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editor's review Greetings . . . and welcome back to another great year for the world's greatest Fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha . . . We'd like to remind all that 1984 represents the 70th Anniversary of publication for The Sphinx — which is Black America's oldest fraternal publication and the second-oldest magazine of our people, in continuous publication since March of 1914. In March of 1984, our Spring Issue will be a commemorative number — celebrating the seventy years during which The Sphinx has recorded the achievements and struggles so often ignored in the majority media. Truly it has served as "A Chronicle of A People's Progress" . . , Celebrate With Us: The 1983 General Convention approved an advertising campaign to help defray costs of this special issue. Chapters will be offered ads at the following rates: Full Page — $300; Half Page — $200; and, Quarter Page - $100. Advertising forms and further information will be mailed to chapters in early November. Make sure that your chapter is represented in this issue! . . . Convention Fever!: As is our custom, our Fall Issue contains coverage of the recently concluded General Convention, this year held in New Orleans. Our cover story profiles the 1983 Brothers of the Year. Our thanks to "top Brothers' Al Reid and Norman Towels; and to Brother Larry Hardy of Eta Lambda Chapter for assistance in compiling info for this feature. We also pay our tribute to the Fraternity's Chapters of the Year for the past fraternal season. These excellent articles were written by Brothers from the winning chapters, to wit: Brother Stan Deckard, Delta Rho Lambda and Brother LaRence Snowden, Beta Sigma.

Finally, our convention review begins on Page 16. For those who attended this high-spirited meeting, we hope it brings back fond mem'ries; for you who weren't there, we tried to capture a bit of the "convention fever" and bring you up-todate on the happenings . . . Thanks also to Brother Waldo Johnson, Jr., Assistant Executive Secretary - Programs, for our feature on Alpha's participation in the 20th Anniversary March on Washington. Brother Johnson went to Washington early, "on loan" to the March's planning committee, to assist in overall preparations and to plan for Alpha's role. The story is included in NewsBriefs . . . This segment of our Black Colleges feature spotlights Prairie View A&M University, courtesy of the good offices of Brother (Dr.) Johnny Hill, the school's Vice President for Academic Affairs . . . And, speaking of higher education, our Commentary for this quarter is penned by Brother Huel Perkins — who delivers a powerful and cogent defense of the new academic requirements for student athletes, adopted by the NCAA's Proposition 48..This article, submitted in original form to The Sphinx, first appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education (alas, they come out more often than we) — but the issues raised therein are still timely . . . In Alpha Athletes, Brother Wallace Jackson (also of Eta Lambda Chapter in Atlanta) presented a profile of track star Mel Lattany. Like so many others, Mel was denied his greatest dream when the U.S. boycotted the '80 Olympics in Moscow. He plans to make up for lost time when the Summer Games convene in Los Angeles in 1984 . . . Legacy: One of the "drawbacks" of being editor, writer, proofreader, et al., for the large number of publications put out by the Fraternity is that there is little time for in-depth research and writing of feature stories. With that lame disclaimer, we commend to you the book "I Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey by Brother Leonidas Berry — the subject of our Legacy segment for this issue.

Dr. Berry's story is a fascinating one — certainly worthy of more coverage than we were able to give in our abbreviated feature. Above all, I would like to thank him for the hours he spent showing me memorabilia of his family and of the Fraternity during its early years . . . Sphinx Guidelines: All Chapters have been notified, via the Chapter Bulletin, of the new guidelines for the submission of articles to The Sphinx — as adopted by the General Convention. These guidelines are designed to hold down our printing costs while still affording great latitude to our Chapters and Brothers.

By way of background, I should note that some Chapters have continued to submit two or three articles for publication in a single issue; others submit chapter articles up to twelve (12) pages long; and still others submit up to ten (10) photographs to accompany an article. These factors are important because they each add to the cost of our journal — especially since we are one of the few journals of our kind which does not levy an additional charge for photographs. A similar publication, also based in Chicago, charges the following for any photograph accompanying a chapter article: 1 Column Photo, $25; 2 Column Photo, $40; and 3 Column Photo, $60. We still believe that our "no-charge" policy is "the only way to go" — but the abuse of the privilege adds enormous cost to our publication. With that explanation, we ask that all abide by the following guidlines: ALPHAS ON THE MOVE: Subject - the accomplishments of Alpha Men; Maximum Length 1 Page (8V2XII), typed and double-spaced; Maximum number of photos — One (1).

CHAPTER NEWS: Subject - General news from Alpha Chapters; Maximum Length - 2 Pages (8Vzxll), typed and double-spaced; Maximum number of photos — Two (2). We remind you that our policy on accepting articles in these categories has not changed - each article submitted for the above features (and for Omega Chapter news) which conforms to our guidelines will be printed in the next available issue. Finally, please remember that there is a limit of one (1) article per Chapter or Brother (per issue) in these categories . . . We hope that you will enjoy the articles contained in this edition of The Sphinx . . . Until next issue . . . MJP

on the drawing board • Memorial for a Jewel • To Be A Coach • The General President's Address

Volume 69 Number 3 Fall 1983 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. MICHAEL J. PRICE,

Editor-in-Chief

Associate Editors: Bradford Spencer, Darryl Young. Editorial Assistant (Intern): Demetrius Bryant. Contributing Editors: James B. Blanton, Ex-Officio; Laurence T. Young, Sr., Omega Chapter; Walter Sullivan, Education Foundation; Waldo Johnson, Jr., Speaking of Programs; Ozell Sutton, Ex-Officio. Commentary Columnists: Erwin A. France, Mai Goode, Huel Perkins, Michael J. Price. _ ^ — .

1 2 - BROTHERS OF THE YEAR - Al Reid and Norman Towels were accorded top honors - in recognition of their service during the past fraternal year.

1 4 - CHAPTERS OF THE YEAR - Both trophies for outstanding chapter achievement remained in the great Southwest. Beta Sigma (Southern University) and Delta Rho Lambda (San Antonio) took the prizes.

1 6 - CONVENTION FEVER - A retrospective on the New Orleans General Convention - one of the largest in history.

2 3 - ALPHA ATHLETES - Brother Mel Lattany was "Born To Run." Now the track star has his sights set on the Los Angeles Olympics.

2 4 - LEGACY - The family history of Brother Leonidas Berry, M.D. is the subject of his newest book - and our Legacy feature.

2 7 - THE BLACK COLLEGES - At Prairie View, they're saying that the future looks good.

3 3 - PUBLIC POLICY - The official Statement of Public Policy, adopted by the General Convention.

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- The General President Speaks — The Executive Secretary's Desk — There Goes A n Alpha Man — Speaking Of Programs — NewsBriefs - Million Dollar Fund Drive - Alphas O n T h e M o v e — Chapter News — O m e g a Chapter — Directory of Officers - Chapter Officers

ABOUT THE COVER: Brother Norman Towels (standing left) and Brother Al Reid (right) were named the Fraternity's outstanding achievers for 1983.

^Commentary Higher Academic Standards for Athletes Do Not Discriminate against Blacks"

by Huel Perkins Page 29 The Sphinx (USPS 510-440) The Sphinx is the official magazine of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Inc . 4432 Dr Martin Luther King Dr Chicago. I I 60853 Published tour times a year Spnng, Summer. Fall and Winter Send all editorial mail and change of address (send both addresses! to Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. 4432 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. Chicago. IL 60653 Manuscripts or art submitted to The Sphinx should be accompanied by addressed envelopes and return postage Editor assumes no responsibility for [ M i m o l u m o I M M manuscripts or art Opinions expressed in columns and articles do not necessarily reflect the views and polices ol Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.. and use of any persons name in fiction, sem,.f,ct,on articles or humorous features » ' ° * ' J O * * * " " = ? £ cidence and not as the responsibility of The Sphinx. It is never done knowingly Copyright 1976 by The Sph,nx. Wpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc Reproductions use, without wntten permission, of the editorial or pictorial content ,n any manner ,s prohibited .The S p h V n T h a s b ^ e n p S e d continuously since 1914 Organizing Editor Bro RaymondW Cannon Organizing General President Bro Henry Lake Dickason Second class postage paid at Chicago. IL Postmaster Send form 3579 and all correspondence 4432 Dr Martin Luther King Dr.. Chicago. IL 60653

THE GENERAL PRESIDENT SPEAKS EMPOWERMENT: T H E STRUGGLE C O N T I N U E S

Black Americans will have a unique opportunity in coming months to make a positive impact upon the body politic of this nation. Our nation will either elect a new president or re-elect an old president, depending largely on the action or inaction of Black America. We can either make a giant step forward in 1984 or run the terrible risk of permanent relegation to second-class citizenship.

History seldom offers a deprived people the uncommon opportunity to advance their own cause like 1984 offers. Likewise, history seldom issues up such a devastating blow to the legitimate hopes and aspirations of Black Americans, like 1984 will bring should we fail to act fully and decisively in our own enlightened self interest. There is no question but that the well-being of Black, brown and poor Americans is inextricably tied to our actions in the elections of 1984.

The American Republic is a government of checks and balances, as we so well learned in 7th grade Civics. Blacks experienced the greatest degree of progress in the mid-60's and early 70's when all three branches of government — Administrative, Judicial and Legislative — exhibited some measure of sensitivity to the cause of equal justice and human dignity. The elections of 1984 will offer Black Americans the uncommon opportunity to impact on all three branches. Should we fail to seize the chance to secure the future for ourselves and our posterity, we and they will experience untold misery for generations to come. I don't want to over-dramatize the importance of the 1984 elections, but they may well represent our last chance in many years

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Also at stake is control of the United States Congress — not party controls but philosophical controls. We will have the opportunity to elect people to both houses that can and will represent our interests. 1984 will present us the opportunity to impact our destiny in a way and manner seldom seen. If we should succeed, generations unborn will bless our name. Should we fail, we will cast a curse on many generations of a whole people. to develop a climate of progress conducive to economic and social justice in this nation.

The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. recognized the power of the ballot early in its existence when it launched its extremely successful voter registration program to the rallying cry "A Voteless People Is A Hopeless People."

At no time in our history has that been truer than at this critical juncture. This truism conjures up another truism: "A Voting People is a Hoping People."

Let us for a moment concentrate on the great opportunities that 1984 will offer: With the election of a president in 1984 comes the inevitable determination of the make-up of the United States Supreme Court for the next 20 to 30 years. Most of the members of the Supreme Court are in their very senior years and can be expected to retire in the not-too-distant future. The next President of the United States will no doubt make enough appointments to strike a philosophical and political balance on the court. This is absolutely critical to the Black struggle in America and all over the world.

o ALPHA BELONGS IN THE FOREFRONT OF LEADERSHIP. We must take the lead in making our people VOTE-conscious. We must lead in developing coalitions whereas to maximize POLITICAL ACTION. We must lead in organizing VOTER REGISTRATION in every city, every county and every state.

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Alpha Brothers and Alpha Chapters are urged to make voter registration and voter education high priorities in their activities. You are urged to join with others where campaigns exist and to organize campaigns where they do not exist. ALPHA BELONGS IN THE FOREFRONT OF LEADERSHIP. A Voteless People Is still A Hopeless People — let us move to empower Black America by making them full participants in the political system.

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THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY'S DESK WORKING FOR YOU Greetings . . . and welcome to the beginning of another banner year for Alpha Phi Alpha. First, we'd like to bring the entire Brotherhood up-to-date on the status of General Office operations — as reported to the delegates at the New Orleans General Convention.

For most of the year since the Los Angeles General Convention, the major operations of the General Office were supervised by Brother Price and me with Brother Johnson developing the program aspects of the Fraternity's operation. Certainly this caused some strain on our major areas of responsibility; however, we did carry on in a manageable fashion . . . even with the advent of the new Automatic Data Processing system.

With the addition of another professional staff member, we have recently re-organized the General Office staff in a manner that we believe will offer the maximum benefit to our members and chapters and best utilize our personnel.

Four areas of responsibility are now in place, to-wit: Administration: Under the direct supervision of the Executive Secretary . . . who will be resonsible for overall management of office operations, personnel, accounting and general administrative duties. Marketing/Memberships: With Brother Darryl R. Matthews returning to the staff as Director of Marketing/Memberships, this department will supervise administrative chapter services, membership development and record maintenance (including addresses), and will oversee the operation of our data processing system. Brother Matthews will also develop the marketing plans designed to increase Fraternity revenue through the above and sales of materials and paraphernalia. Communications: Brother Michael J. Price, Assistant Executive Secretary and Editor-inChief, The Sphinx, will concentrate on oversight of the Fraternity's vast printand publication needs - with an increased emphasis on publicity and public relations on behalf of the General Organization. Programs: Assistant Executive Secretary - ProThe Sphinx/Fall 1983

grams Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. will continue to supervise this growing area of the Fraternity's overall operational thrust.

As noted earlier, I believe that this structure will best utilize the immense talents of our staff professionals - and provide for an improved delivery record for the entire Brotherhood.

While our staff (11) is substantially smaller than other comparable organizations, we continue to provide "firstclass" service to the Brotherhood.

Though, like every year, we did experience some difficulties a n d / o r strains in our operations . . . it would be unfair not to remember those things that we did accomplish during the past year (including some "first-time" endeavors with great potential for future benefit). Along these lines, WE DID: • Install and go on-line with the Fraternity's very first data processing system, in the areas of membership records and accounting records. While data collection was much more difficult than anticipated prior to start-up, the fact remains that we have entered nearly 10,000 permanent record files in the system . . . accounting for over 75% of our average annual membership.

Certainly, this makes our task in future years much, much easier.

• Re-organize our staff professionals and clerical support staff in a

manner designed to speed up the delivery of services apparatus, with greater efficiency.

• Institute a staff development program, in an attempt to improve the workings of all our staff personnel.

This program served to improve the morale of the clerical staff and keep them abreast of our major operations.

• Upgrade our major equipment inventory, with new typewriters, copier, and a modern postage system capable of handling our increased workload.

• Sort and catalogue practically all of the books, records and papers on hand in the General Office. Included in this effort was the micro-filming and alphabetizing of over 50,000 permanent record cards . . . in addition to the publications and papers which were placed on micro-film.

• Maintain a heavy schedule of chapter visits to various state and regional meetings — providing a "General Office on site" to assist Brothers and chapters.

• Assume a greater role in the preparation for General Conventions, including providing support services in programming and scheduling; and assuming the task of designing and printing practically all 1983 General Convention materials. We believe that the latter, especially, has served to improve quality at a comparable or even lower cost to the Fraternity.

In short, Fiscal Year 1982-83 has been an extremely busy year for your General Office staff - with a number of major "one-time only" endeavors undertaken; coupled with the task of service delivery to a record number of members. With new equipment, a new structure and other unique efforts now behind us . . . we are confident that Fiscal Year 1983-84 will be a banner year for Alpha Phi Alpha.

Fraternally yours, James B. Blanton Executive Secretary

Brother Miller is a native of Henderson, Texas. He is a graduate of Henderson High School and Wiley College.

He holds the Master of Divinity degree from the Morehouse School of Religion of the Interdenominational Theological Center, the Master of Education in Administration from Prairie View A&M University, and the Doctor of Ministry degree from Vanderbilt University.

Brother Miller is a Danforth Scholar and holds many civic and community positions. He is married to the former Miss Glory Bennett and has one lovely daughter, Alanna.

Brother Telly Miller

Miller is County Commissioner Brother TELLY H. MILLER became the first Black Commissioner of Harrison County when he defeated the incumbent who had been the Commissioner of Precinct 4 for 24 years. The odds were against Brother Miller, but with the help of God, friends, supporters and hard work, he has landed another first.

Brother Miller lives in Marshall, Texas. He is Professor and Chairman of the Religion and Philosophy Program at Wiley College. He was initiated in Alpha Sigma Chapter in 1959.

Brother Miller is a Life Member and presently is an active member of Gamma Upsilon Lambda Chapter â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where he is founder of their Stage-ORama, an annual program which honors students from grades 3 through 12 for their academic achievement and citizenship. Also, at this program, recognition is given to participating students with outstanding talent from area colleges and other academic institutions.

Brother David Neely

Neely named Law School Assistant Dean Brother DAVID E. NEELY, a former Affirmative Action Officer at Illinois State University, has been appointed Assistant Dean of the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. Brother Neely is one of the youngest Assistant Deans at a major law school in the United States and one of the few Blacks The Sphinx / Fall 1983

holding such a position.

While at Illinois State, Brother Neely became the first Black in McLean C o u n t y history to be sworn into the Illinois State Bar. He has been a member of the ISU and City of Normal (IL) H u m a n Relations Commissions, the N A A C P , the Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education and the Illinois Affirmative Action Officers Association.

Brother Neely is a native of Chicago and was a Chicago Park District, Dunbar High School and Fayetteville State University football star. He is also a first-cousin of Daisy and L. C. Bates.

Daisy was instrumental in the fight to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; and L. C. was a pioneering newspaper editor w h o suffered repeated violence and harassment for his civil rights stance.

After receiving his B.A. degree from Fayetteville State, Brother Neely went on to receive his M . A . from the University of Idaho and the J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law.

Robinson to head education group

Brother PHIL CLAYTON ROBINSON, well-known Detroit area educator, has received the distinction of being elected to the post of National President-Elect of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). A S C D is the most prestigious of the professional educator groups, boasting a national and international membership of more than 40,000 teachers, administrators, supervisors, researchers, university presidents, professors, consultants and others. Robinson's election to the presidency will mark the third time in its 40-year history that A S C D will have a Black president.

Initiated at Beta Sigma Chapter (Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Brother Robinson has served our Fraternity in a variety of roles. He is currently a member of G a m m a Lambda's Scholarship Committee in Detroit.

In addition to his many professional activities, Brother Robinson is an active member and former Moderator of Plymouth United Church of Christ; a founding member and officer of the Friends of African Art (Detroit Institute of Arts); founder and current Vice President of the Southern University Alumni Association; and President, Board of Founding Members, Your Heritage House of Detroit. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Metropolitan Detroit Alliance of Black School Educators and is a member of the National Alliance of Black School Educators.

Brother Robinson resides in Detroit with his wife, Dr. Phyllis E. Robinson.

Past General Presidents Walter Washington, left, and Lionel Newsom, right, join fellow educator Phil Robinson.

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THERE GOES AN ALPHA MAN There goes a man of high impulse Of princely mien and grace There goes a man of humble faith A credit to his race There goes a man of conscience vast with will to reach his goal There goes a man of lordly rank Of heroes' stock and

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There goes a man of noble caste Whom hardship cannot break There goes a man in merit clad Whom duty won't forsake There goes a man in cultured verse Who holds a sportsman's creed There goes a man too vigilant To bow to lust or greed There goes a man whose life is spent in service not in scorn There goes a man whose majesty Shines like a May time

There goes a man who is a friend To love and duty truth I here goes a man to help uplift I he lives of wholesome youth There goes a man with industry and faith at his command.

There goes the best man in and out tor he iv an Alpha Man. 5

1984-85 LEADERSHIP AWARDS TWO-YEAR, FULL-SUPPORT MBA FELLOWSHIPS

for minority students (Afro-Americans, American Indians, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans)

• Columbia University • Northwestern University • Dartmouth College • • University of Pennsylvania • University of Chicago • Atlanta University • • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Outstanding minority men and women seeking ultimate business management careers are encouraged to apply for these MBA awards, valued at more than $30,000 each. Need is not a prerequisite, nor is prior study in business necessary.

Demonstrated leadership ability as an undergraduate will be the major criterion. United States citizens with an undergraduate degree in any field are eligible to apply. Students interested in a rewarding career in Marketing, Sales, Finance or O p e r a t i o n s Management are especially encouraged.

Johnson & Johnson will also provide training positions for the fellowship recipients during the summers before the first and second graduate years.

For an official application write to: JOHNSON & JOHNSON LEADERSHIP AWARD PROGRAM c o JAMES R.SMOTHERS, JR. UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND 500 EAST 62ND STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10021 Completed applications are due by January 8, 1984.

All applicants will be notified of the Selection Committee's final decision by May 15, 1984.

A Public Advertisement of The Sphinx.

Speaking Of Programs.

Greetings Brothers: As we begin the second year of our national fraternal programming effort, Alpha Phi Alpha can take great pride in its reputation as a leading community service organization. Our beloved Founders would gladly rejoice in the laurels that the sons of Alpha Phi Alpha have brought to its good name.

Throughout our fraternal realm the various components of the New Alpha Thrust have been implemented; and as a result, thousands have received tutorial and career planning assistance, free health screenings, decision-making and leadership training, political education, etc. However, a greater impact upon our communities is needed.

There is an urgent need for more conferences with Black teen males on adolescent sexuality. More leadership institutes and financial aid/career counseling seminars, more Business Encouragement activities, and more Minority Health Fairs are vitally needed.

The list of high-priority needs within the Black community alone far exceeds the resources available to meet them.

I am, however, convinced that Alpha Phi Alpha can do more. Too many chapters have simply chosen not to carry out the New Alpha Thrust. In some instances, I have received inquiries about implementation of the various components because chapter contacts have failed to make such information accessible to chapter members desirous of carrying out the various program components. Therefore, once again, I shall list the various components of the

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New Alpha Thrust. You may refer to your chapter's copy of THE ACTION GUIDE: The National Program of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. regarding implementation - or contact me at the General Office.

• A-Phi-Aid: Financial Assistance For College Bound Students: A financial aid/career counseling program designed to assist college-bound students in acquiring needed resources for post-secondary education. A-PhiAid brochures can be purchased from the General Office for 25c each.

• Alpha Phi Alpha / American Cancer Society Project: A prevention/education/service project which offers nine program alternatives for dissemination of facts and figures of the high incidence of cancer among Black Americans.

• Business Encouragement Week: While activities encouraging business development and expansion are always appropriate, the third week in May has been designated as "Business Encouragement Week." Chapters are strongly encouraged to sponsor educational and technical assistance seminars during this week.

• Leadership Development and Citizenship Education (LD/CE) Institute: A three-day workshop providing leadership training for high school students held annually in each of the Fraternity's five regions. Chapters are encouraged to sponsor local institutes in addition to sponsoring students to their regional institute.

• Minority Health Fair Program of the National Health Screening Council For Volunteer Organizations (NHSCVO): The Minority Health Fair Program is sponsored by Chevron, U.S.A. and provides education, screening, health counseling, and referral and follow-up services free of charge to the community.

• O p e r a t i o n Big-Vote of the National Coalition For Black Voter Participation, Inc.: This program seeks to increase the bargaining potential of the Black community through political activity, particularly through voter registration drives and political education forums.

• Project Alpha: The Alpha Phi Alpha / March of Dimes Conference on Adolescent Sexuality: A youth development program aimed at assisting Black teenage males in decisionmaking and curtailing teen pregnancy in the Black community. Seven cities nationally are participating in this program.

Finally, all chapters are strongly urged to submit to the General Office their 1982-83 Chapter Report of Program Activities as soon as possible.

Best wishes for a successful fraternal year.

