ALPHA PHI ALPHA FOR LIFE . . . ALPHA PHI ALPHA FOR COLLEGE . . .
Elected... BOARD OF DIRECTORS Virginia Power & Light
ALPHAS FOR LIFE By Bro. John D. Buckner, National Life Membership
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The '72 LIFE MEMBERSHIP CRUSADE is launched. As this goes to press in December 1971, the Executive Secretary has just issued Alpha Life Membership number 800 to Bro. Melvin Talbott of Louisville. Our crusade goal for 1,000 fully paid members is in sight. ALPHA LIFE MEMBERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS: • 63 new subscribing life members have been added since the Milwaukee General Convention. • Brother William E. Alexander, new president of Ann Arbor pledged new life membership program — sent 27 Grand Tax payments and also 27 new subscribing life membership payments. • Brother Otha N. Brown, Jr. sent 10 new starts all from Connecticut. • Chattanoga, Tennessee sent 9 new subscribers. • Alpha Mu (Northwestern University) leads the college chapters with 3 fully paid and 1 subscribing life member. • Which family can top the Philadelphia Bryans — Thomas H. Sr., Thomas H. Jr., Richard A. and Henry C. — all Alphas — all Alpha Life Members. • Major S. Lorento Shannon) is at work among ranking Alphas serving their country — delivered to date — Brigadier General Roscoe C. Cartwright, Lt Col. E. Rodney Brooks, Capt. Clyde Shelley. • And from old St. Louis, already at the head, rounding out its first 100 fully paid Alpha Life Members with 4 new ones JOIN THE CRUSADE — — — 1,000 ALPHA LIJFE MEMBERS Set your chapter goal Set your region quota Ask the old pro chapters how to do it — San Diego — New Orleans — Kansas City — East St. Louis, Illinois or Cleveland, Ohio. Get the wives involved too — Think Alpha Life Memberships — Christmas gifts — Anniversary presents — Birthday presents — Memorable awards — for the man who has everything, except an Alpha Life Membership. There are Alpha men in your city who have not affiliated in years — Enroll them for life.
1972
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35th Anniversary
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Alpha Life Membership Program
Clip here and mail to Alpha Phi Alpha General Office 4432 Martin Luther King Drive Chicago, Illinois 60653 Dear Brother Buckner: Enroll me in the ALPHA LIFE MEMBERSHIP CRUSADE. Enclosed please find $200.00 for my Alpha Life Membership in full, or $ to start my subscription plan. I will complete the payment in full before July 31, 1972. SIGNED — NameAddressCity - State - ZipChapter-
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Brother Allix B. James
The Board of Directors of Virginia Electric and Power Company today elected William F. Vosbeck Jr., FAIA, managing partner of the architectural, engineering, and planning firm of Vosbeck Vosbeck Kendrick Redinger of Alexandria, and Dr. Allix Bledsoe James, president of Virginia Union University, as directors. Brother James, a native of Marshall, Texas, received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity degrees from Virginia Union University and his Masters and Doctors of Theology degrees from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Richmond this year. Brother James joined Virginia Union University in 1950 as Dean of Students, and in 1956 was appointed Dean of the School of Theology. He was appointed vice president of Virginia Union in 1960, and became its president in 1970. He is president of the American Association of Theological Schools and the Council on Theological Education of the American Baptist Convention. He is also chairman of the Richmond City Planning Commission and a member of the Richmond Regional District Planning Commission. He is on the Executive Board of the Baptist General Convention of Virginia and the Board of Directors of Better Richmond, Inc. 27