THE S P H I N X Official Organ of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Inc. PUBLISHED FEBRUARY, MAY, OCTOBER, and DECEMBER 345 4th Avenue, North, Nashville, Tenn.
VOLUME 31
MAY, 1944
THE STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LEWIS O. SWINGLER 390 Vi Beale Avenue Memphis, Tennessee MANAGING EDITOR M. G. FERGUSON 345 4th Avenue, North Nashville, Tennessee
NUMBER 1-2
THE STAFF
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ART EDITORS JAMES D. PARKS Lincoln University Jefferson City, Mo. PAGE
Alpha Founders Urge Bond Purchase
2
ASSISTANT EDITORS
The Pre-Eminent Educator
3
HUGH M. GLOSTER Morehouse College Atlanta, Georgia
Launching of the S. S. John Hope
3
A Forge for Freedom
4
They Look Like Men of War
5
BURT A. MAYBERRY 2446 Harrison Kansas City, Mo.
Alpha Brothers at Ft. Bennlng Point the Way Democracy Functions
8 9
MILTON S. J. WRIGHT Wilberforce University Wilberforce, Ohio WILLIAM H. GRAY, JR. Florida Normal St. Augustine, Florida WHO'S WHO EDITOR GEORGE B. KELLEY Troy, New York HISTORY EDITOR
Ft. Bennlng Libraries
11
Excerpts from Letters
13
Alpha Men in the News
14
Fraternity
15
Fun
Alpha Tau Lambda's Contribution Voice of the Sphinx Pvt. Lionel H. Newsome, Chief Interviewer
15 16 30
Somewhere in North Africa
30
Greetings from Pfc. Lewis O. Swingler
31
JAMES B. BROWNING Miner Teachers College Ga. Ave. at Euclid and Fairmont, N. W. Washington, D. C. FRAT FUN EDITOR DR. O. WILSON WINTERS 28 Curren Arcade Norristown, Pa.
DOWDAL H. DAVIS, JR. 2711 E. 21st Street Kansas City, Missouri CONTRIBUTING EDITORS KERMIT J. HALL Bluefield State College Bluefield, West Virginia FRANK L. STANLEY, JR. 619 W. Walnut Street Louisville, Kentucky PVT. A. J. LEWIS, II 50th Inf. Tr. Bn., Co. "A" Camp Croft, South Carolina REID E. JACKSON Southern University Scotlandville, La. SIDNEY A. JONES, JR. 5341 Maryland Chicago, Illinois J. EDWARD COTTON 390 Vi Beale Avenue Memphis, Tennessee G. W. GORE, JR. A. & I. State College Nashville, Tennessee
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