Fraternally yours,

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WALDO J . JOHNSON,'JK. Assistant Executive Secretary Programs

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"We Still Garry Brother King's Dream" Approximately 1,000 Alphamen joined the huge assembly of 300,000 civic, social, educational, fraternal, labor, and civil rights organizations world-wide on August 27, 1983 for the 80th ANNIVERSARY MARCH commemorating the historic 1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON which was led by our late Brother Dr. Martin L. King, Jr Alpha men Journeyed from all over the continental United States in order to compose the large contingency. General President Osell Sutton led a host of other General Officers, including Executive Secretary James B. Blanton III, General Treasurer James M. Trent, General Comptroller Thomas R. Hunt, Eastern Vice President William Rosa, J r . , Southern

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Vice President Auguatus M. Witherspoon, and Southwestern Vice President Raymond B. Carreathera. Past General Officers included Charles C. Teamer, Immediate Past Comptroller; Kirk L. Bowen. Immediate Past Eastern Assistant Vice President; and H. Gray Olllem and Wm. Decker Clarke, both Past Eastern VicePresidents. The Alpha Phi Alpha assembly — which led the assemblies of the other Black Greek-letter organizations participating in the March — was further enhanced by the uniformity of signs and placards in 8

addition to a huge banner citing Alpha Phi Alpha's remembrance and desire to fulfill Brother King's dream.

Although most Alpha men joined the procession at the assembly point, a number of Brothers joined the spirited procession as it moved toward the Lincoln Memorial (Imbued by Alpha chants and songs as well as the old "Freedom-riders" chants and songs).

At the Lincoln Memorial, an inspirational program was enjoyed by all.

Among the renowned civil rights leaders and entertainers participating

in the program who figured prominently were: Brother Dick Gregory, Social Activist; Brother Dr. T. J. Jemlaon, President, National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.; and Brother Andrew Toung, Mayor of Atlanta.

Each speaker extolled the exemplary leadership and commitment to the uplifting of humanity personified by Brother King.

Following the March, a cocktail reception was held at th.3 Howard Inn for all Alpha men. Brothers Hanley J. Norment, Special Projects Chairman, and Waldo B. Johnson, Jr., A s s i s t a n t E x e c u t i v e Secretary Programs, were responsible for the planning of the day's events. In addition, Brother Johnson assisted the 20th Anniversary March on Washington National Planning Committee in the execution of the weekend's activities.

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issue mis-identified the Alumni Brother of t h e Year for t h e S o u t h w e s t e r n R e g i o n in o u r "Regional Review" feature. The real w i n n e r was B r o t h e r A d r i a n Wallace of Zeta Pal Lambda Chapter, Lake Charles, Louisiana.

We hasten to add that the snafu was on the part of the regional reporter — not done In Chicago, thank you . . . BEST IN THE U.S.: Once again, the Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha led in the number of national leaders picked for Ebony magazine's "100 Most Influential Black Americans" for 1983. The Alpha's we spotted were, in a l p h a b e t i c a l order, Brothers: Dr. Richard Arrington, Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama; Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.; Boland Burris, Comptroller, State of Illinois; Dr. Charles W. Butler, President, Progressive National Baptist Convention; Warren Dawson, President, National Bar Association; Ronald V. Delluma, U.S. Representative, 8th District, California; J u l i a n C. Dixon, U.S. Representative, 28th District, California and C h a i r m a n , Congressional Black Caucus; Harold Ford, U.S. Representative, 6th District, Tennessee; William H. Gray III, U.S. Representative, 2nd District, Pennsylvania and Secretary of the Congressional Black C a u c u s ; Robert L. M. Killiard, M.D., President, National Medical Association; Dr. T. J. Jemison, President, National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.; John H. Johnson, President, Johnson Publishing Company; Damon Keith, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th District, Michigan; Rt. Rev. Cheater K l r k e n d o l l . Senior Bishop, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church; Thurgood M a r s h a l l , Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court; Ernest N. Morial, Mayor, New Orleans, Louisiana; Rt. Rev. Samuel 8. Morris, President, General Board, African Methodist Episcopal Church; Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; John L. Procope, President, National Newspaper P u b l i s h e r s Association; Charles B. Rangel, U.S. The Sphinx / Fall 1983

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THE POWER-BROKERS These Alpha Brothers were among 88 listed among Ebony's "100 Most Influential Black Americans."

Congressmen Ronald Dellums (left) and Julian Dixon both represent California In the House. Dixon also chairs the Black Caucus.

Congressmen Harold Tord (left) and William Cray III hall from districts in Tennessee and Pennsylvania, respectively.

Publisher John H. Johnson (left) presides over a diverse business empire; HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce is the third Alpha cabinet member.

Left, Congressman Charles Rangel from Hew York; and, at right, former Georgia rep Andrew Toung — now Mayor of Atlanta.

Representative, 16th District, New York; Osell Sutton, General President, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; and, Andrew Young, Mayor, Atlanta, Georgia. For the statisticians amongst you, the aforementioned 22 comprise over one-fifth of the total and more t h a n one-fourth

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of the 82 males cited. Not bad for an organization with a membership totaling less than one-half of one percent of all Black Americans . . .

WORLD'S BEST: Two Alpha Chapters outside the continental United States prove emphatically that the principles of our great Brotherhood extend beyond artificial borders. Mu Beta Lambda Chapter, in Honolulu, Hawaii, is still the chapter leader In the Million Dollar Fund Drive — donating over $33,000 to date. And, Theta Theta Lambda Chapter in Frankfort, Germany is as active as any chapter on this side of the Atlantic. Brothers Raymond Johnson, Lt. Col. Donald C. Thomas, Jr., Paul L. Harper and Cpt. Russell Anderson were the chapter's delegates at the New Orleans General Convention; and, at the Eastern Leadership Development / Citizenship Education I n s t i t u t e at Howard University this spring, Theta Theta Lambda was represented by two outstanding teens — Dawn and Shawna Keasley of Kalserslautern, West Germ a n y . . . UPSHAW KEEPS MOVING UP:

Brother Oene Upshaw has succeeded Ed Garvey as Executive Director of the National Football League Players Association. In this salaried, professional position, Brother Upshaw will serve as chief spokesman and labor negotiator for the powerful union.

He served as President of the NFLPA during last year's 67-day players strike. More later . . . AT LINCOLN U: Alpha men remain an integral part of the support network for Lincoln University In Missouri. The school trophy given to the most outstanding Alumni Chapter is named in honor of the late Brother Lee B. James, who was outstanding in his support of Lincoln; and, in recent years, has been captured by chapters headed by Alpha men. The 1980 winner was Detroit Alumni, headed by Brother Leroy Thompkins (Gamma Lambda); the 1981 trophy went to St. Louis Alumni, under the presidency of Brother Sandy Miller (Bpsilon Lambda); and the 1982 and 1983 honors were captured by the Kansas City Alumni, with Brother Dwayne Crumpton (Beta Lambda) serving as Continued next page 9

Continued from Page 9 P r e s i d e n t . . . HERE AND THER1: Brother Frank Madison Raid, Jr., Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was recently installed as President of the church's Council of Bishops . . . Brother Alex Poinsett, former editor of Ebony and most recently Manager of Editorial Services for Grumman Corporation, is now Manager-Communications for the Chicago-based Johnson Products Company . . . Brother Harold Ford, Congressman from Tennessee, was one of two co-sponsors of the successful house bill which designated September 26, 1983 as "National Historically Black Colleges Day" . . .

Brother Roland Burris Illinois Comptroller, is one of three Black Democrats drafting affirmative action regulations for delegate selection to the 1984 Democratic National Convention . . . Brother Edward Honor, an initiate of Beta Sigma, was promoted to Major General — on the list with Gen. James Dozier, who

was kidnapped in Italy . . . Brother Wright Lassiter, former President of Schenectady County College in New York, is the new President of Bishop College in Dallas, Texas . . . Brother Walter Sullivan, former Acting President of Fort Valley State College, is the new Associate Vice President for Research at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta . . .

Epsilon Gamma Lambda and Nu Xi Lambda Chapters, both in the Boston area, have joined together to create a not-for-profit educational foundation.

There's strength in unity! . . . Eta Lambda Chapter in Atlanta welcomes two new MBA's — Brothers Lucious Ronnsaville and Henry Douglas Phillips, both earning degrees from Atlanta University; and two new Life Members, Brother Karl W. Barnes, #5106 and Brother Stanley Qoldsboro, #6112. The chapter also salutes Dr. Daugherty Thomas, who retired after eighteen years with Georgia Department of Education and over thirty-two years in the

field; and Brother Larry Epps, elected to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of Georgia State University's National Alumni Foundation . . . In Chicago, Iota Delta Lambda takes "hats off" to Brothers: Erwin A. France, new Chairman of the Board of Trustees of DuSable Museum of Afro-American History: David O. Shipley, who entered the bonds of matrimony on September 24th; and, the chapter's newest Life Member (#6136), Sgt. Fred Coffey of the Chicago Police Department . . .

READING: Brother Wilbert Walker, President of Delta Lambda Chapter in Baltimore, has now published his fourth book. Entitled "Servants of All," it is a sequel to an earlier novel, "Pride of Our Hearts." As you have probably guessed, the protagonists and major characters in both are Alpha men. There is a "fraternal discount" for quantity orders; for information, contact Heritage Press, P.O. Box 18626, Baltimore, MD — (301) 9330 . . . A-Phi!

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ALUMNI BROTHER OF THE YEAR

For Brother Norman Towels, the fraternal year 1982-83 can only be characterized as "a very good year"; and the high point of the year was undoubtedly the Fraternity's 76th Anniversary Convention in New Orleans where Brother Towels was named "Alumni Brother of the Year" and took office as Western Vice President.

This peak, however, was the culmination of a busy year of productive community and fraternal activities. In September of 1982, Brother Towels, a member of Eta Pi Lambda Chapter (Pasadena, CA), began his duties as President of the Val Verde School District Teacher's Association and continued his services as Chairman of the local Manpower Planning Council. In October, he planned the Western Region's 5th Annual Spirit Conference, a leadership training program for the region's undergraduates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which was conceived and first implemented under his leadership in 1979. In his capacity as Director of College Brothers Activities for the Western Region, Brother Towels reactivated Omicron Eta Chapter (University of California Irvine) in November and was involved in a number of Founders' Day activities during the month of December.

In January of 1983, his work on the local chapter level paid off when "Learning Unlimited," Eta Pi Lambda's educational program, was granted "nonprofit, tax-exempt status"; and, in February he presided over the reactivation of Iota Chi Chapter (UC River12

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or Brother Norman Towels, 1983 has been a very good year. He was named Alpha's top Alumni Brother and took a seat on the Board of Directors, as Western Vice President.

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side/University of Redlands). Along with a host of civic projects, March was largely devoted to his campaign for the office of Western Regional Vice President; and, at the April Regional Convention in San Diego, that quest was successful and he was chosen the region's Alumni Brother of the Year.

Brother Towels was re-elected President of the District Teacher's Association in June and, also in this month, he re-activated Mu Kappa Chapter (University of California in Santa Barbara). Of course, there is more but space dictates that we stop at this point.

Brother Towels is a 1970 graduate of Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA. He earned M.A. degrees at the University of California - Riverside in 1972 and the University of Redlands in 1980 and earned his Ph.D. from U.S. International University in San Diego,

CA, in 1979. Currently a 6th grade teacher in the Val Verde School District, Brother Towels has previously served as the District's Director of Educational Services and Acting Superintendent. An active educator and administrator, he holds credentials for elementary teaching, community college teaching, administration and pupil personnel. He is also a past President of the California Community Education Association and past Vice President of the National Alliance of Black Community Educators.

While at Southern University he was initiated into Alpha through Beta Sigma Chapter. He served as Chapter President in 1968-69 and Pan Hellenic Council President 1969 -1970; and was listed in the 1970 edition of Who's Who Among American Fraternities.

Brother Towels recently completed a four-year term as Chairman of the Commission on College Brothers Affairs, and is active as a Chapter Advisor to Iota Chi, Omicron Eta, and Iota Psi (Cal Poly, Pomona) chapters.

In recognition of his service, Brother Towels boasts numerous listings including: Community Leaders of America (1982); International Register of Profiles (1982); 5,000 Personalities of the World (1983); Outstanding Young Men of America (1983); International Book of Honor (1983), and Dictionary of International Biography (1983) . . . giving you some indication of why he was chosen Alumni Brother of the Year for 1983.

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AL REID

COLLEGE BROTHER OF THE YEAR

During his four-year stay at Clark College in Atlanta, Brother Al Reid must have grown quite accustomed to the appellation "Mr. President." This not-so-brilliant deduction comes from the fact that the Gray, Georgia native was the leader of his college class throughout his four years at Clark — serving successively as President of his freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes. In fact, during his junior year he compounded his titles — still serving as "Mr. President" to Clark's class of 1983 and at the same time being addressed as "Brother President" by the members of Alpha Phi Chapter.

While all this pomp and circumstance might have resulted in delusions of grandeur for some, Brother Reid remained a modest and unassuming person . . . which perhaps even explains his ability to continuously lead such diverse groups of talents and interests.

And, believe it or not, Brother Reid did not major in leadership. His major was journalism — and even in this field he piled on the titles, serving as Editorin-Chief (and previously Sports Editor) of The Panther, the college newspaper; and as Sports Editor and Photographer of the college yearbook. He also received a number of non-titular citations for his outstanding work in journalism.

Among these, he was a recipient of a Charlotte Broadcast Coalition Award for 1982-83; the Atlanta Press Club's Scholarship in 1982; the Yearbook Sports Award, in 1982; and, the Best Sports News Broadcast Award in 1981.

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uring his stay at Clark College, Brother Al Reid got used to the title "President" — heading his class for all four years.

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Initiated into the Fraternity on November 22, 1980, Brother Reid went on to render valuable service to this organization. He has participated in all Southern Regional and General Conventions of the Fraternity since 1981.

And, in addition to his service as Chapter President in 1982, and Dean of Pledges in 1983, he was named Neophyte of the Year and received the Chapter President's Award, both in 1981; received the Distinguished Service Award in 1982 and was Alpha Phi's "Brother of the Year" in both 1982 and 1983. This year he went on to receive the "College Brother of the Year" designation in Georgia, the Southern Region and, nationally, at the General Convention in New Orleans.

Brother Reid was also active in a wide range of activities in his campus community, including the United Negro College Fund's Steering Committee, the UNCF's Pre-Alumni Council, the National Urban League, the NAACP, and the Freshman Guide Corps. He

received the Distinguished Service Award from the UNCF in 1982 and 1983, and received Clark College's Leadership Award in 1983. Brother Reid, who also served as Scout Master of a local Boy Scout Troop, was recognized nationally for his contributions through listings in Outstanding Young Men of America (1982 and 1983) and Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities (1982 and 1983).

If one of the goals of Alpha Phi Alpha is to train successive generations of leaders for Black America, certainly the aforementioned suggests that that mission is still being carried out today.

Credit, also, the caliber of students who continue to be attracted to the principles and goals set forth by the Seven Jewels in 1906. If, too, the presence of Alpha men on a college campus should mean that the institution has within its midst a cadre of committed individuals, Brother Reid also passed this test. For he brought his leadership and talent to a number of programs which served to benefit the entire community — such as working for a Black College Day Rally; volunteering for a juvenile rehabilitation program; and bringing a student perspective to conferences like that of Operation PUSH and the Black Executive's Exchange Program. As our Spring issue pointed out, there are a number of Distinguished Collegians in Alpha Phi Alpha - but for 1983, Brother Al Reid heads the list!

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ing as the only vendor of foods representing the Black community. October saw the chapter sponsoring an educational fund-raiser, a disco at the Fort Sam Houston Officers Club; and November was the time for the First Annual Health Fair for residents of a local senior citizens' housing complex. Also in November, Delta Rho Lambda hosted its 15th Annual Toy Dance - receiving more than 1,800 toys to be distributed to the six children's agencies sponsored by the Chapter during the Christmas season.

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Delta Rho Lambda's 2nd Annual Christmas Party was held at Holy Redeemer Hall, where over 200 children enjoyed entertainment, food and received the aforementioned toys "from Santa Claus." For Founder's Day, the Chapter worshipped together at Holy Redeemer I I ^ ^ worshipped to at an early morning the Chapter's founders were honored by the House of Representatives of Texas for outstanding service to the community. The year was ended with the Annual Christmas Party, cosponsored with the Alpha Wives and Sweethearts.

The month of January ended, and the new year began, with the Chapter making its scholarship payment to San Antonio College for a student sponsored by the Chapter for the last two years. The 2nd Annual Super Bowl Party was the social highlight of the month.

Warmth came, at least in Texas, during February — as Delta Rho Lambda set up the Alpha Junior Achievement Group to teach business ethics and human values to community youth. This busy month also included the Valentine Dinner and Party, honoring wives and sweethearts; Black History Month events, with Brother Andrew Richardson serving as Director of Activities at Brooks Air Force Base and Delta Rho Lambda designated, by the Institute of Texan Cultures, as principal distributor of a book entitled "A Personal History: The Afro-American Texans Stories for Young Readers"; participating in the "World's Largest Garage Sale," a fund-raiser for non-profit organizations held in the San Antonio Convention Center; and, the annual basketball game with Psi Alpha Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity — with proceeds going to the Alamo Branch of the YMCA. April showers were kind to the Chapter, as they delved into the political scene by seriously endorsing and actively campaigning for a much needed drainage bond issue. The Easter holiday featured an Easter Egg Party for families and the wives and sweethearts, who delivered Easter baskets to nursing homes throughout the city. Spring also brought new growth with the induction of three new Brothers in to the fold. Delta Rho Lambda held "Buy-Ins" to benefit Black businesses and set up a Grants and Scholarship Seminar for high school students. Sighting a few hours remaining in April, the Chapter participated in the San Antonio NAACPs Freedom Home Program - empha-

With Texas Style

They call themselves the "National Fraternity of Texas"; and they even have a patented logo, with the raised Greek letters A-Phi-A superimposed over a detail of the Lone Star State. This "aggressive marketing" is a reflection of the caring, sharing, civic and community involvement, and determination that led to the selection of Delta Rho Lambda Chapter in San Antonio, Texas as Alpha's Alumni Chapter of the Year. Under the leadership of Chapter President James L. Pickett, it was a busy year in San Antonio . . . with Texas Style.

Delta Rho Lambda's year included the personal

achievements of its members — including National Medical Association President Robert Hillard; an extensive record of civic involvement, such as active lobbying for passage of a drainage bond issue; and, support for undergraduates, including their participation in Epsilon Sigma's annual blood drive. A brief look at their calendar year shows the depth and breadth of their commitment to the belief, set forth long ago, that "Alpha Phi Alpha's greatest interest lies outside itself."

August of 1982 found the Chapter participating in San Antonio's Folklife Festival, a panorama of the varied cultures of this region - a feat they repeated in 1983, serv14

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COLLEGE CHAPTER OF THE YEAR

Three scrapbooks were placed on the tables. One consisted of pictures dating back to 1936, the year Beta Sigma was founded; another contained the "New Decade The '80's"; and finally came the yearly scrapbook consisting of service projects, fundraisers, and other chapter activities since the 1982 General Convention. The Beta Sigma Annual Chapter Report and their Chapter Guide flanked the scrapbook which was based on references from "The House of Alpha."

A table was also laid out with Reunion momentos. It described the Beta Sigma Reunion which was held during the Fall of 1982. The true elegance of their outstanding display was enhanced with the addition of Black and Gold

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odds and ends, and some very unique paraphernalia. The viewer could only envision what was truly deemed as "The House of Alpha."

On the night of August 9, 1983, anticipation and anxiety were in every Beta Sigman present. It was the final night of the General Convention and the night of the formal banquet and awards presentation. As the start of the banquet drew nearer, the assemblage of Brothers began to grow and grow, until the room was overflowing with the spirit of "that Black and Old Gold." The warmth and feeling of brotherhood that encompassed the room could not be felt anywhere else in this world. It was a gathering of the members of the greatest fraternity anywhere, the first Black Greek-letter organization, the Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha.

For Beta Sigma, it was a night long awaited and anticipated. For those Brothers who had put so much time and effort into what had to be a winning effort, several questions began to arise. Did they do enough?

Did they devote enough time?

What more could have been done? Did the hard work pay off this time around? But win or lose, Beta Sigma knew that the year had indeed been an outstanding one.

Beta Sigma had set out to attain something in the _ world of Alpha that no other Beta Sigma chapter had achieved since 1956. This was to win the distinguished title of "College Chapter of the Year.

After being runner-up at the 75th Diamond Jubilee Convention and falling short at the regional level in 1982 to Eta Gamma, which then went on to win the coveted award, Beta Sigma persisted to strive forward in its efforts.

That night, the ultimate goal was accomplished.

What had once seemed only a dream suddenly became reality.

Beta Sigma achieved the highest of heights. The coveted award of College Chapter of the Year was finally theirs. For its members, the feelings of fulfillment and joy were overwhelming. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LaRence Snowden

Braggin' in the Bayou

Brothers who visited the exhibit room on the first floor of the New Orleans Hilton during the recent General Convention were impressed first by the spaciousness of the room and then by the elaborate displays of Brothers vying for Brother of the Year and of individual chapters competing for the coveted honor of Chapter of the Year.

Centrally located in the extreme rear of the room was a stunning display which literally mesmerized the viewer and compelled him to come nearer. A closer view revealed the chapter's name: Beta Sigma of Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Yes, Brother Cedric Shields, Resume' and Scrapbook Committee Chairman, and with his committee members, had truly designed the ultimate projection - illuminating the true essence of our great Fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. A painting by Brother Joel P. Franklin of a colonial home with the address 421 North Albany Street inscribed on it arrayed the foreground of the area. The rectangular shaped format, with a lighted pyramid trophy case in the center and a banner stating the theme, "Maximizing Our Strengths In Times Like These, Yet The Struggle Continues," dazzled the viewers while the colors of Black and Gold were conveyed throughout the display.

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Convention Fever!

Rounding out a successful summer of conventions for the City of New Orleans, Mayor Ernest N. Morial was a genial host to the more than 3,000 Brothers, their families and guests who journeyed to the New Orleans Hilton for the Fraternity's 77th Anniversary Convention. For Brother Morial, Alpha's 23rd General President, this marked the third major Black convention to meet in his city this summer. The NAACP and the National Urban League meets were held there earlier. And, for many Alpha Brothers, it must have seemed that New Orleans was their "summer home" — as many of them had attended one or both of the other conventions. In any event, most of them agreed that the "order" was right. The Alpha convention provided a fitting and inspirational closeout . . . filled with the usual fun and fellowship that only an A-Phi-A convention can provide.

The Alpha Smoker and Symposium was once again a stirring and inspirational occasion. Under the leadership of former Executive Secretary Laurence T. Young, Sr., the program began by hearing the nearly one dozen 50-year members in attendance (including Past General President and Historian Dr. Charles H. Wesley); followed by the recognition of the fifty or more 25-year Brothers who rose to be recognized en masse. The assembled Brothers were then treated to inspiring speeches by Past General President Walter Washington (who stressed the need for ndividual economic security) and Southwestern Assistant Vice President Sherwin Harvey (who outlined ways for young Brothers to attain "true Alpha status").

