McCoy. ALPHA KAPPA LAMBDA—E. T. Browne and Gardner P. Downing.
hope that you will begin laying your plans so as to secure suitable meeting places and competent speakers. Scholarships and Fellowships Upon my recommendation the General Convention in New Oi leans voted two One Hundred Dollar Scholarships in each of the four vice-presidential jurisdictions in place of one scholarship as before. The General Organization has thus appropriated $1,600 in outright grants to undergraduates during the next two years. All applicants must be eligible with the national organization and with the local chapter and must have maintained throughout their college career an average of at least "B". I shall send, during the next few weeks, five application blanks to each active undergraduate chapter, since scholarships are available only to undergraduates. If any undergraduate fails, for any reason, to receive an application blank, he may obtain one by writing directly to me. These application blanks will contain all necessary details. The Committee of Awards has voted that fellowships should be granted for only the following purposes: research, creative work, 01 grants-in-aid of publication. No fellowship blanks will be ma'led from this office. All applicants for fellowships should submit to me a detailed statement of their project, transcripts of their college and university records, the names of three scholars qualified to evaluate their project, and an itemized statement of expenditures necessary for the project. The sum of $750 is available for the academic year 1938-1939. It may be awarded as a whole or in part. Fraternally yours, Ray ford W. Logan. ALPHA NU LAMBDA—William O'Shields. ALPHA OMICRON LAMBDA—Joseph W. Givens and Wilbur C. Douglass; Alternates, Royal W. Taylor and W. Wendell Stanton. ALPHA PI LAMBDA—Albert H. Anderson; Alternate, James Ellis. ALPHA RHO LAMBDA—Louis R. Schuster and Thomas D. Shelby; Alternates, Charles D. Allen and Maceo Hill. ALPHA SIGMA LAMBDA—C. P. Johnson. ALPHA TAU LAMBDA—Archie L. Morgan and J. Tyler Smith; Alternates, Clyde L. Cole and F. Melvin Payne. ALPHA UPSILON LAMBDA—Cohen T. Simpson and J. Garrick Hardy; Alternates, H. Councill Trenholm and James N. Reynolds. ALPHA PSI LAMBDA—Joseph D. McGhee and Harry B. Rutherford. DEADLINE FOR EDUCATIONAL NUMBER All copy, pictures, etc. for the Educational Number of the Sphinx should reach the Sphinx Office, 390% Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, not later than April 10th, 1938. This edition will go to press the first week in May. Fraternally yours, Lewis O. Swingler, Sphinx Editor.