Doings During The Eastern Regional Today and Yesterday - General Presidents
TOWERING GIANTS OF ALPHADOM Shown above are two of Alpha Phi Alpha's most highly regarded personalities. Its current General President, Dr. Walter Washington, President of Alcorn College in Mississippi and past General President, Belford V. Lawson, Jr., a Washington attorney and widely regarded as Mr. Alpha. The occasion: Alpha Phi Alpha's highly successful Eastern Regional Convention held from April 12-15 at the Americana Hotel here in New York City.
EASTERN REGIONAL TOP LEVEL PLANNING STAFF Key figures in the smashingly successful Alpha Phi Alpha Eastern Regional Convention just concluded at the Americana Hotel here in fun city, are shown above. These Eastern leaders of America's oldest predominantly Black college fraternity, are, left to right: Clarence Jacobs of New York; Clifford Clemmons, New York State Director; Henry Gray Gillem, Virginia State Director; Jerry Martin, Newsletter Editor; McKinley Hackett, Massachusetts State Director; Otha Brown, Connecticut State Director, and La Rue Meyer, College Chapter representative. Seated: Grafton Gilchrist, Co-chairman Eastern Regional Convention Committee; Lacy Ray, Jr., Chairman Eastern Regional Convention; Charles P. Howard, Jr., Baltimore attorney and Eastern Regional Vice President, and Frank Devine, Eastern Pennsylvania Director. The above brothers deserve a great deal of credit for a job well done.
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Brother Andrew Young, Congressman from Atlanta, Georgia is shown with Maxine Dargan, former aide to Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. receiving A.C.D. Humanitarian Award at Eastern Regional Convention, April 13, 1973. Brother Young was the main speaker at the Eastern Regional Convention.
ALPHA PHI ALPHA EASTERN REGIONAL LEADERS ASSEMBLE AT CONVENTION Shown above are some of the hardest working and most influential Alpha men on the Eastern seaboard. From left to right, they are: Clarence E. Jacobs, N. Y. State Director; Harry White, New Jersey State Director; Albert Holland, newly appointed General Counsel for Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Otha Brown, Connecticut State Director; William Decker Clarke, Former Vice President, Eastern Region; Jerry Martin, Editor of Alpha's Newsletter, and Wilbert Robichaux, Eastern Regional Planning Committee member. A highlight of the Convention was its very active job recruitment campaign which thus far has produced over 600 jobs for young black males and females. Economic and political empowerment is a very important item on Alpha Phi Alpha's "New Agenda."