Thanks in part to the beer provided by Brother Henry Brown of Anheuser-Busch, the fellowship reached high gear and the assemblage paused to recognize a number of deserving Brothers. The Senior Alpha Service Award was presented to Brother Perry Jackson of Delta Alpha Lambda Chapter, Cleveland, Ohio. Brother Jackson, a retired jurist, was initiated into Pi Chapter in 1915 and it was partly due to his participation in a study of Black educational progress in the Cleveland public schools that the historic "Co To High School — Go To College" movement was started at the 1920 General Convention. Also honored was Brother Felix Goodwin of Eta Psi Lambda (Tucson, Arizona) — who was cited for his many years of devoted service to Alpha Phi Alpha, most especially his yeoman work as Director of the threestate Arizona/Utah/Nevada area in the Western Region.

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fle*N dent to be honored, even General President Sutton was speechless as Brother Henry Brown noted that AnheuserBusch had added a new group to its Great Kings of Africa and Great Queens of Africa poster-calendar series . . . one entitled Living Legends and including therein Brother Sutton. Following the presentation of the artwork which will be seen across the country, Brother Sutton accepted this citation on behalf of the entire Brotherhood.

While the Brothers were enjoying the fun and fellowship of the Smoker, the women were being hosted to a gala reception honoring Alpha's First Lady, Mrs. JoAnna Sutton; and the First Lady of the City of New Orleans, Mrs. Sybil Morial. Each lady received a dozen yellow roses - the official flower of Alpha Phi Alpha; the visiting ladies met their hostesses from the New Orleans area and received a preview of upcoming events; and all had a wonderful time to the accompaniment of the Maynard Chatters Band.

Mayor Barry Opens Brother Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C. and one of three Alpha mayors of major cities in attendance, was the keynote speaker at Saturday morning's opening session. In his address, Mayor Barry stated that Alpha Phi Alpha "must" . . . 1) sustain and increase support for Black businesses; 2) support historically Black institutions; 3) look beyond the national level into the realm of international affairs; 4) increase our support of our young people; 5) continue to register Black voters; and, 6) look toward what will happen in 1984 and be able to say that "When Black folks talk, others will listen!" Touching on the hot topic of a Black presidential candidacy, Brother Barry added, "In my view, there are a number of Blacks qualified to run for President of the United States. Just look at what the Black mayors have done in some of the largest cities in America. In most cases, they were run-down, bankrupt — with people and jobs fleeing — when Black mayors took over in such cities as Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans, Richmond and Washington. But, just look at them now!"

This year's Ecumenical Service, held on Sunday morning, was one of the most inspiring and well-attended in recent history. Convention Chaplain Sylvester Shannon did a masterful job in providing a service to uplift the spirits of all in attendance. Brother T. J. Jemison, President of the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc. — taking due note of our secular struggle to improve the lot of our communities — nevertheless reminded us that 'There is only one source that can secure man's future." Rev. Jemison said in his sermon that "not by possession, stature in life, academics, who or what one knows, not what fraternity/sorority to which one belongs, but the only source of the future is the word of the living God." Reminding all of the "Faith of our Fathers" relied upon by our ancestors in the struggle, Dr. Jemison noted of the changes we seek that "Man can't secure this for himself." Brother Jemison prefaced his remarks by noting that he had wanted to deliver the 18

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Ecumenical Sermon at the convention since his initiation.

Following his receipt of the Alpha Award of Merit — the Fraternity's highest honor reserved only for members — he added that he had wanted this award since "I first heard of the Seven Jewels." Other highlights of the service included the stirring renditions by the Alpha Singers and solos by Brother Walter Owens of Northwestern University ("A Clean Heart") and Brother Forrest Pritchett of San Francisco, whose "Precious Lord" brought tears of joy to some in the audience.

Brother Roland Burris, Comptroller of the State of Illinois, addressed the Equitable Employment Opportunities Luncheon and was given the Alpha Award of Honor - the highest fraternity citation for outstanding public service, given without regard to fraternal affiliation. Brother Burris, who was the leading vote-getter in his state last November, is an announced candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinois. Other public speakers during the convention included Mayor Morial, who addressed the Public Program; Ms. Faye Bryant, Supreme Basileus of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., who also spoke at the Public Program; Brother Carlos Campbell, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, who spoke on business encouragement; and Dr. Oswald Bronson, President of Bethune-Cookman College, who spoke to a special General Assembly on The Black Colleges. Also briefly addressing the convention was Brother Richard Arrington, Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. At the Public Program, the guests took time for an ole' fashioned "plate collection" and raised nearly $3,000 in support of Mayor Arrington's re-election campaign.

Brother to Brother One of the most important aspects of any General Convention is the opportunity to hear fraternity leaders — young and old — address various issues of concern to the entire Brotherhood. In no other setting can such a diversity of experiences and perspectives be found under one roof; and this process is essential to binding together those who otherwise operate in scattered locations. First in this line of introspectives was the Annual Report of the General President. In his speech, Brother Ozell Sutton issued a stirring call to arms, stating that "Despite conditions, despite poverty, despite the existence of a climate hostile to the aspirations of Black Americans, we can and must take charge of our lives; and, once again build a climate of hope and progress." He added that "The men of Alpha Phi Alpha are but living testimony to the fact that to be born poor need not preclude or predestine one to a life of crime or human waste." Brother Sutton, too, echoed the call for the men of Alpha Phi Alpha to join in the 20th Anniversary March on Washington, August 27, 1983. That historic occasion, he noted, would serve as a national springboard for a renewed effort to take charge.

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the assembly that vested in the theme, "The Struggle Continues," is the notion of freedom. Drawing upon his West Indian heritage, he further stated that many of us (Black Americans) take the principle of democracy for granted, while millions of people throughout the world see freedom and the democratic way of life as only the "substance of things hoped for." Brother Bowen asserted that a) democracy requires the fullest participation of the people in government; b) democracy implies a faith that social arrangements can always be improved; and, c) that democracy is based upon the principle that the best source of knowledge and wisdom to guide collective action is the pooled experience of the people. In addition to the addresses by Brothers Walter Washington and Sherwin Harvey at the Smoker and Symposium, Western Vice President Clinton L. Minnis delivered the convention's Fraternal Address.

Legislative Action Once again the assembled delegates took a hard line against wholesale changes in the Fraternity's Constitution and By-Laws — adopting only three of the thirteen proposed amendments. These three, addressing only two primary issues, served to: 1) clarify, even further, the body's intent that payment of Chapter Tax is a requisite for active status in the Fraternity — by making Chapters which fail to pay the tax by the Regional Convention deadline (the first day of the month preceding the month in which the convention is held) ineligible for participation in that Regional Convention; and, 2) remove the fixed ceiling of the costs that can be charged College Chapter Initiates and make such charges (in addition to General Organization fees and Chapter Dues) subject to the approval of the Regional Vice President or his designee.

And, once again, intra-fraternal politics filled the air — with one convention election, one run-off for ballot position, and wholesale changes in the composition of the Board of Directors (due to previously held elections at the Regional Conventions). When the smoke cleared, former Eastern Vice President Thomas R. Hunt had been elected to a three-year term as Comptroller; Brothers Charles C. Teamer, Sr. and Henry Ponder had been nominated for General President (with a mail ballot to all active members scheduled for April of 1984); and, the four Regional Vice Presidents who had served their four-year limit in office were succeeded by these newly elected VP's, Brothers: William Ross, Jr., Eastern; Ivan L. Cotman, Midwestern; A. M. Witherspoon, Southern; and, Norman E. W. Towels, Western. Brother Raymond E. Carreathers, Southwestern Vice President, was sworn in for his second two-year term. The five College Brothers taking office as Regional Assistant Vice Presidents, were: Darrell Black, Eastern; Steven Millon, Midwestern; Dwayne Pigues, Southern; Marion Bracy, Southwestern; and, Allen Herbert, Western.

Other legislation included swift adoption of the Public Policy Statement (contained elsewhere in this issue); adoption of a plan to secure a new General Office

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facility; and, formal approval by the delegate assembly of the investment purchase of the tax lien on the former mansion of Elijah Muhammed in Chicago.

Fun and StuP Of course, nobody comes to an Alpha General Convention without expecting - and receiving - a giant share of fun and fellowship . . . and this year was no exception. In addition to the lure of New Orleans' famous music and cuisine, there were a number of conventionhosted events with a lot of campaign receptions piled on top. Major events for pleasure included the Mississippi River Cruise, featuring dancing and boggie-ing on the water; the Pan-Hellenic Dance; the Mardi Gras Dance, complete with masks; the College Brothers Disco and Stomp Contest, always a "wild" affair; the Extravaganza Concert, a benefit for the Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation; and, last but not least, the Formal Banquet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; featuring dancing waiters doing the "second-line" in a darkened room, illuminated only by the flaming trays of baked alaska. Dessert, New Orleans style!

Another pleasure filled highlight was this year's Miss Black and Gold Contest, a truly professional event under the direction of Chairman Joseph Heyward and Mrs. Mary Teamer. It was definitely a "class act," hosted by Brother Vernon "Dr. Daddy-O" Winslow (certified Ph.D., Professor of Art at Dillard University and the first Black disc jockey in New Orleans) and elegant television commentator Andre' Trevigne. The five regional contest winners vying for the crown were: Miss Beverly Burton, a student at Delaware State College; Miss Robbie Danzie, of Drake University; Miss Beverly Burton, a student at Delaware State College; Miss Robbie Danzie, of Drake University; Miss Vemita Ferguson, a University of South Carolina student; Miss Portia Griffin, from Dillard University; and, Miss Arlean Ewers, a student at San Diego State University. Following an entertaining and exciting pageant, the 1982 Miss Black and Gold - Miss Cheryl Pearson of Purdue University - took her final walk and crowned Miss Vernita Ferguson as her successor, Miss Black and Gold 1983.

Cleveland Is Next Finally, and all too soon, it was time to leave the Crescent City. The convention expressed sincere appreciation for the hard work of the local hosts and hostesses: Sigma Lambda Chapter in New Orleans, under the leadership of Convention Chairman Emmett Bashful and President Bobbie Pierce; Beta Tau Chapter at Xavier University; Beta Phi Chapter at Dillard University; Epsilon Upsilon Chapter at Southern University in New Orleans; Theta Phi Chapter at the University of New Orleans; and Nu Alpha Lambda in Jefferson Parish.

Kudos also went to the effervescent and ever-present Chairlady of Women's and Children's Activities, Mrs. Loyce Bradshaw.

Clockwise from top: Miss Black & Gold â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Vemita Ferguson; contest Now the scene turns to Cleveland, Ohio . . . home of emcees Winslow and Trevigne; College Chapters hosts; Sigma the 1984 General Convention. Convention Chairman William Bennett and Delta Alpha Lambda President Lambda President Bobbie Pierce and Ladies Chair Loyce Bradshaw. _ Andrew Venable promise that things will be "Plum-nice"!

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SWEET VICTORY!

After a busy year of "Laboring in the vineyards," the General Convention is the time for giving recognition and tribute to those who rendered outstanding service - both to the Fraternity and to the community at large. At left: Brother Charles Teamer is cited for ten years of service as Comptroller; right, Brother Horace Williams - Alpha's favorite gadfly - is honored for years of faithful service.

What follows is a round-up of the winners: • College Brother of the Year: This year's Stenson E. Broaddus honoree was Brother Al Reid of Alpha Phi Chapter. Brother Reid, a 1983 graduate majoring in journalism, served as his class president for all four years of his collegiate career.

• Alumni Brother of the Year: This was "the year that was" for Brother Norman E. W. Towels. This tribute to his fraternal service shared the spotlight with Brother Towels' elevation to the Board of Directors, as Western Vice President. He also saw his college chapter, Beta Sigma, take Chapter of the Year honors.

• College Chapter of the Year: You guessed it . . . Beta Sigma Chapter, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana was named the Fraternity's top undergraduate unit.

• Alumni Chapter of the Year: Making sure that both chapter trophies returned to the Southwest, Delta Rho Lambda Chapter of San Antonio, Texas took top honors in this category.

• Senior Alpha Service Award: Brother Perry Jackson, a retired jurist from Cleveland, Ohio, was honored for his pioneering work in building the Fraternity that we know today.

• Distinguished Service Awards: General President Sutton made two presentations in recognition of outstanding fraternal service, above and beyond the call of duty.

Cited were Brother Horace Williams, former State Director of Texas; and, Brother Felix Goodwin, Director of the three-state Arizona / Utah / Nevada area in the Western Region. Recognized for outstanding service as general officers of the Fraternity were Brothers: Charles C. Teamer, Sr., Comptroller, 1973-83; and the four outgoing Regional Vice Presidents who had completed their maximum four years in office, to wit: Eastern, Thomas R. Hunt; Midwestern, Jimmie L. Buford; Southern, W. Mingo Clark; and, Western, Clinton L. Minnis. Also 22

cited were outgoing Assistant Vice Presidents: Kirk Bowen, Eastern; James Cary, Midwestern; Anthony Hightower, Southern; Sherwin Harvey, Southwestern; and Oscar Cosby, Western.

• Alpha Award of Merit: The Fraternity's highest award to one of its members was given to Brother T. J. Jemison, President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. • Alpha Award of Honor: This citation, given without regard to fraternal affiliation, was given to Brother Roland W. Burris, Comptroller of the State of Illinois.

• Distinguished Achievement Awards: The Alpha Phi Alpha Education Foundation, Inc. honored the five regional College Brothers of the Year for their accomplishments. Cited were: Joseph Suber, Virginia State College, Eastern; Lester McCarroll, Illinois Institute of Technology, Midwestern; Al Reid, Clark College, Southern; Quenton White, Southern University, Southwestern; and Martin Jacobs, University of Southern California, Western.

• Scholastic Achievement: Also honored by the Education Foundation were the five College Brothers who received the Alpha Phi Alpha Undergraduate Scholarships for 1983: Gregory O. Olaniran, Beta Alpha Chapter, Morgan State University; Roger C. Allen, Omicron Rho Chapter, Ohio Wesleyan University; Clay S. Gloster, Jr., Beta Epsilon Chapter, North Carolina A&T State University; Eddie B. Marbley, Eta Gamma Chapter, Prairie View A&M University; and, Hesham T. Ragab, Gamma Xi Chapter, University of California at Los Angeles.

• Equitable Employment Opportunity Award: The EEO citation for 1983 was presented to the Computer Sciences Corporation, based in El Segundo, California — honoring its solid affirmative action program; a demonstrated interest in community affairs; and sound programs for the utilization of minority contractors and suppliers.

• Black Business Achievement Awards: Cited for their corporate success and community commitment were three pioneering Black-owned firms: Johnson Publishing Company, Chicago, IL; Russell Construction Company, Atlanta, GA; and, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Atlanta, GA. • Step Contest: The ever-popular Step Contest was held around midnight, so that those returning from the Mississippi River Cruise could see the action. The exciting competition netted the following results: 1st Place, Mu Beta, University of Tennessee-Martin; 2nd Place, Xi Rho, San Francisco State University; and, 3rd Place, Beta Sigma, Southern University.

• Basketball: Sunday's basketball tournament was played before some 500 spectators. Leading the pack were: 1st Place, Mu Xi, University of Southern Mississippi; 2nd Place, Eta Epsilon, North Texas State University; and, 3rd Place, Nu Rho, Illinois Institute of Technology.

• Miss Black & Gold: All five regions of the Fraternity were represented in this year's competition. The 1982 Miss Black & Gold, Miss Cheryl Pearson of Purdue University, crowned Miss Vernita Ferguson as her successor, the 1983 Miss Black and Gold. Miss Ferguson, who represented the Southern Region, is a student at the University of South Carolina.

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ALPHA ATM ticipating in the 1980 Olympics, he won the SEC Indoor 60-yard dash. In addition, he was Georgia's nominee for the 1980 SEC Athlete of the Year and was named Georgia Amateur Athlete of the Year by the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame.

Emerging as one of the top collegians in the sprinting arena1. . "tt^j/gJH"^ Lattany began the 1981 season in grand fashion running a 6.10 at the Dallas-Times Herald meet in the 60-yard dash. One of the highlights of the 1981 indoor season came in the SEC Championships, where Lattany won both the 60 and 440 yard dashes to win the Commissioner's Trophy which goes annually to the high point man at the event. After that, he went on to finish second in the MCAA Indoor 60 yard dash1 A very quiet and easy going man, Lattany's success continued as the outdoor season opened He began the 1980 season with the Georgia Relays. by being named to the Mel took first in the NCAA Indoor All-America Invitational 100 meter Team in the 60-yard dash. with a 10.40 and For an encore, he was named stunned an overflowto the NCAA outdoor Alling crowd of Floridians America team in the 200- with a 10.04 time in a meter dash and then made tri-meet with Florida the U.S. Olympic team in and Florida State the 100-meter dash and 400three weeks later. The meter relay.

10.04 time was the A damper was put on world's top time in that Lattany's career when the event in 1981.

United States decided to The Brunswick, Georgia boycott the Olympic games native traveled to Des in 1980. "Boycotting the Moines, Iowa on April 24, Olympics was like taking 1981 with hopes of doing away a childhood dream," something no athlete has the Georgian lamented. ever accomplished in the 72 "Being an established years the Drakes Relays had sprinter I was confident I been run. What he wanted could do well. It was like to do, and ultimately did, having a Heisman Trophy was win his fourth consecutaken away." tive 100-meter Drake title with a 10.33 enroute to Although Lattany didn't being named the Outstandaccomplish his goal of par-

He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. Sounds like a description of Muhammed Ali. Could it be? No, it's Mel Lattany and he's currently preparing for the 1984 Olympics.

Currently ranked fourth in the world in the 100-meter dash and second in the United States, Lattany has earned numerous honors in the track and field arena. A former World Junior record holder in the 100-meter dash, Lattany was the National AAU Junior 200meter champion in 1978. He won the 1979 SEC 100meters and was a member of the 1979 SEC 400-meter championship relay team.

Mel was on the 1979 World Cup and World University Game teams, and, as a member of the 1978 USA Junior Team, he was undefeated on the 1978 European Tour. He was also a member of the South team in the 1978 and 1979 Summer Sports Festival Meet.

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The four-time Drake Relay 100-meter champion is optimistic about the upcoming 1984 Olympics.

"My chances are good for the upcoming Olympics," he said. "My personal bests in the 200-meter are 19.9 (hand time) and 20.1 (Electronic)."

The Georgia sprinting sensation, who enjoys playing tennis, attending movies, and going swimming during his spare time, has set some lofty goals for next year including going to the Olympics. Look for him in Los Angeles!

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LEGACY

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hen Brother Leonidas Berry started, more than a few years ago, to accumulate information on his family, his aim was to write a biography of his father. The Reverend Llewellyn L. Berry was a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, ultimately serving as Secretary of Missions for the denomination. And he was, as you might guess, a strong influence in the life of his son, Leonidas. But in his 25-year quest to pull together the pieces of history, which took him across the United States, Brother Berry unearthed such a wealth of material that the end product was a family history - / Wouldn't Take Nothin'for My Journey: Two Centuries of An Afro-American Minister's Family, put on the market by the Johnson Publishing C o m p a n y .

The book, which tells the story of six generations of this family, revolves a r o u n d three major themes. First there is the coming together of a family* With a saddle ("fer massa") carried as a "cover" if stopped by slave-trackers, Johnny Miles makes his w a y to join the Union A r m y early in the Civil W a r .

Announcing that "I want to join de North army and fight fer President Linkun," Johnny is swiftly taken through the enlistment interrogatioin and, when asked his name, he rang out loud and clear, "John Berry!" Thus is b o r n a new man, a Free Man! O n his first assignment, John meets other Black soldiers "fighting for President Linkun." A m o n g them was Sam Jenifer — w h o m he would meet again in Norfolk after the war and whose sister, Nancy Jenifer, would become M r s . John Berry. The marriage of John and Nancy on N o v e m b e r 7, 1867 would cement the familial ties that remain unbroken to this d a y .

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The second major theme of / Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey is the original theme. It is the story of Dr. Berry's father, Rev. L. L. Berry, son of John and Nancy Berry. With the love and support of his ex-slave father and others in his family, "Lew" goes to college and has a long and successful career as a minister and missionary.

Dr. Berry did not really a b a n d o n his original idea — for much of the book is devoted to his father. And these chapters provide a much-needed look at a strong Black family held together

Brother Leonidas Berry by mutual love and a belief in God for generations. It also provides a ringing response to those w h o question why Blacks do not (as others have obstensibly done) "pull themselves up by their bootstraps."

This book lets us see a family which, like countless other Black families, did exactly that! And, yes, they did succeed; but, always under the cloud of racism that put an arbitrary and artificial limit on the heights that they — or any Black Americans — could reach.

Both free-born Blacks and former slaves fought in Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops.

Perhaps nowhere is this problem — called by W.E.B. DuBois "the problem of the color line" — more vivid to the careful reader than in the book's third theme, the journey of the author. For here, in the grandson of a slave, the fruits of two generations of struggling were ripe for harvest. Here was one w h o had received from within the Black societal structure (certainly not from the movers and shakers of America) all of the ingredients of success — the talent, faith, motivation and determination needed to reach the stars. And have no doubt, Leonidas Berry did succeed — but that very success only makes us wonder h o w far he, and others like him, would have reached had racism not constantly raised its ugly head as an obstacle.

Dr. Berry's success is well documented. He is an internationally recognized authority on internal medicine and digestive diseases; and is an expert on endoscopy — the examination, with a special instrument, of various parts of the digestive tract. His book, Gastrointestinal Pan-Endoscopy, is the definitive work in the field and he invented the Eder-Berry gastrobiopsy scope, the first direct vision instrument used for removing stomach tissue for microscopic examination. He is a former President of the National Medical Association and former Medical Director of the AME Church.

Yet, throughout this man's career, the issue of race was raised . . . at the U n i v e r s i t y of C h i c a g o ' s m e d i c a l school; in the halls of research, everywhe;e. It took seventeen years for Brother Berry — a medical doctor, a trained specialist in internal medicine and gastroenterology, holder of a Master's degree in Pathology — to be admitted to the staff of Michael Reese The Sphinx / Fall 1983

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Hospital in Chicago. Everywhere there was a struggle attributable solely to race. For this reason, unfortunately, n o chronicle of Dr. Berry's journey would be complete without listing his "firsts" for a Black doctor. A m o n g them, his 17-year struggle made him the first Black on the staff of Michael Reese; he was the first Black attending physician at C o o k C o u n t y Hospital; the first Black certified gastroenterologist and endoscopist in the nation; the first Black to present a paper to a conven-

Dr. Berry demonstrates graduate class.

tion of the American Medical Association, and the list goes on.

Surprisingly, perhaps, there is little bitterness in Dr. Berry's telling of his journey.

