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SPHINX EDITOR RECEIVES URBAN LEAGUE AWARD . . . Rev. J. A. McDamel, executive secretary of the Memphis Urban League, presents Memphis World Editor. Lewis O Swingler a Parchment Scroll at the Public Relations program as a citation for his newspaper efforts to promote inter-racial cooperation and the advancement of goodwill between the two large racial groups in the Memphis vicinity. P a ™ cularly pronounced was his crusade for Negro police officers last year. As the result of his newspaper campaign the City of Memphis has appointed twelve Negro officers on the force, and plans to add a number of others. Three white journalists were given similar citations. They were Editor Frank Alhgren and Jack Corley, of the Commercial Appeal; and Editor Jack C. Coughhn of the West Memphis (Ark.) News, the latter a weekly newspaper.
ALPHA FOOTPRINTS—HERE AND THERE From page 23 (p 20) 1949 for details of the case. 351H ANNIVERSARY FOR PI CHAPTER . . . . Pi Chapter, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio observed its 35th Anniversary from May 14 through 15th. The occasion was marked with several notable affairs, including a semi-formal dance, an Alpha Breakfast, and a public program at Amasa S.one Memorial Chapel. Western Reserve University. General President B. V. Lawson was guest speaker. Remarks were given by Dr. Charles H. Garvin, nationally prominent surgeon and a Past General President of Alpha. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON HUMAN RlUriiS . . . A cooperative organization sponsored by seven national college Greek-letter societies, is now issuing an official periodical, EQUALITY. First edition of EQUALITY came out during the summer, and on the basis of its contents and format seemed certain to strike a favorable response with members of the Council. Mr. Elmer W. Henderson, is director of the Council. Already well known in Washington, D. C. and the East, Mr. Henderson is rapidly becoming a national figure as director of this forward-moving organization. The publication will go a long way toward building up a clearer understanding of the function of the Council and its importance on the national scene so far as the Negro is concerned. Next issue will carry a summarized report of Mr. Henderson's address at the Annual Boule of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority in Little Rock,
Arkansas during the month of August. NEW CHAPTER AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. . . Alpha became a shining light of scholarship and nobility of manhood at Syracuse University with the establishment of a chapter on the campus of that institution in April of this year. Marking the occasion for presentation of chapter to brothers of Delta Zeta Chapter was the Initial Banquet in honor of the Fraternity. Guest speaker was General President B. V. Lawson. VISITS EUROPEAN COMMAND . . Bro. James C. Evans, Civilian Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, made a trip to Europe this summer to review training and utilization programs in Europe with particular reference to Negroes in the Armed Services, and inquire into moral situations deriving from these and other faclors. The trip was made on the USS MISSOURI on the annual midshipmen's cruise from Norfolk to Cherbourg, France. It was on this ship the Japanese formally surrendered to the United States in 1945. Brother Evans, member of Mu Lambda Chapter, Washington, D. C, gave the Banquet Address at the Atlantic City Convention in 1948. THE ALPHA COOPERATION . . . With headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., and officered by men already prominent in the affairs of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity has outlined a practical program for financing chapter housing. Officers of the corporation which already owns a three-story, twenty thousand dollar, brick building in Nashville, include Brothers W. D. Hawkins, president; R. B. J.
October, 1949 Campbelle, secretary; and M. G. Ferguson, treasurer. Another leading spirit in the movement is Brother Dr. Henry Allen Boyd, publisher and banker, and member of Alpha's National Housing Commission. BROTHER GEORGE W. GORE, JR. . . Dean of Tennessee State College, Nashville, has been elected president or the American Teachers Association. He was named head of the A. T. A. during the annual meeting of the organization at Wilbenorce State College, Ohio. Bro. Gore, memoer of Tau Lamoda Chapter, is an outstanding figure among educators of Tennessee and the nation at large, having already served as secretary of the Tennessee State Teachers Association and as Dean of Instruction and Director of the Graduate Division at A. and I. State College. He holds membership in a number of fraternal and honoiary societies, notably Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Delta Phi Delta Journalistic Society, and is a director of the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company and member of the Board of Trustees of the Kent School of Law. BROTHER HILYARD ROBINSON . . . former head of the department of architecture at Howard University, was appointed by President Truman to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in Washington. He was Alpha's Banquet speaker at the Chicago convention in 1945.. BROTHER CECIL F. POOL . . . prominent San Francisco lawyer, became the first Negro Assistant District Attorney in the history of that far west coast metropolis in April of this year. He was sworn on April 18th by District Attorney Edmund G. Brown, and was immediately assigned to the Municipal Court Division in the Hall of Justice. A native of Pittsburg, Pa., Brother Poole graduated from the University of Michigan in 1936, and from the Michigan Law School in 1938. A year later he was awarded the degree of Master of Law from Michigan. Bro. Pool is a World War II veteran and his service included three and-half years as Legal Ofticer and Trial Judge Advocate at Tuskegee Air Field. After his discharge from the Army, Brother Poole went to San Francisco where he was made a special Appellata Attorney and chief of the Briefing and Appellate Unit of the San Francisco Regional OPA. BROTHER DR. RAYFORD W. LOGAN Chairman of Alpha's Committee on International Relations, and a Past General President, discussed the disposition of former Italian colonies and the application and implementation of Point IV (technical assistance to undeveloped areas of the world) in President Truman's inaugural address. An (authority on foreign affairs, noted author and head of the History Department at Howard University, Brother Logan has been on the national scene for a number of years. He has served in numerous capacities as an Alpha man, but distinguished himself in 1933 when he took over the Educational Department of the Fraternity and initiated the "Education for Citizenship" Campaign. This drive indirectly led to the franchise for Negro citizens of Atlanta, Georgia, for it was in the Gate City that Brother Logan, then head of the History Department at Atlanta University, opened up the citizenship campaign with a crusade for Negro participation at the polls.