James Robinson of Knoxville. Our line "Flight 12" lead the commemorative march held on campus in honor of deceased Brother Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Many members of Mu lota are now certified in detecting high blood pressure by the Red Cross. We also assisted another Black student organization, the Afro-American Student Liberation Force, in tutoring and counseling grade school students. The spring saw the Brothers participating in the campus Greek show and holding our chapter's first Apha weekend with a picnic, dance and a wine and cheese fellowship.
north Carolina On April 4, 1978 at Catawba College the Brothers of Beta Mu Lambda Chapter had the honor and privilege to present a plaque to Brother Jesse Owens. Brother Owens was in Salisbury to receive an award from the National Sportscasters and sportswriters Association. The Brothers of Beta Mu Lambda came out in force to present their award to Brother Owens. Beta Mu Lambda is composed of eighty percent ministers, most of the ministers belonging to the AME Zion Church. There are however Baptist and other denominations represented. So Beta Mu Lambda is far from your regular graduate chapter in this respect. Beta Mu Lambda has held blood pressure clinics, a Valentines Party and hopes to have some kind of ball in the fall. Beta Mu Lambda has been actively working with the undergraduate chapter, Gamma Mu, located at Livingstone College. Beta Mu Lambda, because of Livingstone College and Hood Theological Seminary, has had the opportunity to make many ministers and lay people alike.
shaw u The quantity of the Beta Rho Chapter at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina was severely depleted by the departure of several Brothers, due to graduation last May. However, the "quality" perseveres through the few that remain. We realize it will be an arduous challenge to merely equal, let alone excel, the numerous accomplishments made by the chapter last year, but it is precisely this task of transcending all which gives us the added motivation to hold aloft the light of Alpha Phi Alpha. With this in mind, the chapter formulated an MIA (Men Interested in The Sphinx / Fall 1978
The Brothers of Beta Mu Lambda present Brother Jesse Owens with a plaque in Sa North Carolina. Standing in the front row are Brothers Rudolph M. Harrison, Dean E Rev. Dr. Frank ft Brown, Rev. Curtis T. Walker, Vice-President Ernest Davis, Pres Marion Jones, Jesse Owens, Spencer Lancaster, Cecil Simpson, and Rev. Jerry Q In the rear are Gamma Mu Brothers Randy Matthews, Jonathan Belton, Benny L Th Jr., Professor Richards, Leamon Peele, and Brother Amos of Beta Mu Lambda, Alpha) club last May, and at last count, the number totalled 30 and still growing. Those Brothers who comprise the present chapter and the positions they hold are as follows: Anthony Brent Temple, President, a junior from Norfolk, Virginia majoring in Engineering; Therold Bond, Vice-President, majoring in History from Chicago, Illinois; Joseph Eugene Evans, Secretary of Internal and External Affairs and Historian, a junior majoring in both music and Theatre/Art from Norfolk, Virginia; James Scales, Dean of Pledges, a senior majoring in music from Portsmouth, Virginia. As can be ascertained from the preceding information, the chapter is definitely small in number, but enormous in desire and brotherhood. It is these two essential factors that we feel are the key to re-establishing both a qualified as well as quantified chapter. So shed no tears of sympathy for Beta Rho, because we will unquestionably be taking care of business as usual, and not rest on past laurels, however distinguished they may be. It's full steam ahead for the "Alpha Train" at Beta Rho, for we are destined to show: "Alpha Is Great In '78 And Still On Time In '79 . . ."
north Carolina Beta Nu Lambda Chapter in Charlotte, North Carolina held its third annual Black and Gold Pageant May 5, 1978 at West Charlotte High School, featuring seniors from area high
schools. Theda Bernadette Page was crowned Miss Black and Gold 1978-79 and awarded a scholarship from the chapter. She's now a freshman at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Janis Marie Pinkston, a political science major at North Carolina Central University, and Renee Allison, a physical therapy student at Winston-Salem State University, received scholarships as runners-up to Miss Black and Gold. Other participants were Cynthia McCullough, Beverly Mobley, Kim Berry, Rose Culp, Gayle Harris, and Angela Hall. Our newly-elected officers were installed June 30, 1978 at the home of Bro. David L. Grier. They are as follows: George Dunlap, President; David L. Grier, Wee President; Verlon D. "Anderson, Secretary; A. Leon Miller, Corresponding Secretary; Clarence "Butch" James Jr., Treasurer; Lesley G. Bellinger, Financial Secretary; James Rogers, Editor to The Sphinx; A Rudolph Hendricks, Chaplain; Hayes Moore, Historian; Bobby R. Smith, Director of Educational Activities; Charles W. Reid, Dean of Pledges; James V. Peterson, Parliamentarian; and Robert L. Becton, Sergeant at Arms. Brothers Jerry Clark, Charles Reid, and James Rogers served as the chapter's delegates at this year's General Convention in Minneapolis.
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