Even when his mentor, Dr. Rudolph Schindler, "borrowed" his research idea and the Journal of the American Medical Association broke its own rules to publish Schindler's findings prior to those of Dr. Berry there was only a m o m e n t a r y interruption in the Schindler-Berry friendship. But even in

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Dr. Berry's gentle words, the horror of institutional racism is clearly present.

We can only wonder what would have happened had he been given access to research l a b o r a t o r e s , s u p p o r t for projects that could benefit all mankind, the time and money to train future generations of physicians.

For his part, Dr. Berry is grateful for his success a n d for the family into which he was b o r n . As he puts it, "I Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey!"

And a fascinating journey it is.

r\c n*** ™ H ri/%r«'irrh Dr. Berry trained under Dr. Rudolph schindler and then set out to do research O t R3C6 3 nQ R c S c d l C n on his own. He soon found himself in a race with his mentor - w h o possessed all of the advantages of "race" in the segregated world of medicine. This is an excerpt from I Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey, by Leonidas Berry, copyright 1981 by Johnson Publishing Company, inc.

"I became interested and curious about the appearance of the lining of the stomachs of severe alcoholic addicts who lived in Chicago's Skid Row near the "Loop" on South State and West Madison Streets . . . The exciting observation of the first dozen patients was the remarkable lack of inflammation of the stomachs of patients who drank very heavily every day for months or years. Very excitedly, I reported this to my teacher and friend, Dr. Schindler.

A few weeks later my clinic nurse brought me a newspaper clipping describing a great professor from the University of Chicago who was trying to get permission to examine the so-called vagabonds with his gastroscope. Meanwhile, I had found more successful "pickings" by driving into the "Loop" at 6 a.m., approaching these so-called "derelicts" coming out of their flophouses after sleeping off their drunkedness the night before. I would take them to Provident Hospital, make the examination, do further studies on their stomach secretions and blood and have their chests fluoroscoped for tuberculosis. . . . I gave these patients 25 cents a head out of my family budget and a street car token to get back to the Loop.

One day I picked up a man who said, "You only give two bits, the professor at the university gives 50 cents." I then knew that I was in a real research race with my chief. I reported my studies in a paper read before the American Medical Association section on gastroenterology and proctology at its annual convention in Cleveland, Ohio, 1941, two weeks before Pearl Harbor. I had made a preliminary report six months before at a meeting of the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine.

The lecture before the A.M.A. turned out to be the first presentation ever made by a Negro doctor before the American Medical Association convention. As a young man, I was stunned by this

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confirmed news. At this point, I was ahead of my chief in the race to report studies which had never been reported before in the annals of world medicine.

It was revealed six months before that I had done many more cases than his group. He had not presented a paper before any society but, after the A.M.A. meeting, his friend, Dr. Morris Fishbein, jumped Dr. Schindler's paper over mine which was part of the proceedings of an A.M.A. national convention and published the Schindler paper in the Journal of the A.M.A. I made a trip to see the editor, to lodge a protest. Dr. Fishbein, I said, "You may not know me, sir, but as a medical student I took your course in medical writing. I have submitted manuscripts to your journal before and had them denied because proceedings papers took precedence'. I then mentioned the Schindler paper, which was very similar but given priority over a convention paper. "Oh yes, Dr. Berry, I know all about your fine work in gastroenterology; in fact, whenever I have a patient, who has a colored maid (with a) stomachache, I always recommend you very highly." Fishbein published my paper the very next month with my note indicating my published preliminary report . . . six months before.

The Schindler-Berry friendship was sharply interrupted, but we became friends again after one or two years. We began to quote each others research in our writings. Dr. Schindler's research was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the financial resources of the University of Chicago. My support, at this time and for years later, came out of my family budget in a bookstraps operation at Provident Hospital where research funds were not available and my private office where I established a research laboratory. The Schindler-Berry friendship continued then for about twenty more years.

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Born of post-Civil War legislation more than 100 years ago, Prairie View A&M has grown to such proportions that more than 150 buildings lay sprawled across 1,400 acres of grassy, rolling land affectionally called "The Hill."

The historically Black institution offers a diverse curricula with an enrollment of almost 5,000 representing approximately 30 states and several foreign countries.

Located 35 miles northwest of Houston, Prairie View A&M is part of the giant Texas A&M University System that lured Percy A. Pierre, an electical engineering scholar who holds advanced degrees from Notre Dame and John Hopkins Universities to guide Prairie View's future. He took over on January 28, 1983.

High on his priority list: to bring to the university a higher percentage of Ph.D.'s, upgrade the research programs, and to facilitate the acquisition of Prairie View's share of the Permanent University Fund (PUF) which first must be approved by Texas legislators and voters as a constitutional amendment.

Meanwhile, Dr. Pierre has given the full speed ahead signal to an ambitious $50 million building and physical plant planning program begun under former administrators.

Recently completed was the $2.5 million International Dairy Research Center, which in a short span of time will place the 11-acre complex as the finest of its type in the world, predicts Director Frank Pinkerton.

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Since 1949, Prairie View has graduated more than 600 engineers, more Black engineers than any school in the nation. Under construction is the chemical engineering building, and a $2.5 million landscaping program is scheduled for completion in 1984.

Also on the drawing board, or in the planning stage, include almost 50 buildings, complexes, airstrips, athletic fields, for the non-educational and general categories building program.

Also an experimental solar house complex, engineering experiment station, an Afro-American Heritage Center, Memorial student center, movie houses, all faiths chapel, graduate student housing, and men and women's residence halls.

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COMMENTARY Higher Academic Standards / For Athletes Do Not/I Discriminate

by Huel Perkins Against

The furor over Proposition 48 — the much-debated proposal on athletic eligibility made at the January meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and subsequently adopted — has subsided. My embarrassment over the position taken by some Black leaders and some Black educators with regard to that proposition has not.

Their reaction to it was so intense and their attack so vehement that for a moment I wondered if I was wrong in believing that the primary reason an athlete comes to college is to become educated.

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There was so much concern over its effect that I am not certain that the proposition itself was clearly understood. First of all, it affects only the eligibility of freshman athletes in Division I institutions, and there are only 16 Black colleges or universities in that division.

The new regulation stipulates that for a freshman to compete in intercollegiate athletics he must have attained: • A high school grade average of at least 2.0 on a 4.0 scale.

• A combined score of at least 700 on the two parts of the Scholastic Apti-

tude Test or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam (both scores represent less than 40 per cent of the maximum score).

• At least a 2.0 average in a specified curriculum consisting of 11 academic courses (all designed to prepare students to perform successfully on the standardized tests that the Black leaders identify as culturally biased).

A freshman would not lose his college scholarship if those criteria were not met, but would simply be ineligible to participate in collegiate sports during his freshman year — thereby acquiring the time necessary to sharpen the skills needed for successfully finishing college.

The new rule will not become effective until August 1, 1986, which gives high school athletes ample time to follow an orderly plan of study to ensure their eligibility as college freshmen.

What the opponents of Proposition 48 overlooked in their rush to attack it as racist is that their arguments actually support the racist view that Blacks are dummies. They said, in effect, that, even after four years of taking the prescribed curriculum, Blacks would be unable to achieve minimum scores on the standardized tests. They were, in effect, confirming the contentions of racists and bigots that Blacks are intellectually inferior, cannot pass tests, cannot read or write no matter how much schooling is made available to them.

Those opponents also failed to mention that while many items on the tests are culturally related, many are not. Many of the items are quantitative — dealing with numbers and computations — and mathematics is neither black nor white.

The message they communicated to young Black athletes is that there is no need to make an effort in school — that Black leaders will attack the system for trying to see that young people become educated.

It is an insult to Black intelligence to complain about test bias, and we seem to be the only ethnic group to do so consistently. Members of other groups come to America and proceed to pass Continued on Page 20 29

Continued from Page 19 tests, indicating that they wish to be conversant with American culture as well as with their own.

Blacks would, as a race, perform better on tests if we would take up a program of reading. Reading is the key to passing any of these examinations, for they test a person's awareness of the world about him. The sad fact is that some Blacks w h o cannot pass a standardized test cannot pass a test on their own culture, either. They simply have not involved themselves in the kinds of experience that tests measure - and a test must measure something, or there is no point in its being administered in the first place. Michelangelo and Langston Hughes belong to the world and not to Italians and Blacks respectively, and exclusively. It does not seem unreasonable to me that one w h o is college-bound should be knowledgeable about both.

The colleges and universities that are attempting to impose higher standards are the same ones that have been consistently criticized by Black leaders for failing to graduate Black athletes, which puts them in a virtual Catch-22 situation. And, of course, it should be borne in mind that scholarships are awarded for study, not play - I k n o w of no scholarship that does not impose some academic criteria upon its recipient.

The supporters of Proposition 48 are those w h o chose not to equate athletic eligibility with racism, w h o kept in mind the reason athletes come to college in the first place. Their voices were not heard very clearly. O n e such voice is that of Harry Edwards, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, whose pro-Black positions are well documented and w h o led the boycott by Blacks of the 1968 Olympics. We are not asking

Brother Huel Perkins, a regular columnist in our Commentary section — is Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

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Black athletes to become Phi Beta Kappas, he said; we are simply saying that if a student enters college with a low S.A.T. or A . C . T . score his chances of completing the requirements for a degree are almost nonexistent.

Chancellor Lloyd V. Hackley of the Univesity of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a predominantly Black institution, made what I consider one of the most sensible s t a t e m e n t s a b o u t Proposition 48.He wrote in the Black Collegian last spring that he did not like seeing Blacks being made instruments of their own oppression — that telling Black athletes they didn't have to measure up amounted to having them lower their expectations and their perceptions of themselves. He said he found it regrettable that an attempt to upgrade standards was equated with racism. His words have added significance, because he has been a coach and did not let that involvement cause him to lose sight of

what education is all about.

Education is the only thing a college can claim authority for. All else it does is ancillary and supportive. Colleges are institutions where thinking, writing, handling ideas, generating new knowledge, pushing back the frontiers of knowledge, and decreasing fear of the u n k n o w n take place. A n y o n e w h o makes a decision to matriculate should do so with the clear understanding that such activities are the institution's raison d'etre.

An institution whose primary function is the training of the mind should not be asked to subvert this objective and countenance extraneous purposes.

In short, a college does not exist to warehouse embryonic athletes until they can be franchised (or rejected) by professional teams.

From the outset, I have been a supporter of Proposition 48. Moreover, I firmly believe that Black athlets can meet the requirements set forth by the N C A A . They will do so more immediately and more effectively if our leaders and educators refrain from making excuses for them, offering them a path away from training their minds. Black people can accomplish anything that any other racial group can achieve. Any race that has survived the conditions imposed upon it as ours has surely possesses intelligence as well as perseverance.

Black college athletes can become students as well as scintillating performers on the gridiron, in the gymnasium, or on the track. It is not a matter of color, but of commitment.

All of our efforts should be directed toward seeing that Black athletes understand that difference. Black leaders can help by not screaming "racism" whenever colleges attempt to fulfill the purposes for which they exist.

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A Memorial Contribution Honoring Brother George Nichols The Brothers of Eta Tau Lambda Chapter in Akron, Ohio journeyed to the 76th Anniversary Convention in New Orleans with a very special mission — to honor, in a special way, a Brother in the chapter whose death left a void in their ranks. From the inception of the Fraternity's Million Dollar Fund Drive, Brother George Nichols had served as the drive Chairman for Eta Tau Lambda — persuading and cajoling the local Brothers to give, until the chapter had fulfilled its pledge.

Earlier this year Brother Nichols entered Omega Chapter; and his fellow Brothers in Eta Tau Lambda decided that there was no better way to honor his memory than by giving to the cause to which he had devoted so much of his time and energy. Thus, a chapter delegation — led by President Nate Hagans and Past General President James R. Williams — presented a check for $5,000 to the Million Dollar Fund Drive as a memorial gift honoring Brother Nichols. This payment put the chapter far ahread of its assessment for the drive . . . and that would make Brother Nichols extremely happy.

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PUBLIC POLICY A statement by the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., at its 77th Anniversary Convention, August 5-11, 1983, New Orleans, Louisiana.

INTRODUCTION Swords will not be fashioned into ploughshares and pruning hooks until the people want the change and demand it. To put it another way, before mankind can be free, the people will have to determine that those who are denied freedom cannot know dignity, and dignity is what human existence is all about.

In this era of sophisticated pragmatism, in which callousness and self-seeking are more the rule than the exception. Alpha Phi Alpha is not ashamed to declare with those of old its belief that God is Love. We profess also, with those who first said it, that men - all men are created equal. In language familiar to us, we reaffirm vigorously that "manly deeds" must be accomplished, in order to right the wrongs which frustrate and deny freedom. We have always maintained that "scholarship" is a top priority with us, and when we use the term, we associate it with excellence and not with mediocrity. (We regret that mediocrity, the lesser and more attainable standard, is often in our society mistaken for scholarship and excellence.) We will remain committed to "love for all mankind" as long as our Fraternity exists. We insist that human dignity is the proper goal that mankind aspires to and must achieve. Therefore, we join with those who work for human dignity. More importantly, we encourage, urge, and admonish those who do not realize that God is Love and that all men are created equal, to reflect seriously and honestly. They will discover that it is mankind's individual and collective duty to work for the cause of human dignity for all men.

Great will be the failure if human beings do not fully partake of freedom, love, and dignity.

The time,for acceleration and progress is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; NOW. No statement as brief as this one can include every concern of Alpha Phi Alpha. What follows, then, are several important matters that this Fraternity calls to public attention.

The weakest link determines the strength of the chain. To improve the chain and make it functional, strengthen the weak link. The test of democratic standards is the position and condition of the minorities. Strengthen them and the standard is improved. It remains the duty of those who know to inform those who do not, to define the goals and attract the support of the many. The job is a big one; a tedious, continuing one. The complexity of segregation, discrimination, and benign neglect necessitates coalitions. Some have been formed. Much of the leadership within them comes from Alpha Men, and members of other Greek-letter organizations. But much, much more has to be accomplished.

The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity maintains that there is need for more cohesiveness in the leadership of the traditional black organizations, in order that a really concentrated action can and will emerge.

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The stern fact is that few advancements have been made during the last ten years. How regrettable it is that the United States, no longer covertly attempting to deny Black people their inalienable rights, is actually overtly doing so. Alpha Phi Alpha calls for a coalition that unites varieties of institutions. The time for acceleration and progress is now.

THE BIG THREE We have said it before but it cannot be reiterated too much. The NAACP, the National Urban League, and the United Negro College Fund are the very life blood for Black survival and growth.

Alpha Phi Alpha supports these institutions with money, service, and enthusiastic encouragement. This Fraternity urges those who believe in human dignity to support the Big Three and to push â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not in the direction of, but actually into freedom.

The time for acceleration and progress is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; NOW. The guaranty for good citizenry is good government. This fundamental idea is in the very fabric of Western Civilization and appeared as early as Plato's Republic: to produce the just individual, there must be the just state.

Good government must provide for the needs of those whom it governs. When the body politic is as heterogeneous and complex as is the United States of the present day, the task is indeed great. But the function of good government is to so provide that all men who are created equal) to be guaranteed the opportunity of achieving equally. Minorities are the chief sufferers, the benignly neglected, the weak link. Good government must strengthen, not debilitate, minorities. The present administration has not only failed to meet the needs of minorities but has in actuality reversed the gains that had been made. We must begin NOW to plan strategy for the 1984 presidential election.

Alpha Phi Alpha therefore declares: 1. that through our local, regional, and national organization, Alpha Men individually and collectively will work toward increasing voter registration; 2. that there are Black men and women, and representatives of other minorities, who are capable of serving this country as president; 3. that the present needs of Black Americans require that we support the best candidate, regardless of race, color, creed, or political affiliation; 4. that we determine what candidate will commit himself to a Black agenda of issues; 5. that we unify support behind our carefully selected presidential choice and work aggressively through voter education to get out the vote in 1984.

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THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity deplores President Reagan's action to remove members from the Civil Rights Commission because they do not adopt and support the Republican Administration's position on every issue concerning Civil Rights. As a point of fact, until all citizens equally enjoy Civil Rights in our country, there is pressing need for a commission whose members are charged with nothing else but correcting existing wrongs.

This Fraternity joins the many critics who speak out against the deterioration of progress in extending Civil Rights. In behalf of justice, we urge Mr. Reagan to advance the cause, not to impede freedom for Americans who seek it.

TUITION TAX CREDITS Consider what is now happening. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that states may provide tax breaks to parents who pay tuition or other special charges to educate their children. However, Alpha Phi Alpha remains opposed to the Reagan Administration's proposal to provide tax credits for tuition paid to private schools.

The Reagan proposal for tax breaks at the federal level may sound reasonable and noble, but if activated, it would weaken this nation's historical commitment to public education. Alpha Phi Alpha neither opposes nor criticizes nondiscriminatory private or parochial schools. They provide an alternative to public education.

We emphatically oppose reducing federal aid to public elementary and secondary schools. We also oppose tax credits which in effect will subsidize private schools. Many of these schools will surely become havens for white parents who wish to avoid school integration.

The cost of the program is an estimated $200 million in tax revenues in the first year, $500 million during the second year, and $800 million the third year. The reduction in revenue that this plan will produce will cause a further decrease in assistance to the already financially burdened public schools. Additionally, such a proposal can lead only to further racial, economic, and social isolation.

Although the Reagan administration has amended its proposal from last year, this Fraternity is unalterably opposed to the Tuition Tax Credits Bill.

C.OLLEC.E ADMISSIONS STANDARDS In another context, Black students are about to be confronted by yet another set of highly debatable requirements for college admission.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's controversial "Proposition 48," adopted earlier this year requires that freshman athletes have a combined score of 700 on SAT - or 15 on the ACT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a 2.00 high school grade-point average in order to compete in intercollegiate athletics. Opposition to this rule by the presidents of some historically Black colleges focused a considerable amount of attention on the issue of minority-group students' test scores.

Nevertheless, the rule is scheduled to take effect in 1986. Let us make it clear that we neither accept nor condone mediocrity or non-achievement in scholastic endeavors.

As a part of a scathing report on the quality of education, the National Commission on Excellence in Education has recommended that high school graduation standards be raised to include four years of English; three years each of social science, mathematics, and science; and one-half year of computer science. The Commission calls upon colleges and universities to include these as basic requirements for admission.

As the first collegiate Fraternity for Black men, Alpha Phi Alpha was founded on the precepts of academic excellence and scholastic achievement. The achievement record of our brotherhood is well documented. We plan to maintain these standards. At the same time, we believe that many of the proposed increases in test and 34

curriculum requirements are discriminatory against Black youth.

But until secondary schools are funded properly and are organized to afford all students with the proposed preparation, we recommend that colleges and universities temper their requirements for admission with factors that reflect the student's ability to achieve.

Some of these multi-factored admission requirements are now being successfully used by some of our prestigious colleges and universities.

We further recommend that minority students and parents be fully alerted to changing admission standards, whether the students plan to pursue athletics or not, and that preparation programs be implemented. Coaching clinics as proposed by the NAACP to prepare students to take admission tests should be emphasized and expanded. The sponsorship of these clinics by local Alpha chapters, in conjunction with NAACP branches and other organizations, can be a valuable contribution to our youth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hence to ourselves and to the nation.

Alpha Phi Alpha commits itself to continue to work for the availability of a college education for all youth who are academically capable. It is only through these efforts that we can be assured of the needed leadership that will bring us to complete freedom. We must accelerate our efforts NOW. We really cannot over-emphasize the importance of education for the well-being and progress of Black Americans. Fortunately, this Fraternity has officially adopted what we call the A-Phi-Aid Scholarship Program. Every chapter should declare its involvement in the program. Through our combined efforts, thousands of deserving Black youth who are academically proficient but poor, will be able to attend college and prepare themselves as professionals. Alpha Phi Alpha can and will accelerate our efforts at helping young men, through the A-Phi-Aid Program.

BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Black colleges and universities are at the most critical crossroads of their existence. Many educational policymakers, and indeed some alumni of those institutions, are begining to question the reasons for their continuing to exist.

The reasons underlying the questions about the worth of Black colleges and universities have nothing to do with their true worth, their contributions to the intellectual, educational, economic, and social development of more than ten percent of the populace of this country. The real reasons for the questions being raised are the myth of white intellectual superiority and the malignancy of white racism which so infests the nation's mind.

Alpha Phi Alpha is the living embodiment of the total rejection and disapproval of the myth of white superiority or Black inferiority. We submit that any obvious or apparent weaknesses of Black high educational institutions are based upon their being under-supported financially, neglected by major policy makers, and maligned by arrogant commentators and pseudo-scholars who neither know nor care to learn of their true worth and their contributions to the development of their nation.

Alpha Phi Alpha unequivocally supports the continued existence and strengthening of Black colleges and universities in order that they may continue to serve our people and our communities, in a way that is foreign to the conceptuality and ability of other institutions.

We especially take note of the Reagan administration's recent desegregation suit against the state of Alabama. Although we think the Justice Department's challenge to Alabama, and other states similarly situated, is long overdue, successful integration in higher education must not result in the dismantling or subordination of Black colleges or universities. The overriding issue here is the preservation of our cherished institutions and our ethnic heritage, and the power to continue to have some control over our destinies.

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THE PUBLIC POLICY STATEMENT \ Alpha Phi Alpha agrees with the Federal Courts in the Tennessee case which decreed that all units of the University of Tennessee in Nashville must be administered by T.S.U. We strongly urge the administration and the Justice Department to follow this precedence in reaching a settlement with the State of Alabama.

We call upon the President of this nation, the law makers of the Congress, the governors and legislators of the several states, the philanthropic boards and foundations, and all agencies and policymakers having primary or remote interest in higher education. We urge these groups to use the power of their offices to ensure, not only the continued existence of Black colleges and universities, but to provide the mora! climate and financial support necessary for them to continue to carry out the missions that they have performed so well since the founding of Cheyney State College in 1837.

YOUTH AND VIOLENT CRIME The high incidence and increasing severity of the violent crimes which are committed by youth in our society are actually appalling.

According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, the majority of crimes in the United States are committed by youth, and their crimes are becoming more violent in nature. Violence occurs in the schools against each segment of the school population: administrators, teachers, and students. The situation is widespread. No longer can it be assumed that violent behavior is confined to youths from low socio-economic backgrounds. Even the media show that violence is common among young people of middle and higher socio-economic status. But the problem of delinquency is compounded by "children's rights" legislation, which protects the young and in doing so, allows further exploitation of schools and neighborhoods. The problem is further exacerbated by the juvenile court system.

Our society, our government, must bring juvenile delinquency under control. If we are to have a better society, important steps must be taken noio. Alpha Phi Alpha therefore urges: 1. that more jobs be created for young people and that through courageous teaching and meaningful employment opportunities, the work ethnic be strengthened in American youths; 2. that the news media reduce their emphasis on terror and violence and increase their focus on positive achievements; 3. that the philosophy of the juvenile courts be carefully studied and re-evaluated, with sophisticated awareness that emotionally handicapped youths might be better served by community social service agencies than by the juvenile courts; 4. that comprehensive and consistent laws and procedures throughout the nation be established for the treatment of youths charged with a capital crime; and 5. that mandatory therapeutic treatment be administered to youths who are repeat offenders.

