FRAT FUN WITH WINTERS
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(Continued from page 17) FAIR DEAL Madame: "Did you change the table napkins as I told you to do?" New Maid: "Yes'sum. I shuffled 'em and dealt 'em out so no one gets the same one he had at breakfast." FAIR WARNING Greatly agitated, a mother dashed into a drug store carrying her child: "My baby swallowed a 22 calibre bullet." She cried; "What shall I do?" Druggist: "Give him the contents of this bottle of Castor Oil" and he said calmly: "but don't point him at anyone." * * * * Dumb freshman (to Professor) "Sir, I don't think I deserve a zero in that exam I took." Professor: "Neither do I, but thats as low as I can make it." * * * * Wouldn't you rather have your wife find a letter you forgot to mail than to find one you forgot to burn? * * * * Frat Fun closes with a salute to all those personalities who made this 67th Anniversary Convention one of the most memorable ones in his convention history. I recall the lovely dinner party out in the New Orleans suburbs with Brother Walter Washington (General President) and his wife Carolyn, and Mrs. Stenson Broaddus, Brother Charles and Mrs. Madeline Broaddus, Mrs. Esther Winters and myself. I remember the fine, friendly and interesting convention visitors among whom I mention Brother and Mrs. Herbert T. Miller, well known civic, religious and fraternal celebrities. I realize that I am now in trouble if I don't mention Brothers Andrew J. Lewis, Dan Lewis, Charlie Howard, the new Law society prexy, the incomparable Belford V. Lawson, newly elected president of the National YMCA council, Past Presidents Wesley, Maceo Smith, Raymond Cannon, Lonnie Newsom, Alpha Housing exponent William Alexander, the indefatigable General Convention chairman Walter E. Morial, — all the lovely, industrious and efficient convention planning ladies and as a literary compulsion that forces me to shut up and close, I will leave you with a name that will repeat itself in the history of my fraternal and. indeed, personal life, — one in whom there is no guile, no fathom, no mercy, no comparison, JOHN DAVIS BUCKNER, St. Louis' gift to Alpha Phi Alpha.
ALPHA SPIRIT (Continued from page 17) to guess the real reasons which dictated the ban, it is difficult to absolve those who determined the decision of meanness of spirit, narrowness of vision and in being not sufficiently matured to accept as a fact, that Alpha is a movement of youth. Brothers who have passed enough milestones in life frequently develop and exhibit certain infirmities incidental to old age. Among these are rigidity of thought and movement. The joints of the frame, frozen with arthritis, are no longer supple. To stand and sway as in the days of yore can no longer be an experience of joy but an exercise in torture. Well, if age cannot keep up with youth, then youth should be limited by the restrictions of age! What selfishness! Age is never a matter for The Sphinx / October 1973
ridicule. It should be honored and treated with deserved respect or at least with sympathetic patience. But age should never be allowed to impose on youth, limitations dictated by its own infirmities. College brothers have confessed that in the secluded safety of their own local chapter meetings, they indulge the reaction of swaying responsively to the rhythm of the song, which for over fifty years in the fraternity's history, had been accepted not only as natural but as irrepressible. In a context that is metaphorical as well as symbolic, Alpha's challenge to youth is to service and achievement. These cannot be answered by the inertia of immobility "we will cherish thy precepts, thy banner shall be raised, to thy honor thy glory and renown." What about voting to unban, the banning of the sway?
(Continued from pa| KNOW YOUR BROTHER Bro. Dr. John W. Handy, Jr. Ed. D; formerly chairman of the Department of Psychology at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. has been promoted Director of the Graduate School at Hampton Institute. Bro. Robert Rice is now coordinator of special projects at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Bro. Dr. Alfred P. McQueen, Ph.D; has received his doctorate in Biology from New York University. He is a Delta Beta Lambda neophyte. Bro. Frank Olivis is a counselor with the Virginia Community College system. He also is a neophyte of Delta Beta Lambda. Bro. Major Richard J. McFerren is a Delta Beta Lambda neophyte and also stationed with the Army Recruiting Command in Hampton, Va. Bro. Syvius S. Moore is the new athletic director at Hampton Institute. Bro. William A. Reed, Jr. was recently married to the former Miss Althea Bishop of Meridian, Miss. He is an instructor in the psychology department (part-time) and a personal dean at Hampton Institute. NEW LIFE MEMBERS New Life Members in Delta Beta Lambda are Brothers James Bell, placement director at Hampton Inst.; David Barr, public school administrator; Alfonso Campbell, personal dean at Hampton Inst.; Samuel Massenburg, associate director of student affairs at HI. This brings Delta Beta Lambda's full payed life membership to 18. EVENTS FOR YEAR National Alpha Phi Alpha president, Bro. Walter Washington, will be Delta Beta Lambda's Founders Day Dinner speaker on December 2, 1973. This event will be co-sponsored by Gamma Iota and Zeta Lambda Chapters truly in fraternal spirit. Delta Beta Lambda will host its Black and Gold Ball in April 1974. A charter plane for the national convention in San Francisco this August is being charted by Delta Beta Lambda for all brothers within a one hundred mile radius of the Chapter. 19