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The Sphinx Magazine submits full biographical information concerning the candidates nominated for the office of General President, at the 43rd General Convention held during August, 1957 in Los Angeles, California. Members of the Sphinx staff have succeeded in putting together items of importance regarding each candidate with the hope that the Brotherhood will vote eaily for the candidate of their choice. The ballots are to be mailed to each financial Brother from the General Secretary's office on September 25, 1958 with instructions for the returning of the ballots not later than November 25, 1958. It is your obligation to exercise you right in helping to elect the next President of Alpha Phi Alpha.
BROTHER MYLES A. PAIGE Introduction Justice of the Court of Special Sessions ol' the City of New York. Birth Place Born in Montgomery, Alabama, and now lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Education Elementary and secondary schooling in Montgomery. Ala.; Graduate of Alabama State Teachers College; Attended Fisk University: Howard University, Bachelor of Arts; Columbia University, Bachelor of Laws; Howard University, Doctor of Laws; Wilberforce University, Doctor of Humanities; Member of Board of Trustees, Howard University since 1941. Military Activities Veteran World War I. Commanded the Third Separate Battalion, New York Guard in World War II, also organized the 715th Battalion AAA, 176th Military Police Battalion, 3634th Automotive Maintenance Company. Now on reserve as a full Colonel. Past President of Fifth Division Officers Association; Past Commander Colonel Chas. Young Post, American Legion; Officers Association of 15th Regiment and 369th Regiment; Member of the Reveille Club. Community Activities President of Community Association of Brooklyn. Life Member and Vice-President of the Board of Brooklyn Branch of the NAACP. Past President of Brook-Boro Club of New York. Life Member in IBPO Elks of the World. Legal Advisor to N. Y. State Grand Lodge of K. of P. Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. Brooklyn Co-Chairman, National Conference of Christians and Jews. Vice Chairman, Greater New York Fund. Formerly Secretary, National Urban League Board. Former Member Hospital Council of Greater New York. President and member of Executive Board of Comus Club. Member of Grand Street and Brownsville Boys Club. Chairman, Finance Committee, Boy Scouts of America. Member of Schaeffer Award Committee. Legal Experience Formerly Assistant Attorney General of New York State. Appointed as the first Negro City Magistrate in the City of New York in 1936. Promoted to Associate Justice of the Court of Special Sessions of
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the City of New York in 1940, reappointed in 1950 to 1960. Member of New York County, Federal, and Brooklyn Bar Associations. He is the Senior Negro Judge in the United States in point of years of service. Fraternity Work Brother Myles Paige was born into Alpha Phi Alpha as the nephew of Mrs. Anna E. Singleton, who has been officially designated as the Mother of Alpha Phi Alpha. Our fraternity was founded in her home at Cornell, in Ithaca, New York. Mrs. Singleton now lives in Buffalo, New York, where our Semi-Centennial Convention was held in 1956. Brother Paige has served as secretary of Eta Chapter, Charter President of Alpha Gamma Lambda and now is a member of Gamma Iota Lambda. He was elected as one of the first lay members of the Executive Council of Alpha and served through several administrations and on many committees. He has just returned from Bermuda, where he made sevral addresses on Alpha Education Program—Education for Citizenship. Brother Paige was named as the Typical Alpha man by the Sphinx. He is the Chairman of the National Convention Committee and served as a member of the Semi-Centennial Committee.
* * * BROTHER WILLIAM HALE Birth Place Krebs, Oklahma and now resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Education Elementary and high school training, McAlester, Oklahoma; B. S. degree, Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma; M.A. degree, The University of Wisconsin; Ph.D. degree, The University of Chicago. Family Married to the former Larzette Golden, Ph.D., C.P.A. Two daughters. Profession Special Assistant to the late Brother Charles S. Johnson, Fisk University, Department of Social Sciences; Acting Registrar, Langston University, Registrar, DeanRegistrar and Administrative Dean, BethuneCookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida; visiting professor of Social Science, State Teachers College, Montgomery, Alabama, Hampton Institute, and Atlanta Uni-
versity. Since 1948, Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Social Science, Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia. (a) Extra Curricular Activities at Clark College: Chairman of the Committee on Fraternities and Sororities, Member of the Academic Council, Organizer and Chairman of the Campus United Negro College Fund Campaign. (b) Professional Organizations Member of Association for Higher Education; American Sociological Society; and American Teachers Association. (c) Scholarly Production The Negro Lawyer; "The Negro and His Clients"; Pamphlet, They Also Serve (Story of 5 Atlanta Businesses), and numerous Book Reviews. Fraternity Activities Initiated into Beta Kappa Chapter in 1937 and has remained financial for the full 21 years. Pioneered in the setting up of a Chapter at the University of Wisconsin. He was instrumental in reactivating Beta Delta Lambda Chapter, Daytona Beach, Florida, serving as its President from 1944 to 1956. He is now serving his fifth term as President of Eta Lambda Chapter of Atlanta, Georgia, during which time the Alpha-Bettes (Woman's auxiliary) Organization was tormed, citizenship schools were activated, the Chapter began purchase of a life membership in the NAACP .plans for a fraternity house were developed. He is serving also as treasurer of the Atlanta Pan Hellenic Council. From 1954 to 1957, he served as National Director of the Office of Educational Activities. Community Activities Former member of Board of Directors of the Atlanta Branch NAACP and Branch Director of Youth Activities; member Board of Directors of the Atlanta Association for Mental Health; Member Board of Stewards of Warren Memorial Methodist Church; Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Interracial Work Camp. Honors Cited by Ebony magazine in the article "Oxford of the South" as one of the outstanding leaders in the field of higher edu-
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