THE 12-POINT BLACK LEADERSHIP FAMILY PLAN Alpha Phr Alpha endorses the 12-point Black Leadership Family Plan for the Unity, Survival, and Progress of Black People. The plan was conceived and distributed by the Congressional Black Caucus. The document is concise and if adhered to will yield immediate results. With the Congressional Black Caucus, this Fraternity avows that Black Americans 1) "Support the Black Church," 2) "Protect the Elderly and Support the Youth," 3) "Excel in Education," 4) "Oppose Crime," 5) "Contribute to the Black Development Fund," 6) "Buy and Bank Black," 7) "Register and Vote," 8) "Hold Your Elected Officials Accountable," 9) "Support Black Family and Community Life," 10) "Challenge and Boycott Negative Media, and Support Positive Media," 11) "Secure and Defend the Black Community," and 12) "Support Mother Africa and Caribbean Nations."

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. believes that the Black Family Plan is an idea whose time has come. We support it NOW.

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FAIR HOUSING LEGISLATION The Kennedy-Mathais bill to strengthen Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (The Fair Housing Legislation) proposes the creation of administrative judges in the remedy process, as opposed to the bill proposed by the White House, which opts to defer remedy of the Justice Department. Alpha Phi Alpha endorses the position of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. That position is to support the Kennedy-Mathais Bill.

BUSINESS ENCOURAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Business development continues to be a top priority for Black Americans. We are making some progress. An increasing number of Black men and women can be found in the middle management positions of some of our major corporations. Only a few Blacks, however, have advanced to top management positions, including membership on corporate boards. The number of those engaging in entrepreneurial effort of their own remains relatively small. Alpha Phi Alpha will continue to encourage and foster the entrepreneurial spirit among our young people, in our local communities and on the national level.

To implement this goal, Alpha Phi Alpha encourages its young Brothers, as well as other talented young men and women, to consider careers in business management. Especially during the remainder of this decade, careers in computer information systems, communications, accounting, marketing and finance will afford excellent opportunities for talented young people. We urge our secondary school educators to steer young people of ability to these fields.

Alpha Phi Alpha's Business Encouragement Program will receive major attention on our Fraternity's agenda. We commit ourselves to work vigorously to develop and sponsor programs within our chapters to encourage, to promote appropriate programatic efforts, and to recognize business leaders in our communities.

Business development among minorities is one of the few programs affecting Blacks to which the Federal Administration is mainly paying only lip service. Alpha Phi Alpha calls on the administration, through the appropriate agencies, such as the Small Business Administration, Office of Minority Business Enterprise, and the Department of Commerce, to implement this program by allocating funds, monitoring its 10 percent Set-Aside Program for Minority Enterprise and providing technical and managerial assistance for new minority businesses.

BLACKS IN THE MILITARY In a recent issue of The Crisis, the NAACP published photographs of approximately 40 General and Flag officers of the nation's armed forces. Such a number is undeniably a tremendous improvement over the situation that existed 40 years ago, when there was only one Black general.

Alpha Phi Alpha is happy that progress has been made. But it is not enough! Black enlisted men, the men who will actually fight and, in some cases, die, constitute 15 to 30% of most of our elite combat units, such as the 82nd Airborne, the "Green Beret" (Special Forces) at Fort Bragg, and the Ranger Battalions. A way must be found to move more of these men up into the commissioned ranks.

There is an extremely interesting corollary to the military which is wrapped up in the oft-used phase, "the military-industrial complex." The nation's men in uniform fly the airplanes, drive the tanks, and carry the guns that are the weapons of war. They are the military, and many of them are Black. But behind the military stands the military-industrial complex, a conglomerate of industrialists and workers. They make the airplanes. They make the tanks. And they make the guns and other high technology weapons of war: the satellites, the laser beams, the nuclear and thermonuclear tools of death. Trillions of dollars will be channelled to them. They are overwhelmingly white, male, and very well-educated.

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Alpha Phi Alpha opposes the huge expenditures on military defense. Obviously, President Reagan is firmly committed to such expenditures and, like it or not, the nation's economy is locked into the military-industrial complex. Since this is the reality, Alpha encourages Black Americans to get a piece of the defense action.

Many of the military men, trained during their youth in the military, should take positions in the industrial complex as they retire, just as others do.

We recommend that young Black men and women who are interested in a profession in the armed forces enroll in the academies to prepare themselves for military careers. We further recommend that careerists be aware of the important second careers they may enter as a result of their expertise and experience.

ATTITUDE TOWARD SOUTH AFRICA Black Americans have watched, waited, and hoped for the advent of majority rule in what is undoubtedly the ugliest and vilest government on earth. We have waited for the Sullivan Principles, adopted in 1977, to help bring about the necessary change. The limited action and the abundant inaction of the United States constitute an international courtship that thinking men cannot condone. To continue such relationship is morally wrong.

Alpha Phi Alpha has spoken out on many occasions against what continues to happen in South Africa. We ally ourselves with other organizations to devise and implement a workable planfor improving the situation of Black men and women and children in that country. As of now, we propose that this Fraternity terminate association as expeditiously as possible with companies having investment directly or indirectly in South Africa. Meanwhile, we urge our government to demand the end of apartheid. We further urge that the United States take meaningful steps toward achieving full political, legal, and social rights for the majority population.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. condemns United States foreign policy toward South Africa and we support SWNAPO, the PAC, ANC and any other liberation movement initiated by the Azanian people.

Time is running out. The internal struggle by Black activists is escalating. The United States should act now.

The arm of Federal Government is allowing serious polluting of air, water, and soil! If this action is not reversed, and if proper monitoring is not begun, it is all but inevitable that in due time the environment — that we have taken for granted in the past — will adversely affect the health of this nation. Now is the time to stem the spread of impurities mankind is dumping on nature.

NUCLEAR ARMS FREEZE Our Fraternity believes that the ultimate health hazard is war.

Therefore we are deeply concerned about the present escalation of nuclear arms. We must speak out when the two super powers of the world are threatening, will they or nil they, not just the existence of life of their own citizens but of the entire world, by the massive build up of destructive weaponry.

We applaud the efforts of all individuals and groups who have endorsed the nuclear arms freeze proposal and join with them to fight for it. We encourage our government and that of the Soviet Union as well as all nations that possess nuclear capabilities to find a peaceful solution, a mutual plan to defuse the nuclear arms race.

For clearly, if we cannot find a solution to this problem, then humanity shall have lost its last and most important struggle.

THE BLACK IMAGE IN THE MEDIA For many years, concerned Black Americans have watched in pained silence (or joined those few Black intellectuals who spoke out against it) as television, radio, the newspapers, and Hollywood presented to the American public and the world an unending and depressing picture of the Black person as a criminal, petty mugger, buffoon, or welfare recipient. Almost without exception, the Black person - especially the Black male - was stereotyped as foolish, sub-standard, or despicable.

To move from the comic to the sinister is a fairly easy step. Such a step was made recently when the media consistently labeled Haitian 36

immigrants, along with male homosexuals, as high risk victims of the dreaded disease AIDS. Haitian immigrants are, of course, Black. The United States never wanted them as immigrants in the first place. Actually, Haitians were only a tiny fraction of the AIDS victims. But the aspersions had been cast. Belatedly it has been revealed that the few Haitians who were afflicted had more than likely contracted the disease from white homosexuals who had taken it to the impoverished island.

Alpha Phi Alpha with the NAACP insists on fair and honest treatment of Black people in the media. We ask each chapter to detect any example of unfair presentation of Black Americans.

Chapters will establish a local task force to report specific incidents which denigrate Black people. We further encourage individual telephone calls, protests, and letters to those in authority whenever the individual viewer perceives the problem in his immediate area.

A NATIONAL HOLIDAY For many years, Alpha has strongly supported the proposal of making a national holiday of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Leader Extraordinary, Nobel Prize Winner, and an Alpha Brother. Our feelings are stronger than ever. We commend the House of Representatives for recently declaring in favor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday. We urge the United States Senate and President Reagan to ratify this bill - NOW. CONCLUSION There can be no end to the pursuit of human emancipation. Men born free must live free.

In the thought of Goethe's Faust, in the pursuit there is no moment so fair that it should be sustained forever. In the thought of Alpha Phi Alpha, the struggle continues.

The 77th Anniversary Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., meeting in New Orleans, August 5-10, 1983 called for: 1. A strong, comprehensive coalition of organizations, a kind of "Black Congress," which will accelerate and intensify the struggle for human freedom; 2. Increased support of the Big Three: NAACP, Urban League, and UNCF; 3. A strong, just government which genuinely meets the needs of all of its citizens, thus affording the environment which produces the just human being; 4. The necessary emphasis on public education, including proper funding and the use of multi-standards to achieve excellence; 5. Strengthening the Black colleges and universities; 6. Effective national and local programs which instruct against and will drastically reduce violent crimes throughout the United States; 7. Strengthening the Black family; 8. Improving legislation for fair housing; 9. Developing entrepreneurial and high level management skills in Black young people in a capitalistic society, and utilizing knowledge in the industrial or the corporate complex; 10. Accelerating the programs to provide upward mobility for Blacks and other minorities in the Armed Forces; 11. Denouncing and eliminating apartheid, and supporting the Liberation Movements initiated in South Africa by the Azanian people; 12. Effecting a nuclear arms freeze; 13. Presenting a much more accurate image of Black people in the media; 14. Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday as a National Holiday.

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE Brother Hobart Jarrett, Chairman Brother Arnold J. Cary Brother George E. Coney Brother Eddie V. Easley Brother John A. Harvey, Sr. Brother John P. Rice, Jr. Brother Robert H. Myers, Jr. Brother Bethel Williamson, Jr.

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honored four consecutive years at the Black-run u n i v e r s i t y ' s T o m m y Awards, receiving an "Extra Mile" award each year.

In addition, Brother Adams has been recognized and honored by the USC Student Senate in 1982-83 as an outstanding student leader. Brother Adams is from Oakland, California and currently resides in Vacaville, California. While attending Fremont High in Oakland, he served as Student Body President and as the student representative to the Oakland School Board. He received a $1,000 scholarship from Brother Lionel Wilson, Mayor of Oakland, in 1979. Brother Adams was initiated into Alpha Delta in 1982 as a member of its Five Negarra line. Brother Adams is also a member of the Black Agenda and the Black Journalist Association of Southern California.

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Brother DARRYL R. ADAMS, a member of Alpha Delta Chapter, is currently serving his third term as President of the Black Students' Union at the University of Southern California.

He was re-elected by a 2-1 margin.

Brother Adams was the first person to serve two full terms and is the first person elected President three consecutive years.

Brother Adams, a senior majoring in Political Science and Journalism at USC, worked two years on the university daily newspaper including one semester as the only Black male and one of the two Black staff writers. He was also the Editor of the university's Black magazine, AUuswe, during the 1982-83 academic year. In addition, Brother Adams spent a summer as an intern on a professional photographers magazine in Santa Monica, California.

Brother Adams has been very versatile. In addition to his performance on intramural football, basketball and softball teams, he has performed as an actor (in both dramatic and comedy parts) and dancer in the Black students' Evening of Soul talent showcase — which was presented at UCLA and in the city of Lynwood, California. He is also serving his second year as one of eight Black Resident Advisors hired by the university (out of 115). Last year, Brother Adams received an 87+ # good and excellent rating in Trojan Hall; this year he will be in Century Apartments.

The concern of Brother Adams continuously shows in the commentaries he writes for his campus publications on Black affairs, and he has been

The graduation of Brother BASIL L. ANDERSON from medical school was cause for a hopeful retrospective by the Southern Illinoisan newspaper. Twenty years ago, a photo of Brother Anderson (then a 7-year-old) appeared in that paper — accompanying a story on the status of Blacks in Southern Illinois.

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Brother Basil L. Anderson "What does the future hold for young Negroes of Southern Illinois?"

It happened, the paper pointed out, that - at least for this young Black man — the road from 1963 to 1983 would be a success. This year, Brother 37

Anderson was graduated from the Southern Illinois University-Carbondale School of Medicine.

Looking back, Brother Anderson attributes his success to his father's career as a teacher at Carbondale Community High School. "Being in education, he understood the need for a college education," he stated.

Brother Anderson was initiated into Mu Kappa Lambda Chapter in Carbondale in 1980; his father, Brother Willie D. Anderson, was initiated in Beta Eta Chapter at the then-Southern Illinois Teacher's College, now Southern Illinois University. The younger Brother Anderson plans to specialize in dermatology and is now an intern at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The honoree received a bronze plaque from the church, a citation from the Hempstead Town of Supervisors and numerous other gifts and tributes.

Brother Brown is the Tax Collector of the city and county of San Francisco.

m Brother RODERICK J. CLAIRE, Recording Secretary of Zeta Zeta Lambda Chapter (Queens, Nassau and Brooklyn, N.Y.), has been appointed Trustee of St. Michael R. C. Church of The Bronx, N.Y. He is also the Chairman of the Parish Council of St. Michael's.

Brother Claire earned a B.S. degree in Health Services Administration from Herbert H. Lehman College, The Bronx, N.Y. in 1979, after raising a family and retiring from a career with the U.S. Postal Service.

Brother Claire is also an active Big Brother to two successive little brothers; and is Vice Chairman of a Building Association in the large complex, Co-Op City, Bronx, N.Y., serving 500 families.

He is married to the former Jeree Cameron of Atlantic City, N.J. and father to two children, Shelley and Michael.

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Brother Leonard Bowens Brother LEONARD BOWENS is a dedicated Brother and an active member of the Zeta Zeta Lambda Chapter. Brother Bowens was recently honored in a testimonial luncheon by the Jackson Memorial Methodist Church in Hempstead, New York, Brother Clarence Carr, Pastor.

Brother Bowens was cited for eighteen years of loyal and dedicated service as Minister of Music. The affair was hosted by the Men's Council of the church and was attended by five hundred guests.

Brother Bowens serves on the Education and Scholarship Committee of the Zeta Zeta Lambda Chapter in Queens, Long Island, New York. He was initiated in Iota Chapter at Morris Brown 38

Brother THAD BROWN, who just completed his second term as Chairman of the Trustees of the United Way of the Bay Area, was presented the Mortimer Fleishhacher, Jr. Volunteer Leadership Award at their annual meeting on June 15, 1983 held at the Kaiser Center in Oakland. This is the highest award given by the United Way of the Bay Area. It is conveyed for "outstanding and continuing volunteer leadership to the United Way, its agencies and areas of service. The recipient must be one whose services and leadership have made a dramatic difference in the quality of life for people in the Bay Area community."

Brother Brown, who led a panel discussion on "Decentralization" at the recent Volunteer Conference in New Orleans has been actively involved with the United Way since 1971. In addition to serving as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee, he is a member of the Board of Directors and has been active on many of the committees of the organization, chairing many of the most important ones. He has spoken before many employee groups on behalf of the annual campaign and chaired the San Francisco County Government Campaign in 1977.

Brother Julius Hall Brother JULIUS L. HALL has been elected President of the Black Law Students Association of Northwestern University for the 1983-84 school year.

He is a second-year student at the law school.

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Moot Court Team. The team won the Midwest regional competition and placed eighth in national competition in Washington, D.C. Brother Hall, Life Member #4999, was initiated into Alpha at Alpha Mu Chapter, Northwestern University, and is currently a member of Iota Delta Lambda Chapter of Chicago.

Brother TYRONE G. HART is one of quite a few unsung Alpha men who continue to live up to the lofty ideals of Alpha Phi Alpha. Brother Hart currently serves as Unit Manager for the Bankers Life Insurance Company's Washington, D.C. Metro Office. He is the youngest such manager ever selected by the insurance company in its 105-year history. For the past six years, Brother Hart has also served on the faculty of Montgomery College, Takoma Park Campus, in order to aid in the smooth, academic and athletic transition of Black Athletes, as a gesture of giving to them some of the benefits he derived from the sport.

Tyrone Hart is a former high school basketball Ail-American from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was made at Beta Chapter, Howard University, in the spring of 1974. During his tenure as an undergraduate, Brother Hart became one of the first Beta Chapter undergraduate Life Members of A-Phi-A. Also during his undergraduate years, Brother Hart played for four years on Howard University's Varsity Basketball Team, serving as team co-captain during his third and fourth years. In June, 1976, Brother Hart graduated with a B.A. degree in Business and with AFROTC Distinguished Honors from Howard University.

Following graduation, Brother Hart served for a brief period of time as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Shortly thereafter, in July 1977, he became an Insurance Agent for the Bankers Life Insurance Company. In his first year on the job, he became the D.C. Metro Agent of the Year for 1977 and Rookie of the Year. He accomplished these feats by selling over two million dollars in insurance policies during this period, and thus became a member of the Million Dollar Roundtable, the most prestigious insurance sales organization in the world.

Since that time, Brother Hart has earned numerous awards and has attended various career schools. He has received his M.A. degree in Estate The Sphinx / Fall 1983

Planning from the American College/ Bankers Life Joint Program. He also graduated with a degree from the Dale Carnegie School of Business. During his rather short career in the insurance business, Brother Hart has been promoted from Insurance Agent to Supervisor to Unit Manager and thus is moving onward and upward toward the light in his field of endeavor. He has also set up a company of his own, "Tyrone Hart & Associates," and within the last two years has performed extensive work in the area of insurance consulting. In his endeavors of insurance consulting, Tyrone tends to concentrate his efforts on the Black community as well as universities and professional schools, in terms of recruitment and public awareness of the insurance industry and Black perspective of it.

For the past four years, Brother Hart has been a very active member of the Omicron Lambda Alpha Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, serving in whatever capacity he can in all OLA Affairs. He coordinates our annual B-ball Affair every fall, to aid in raising funds for the OLA Youth Scholarship Fund.

Brother Hart also consistently informs OLA of any current and potential investment possibilities that the chapter should involve itself in order to better serve the community.

Much of Brother Hart's inspiration for upholding the Alpha ideals comes from his attending our national conventions. A convention that he fondly remembers is the 1980 Convention where Brother Walter Washington served as a keynote speaker. In Brother Washington's speech, Tyrone recalls our former President stating something to the effect that, "Alpha men should strive harder, better, for your family, economic and spiritual needs" and that "an Alpha man should be a $50,000 man as well as a great man." Via our observations of Brother Hart, most of the Brothers of this chapter would ascertain that he does live by these objectives and is, in thought, word, and deed . . . an Alpha Man!

Brother Joseph E. Heyward post at Francis Marion. He first joined the college's staff in 1973 as an instructor of mathematics and academic counselor; and became Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the College Center in 1974.

He is a native of Florence who received his B.S. degree from Hampton Institute and his M.A. degree from Morgan State University. He has also studied at Wake Forest and is currently working on his doctorate at the University of South Carolina. He held teaching and administrative positions at West Florence High School, Moore Junior High School and Williams Junior High School from 1966-73.

Extremely active with the Fraternity since his initiation into Gamma Iota Chapter, Brother Heyward currently serves as Chairman of Alpha Phi Alpha's national Publications Committee and as Executive Secretary of the Southern Region. He is also President of Delta Kappa Lambda Chapter in Florence, and was Chairman of the Miss Black and Gold Pageant at the 1983 General Convention in New Orleans.

MB, Brother JOSEPH E. HEYWARD, former Assistant Superintendent of Florence School District One, has returned to Francis Marion College (Florence, South Carolina) to become Vice President for College Activities.

Brother Heyward served three years with the school system after leaving a

Brother THOMAS R. HUNT was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Exceptional Service Citation for his exceptional contributioins in assuring equal opportunity in DOT-assisted programs.

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Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. During his term of office as District Director, his district received District-of-the-Year h o n o r s in the Eastern Region for four consecutive years.

Brother Hunt is an active participant in his community where he has received numerous honors and a w a r d s for his active involvement in government, social, and civic causes. He is listed in "Who's Who" in the State of Maryland, in government, and in the United States.

College and his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Arkansas Medical School. He has a general practice in Little Rock, Arkansas where he is also staff doctor at Jean's Nursing H o m e and Philander Smith College.

He is also on the professional staffs of numerous hospitals throughout the city.

Brother Jackson is married to the former Genevieve Young. They have three sons, Morris, Jr., Duane, and Jonathan, all of w h o m are Brothers in Alpha.

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Brother Thomas Hunt portation Administration (UMTA) of D O T , was instrumental in establishing the first Small and Disadvantaged Business Committee in U M T A . The U M T A Small and Disadvantaged Business Committee reviews all agency requests for direct procurements to ensure that minorities and other disadvantaged businesses are given an equal opportunity to participate in the U M T A procurement process. While serving as Chairman, Brother Hunt's Committee influenced minority participation in the U M T A procurement process, and it reached its highest level in the agency's history. During fiscal year 1982, some four million dollars in contracts was awarded to 8(a) and other small and disadvantaged firms.

As UMTA's Associate Administrator for Administration, Brother Hunt is a m o n g the highest ranking Black officials in the U.S. Department of T r a n s p o r t a t i o n . He currently has nationwide responsibility for UMTA's procurement, personnel, automated data processing, and management planning programs. He controls and administers a budget of more than seven million dollars, through which he provides administrative support to one of the nation's largest grantmaking agencies.

Brother Hunt was elected C o m p troller of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. at the 1983 General Convention in New Orleans. Prior to his election to this office, he served as Vice President of the Eastern Region and, previously still, District Director of the States of 40

Brother Morris A. Jackson Brother MORRIS A. JACKSON, a Life Member of Pi Lambda Chapter, Little Rock, Arkansas, was appointed, by then-Governor Frank White, to a ten-year term on the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas. Brother Jackson replaces Brother Raymond A. Miller as the only Black on the tenmember board. The Board of Trustees has jurisdiction over five major Arkansas institutions and several divisions.

He has been a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity since 1947. He has served as President of Beta Chi Chapter, Philander Smith College (1948) a n d as President of Pi Lambda Chapter (1958-1962). During his tenure as President of Pi Lambda Chapter our current General President, Brother Ozell Sutton, was an active member of the chapter.

Brother Jackson is a practicing physician, having received his Bachelor of Science degree from Philander Smith

Brother Joseph Kennedy Brother JOSEPH KENNEDY recently retired after 32 years of government service. This includes service in the United States Air Force, Agricultural Extension Service and the Farmers H o m e Administration.

Brother Kennedy, a member of Theta Tau Lambda Chapter (Helena, Arkansas), is a native of Lee County, Arkansas and a graduate of Robert R. M o t o n High School in Marianna. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and a M . S . degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He did further study at the University of O k l a h o m a at Norman.

Brother Kennedy was Assistant Supervisor in Phillips C o u n t y from 1962 to 1971, until going to Lee C o u n t y . He was FHA Supervisor in Lee C o u n t y during 1971-74; returning to Phillips C o u n t y in 1974, where he was Supervisor of the FHA until his retirement.

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Brother Kennedy was appointed, in the name of the President of the United States, on the Local Claims Adjudication Board (LD/22) in the state of Arkansas.

Brother Kennedy is a member of Centennial Baptist Church, where he serves as a Deacon; and a member of the Phillips County College Advisory Board on Continuing Education. He is married to the former Dessi Perkins, who is an elementary school principal in Helena.

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ME Brother ARTHUR J. MURRAY, U.S.A.F.M.C., has accepted the position of Deputy Commander of Clark U.S.A.F. Hospital 12th A.F. in the Philippines.

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Dr. Murray will relinquish the position of Deputy Commander, Director of Hospital Services of David Grant U.S.A.F. 22nd A.F. Medical Center, Travis, California. His medical specialities are allergies and immunology.

Colonel Murray is a past President of Kappa Omicron Lambda of Vallejo, California, and was voted Alpha Man of the Year in 1981. In the area of fraternity activities, Brother Murray has been inspirational in guiding the chapter in its achievements. The chapter appreciates the contributions he has made, regrets his leaving and wishes him continued success.

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During the 1983 soccer season Brother TRAVIS PARKER, of Zeta Beta Lambda Chapter of Sacramento, coached the Cosumnes River College soccer team to the Camino Norte Conference Championship, Northern California Championship, and a number two finish in the state of California.

The team had a 16-4-3 final record and played the most competitive schedule in the state. The team not only played other good teams in their non-conference schedule, but they also hosted a tournament that included five teams that were ranked in the top eight in the state at one time or another during the season.

Brother Parker started the soccer program at Consumnes River College in 1979 and his record since that time has been 59 wins, 13 losses and 9 ties.

This record is especially amazing considering the fact that Brother Parker had never played soccer competitively and his teams have always played the best teams in the state.

Brother Parker is also the assistant track coach and was formerly the head cross country coach at Cosumnes River College. In cross country, he took teams to the state meet five consecutive years. When the school started soccer in 1979 he was asked to be the head coach because of his recruiting ability and dedication to the students in his program. He has responded to the challenge by attending clinics and

learning as much as he could about soccer. He has also learned by playing the game, reading books, attending games and using any other source available. In 1981 he met Ted Chambers, who was soccer coach at Howard University for several years. Brother Parker mentioned to Mr. Chambers that he was a soccer coach and a native of the United States. Mr. Chambers responded, "I have been looking for you for over 35 years."

During the four years Brother Parker has coached soccer at the college, he has also coached a youth team in the Elk Grove, California youth soccer district. During the last four years his college teams have won three conference championships and his youth teams have won championships the last two years. His best quality with youth has been patience â&#x20AC;&#x201D; teaching children to play the game and not worry about winning. His daughter, Carolee, has played on his youth teams and has played every position on the field, as have most of his youth players.

He and his wife, Velma, play on a recreational co-educational team which he helps to train. The team is coached by one of his former players.

The Parkers have also planted a soccer field (120x80') in their back yard in rural Elk Grove and give soccer lessons in the summer.

During the 1982 season Brother Parker was the Camino Norte Conference League secretary. He was voted League President for 1983. He received resolutions from the Los Rios Community College Board of Trustees in 1979 and 1983 and was selected as the California Community College Soccer Coach of the Year by the California Coaches Association. Several of his athletes have gone on to distinguish themselves at four year schools and at least four have been contacted by professional teams.

When Brother HENRY PONDER was elected to the board of directors of South Carolina Electric & Gas Company in April, it marked his third election as a director of a major American business enterprise.

Brother Ponder, who recently completed his 10th year as president of Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, also is a board member of J. P. Stevens Company, the nation's second largest textile manufacturing 41

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firm, and is current chairman of the board of the Charlotte, North Carolina branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia.

This has been another year of numerous honors and awards for the Oklahoma-born educator, who in 1981 was chosen national "Alpha Man of the Year" for his outstanding contributions to Black higher education.

Benedict College sponsored a series of special programs in his honor during the 1982-83 academic year, climaxing the observance on April 6 with the dedication of the Henry Ponder Fine Arts-Humanities Center.

Brother Ponder became Benedict's 11th president on July 1, 1973 and since then has been working hard on his pledge to make the school "the greatest college in the universe."

Under his leadership during the past decade, Benedict's academic programs have responded to the changing needs and goals of students; the enrollment has reached record numbers; faculty growth and development has been unprecedented; the operating budget has more than doubled; and the endowment has grown from approximately $850,000 to nearly $20 million.

Today - thanks to Brother Ponders enthusiastic and untiring efforts Benedict ranks among the nation's strongest historically Black colleges and universities.

Before assuming the presidency at Benedict, Brother Ponder was vice president of academic affairs at Alabama A&M University. He previ42

ously served successfully as professor and chairman of the Department of Economics at Virginia State College, and chairman of the Division of Business at Fort Valley State College in Georgia.

His experience also includes extensive service as an economic consultant with major banks and financial institutions in Philadelphia and New York, and with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington.

An articular communicator for Black higher education, Brother Ponder currently is vice president of the United Negro College Fund; member of the Corporate Advisory Committee of the National Association of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO); member of the Commission on Minorities in Higher Education, American Council on Education; vice president of the board of directors of Robert R. Moton Memorial Institute; chairman of the steering committee of the Network of Black Churches and Black Colleges/Universities, National Black Pastor's Conference; president of the American Baptist Association of College and Universities, American Baptist Churches, USA; and member of the Advisory Council of Private College Presidents, South Carolina Commission on Higher Education.

Brother Ponder is a member of the American Economic Association and the American Farm Economic Association. He also holds membership in leading scientific and educational organizations, including Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society, Delta Mu Delta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Delta, Sigma Pi Phi and the South Carolina Academy of Science.

Brother Ponder is the recipient of hundreds of honors and awards from educational, business and professional organizations. He is listed in major Who's Who publications and international biographies.

A native of Wewoka, Oklahoma, he earned his Bachelor's degree at Langston University. He also holds the Master's degree from Oklahoma State University and the Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University.

Brother Ponder married his college sweetheart, the former Eunice Wilson, in November, 1952. They are parents of two daughters, Cheryl, a graduate student at Atlanta University, and Anna, a rising sophomore at Spellman College.

Brother LORENZO ROBINSON of Mu Zeta Lambda Chapter (Polk County, Florida), has been selected as the 1983 recipient of the Donald S. MacNaughton Award for Community Leadership. Brother Robinson is a District Agent for the Prudential Insurance Company, Lakeland, Florida.

The MacNaughton Award is designed to honor outstanding service by Prudential employees to the communities in which they live and work.

Three criteria are important: personal sacrifice on part of the nominee; measurable effectiveness in a leadership role; and, the importance of the work to the community at large.

The award is given to 41 employees on a companywide basis, including the Canadian Operations, Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance Company and Prudential-Bache.

Brother Robinson's services to the community which enabled him to receive this award included founding the "In Appreciation of Small Business Organization," which strengthened the nucleus of Lakeland's small business sector. Under Brother Robinson's guidance, 25 pre-school children at the Westlake Day Care Center learned the techniques of woodworking and he was presented a Certificate of Appreciation by the center. He also organized a successful fundraising Bike-AThon for his church, Allen Temple A.M.E. Church. The key to the City of Lakeland was presented to Brother Robinson in 1982 in recognition of his outstanding service to his community.

As a MacNaughton Award winner, Brother Robinson received an engraved Seth Thomas Quartzmatic clock and a tie clasp bearing his name. Also, Prudential made $250 contributions to both Mu Zeta Lambda and Westlake Day Care Center in his name.

Brother VANCE SIMELTON, Vice President, Pi Lambda Chapter, Little Rock, Arkansas, was elected Treasurer of the Southwest Association of Student Assistance Programs. He will serve a one-year term as Treasurer of the association that represents five southwestern states â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

The Southwest Association is the largest of ten regional associations of The Sphinx/Fall 1983

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Trio Programs. Brother Simelton also served on the Board of Directors of the association during the first year of his three-year membership.

Brother Simelton has been a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for 16 years. He is currently Vice President of Pi Lambda Chapter where he has also served as Dean of Pledges. Simelton has served as advisor to Kappa Psi Chapter (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and Beta Chi Chapter (Philander Smith College).

Brother Simelton holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science from Philander Smith College and a Master of Science degree in Community Service Counseling from the University of Central Arkansas. He holds memberships in the Arkansas Association of Student Assistance Programs, the Arkansas College Personnel Association, and the Arkansas Development Association.

Brother Simelton is married to the former Alice Dobbins. They are the parents of a son, Anthony, 13 years old.

Company, ARKLA, Inc. has over 5,000 employees spread over various parts of the nation. In his new capacity, Tate performs duties and responsibilities relating to corporate benefits, wage and salary, payroll policies and procedures, and training. Additionally, his duties and responsibilities include handling special projects for the Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer.

Brother Tate has been a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for 11 years. He is a past President of Pi Lambda Chapter and helped coordinate the distribution of campaign materials for General President Ozell Sutton during his bid for office.

Tate holds numerous organizational memberships including the American Association of Blacks in Energy (Board President), Arkansas Arthritis Foundation (Board of Directors), Project With Industry (Board of Directors), Superspeech (Board Chairman), and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (Board of Directors).

Brother Tate holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Philander Smith College and has done advance study in personnel administration.

He is married to the former Janet Davis. They have a daughter, Amber, age eight.

Brother SHERMAN E. TATE, a member of Pi Lambda Chapter, Little Rock, Arkansas, has been promoted to Vice President for Community Affairs by the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company (ARKLA, Inc.). Br ^her Tate has been employed by AR.-OV Inc. for four years and has the distinction of being its first Black officer. A Fortune 500 The Sphinx/Fall 1983

Brother CHARLES C. TEAMER, Vice President for Fiscal Affairs at Dillard University, was sworn in as

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Commissioner of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Dock Board) at the board's July, 1983 meeting. In what was described by the Louisiana Weekly as "a sterling moment in the history of the City of New Orleans," Brother Teamer became the first Black to sit on this board - which has the responsibility of administering that city's vast network of ports and harbors.

Brother Teamer, a registered Democrat, was selected for the position by Louisiana Governor David Treen, a Republican. Teamer said that the Dock Board job will give him "a further opportunity to service my community," calling this new position "one of the most significant appointments I have had in my career." Gov. Treen said he checked Teamer's qualifications after receiving a list of three nominees for the vacancy. "He is an outstanding citizen of the community," Treen said.

"I have examined the background of Mr. Teamer and found him to be an activist" in the groups with which he is involved. In addition to overseeing the operations of the huge Port of New Orleans, the Dock Board cultivates billions of dollars in foreign trade â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with domestic trade development offices in Chicago, New York and St. Louis; and with overseas offices in Australia, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong and Panama.

Brother Teamer was named one of the Ten Outstanding Citizens of New Orleans in 1979 and, in 1980, he was named one of the year's Ten Volunteer 43

Activists. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in the Southwest and Who's Who in the South.

The new Dock Board Commissioner is a Director of New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (NOPSI), which administers the city's transit, gas and electric concerns; a Director of the Greater New Orleans Tourist and Convention Commission; and a Director of the New Orleans Economic Development Council. He is also a Trustee of the Ochsner Medical Foundation; a member of the Minority Business Task Force; a consultant for the Student Financial Assistance Training Program; and President of the Southern Association of College and University Business Officers. A former President of the Board of Directors of the United Way of New Orleans, Brother Teamer now serves as Vice President of that group's Board of Trustees. He is also actively involved in Louisiana World Exposition, Inc., the sponsoring agency for the 1984 Louisiana World's Fair — serving as Vice President and Secretary of the Executive Committee, Chairman of both the Concessions and Minority Affairs committees and as a member of the Management Committee.

Brother Teamer served as Business Manager of Dillard University for eight years, prior to assuming his current post as Vice President for Fiscal Affairs.

He came to Dillard in 1965. From 1962 to 1965, he served as Business Manager of Wiley College in Marshall, Texas.

Prior to that post, he was Assistant Business Manager at Tennessee State University from 1958 to 1962.

Teamer earned his Bachelor's degree from Clark College in Atlanta, and was graduated from the Army School of Administration at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He has also studied business management as a Carnegie Fellow at both Tulane University and the University of Omaha. Initiated at Alpha Phi Chapter, Clark College, Brother Teamer has been an active member of Delta Zeta Lambda Chapter (Orangeburg, South Carolina), Tau Lambda (Nashville, Tennessee) and was President of both Gamma Upsilon Lambda (Marshall, Texas) and Sigma Lambda Chapter (New Orleans, Louisiana). He served as Comptroller of Alpha Phi Alpha for ten years, from 1973 until 1983. In that post, and as Chairman of the Fraternity's Budget and Finance Committee, Brother Teamer received repeated commendations from General Conventions for 44

superior fiscal management — and for his efforts to involve a wide range of Brothers in the budget-making process.

In the first ever election for that formerly appointive post (1980), Brother Teamer was unanimously chosen to continue his service.

Married to the former Mary Dixon, faculty member and Women's Athletic Director at Dillard, Brother Teamer is the father of three children: Charles, Jr., a member of Sigma Lambda Chapter in New Orleans; Roderic, President of Nu Psi Chapter at Louisiana State University and SergeantAt-Arms of the Louisiana Conference of Alpha Chapters; and Cheryl, a student at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia.

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4E During California's annual Democratic State Convention, Brother BILL THURSTON was unanimously elected to a second term as Northern Vice Chairman of the California Democratic Party. Before a crowd of 800 delegates, a San Francisco County Supervisor praised Bill as "having worked long and hard in the vineyards of the Democratic Party." It was also noted that Thurston "has excelled at every level of party participation" and "very few people in politics are as respected as Bill." Thurston, who sees himself as probably the lowest key

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person in the party, promised the delegates to do his utmost for the party.

Brother Thurston, a college instructor and chairman of the Solano County Democratic Central Committee, feels that in the upcoming election year it is essential that Democrats restructure their thinking and develop new alternatives rather than just being an opposition party. Brother Thurston is a member of Kappa Omicron Lambda, Vallejo, California.

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sizing membership, voter registration and voter education. May blossoms were a fine setting to reap the benefits of the Chapter's Junior Achievers, who held their Awards Banquet. Obviously the Brothers learned something also, for they formed an Alpha Investment Group around this time. Delta Rho Lambda honored its Omega Chapter Brothers through the "Gift of Life Memorial." Held at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, donations from guests are given to the favorite charity of family whose loved one is being honored. May's activities ended with a Memory Lane Dance, featuring music from the past. June featured the Chapter's family picnic and Business Encouragement Week. Delta Rho Lambda received a city proclamation promoting this event and held a seminar around the theme, "How to Maintain and Start A Business." July's Splash Party and Dinner concluded a busy fraternal year.

Perhaps the best indication of the Chapter's work is seen through the recognition accorded them by other groups. These included awards from the Alamo Branch of the American Cancer Society; Project Free (Family Rehabilitation and Education Effort), for involvement with the elderly and youth; the San Antonio Housing Authority; and, the San Antonio Chapter of Blacks In Government (BIG). Despite such recognitions, however, the "pride" of their collective "heart" would have to the Chapter of the Year citations from Texas, the Southwestern Region and, ultimately, the General Organization of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. WHAT A WAY TO GO! - Stan Deckard The Sphinx/Fall 1983

EAST massachusetts Theta Iota Lambda enjoys busy summer Again Theta Iota Lambda Chapter pauses to reflect on the past year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a year that has been enjoyable and challenging, which found the Brothers actively involved in various activities of the Fraternity and the community.

The chapter celebrated its Founder's Day at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Presbyterian Church. As usual, the worship service was preceded by a breakfast. The chapter presented the youth department of the church a donation to further their activities that are so vital to the youth of the community.

In February we held our annual fund raiser, "A Three In One." The Brothers and their guests spent an enjoyable and memorable evening. The scholarship committee presented a scholarship to a local young man who is attending Georgetown University.

The Fraternity held a smoker in April at the Marriott Hotel. Several interested men attended. These men heard the history of Alpha Phi Alpha, the history of the chapter, the Fraternity's national involvement and the chapter's involvement in community affairs. The men were told of the qualities Alpha looks for in prospective candidates. They were also informed that the standards of Alpha Phi Alpha were high.

Three men answered that challenge and were inducted into the Sphinx Club, where they began their march upward and onward toward the light.

Recognizing the overwhelming success of the smoker, the Dean of Pledgees, Brother Robert Brown, Jr., wishes to thank the Brothers, especially Brother Dr. G. Bruce Cutting, for his skills in managerial negotiation, for helping to make the smoker a success.

The summer picnic which is a tradition of Theta Iota Lambda was held at the home of Brother and Mrs. Jesse Parks III. The Brothers, their families and friends had a delightful time in Alpha style. The warm and friendly hospitality the Parks' extended us was highly appreciated.

Several Brothers attended the ONECA (Organization of New

England Chapters of Alpha) conference in Boston. The conference was hosted

by Epsilon Gamma Lambda Chapter.

The President of ONECA, Brother Thomas Harris IV, elaborated on the purpose of ONECA, a function which is to provide leadership information to the chapters of New England. Brothers in political positions and some aspiring to such, reminded us of the importance of the political machinery.

The chapter congratulates Dr. Shirley M. Taylor (AKA) who recently received her Doctorate from the University of Massachusetts. She is the wife of Brother Harold Taylor.

Cupid shot its arrow and pierced the heart of Brother John Matthew Coleman. He fell to the woos of Miss Claretha Banks and they were recently united in Holy Matrimony.

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massachusetts Boston area chapters enjoy festive Cape Cod outing On June 25, 1983, the Brothers of Epsilon Gamma Lambda and Nu Xi Lambda chapters sponsored their Annual Cape Cod Outing. This outing is held every summer in order to promote good fellowship among the Alpha Men in the greater Boston area.

Brother and Mrs. Charles Cuthbert shared their beautiful home in Mashpee, Massachusetts with eightythree people in attendance. The outing was attended by approximately forty Brothers representing the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.

The activities of the day included the following: 1) A "Step-Down" Performance was presented by the youthful and energetic undergraduate Brothers; 2) The Alpha Hymn was rendered by the Brotherhood; and 3) Brothers, their families and friends played games such as volleyball, horseshoes, and cards.

The menu for the day consisted of barbequed ribs, fish, chicken, hot dogs, hamburgers, salad, greens, cornbread, cakes, ice cream, and liquid refreshments. Brothers William T. Hall, Ambrose Jerald, Jr., Charles Cuthbert and Mrs. Gertrude Cuthbert and Miss Bernadine Grady did a splendid job in preparing the food for the outing.

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Epsilon Gamma Lambda and Nu Xi Lambda chapters announced the official "kick-off" of their drive to raise $10,000 for their Educational Foundation. Their Educational Foundation was founded and incorporated under the State Laws of Massachusetts as a non-profit organization on March 31, 1983. The officers of the Educational Foundation are: President â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brother John H. McMullen, Jr., Epsilon Gamma Lambda Chapter; Treasurer - Brother Clifton E. Reed, Nu Xi Lambda Chapter; and Clerk - Brother Eric L. Small, Epsilon Gamma Lambda Chapter.

The purposes of the Educational Foundation are to raise funds and to award academic scholarships, grants in aid, educational loans a n d / o r tuition assistance to linguistic and racial minority students matriculating at an accredited four year post secondary institution for the specific purpose of acquiring a Baccalaureate or higher degree. Brother Clifton Reed was instrumental in the organizing of the Educational Foundation.

The Annual Cape Cod Outing was the culmination of an active Alpha year in Boston. The year's activities included a successful Founder's Day celebration, participation in the activities of the Organization of New England Chapters of Alpha (ONECA), and the sponsoring of a successful Smoker. Our Smoker was held on March 26, 1983. It attracted the interest of some of Boston's most promising young Black men. The featured speakers at the Smoker were Brothers Melvin King, candidate for Mayor (Boston); James Hoyte, Secretary of Environmental Affairs, Massachusetts; Samuel Carradine, Senior Economic Development Aide for Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts; and G. Bruce Cutting, Treasurer of ONECA. In conclusion, the Brothers of Epsilon Gamma Lambda Chapter take pride in the activities which they have sponsored this year. They look forward to providing a greater service to the community in coming years.

Brother Russell Kelley (r) presents award to Judge William Murphy, Baltimore mayoral a Lambda President Wilbert Walker look on. candidate. Brothers Joseph Griggs (I) and Delt In addition to Brothers Kelley and Courts in Baltimore, was sponsored by Robinson, the committee included the Delta Lambda Chapter and Miller Brothers James Robinson (FundLite. This competition scheduled tennis raising), Dr. George Maxwell (Trophies), matches for ten events including the Richard Wiley (Hospitality), Larry D. Men's Open, Women's Open, Junior Davis (referee), Jacob Howard III Veteran's Open (ages 35-45), Senior (photographer), Jay Gilmer (Facilities), Men's Open (ages 46-up), Mixed Joseph Yates (Facilities), Dr. Ray Hill Doubles, Women's Doubles, Men's (Secretary), Ramon Wright (display Doubles, Senior Doubles, Junior artist), Alan "Dickie" Burke (Celebrity Veteran's Doubles as well as a consolaTournament), Houston Stansbury tion round for the Men's Open. More (Celebrity Hospitality), Joseph Griggs than two hundred players entered (Publicity), and Charles Salters (First Delta Lambda's competition, making it Aid). one of the largest and most successful The 1983 Benefit Tournament raised in its history. Directed by Brother Dr. funds which Delta Lambda Chapter Russell V. Kelley, Chairman, and donated to "Project Survival," a BaltiBrother Charles F. Robinson, Vice more summer basketball league project, Chairman, the Alpha Tournament has the United Negro College Fund and grown to be one of the major tennis other Baltimore city programs identicompetitions in the Baltimore Metrofied by the chapter. Brother Dr. Kelley politan area.

Delta Lambda's Tennis Committee, tournament officials and trophies.

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presented a check to Delta Lambda Chapter at its June meeting along with awards to Tennis Committee members.

The tournament tennis balls were donated to The Greater Baltimore Tennis Association Summer Program.

Brothers competing in the tournament included Dr. Russell V. Kelley, Larry Davis, Charles F. Robinson, Dr. Frederick Oliver, Tim Tyler, Preston Scott, and James Robinson. One of the highlights of the tournament featured presentation of plaques to local and state celebrities as well as city and state politicians. Miller Lite sponsored a beer party for competitors, guests, and Brothers before the final matches.

Delta Lambda's 1984 Tennis Tournament will be June 6-10, 1984. Interested chapters and Brothers should address inquiries to Chairman, Alpha Tennis Committee, 3201 Clifton Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21216.

Pennsylvania ZOL sponsors Science 6 Energy Confab The third annual Science and Energy Career Conference sponsored by Zeta Omicron Lambda Chapter was by far the most outstanding project for school children in the Philadelphia area.

More than 500 middle grade students attended the conference at the Student Activities Center on Temple University's campus from 9:00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., Saturday, May 14th.

Brother Waverly L. Easley, President of Zeta Omicron Lambda, conceived the idea for the conference because he saw the need to develop in middle and junior high schools students an interest in, and an awareness of, job opportunities in fields in energy.

Brother Dr. Matthew Knowles, Chairman of the committee, had to revise the conference schedule and program as there were more participants registered than had been anticipated.

This enabled a greater number of students to learn about job opportunities in the fields of science and energy and to make wiser career decisions.

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fields in science, gas, electric production, nuclear, petroleum and solar.

A large number of parents attended the conference. A special seminar was conducted to increase understanding of ways in which they could assist their children to matriculate successfully.

Brothers who served as monitors, registrars and moderators include Wilfred R. Bond, Russell Brown, Dr. Robert Chapman, John A. Clark, Charles Hubbard, Henry Jettison, Theodore Jordan, Raymond Knight, Benis Lawrence and Paul Lewis. Also, Bennie G. McMorris, Martin Nock, Albert Pettus, Earl O. Pree, Wendell Roberts, Leonard Sloan, Hirman A. Stith, W. Norwood Thomas, Emery Utterback, Charles Whiting, Edward Wilkins, James Wilson and Ronald Wilson.

Ladies of Alpha who assisted in the successful project included Alma Brown, Cara Knowles, Elizabeth Morris, Bernice Pree, Adean Utterback and Jacklyn Warrington.

Brothers Easley and Knowles expressed appreciation to Philadelphia Electric Company (co-sponsor); Mark Hyman Associates; The Philadelphia Tribune; The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Co. (snacks); Girard College; Merck, Sharp & Dohme; Sun Company; Atlantic Richfield Co.; Gimbels; and Community College, Brother Robert King.

Chapter officers for 1983-84 are Waverly L. Easley, President; Charles Whiting, Vice President; Russell Brown, Recording Secretary; Herbert Birtha, Corresponding Secretary; Hiram A. Stith, Financial Secretary; Hugh F. Morris, Treasurer; Emery Utterback, Dean of Pledges; Michael Reed, Parliamentarian; Wilfred Bonds, Sergeant-At-Arms; and Charles H. Clarke, Jr., Editor-to-the-Sphinx.

Brother Easley, who is also President and Chief Executive Officer of The Philadelphia Tribune â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the nation's oldest Black newspaper and recently voted the newspaper of the year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; predicts that this year will be the greatest in the chapter's history.

Brother Easley headed a contingent of more than 40 delegates and visitors to the recent 77th Anniversary Convention in New Orleans. ZOA is proud to number among its membership three national officers. Brother Kermit Hall is Director - General Conventions; Brother Robert Myers, Sergeant-atArms; and Brother Frank Devine, Chairman, Committee on Time and Place.

Brother Robert Moose, chapter

Chairman of the Million Dollar Drive, announced that Zeta Omicron Lambda has contributed $27,150 thus far and is second of all chapters in dollar contributions. He said that more will be contributed from receipts from the Black and Gold dinner dance this fall. He is also Chairman of the Black and Gold Committee, with Brother Charles L. Keels serving as Co-chairman.

Brother Keels has been named by President Easley to head the Reclamation Committee. One of the big projects for the year is getting inactive Brothers back into the fold and refurbishing the chapter house.

Brother Knowles coordinated the Cultural Olympics 1983 recently in the auditorium at William Penn High School. The awards program was attended by approximately 150 high school students, parents and friends and was sponsored by Temple #1, a fraternal order of A.E.A.N.M.S. Students with skills and talent in science, art and the performing arts competed for cash prizes.

Zeta Omicron Lambda suffered a great loss when Brother Harry Stanback, a Charter Member, and an Alpha man for more than 60 years, recently entered Omega Chapter. He was a loyal and an active member and will be greatly missed.

glassboro state Nu loto: New Jersey's Chapter of the Year Greetings and warm wishes to all our Brothers in Alphadom from your Brothers at Nu Iota Chapter, Glassboro State College in Southern New Jersey. As Alpha men and District 4's "Chapter of the Year," be assured we're upholding those "highest and noblest" standards and philosophies of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. First and foremost we're servants of all and shall transcend all. Taking a look at our activities this past academic year, we've come a mighty long way.

One facet of this onward and upward drive was the addition of 12 new members into Nu Iota. There was "Miracle Three" in Fall '82 with Brothers Michael Scott Davis, Michael Turner and Wardell Carter, Jr. "The Sting" line crossed the burning sands May 1. The initiates were Glenn Porter, Steve Sheridan, Joseph Strickland, Marcos Edgehill, Shawn L. 47

Brother Phillip L. Jackson of Nu Iota presents proceeds from a fund-raiser to National Leader Editor Claude Lewis. The money collected aided a youngster needing a liver transplant.

Carpenter, David Maggette, Keith R. Harris, David M o o r e and Dwayne Daids.

While the "Sting" concluded the 1982-83 school year, a stylish "Black Tie Banquet" began the year. The reason for celebration? It was to h o n o r A-Phi-A in its fifth year at GSC. Almost a month later we again had reason to toast - 'this time it was the "Annual Neophyte Recognition Ball," and a whopping 1,400 folks were on hand. We started this auspicious affair "first of all" with the hopes of encouraging new Greeks to work closer together.

Continuing our commitment of service to all, Glassboro Alphas touched the hearts, stimulated the minds and even fed the appetites of area residents.

By sponsoring a Christmas party, a children's College Day and a T h a n k s giving Day food drive, we shine at Glassboro State.

A n Alpha Summit, chaired b y Brother Phillip L. Jackson, was a m o n g the numerous spring activities we hosted. This meeting was designed to help Brothers - especially those in college - better understand the workings of the Fraternity. T h e keynote address was delivered by 1981 "Brother of the Year" Keith Butler and concerned the skills needed to secure the future of Alpha Phi Alpha.

The Eastern Regional Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania topped the April agenda for us. As well as attending workshops, we met Brothers, shook hands and exchanged greetings.

We offered some study-time relief with a "Spring Break Explosion" attended 48

b y 1,900 p a r t y i n g p e o p l e . A n d Brothers, we wrapped up the school year with a fraternal farewell and w a r m wishes to Brothers Butler and Jerry E. Holland. Both were graduated with B.A. degrees in Law/Justice Studies.

During the summer we kept busy hosting a gala "Mid Summer Night Affair" and of course, attending Alpha Phi Alpha's G r a n d 77th Anniversary Convention in New Orleans. W o r k shops on college student's financial aid p r o g r a m s , teenage pregnancy and health care screenings were attended.

These programs, as well as the muchneeded voter registration program: A Voteless People Is A Hopeless People, will be put into action at Nu Iota.

In closing, we welcome all Brothers - whether passing through the area or visiting - to stop in and get acquainted with us here at Nu Iota Chapter.

district of Columbia Omicron Lambda Alpha moves ever onward Fraternal greetings to the Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha from Omicron Lambda Alpha, Washington, D . C . With an impressive showing at the recent March on Washington for Jobs, Peace and

Freedom, the Brothers of OLA officially closed out a most productive 1982-83 fraternal year.

M a n y positive steps were taken in the direction of fulfilling the dreams of our founding Jewels for an organization that meets the needs of its membership while still giving of itself to the community. Most of the steps taken were internal and designed to get the House of Alpha more in order.

There was greater attendance and participation at Regional and National activities, such as the Eastern Region's Shirtsleeve Leadership Conference, the District VI Conference, the Regional Convention, the Leadership Development & Citizenship Education Institute, and the 69th General Convention in New Orleans.

The chapter sponsored, for the interaction of the Brothers, an Alpha Fun Night of cards, chess, backgammon, etc.; a Bowling Party complete with trophies; and informal gatherings at some of D.C.'s favorite watering holes.

Community-wise, the chapter continued some of its annual events, such as the Christmas Party for Senior Citizens, the Youth Scholarship Bruncheon, and the Spring Affair, as well as moving into new arenas, such as the Spring Special Olympics Clinic and OLA's Collegiate Scholarship Evening at the RSVP Club. Brothers also participated in a community project with

SUPPORTING SENIORS: The President of Zeta Zeta Lambda Chapter (Long Island, NY), Amos Gaillard, presents Mrs. Ethel Blair, Executive Director, the Alpha Phi Alpha - Cambria Heights Senior Citizens Center with the chapter's annual gift to the center. Assisting Brother Gaillard are Brothers from Zeta Zeta Lambda who are also members of the Center's Board of Directors. From left to right are Brothers Hinton Brazelton: Gecovia Doyle; Calvin Nelson, President of the Center's Board of Directors; Oscar Henry; Mrs. Blair; Brother Gaillard; Thomas Jordan; Lewis Hurst; and Eric Headly.

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the D.C. Superior Court and the Big Brothers of the National Capital Area where we interacted with young men who had been adjudicated as juvenile delinquents.

On Saturday, May 28, 1983, the Brothers welcomed nine young men into the noble ranks of Alpha Phi Alpha. We have great confidence that the Neophyte Brothers - Zendall Forbes, Carlos Jones, Felix Korto, Gary Spencer, Robert Caldwell, Morris Cheeks, E. J. demons, Winston Gandy, and Robert Gamble - will be credits to our great Fraternity.

OLA moves into the 1983-84 fraternal year with three of its officers from the previous year, namely, Robert Moore, President; Keith Judge, Vice President; and James Brown, Treasurer. New officers for the term include Kenyon Parker, Corresponding Secretary; Michael Dawson, Sergeant-At-Arms; Rufus Sadler, Parliamentarian; Duane Calloway, Chaplain; Albert Coleman, Historian; Jaru Ruley, Associate Editorto-the-Sphinx; and Mykl Barron, Director of Educational Activities.

We're serving notice to all of Alphadom: Keep your eyes turned towards the Mighty East and the Brothers of Omicron Lambda Alpha. We are driven!!

Kappa Theta Lambda Founders (left to right): Dr. Colden Raines, Thomas D. Ashley, Dr. Birchand E. Coodall, Carey ]enkins, Carlos Peay, Esq. and Dr. J. Edison Brown. Also recognized but not shown were James H. Baker, Jr. and O Jackson Cole.

new jersey Kappa Theta Lambda holds 10th Spring Formal Kappa Theta Lambda Chapter in Bergen County, New Jersey ended the 1982-83 fraternal year on a high note and is ready to start 1983-84 with renewed vigor.

One of the year-end highlights included the 10th Anniversary Spring Formal where the founding Brothers were recognized by N.J. State Director Elbert Wisner. The event was coordinated by the Social Committee which included Brothers Robert Gillespie, Gerald Boswell, and Percy E. Pollard as Chairman.

The Formal was held at the Hilton Hotel in Parsippany, NJ. The Brothers attending were sharply attired in black tuxedos trimmed with gold sashes.

Wives and sweethearts were also active participants along with selective sons and daughters who served as hosts and hostesses.

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Kappa Theta Lambda Brothers at their Spring Formal '83. elected President and Lynwood Jackson, Vice President.

These two Brothers were delegates to the General Convention in New Orleans. Brother Percy Pollard also attended the convention. He coordinated the Job Fair booth for IBM and particiated in a seminar to discuss the topic, "Technology â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Impact On Careers."

The Brothers of Kappa Theta Lambda are excited about the future and look forward to the leadership of Brother Lacey to hold Alpha high. Other elected officers for 1983-84 include Brothers William C. Witherspoon, Recording Secretary; Isaac McNatt, Corresponding Secretary; James Howard, Treasurer; Chester Franklin, Sergeant-At-Arms; William Beavers, Dean of Pledges; B. E. Goodall, Historian; Larry Harris, Chaplain; and Carlos Peay, Parliamentarian.

new england Boston chapters host ONECA meeting On March 26, 1983, the Organization of New England Chapters of Alpha (ONECA) Conference was convened at the Professional and Business Men's Club in Boston, Massachusetts.

The conference began with the recitation of the Fraternal Prayer by the Brotherhood.

The Brothers were welcomed to Boston by Brother John H. McMullen, Jr., Epsilon Gamma Lambda's Chapter President and by Brother Jesse Parks III, Area Director for Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.

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the Conference, Brother Thomas D. Harris IV, ONECA President, addressed the Brotherhood. In his address, the purpose of ONECA was explained to the body. He explained that one of the major purposes of ONECA was to provide the vital function of disseminating leadership information to the New England Chapters of Alpha.

Brother Harris' address was followed by the presentation of state reports.

State reports were presented by Brothers Brian G. Douglas, Rhode Island's State Director; Jesse Parks III, State Director of the Northern New England States; and Ronald E. Manning, Connecticut's State Director.

In addition, the body heard reports from Brothers Dr. G. Bruce Cutting, ONECA Treasurer; Kirk Bowen, Assistant Vice President of the Eastern Region; Allen Bond, ONECA Vice President; and Thomas D. Harris IV, ONECA President.

Brother Kirk Bowen's report highlighted the Alpha Phi Alpha Board of Directors meeting which was held on January 21-23, 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia. He emphasized the fact that many chapters continued to fail to submit data forms to the National Office; he also informed the body of the newly developed "Action Guide" of the Educational Foundation. In addition, he stated that he was impressed by the decision of ONECA Brothers to hold future meetings on college campuses.

The decision to meet on college campuses was made as a result of suggestions by Brothers Allen Bond and Jesse Parks III that graduate Brothers become more involved on college campuses in order to rid the students, faculty, and administrators at predominantly white institutions of their misconceptions regarding Black Greekletter organizations.

Brother Allen Bond's report stressed the need to strengthen communication within ONECA. He also discussed specific events which had occurred on the campus of Dartmouth College. A conservative political organization (which is not officially sanctioned by the college) has published a number of articles which have attacked Theta Zeta Chapter in various ways; similarly, the fraternal insignia was stolen from the Theta Zeta Fraternity House.

In Brother Bond's opinion, a strong showing of support from other members of ONECA would lend Theta Zeta Chapter a great deal of clout in its attempt to deal with the problems that it is encountering on Dartmouth's campus.

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Brother Harris' report focused on key issues related to the organizational efficiency of chapters as well as critical social issues that impact upon the lives of Black Americans. After the conclusion of the reports, the body recessed for lunch.

The luncheon was catered by Brother John Garvey Bynoe. The menu for the day was fried chicken, baked beans, salad, rolls, and Alpha punch.

The Sphinxmen from Sigma Chapter served as waiters. During the luncheon, Brother Hanley J. Norment presented a campaign speech in his bid for the vice presidency of the Eastern Region. He praised the efforts of ONECA in providing A-Phi-A meaningful organizational leadership on the district level.

After the luncheon, the body elected a new slate of ONECA officers. The Brothers elected to ONECA offices were Thomas D. Harris IV, President; Darren Spencer, Vice President; John M. Coleman, Secretary; G. Bruce Cutting, Treasurer; Art Shurn, Financial Secretary; Bob Brown, Chaplain; Lavelle Smith, Sgt.-At-Arms; Mark Edwards, Parliamentarian; and Donald Cunnigen, Editor-to-the-Sphinx.

Workshops were conducted in the areas of Education, the Standing Orders, and the Tax Exemption Procedures. The workshops provided an opportunity for the Brothers to exchange ideas on how to advance the cause of Alpha in various ways.

During the Second General Session of the Conference, the body heard the reports from the three workshops; the recognition of outstanding Brothers and chapters was announced by Brother Jesse Parks III. They were: Undergraduate Chapter of the Year, Kappa Delta Chapter; Graduate Chapter of the year, Beta Sigma Lambda Chapter and Epsilon Gamma Lambda Chapter; Undergraduate ONECA Man of the Year, Brother Allen Bond; Graduate ONECA Man of the Year, Brother Ernest Newton; and Award of Merit, Brother Charles Cuthbert.

The conference was concluded with a timely discussion by Brother Thomas D. Harris IV, ONECA President.

Brother Harris discussed the issues of district-wide communication and fraternal expansion. ONECA plans to improve its internal communication links by establishing a district-wide newsletter and by obtaining greater coverage of district activities in the Sphinx magazine. Within the coming year, ONECA plans to reactivate Yale's Zeta Chapter. ONECA Brothers would like to present Willie Stargell to

the national body as a prospective honorary initiate into the Fraternity.

Finally, the ONECA Conference in Boston provided the New England Brotherhood with a wealth of information as well as an engaging forum in which to chart the future path of Alpha in New England.

MIDWEST university of toledo Epsilon Alpha named Student Organization of the Year Epsilon Alpha Chapter, located on the campus of the University of Toledo, sends greetings to all Alpha Brothers.

The Winter and Spring quarters of 1983 were successful ones for us. In them we gained personal achievements as well as honors for the Fraternity.

In the winter quarter, the Brothers participated in UT's annual Greek Show and dazzled an audience of over 700 with a spectacular light show and our attire of full tuxedos and tails.

Although no awards were given at the show, the campus newspaper dubbed our show "the class act of the evening."

At the Black Student Union Awards Banquet in the spring, Alpha Phi Alpha was named Student Organization of the Year for outstanding achievement in obtaining its goals and objectives.

Also in the spring, EA initiated on May 14, Gregory S. Thomas, then a sophomore from Cleveland. Just as we welcomed a new Brother, we wished the best of luck to three graduating Brothers, Randall Johnson, Vincent Wade, and Jeffery Rhodes.

During the period from January to June, several Brothers were elected to key campus positions. Timothy Ivey was appointed to the Student Judiciary Council; Eric Jackson was elected to the Student Sentate; and Jay Young was elected Secretary of the InterFraternity Council. Tim Ivey was also elected State President at the state convention held at the University of Cincinnati in February.

We hope to continue to hold the light high and be true Servants of All in the 1983-84 school year. Our officers are Brothers Raymond A. McDaniel, President; Gregory S. Thomas, Vice President; Nathaniel J. Young, Secretary; Eric A. Jackson, Treasurer; and Timothy C. Ivey, Sergeant-At-Arms.

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Owens, Dean of Pledges; Prentice Turange, Assistant Dean of Pledges; Jerome Johnson, Dean of Probate; Russell Toliver, Treasurer; Tyrone Johnson, Executive Secretary and Editor-to-the-Sphinx; and Terry Cross, Assistant Secretary. Brothers of Theta Xi wishes all other Alpha men a successful year in keeping the tradition.

Theta Xi hosts Ebony and Ivory We, the Brothers of Theta Xi, feel that last year was a very successful year. During the fall quarter of 1982, the Brothers worked on a membership drive for the NAACP along with the Black Student's Association.

Various projects on campus and in Delta Xi the community kept the Brothers on boosts the move onward and upward in keepcampus leaders ing the great Alpha tradition. Our Greetings to all Brothers imbued projects included helping freshmen with the spirit of Alpha, from the with registration and information on Brothers of Delta Xi Chapter, Central finding the right building and workState University. We have had a most ing with the Big Brother and Sister successful year, holding high the aims programs. of our dear Fraternity.

The chapter also took a larger step in Presently several Brothers are holdtrying to promote unity on Ball State ing various positions on and off campus. campus by inserting the idea "Ebony and Ivory." The men of Alpha Phi \ Brother Michael Brown is President of the Inter-Organization Council. He is Alpha joined forces with Alpha Tau Vice President for the State of Ohio Omega, a white fraternity. This event and is the newly elected President of was a big success and we're hoping to Delta Xi for 1983-84; Brother Calvin make Ebony and Ivory even bigger and Collins is President of the Pan-Hellenic better in the years to come, showing Council; Brother F. Andre Adams is the Alpha love for all mankind.

Vice President of the Marketing Club Two Sphinx Clubs consisted of and Treasurer of the Inter-OrganizaBrothers Dieter Owens, Prentice tion Council; Brother Irie Turner is Turange, and Jerome Johnson of the National President of Sigma Tau "Hardship Four;" and Brothers BerEpsilon Professional Fraternity. On the trand Johnson and Charles Dockery of class level, Brother Reginald Davidson the line "Brothers of Wisdom and is President of the sophomore class and Power."

Brother Darryl Brooks is Vice President These five Brothers crossed the burnof the senior class. ing sands into Alpha land where they This year was a full one with many will help keep the light of Theta Xi activities. These activities included a Chapter moving onward and upward dance-a-thon and a swim-a-thon to toward the light which sets the stage raise $500 for our Sickle Cell Anemia for all others.

Fund Drive. We also volunteered our Brother Tyrone Johnson, President services at the Special Olympics in of Theta Xi, was a strong leading Dayton, Ohio and co-sponsored a Alpha man guiding us in the rest of the skating party and swim party with yearly activities, which were: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Founder's Day Weekend, December Beta Xi Chapter; set up a sickle cell 2-4, 1982; a Halloween and Christmas anemia information booth; planned party for the underprivileged children, two children's film festivals; co-sponwith the help of Alpha Kappa Alpha sored a skating party with the InterSorority; and a dinner.

Organizational Council; gave $300 to To strengthen unity among the Black the C.S.U. baseball team to help purfraternities, a social event with the chase equipment; and put on step Omega's and Sigma's was charted. shows and held campus tours for prosAlso a major concern of Alpha Phi pective new students in conjunction Alpha is scholarship and achievement. with the Office of Admissions. There To uphold this idea we raised over were several other functions but the big $1,000 in the name of Brother Rayford event of the year was a very successful W. Logan.

Alpha Week which was topped off In the upcoming year, offices will be with our 32nd Annual Spring Ball held by Stephen Jones, President; Ronwhere we crowned Miss Karen Mobley nie Anderson, Vice President; Dieter

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our Miss Black and Gold. Miss Mobley, a freshman from Detroit, Michigan, represented Delta Xi beautifully at the 1983 Mid-Western Regional Convention in Dayton.

The Brothers of Delta Xi are also proud of the 19 new Brothers who crossed the burning sands into Alphaland. We salute the Brothers of the "Black Enterprise" line (2-26-83). They are M. Andre' Partridge, F. Andre' Adams, Marc Moore, Robin Bryant, Randolph Napier, Donald Burton, Darryl Brooks, Ronald House, Stephen Washington, Jim Golden, Mark Brown, George Curtis, Clarence Curry, Tony "D.H." Plummer and George Petaway and the Brothers of 'The Fantastic 4" line (5-26-83). The Brothers are Richard Perry, Reginald Davidson, James Edmonds and David Shepard.

The officers of Delta Xi are Marshan Brown, President; Angelo Walker, Vice President; Jeffrey Elmore, Treasurer; Harvey Miree, Recording Secretary; and Robert Prince, Corresponding Secretary.

We are now planning for the 1983-84 school year and are confident that it too will be very successful. We would like to thank our advisor, Brother Robert Marcus, and all the Brothers of Chi Lambda, Wilberforce, Ohio for their support and encouragement throughout this past year.

From the Brothers of Delta Xi, peace and love to all our Brothers and may the light of Alpha forever burn brightly in your hearts.

ohio wesleyan Omicron Rho files its first report Greetings from the Brothers of mighty Omicron Rho Chapter, Ohio Wesleyan University. With great pride we, the Brothers of Omicron Rho, present our first report since our founding March 7, 1982. Omicron Rho is the newest chapter in Ohio and growing rapidly.

Omicron Rho was founded by seven Brothers who would not let a rich, white, and racist administration discourage them from starting the first Black Greek-letter fraternity on the campus in the university's history.

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Daniel Sturkey, Columbus, O H ; and Darryl Peal, Springfield, O H .

Without the hard w o r k of D a n n y Boone, w h o was the Dean of Pledges, the O m i c r o n Rho dream would have never become a reality. D a n n y Boone, Jon Gore and all the Brothers of Alpha Rho Lambda, Columbus, Ohio should be commended for giving so much of their time and energy, as well as financial s u p p o r t . Since its founding Omicron Rho has started m a n y ongoing service projects and community service events that have brought them great popularity within the c o m m u nity. O'Rho's newest project is a $500 scholarship which is to be given for the first time in the spring of 1984. O'Rho takes great pride in announcing the crossing of four new Brothers. They are Alex Morales, Bronx, NY; Derrick Harvey, Queens, NY; Michael Arter, Brooklyn, NY; and Steve Marshall, Oberlin, O H .

O m i c r o n Rho hopes all the Brothers of A-Phi-A have a successful year and strive for excellence. A n d to all of the college Brothers we say, "Education is our stairway to success and ignornance is our trap door to failure, so keep reaching o n w a r d and upward."

nebraska O m a h a Alphas hold Scholarship Luncheon Beta Xi Lambda Chapter ( O m a h a , Nebraska) hosted some one-hundred guests at a luncheon on Saturday, M a y 28, at Mr. C s Restaurant, honoring six high school and twelve junior high

High school honorees at Beta Xi Lambda's Scholarship Luncheon (left to right): Larry Brown, Bellevue HS; David Hudson, North HS; Jeff Thompson, Bellevue HS; and Isiah Williams, Central HS. graduates for their high academic achievement. The guests included the parents of the young men honored.

Alpha Phi Alpha continues to place high priority on academic achievement by those w h o enter its ranks. This annual affair is a memorial tribute to one of Beta Xi Lambda's untiring and dedicated Brothers, and is named in his honor: the M. A. "Gus" Dillon Scholarship A w a r d .

The guest speaker, Rev. Brother Lester Cezar of Pleasant Green Baptist Church challenged the honorees to maintain their concern for education as a tool which would never desert them in future life.

O m a h a Alphas observed National "Business Encouragement" Week M a y 15-21. The week was culminated with

Omaha Mayor Mike Boyle reads "Business Encouragement" proclamation to Omaha press, joined by (left to right): Virgil Chandler, National Chairman of the Business Encouragement Commission; Larry Myers; Beta Xi Lambda President Al Grice; Kenneth Butts; Thomas Davis; Charles Jean Baptist; Luther Graves; Dwayne Moody; and Anthony Grandison. =,->

the signing of a proclamation b y O m a h a M a y o r Mike Boyle at his press conference.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity has made this p r o g r a m a national effort observed b y all chapters across the nation. It is a program aimed at increasing interest in business development a m o n g minorities.

west Virginia Alpha Zeta Lambda elects and initiates Alpha Zeta Lambda Chapter in Bluefield, West Virginia recently elected a new slate of officers for the coming year. They are: Brothers Melvin Harris, President; William Law, Vice President; A u b r e y Jackson, Treasurer; A d o l p h u s Young, Jr., Secretary; Clarence Shelton, Associate Editor-to-theSphinx; Joseph I. Turner, Education Director; William Law, Chaplain; Marshall Harris, Dean of Pledges; Leonard McClanahan, Historian; and W. E. Hobert, Jr., House Manager.

These erstwhile Brothers are expected to carry on the noble tradition established in 1927 by the Founders of this c h a p t e r : B r o t h e r s E d g a r Barrier, Edward Browne, Hannibal Clark, Henry Lake Dickason, D . F. Dunlap, L. M. D u n l a p , Harry Jefferson, Frederick Lacy, J. C. Kinslow, William Matney, J. E. Pettress, J. A. Shelton, and George Streator.

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The 1983 State Convention was held at West Virginia State College, March 25-26, with Brother Charles Ledbetter of Alpha lota Lambda serving as Chairman. Brother Adolphus Young, Jr., State Regional Director, reports the meeting was educational, inspiring, and good entertainment.

At the April meeting, Certificates of Recognition were presented to members of the chapter for years of service to mankind. The May meeting was held at the First Baptist Church, Beckley at the invitation of Brother Law. Prior to the business meeting, a delicious meal was served by the ladies of the church. Also, initiation was conducted for candidates of Beta Theta Chapter, Bluef ield State College and Xi Theta Chapter, Concord College. The newly initiated Brothers were John R. Haynes and Donald L. Ross, Beta Theta; David Akhigbe, Cecil Hairston, Paul Hawkins, J. C. Mohr, and Julian Sharp, Xi Theta Chapter, Concord College. The Brothers of Alpha Zeta Lambda assisted in the initiation of the new candidates. Brother Adolphus Young, Jr., State Regional Director of West Virginia, supervised the ceremonies.

Alpha Zeta Lambda sincerely wishes the best for our Brothers out there and hopes for peace and prosperity for all mankind.

ohio Theta Lambda holds Achievement Awards Banquet Theta Lambda, Dayton, Ohio held its fourth annual George E. DeMar Achievement Awards Breakfast May 21, 1983 at Dunbar High School.

Three categories of awards were presented: scholarship, appreciation and Alpha Lites.

Scholarship recipients were Brian E. Scott, Dunbar High School, $1,000; and Michael Powell, Jefferson High School, $700.

Brothers James W. Kirk and Franklin D. White presented the scholarship awards.

Twenty-four male and female high school graduates of Dayton high schools received George E. DeMar achievement certificates for demonstrating a "willingness to achieve," and recommendation by their high school administrators. Brothers Franklin D. White and John O. Tilton presented the awards.

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Brother George Findley, Theta Lambda President, at the awards breakfast.

The 1983 Alpha Lites who received certificates were Glenn Boatwright, Dunbar High School; Anthony Brandon, Dunbar High School; Quinthony Brown, Dunbar High School; Gerard Conditt, Dunbar High School; Todd E. Cook, Patterson Co-op High School; Cedric Dunn, Meadowdale High School; Jonathan Patrick III, Dunbar High School; and Willie Wills, Jefferson High School.

Brothers Darryl Griffin and James A. Washington II presented the awards.

Keynote speaker for the awards program was Dr. Jennie Hodges Sethna, an engineer and professor at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.

Brother George Findley, President of Theta Lambda introduced the keynote speaker.

chioago state u Nu Delta celebrates 6th Anniversary A warm greeting goes out to all our Brothers in Alpha from the Brothers of Nu Delta Chapter.

Nu Delta Chapter is located on the campus of Chicago State University and was founded on June 11, 1977 by Lonnie Blakeney, Theta; Alonzo Anderson, Alpha Nu; Charles Hogg, Tau; Maurice Maclin, Theta; Jean Pierre Miller, Beta Eta; and the first initiates of Nu Delta, Brian Marshall, Steve Powenski and Ivan Story.

Nu Delta has been one of the most active chapters in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Some activities on

campus include clothing drives for the needy, canned-food drives, an annual Halloween party for children and a recent blood drive with the AKA's.

Some activities off campus included Tag-day with NAACP and the UNCF, Christmas telethon, and services in nursing homes and children's hospitals.

Nu Delta sponsored a benefit basketball game for the aid of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters Foundation on April 9. Members of the Chicago Bears took on the Alumni Basketball Players of CSU. The CSU alumni avenged the loss they suffered last year.

Nu Delta celebrated their 6th year in existence on the weekend of June 10-12. The event was dedicated to our seven founding fathers of Alpha. The program featured a banquet which was highlighted by Brother Dr. Richard Stevens who emphasized the meaning of scholarship. After the banquet, Nu Delta hosted a ball and presented a sweetheart court which featured 12 beautiful young ladies. First place went to Ms. Paula Johnson who was presented a trophy and a scholarship. All proceeds from the Founder's Day banquet and ball went to a scholarship fund for outstanding high school students.

On January 29, 1983 eight new Brothers were born in Alpha. These men were David Holliday, Anthony Johnson, Phillip Norman, Alfonza Wysinger, Michael Dickerson, Eric Fuller, Vance Bonner and Micheal Owens. Congratulations neophytes!

New officers were elected for 1983-84. As a result, the chapter will be looking for new leadership from Micheal Wright, President; Darren Bolden, Vice President; Alfonza Wysinger, Secretary; and Nathan Echols, Treasurer.

In closing, Nu Delta Brothers would like to express special thanks to Graduate Advisor Brother Azel Carter for his support and encouragement.

michigan Gamma Lambda Entertainment Committee plans festive year On Saturday, June 11, 1983, fourteen members of Detroit's Gamma Lambda Chapter's Entertainment Committee, met at the home of Brother and Mrs. James L. Cox to chart the chapter's social and civic program for the 1983-84 fiscal year. Brother James L. 53

occasion some of their accomplishments, which included a Scholarship Fund for area students; an Activity Festival (games, flea market, barbeque), which has a three-fold purpose: 1) visibility, 2) community service and 3) scholarship fundraising; made contributions to NAACP; donating over $4,000 to the Fraternity's National Million Dollar Fund; co-sponsoring, with other Greek organizations, an Educational Symposium for Marion County's youth at CFCC; providing aid to fellow Brothers when needed; observing Founder's Day at local churches; honoring citizens for outstanding community service; sending delegates to national, regional and state affairs; and hosting a reception for incoming Brothers and their wives.

Brother Robin Courtney introduced the speaker for the occasion, Brother Clarnece Cotton, Jr. He is a junior majoring in Journalism and broadEntertainment Committee: (1st row, left to right) Brothers James W. Nelms, John R. casting at Virginia Union University of Molock, Irvin J. Poke, and Waldo J. Smith. (2nd row) Brothers Howard W. Nelson, Dr. Richmond, Virginia; and a member of Ivan L. Cotman, and W. Niles Sexton, Jr. (3rd row) Brothers Joseph Prather, Jr., Richard B. Brown, James L. Cox, and Leonard P. Andrews. (4th row) Brothers Lou Murray, Richard H. Gamma Chapter. Cotton's informative Adams, Jr., and Leonard D. Posey. address reminded those present of the philosophy, goals, and accomplishby Mrs. Marjorie Cox and Adria Cox is the Entertainment Committee ments of the Fraternity and challenged Patrice Cox, wife and daughter respecChairman; Brother Michael F. Daniels them to continue the good work that tively of Brother James L. Cox. The is Co-Chairman. they are now doing. menu included spinach quiche, country The meeting started promptly at Brother Dr. J. C. Rawls, State Direcsausage, honey baked ham, fresh fruit 11:00 a.m. and adjourned at 12:30 tor, did the honors of making presentabowl, home fries, fluffy muffins, p.m. as planned. Program decisions tions. Recognition was given to officers assorted Danish rolls, orange marmawere made on the following agenda who have given dedicated services lade and butter, iced tea, and other items: the Christmas Formal Dance, beverages.

A black and gold fresh since their chapter became an indepenFounder's Day, the Golf Tournament, floral centerpiece with an Alpha dent one. The recipients were Presiand the Tennis Tournament. Other streamer highlighted the delicious and dents - Brothers Benjamin Brown and entertainment ideas included the decorative table.

Thomas George; Vice Presidents budget, cruises, train-trips, a weekend Brothers Rev. Eugene Broxton and The next committee meeting will be in Toronto, New York or Las Vegas, a Reuben Williams; Secretary - Brother held in the fall at the home of Brother bridge tournament and an evening at William E. Jackson; Treasurers James Nelms, Chaplain. the race track. These items were priorBrothers William H. Jackson and Frank itized on worksheets in order of Washington, Jr.; Parliamentarian Brother's preferences related to budget, Brother Marion Lenon; Editor-toChairman, date of event, location and Sphinx - Brothers Elton Bellamy and projected participation.

Fred Smiley; Chaplains - Brothers Brothers in attendance included Herbert Coleman and Charles Lauria; Howard W. Nelson, Executive Boardand Sunshine Chairman - Brother Waldo J. Smith; Leonard D. Posey; W. Benjamin Miller. Each one received a Niles Sexton, Jr.; Joseph Prather, Jr.; Epsilon Pi Lambda handsome plaque.

James W. Nelms, Chaplain; John R. Brother Fred Smiley received the holds Molock; Richard H. Adams, Jr.; "Brother of the Year Award" and Awards Banquet Richard B. Brown; James L. Cox; Irvin Brother Herbert S. Coleman received J. Poke, Treasurer; Lou Murray; "Outstanding Service Award."

Leonard P. Andrews; and Ivan L. CotThe Epsilon Pi Lambda Chapter, Brother Marion Lenon solemnly man, Midwest Vice President.

Gainesville-Ocala, Florida, held its installed the following officers for first Recognition and Awards Banquet, Other Entertainment Committee 1983-84: Herbert S. Coleman, PresiJune 24, at the Holiday Inn Silver members who were unable to attend dent; Fred Smiley, Vice President; Springs, with Brother Thomas George are Michael F. Daniels; Albert Boswell; William E. Jackson, Secretary; Robert serving as toastmaster.

Oscar B. Session; Jesse F. Goodwin; J. Starker, Treasurer; Robin Courtney, Robert E. Sutton; and Myron H. The program began with the Rev. Chaplain; Charles Lauria, ParliamenWahls, President.

Brother Thomas A. Harris giving the tarian; and Warren Hope, Editor-toinvocation, after which a dinner was All Brothers in attendance enjoyed a the Sphinx. Brother Coleman recogserved. Warren Hope stated in his delicious brunch prepared and served

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nized guests and presented a $500 scholarship to Cedric Donar. He will attend Florida State University in the fall.

They ended the event by singing the Alpha Hymn. The event was inspirational and pleasurable. The philosophy of their motto was reflected throughout the entire evening.

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voorhees college Eta lota provides community service in Denmark Eta Iota Chapter continues to strive onward to promote the principles of Alpha Phi Alpha. The Brothers of Eta Iota Chapter at Voorhees College, Denmark, South Carolina would like to extend fraternal greetings to all our Brothers in Alphadom. Our chapter has endeavored to exemplify the ideas and aims of the Fraternity by our dedication to the Fraternity's motto, "First of all, servants of all, we shall transcend all." With the idea of service to aid humanity, we continue to work in the spirit of the Jewels. As the commencing of the academic year (1982-83) began, our chapter with six Brothers worked graciously to maintain our status as leaders and men of distinction on our campus.

In September of 1982, our chapter served as peer advisors for freshmen during Freshman Orientation Week.

We also donated blood to the Red Cross during their annual blood drive.

In October, the chapter undertook a pledge line of three Sphinxmen, and we successfully initiated them into our great Fraternity. We assisted the student Government Association in organizing a Halloween Costume Ball.

In November, our chapter hosted a workshop on campus for all undergraduate chapters in South Carolina.

On November 4, 1982, we held our annual Miss Black and Gold Pageant and Stars of Tomorrow Contest to recognize those talented individuals within the student body. On November 30, 1982, we held our annual assembly program for the founding day of the Fraternity in which our State Director, Brother Peter Felder II, was the guest speaker. "The Role of Students in the Academic Development of an Institution" was the theme of the program. We also served as ushers at the Eta Nu Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority's assembly program.

For the past three years, our chapter has assisted others with counseling services at Voorhees College and has Gamma Gamma Lambda Chapter voluntarily served as tutors for the (Greenville, South Carolina) recently Tutorial Services Program at the colpresented to Mrs. Coretta Scott King a lege. Also as usual, we assisted the check for $300 for the Martin Luther NAACP with their annual ThanksgivKing, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social ing baskets for the needy. On January Change. Mr. Luke Chatman and Mr. 11, 1983, our chapter, in conjunction Ralph Martin represented the chapter with the NAACP, planned and implein making the presentation. Brother mented an assembly program honoring Ozell Sutton, General President and Brother Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for Regional Community Director for the his many great accomplishments in United States Justice Department, was civil rights. also present for the presentation.

Our chapter has accomplished Under the leadership of Dr. Morris numerous achievements this academic Hall, President of the chapter, plans year under the guidance of our Adare being made for the third annual visor, Brother Willie Jefferson. We Greenville celebration to be held continually grace our campus with January 13 - 14 of 1984. scholarship and leadership qualities.

The local chapter also made a donaThree Brothers are members of Alpha tion of $100 to The Million Dollar Kappa Mu Honor Society, and Drive - to benefit the National Urban numerous Brothers have maintained League, the United Negro College Fund the Dean's List status. Brother Godfrey and The National Association for the Ekhomu was elected Vice President of Advancement of Colored People. the Student Government Association for the academic year 1983-84 and At Gamma Gamma Lambda's presentation to the King Center are (1 to r) Brother Luke Brother Herbert Pittman was elected Chatman, General President Sutton, Mrs. Coretta King and Brother Ralph Martin.

Vice President of Phi Beta Lambda (Business Fraternity). We were fortunate to have three Brothers to graduate in May of 1983, with top honors in their major fields of study. Brother Olayinka Tajudeen Isioye, B.S., Accounting-Summa Cum Laude; Brother Chinenye Hillary Ohanu, B.S., BiologySumma Cum Laude; and Brother Festus Imasuen, B.A., Business Administration-Summa Cum Laude. On May 8, 1983, Brother Dr. Samuel Riley Pierce, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, delivered the commencement address at the eightysixth commencement convocation of Voorhees College. The chapter honored Brother Pierce with a plaque for his outstanding contributions to the legal profession and his country and for his perception of human needs.

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1982-83 school year are Festus Umasuen, President; Herbert Pittman, Vice President; Chinenye O h a n u , Secretary; A n t h o n y Brothers, Dean of Pledges; Yinka Isioye, Historian; Teddy Wilson, Parliamentarian and Chaplain; and Willie Jefferson, Graduate Advisor.

Since its inception in 1973, Eta Iota Chapter has been the birthplace for over 150 Alpha men.

In the light of things seen, and in the light of things unseen, Eta Iota remains fraternal.

bethune-cookman Delta Beta dazzles Dethune-Cookman The Brothers of Delta Beta Chapter would like to extend its fraternal salutations to all members of the black and gold. Like all Alphamen, we at Delta Beta are continuing to be at the forefront of all on the campus of BethuneC o o k m a n College.

After spring break, activities resumed in full force as several Brothers attended an annual Leadership and Development W o r k s h o p that w a s sponsored b y the local graduate chapter, Beta Delta Lambda. This proved to be most productive and informative, and numerous ideas a n d strategies were discussed.

The following weekend the chapter traveled to Gainesville, Florida to the Alpha Southern Regional Convention which always turns out being an educational and enlightening experience.

We represented the State of Florida by being chosen the State Undergraduate Chapter of the Year and Brother Kevin Perry w a s chosen the State College Brother of the Year. In b o t h categories we finished a close second at the regional but our heads were still held high.

The next weekend found the Alphas combining with all other fraternities and sororities on campus for B-CC's annual "Greek Day" in which each organization participated in a stomp show that afternoon and culminated with a Greek Disco that evening.

The next major activity was the hosting of 45 interested young men at our Spring Smoker. Everything went exactly according to plan and the men w h o attended this prestigious event were clearly shown w h y Alpha is second to none.

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played once again as Delta Beta was chosen as the Service-Incentive A w a r d runner-up for organizations rendering service above and beyond the ordinary around the campus and in the community.

B-CC will be well served by various Brothers from Delta Beta. Brother Michael G o o d m a n was elected Treasurer for the B-CC Student Government Association; Brother Melvin Dawson was elected President of the junior class; and Brother Edwin Wesley was elected Chaplain of both the Men's Senate and the Greek Letter Advisory Council.

The Brothers were then invited to "An Evening with the President" that was hosted by none other than Brother President Dr. Oswald P. Bronson, the illustrious P r e s i d e n t of B e t h u n e C o o k m a n College. The atmosphere was most pleasurable.

T o culminate the year, the brotherh o o d put on an outstanding stomp show in which the high-spirited crowd was thoroughly dazzled by the "Delta Beta Syndrome." The show as dedicated to and mainly choreographed by our spring graduates: Brothes Kevin Perry, Bernard Washington, Gregory Garrett and Edward Farmer.

As y o u can see, the accomplishments of Delta Beta are numerous and we will continue to be men of distinction and purpose.

florida Mu Zeta Lambda helps troubled youth The Brothers of Mu Zeta Lambda extends greetings to each resident of the House of Alpha. We are indeed proud to report that we recently seized the opportunity to live out the aforementioned verse of There Goes An Alpha Man in the form of The A n c h o r H o u s e Ministries of A u b u r n d a l e , Florida, of which M r . M a r k Rivera is Executive Director.

Mr. Rivera, w h o m our chapter P r e s i d e n t , Bob H o l l a n d , became acquainted with in the course of his job duties, attended a chapter meeting at Brother Holland's request and explained in detail the Anchor House Organization. T h e Brotherhood w a s impressed to the point of pledging our support to the organization by including the young men there in as many of our fraternal workings as feasible â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the hope that "association would bring about assimilation" and thus we could offer these y o u n g men some positive directions in their y o u n g lives. O u r initial effort was including them in our annual Fraternity Family Outing, which was held on Saturday, July 30,

Florida and the residents of Anchor Mu Zeta Lambda Chapter, Polk County, Fl Ministries, July 30, 1983.

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1983 at Mary Holland Park in Bartow, Florida.

Anchor House is a home for boys who are in trouble at home, with the law, or just dissatisfied with life in general and thereby often lacking any purpose, discipline, and stability in their lives.

The aim of Anchor House is to contribute to the growth of each resident in a manner that will result in a wellrounded productive individual who will become an asset to society. There are periodically scheduled outings and other outside activities. Those young men able to do so are encouraged to seek outside employment and if school age, are enrolled in local schools.

While residents are not forced to become Christians during their stay at Anchor House, they are encouraged to do so. They must attend daily devotions and are regularly reminded to trust in Jesus as the source of a new life for them.

Anchor House is operated as a nonprofit charitable organization and is funded by free will donations and offerings from churches, civic groups and individuals. Donated items such as clothing, food, furniture, etc. are always welcome and the public is invited to come by, get acquainted with the staff and view the facilities.

ut-martin Mu Beta-. national stepping champs The Brothers of Mu Beta Chapter at the University of Tennessee at Martin wish to extend warm greetings to all Brothers of the Black and Gold.

Since our last correspondence, Mu Beta Chapter has continued to excel at the University of Tennessee at Martin.

During the spring elections on campus, Brother Reginald Williams was elected President of the Student Government Association. This was an honor for Brother Williams, as well as the Brotherhood. Brother Williams is the first Black elected to the highest position for a student on this campus. In addition to Brother Williams' election, Brothers GarfieJd Perry and Chris Harper were elected to the SGA Congress, where only three Blacks were elected.

During the spring, the Brothers chartered a bus and cruised down to Gainesville, Florida for the Southern The Sphinx/Fall 1983

Mu Beta displays its 1st place form at the General Convention's Step Contest.

Regional Convention. With Brothers, sweethearts, and Alpha supporters, we stormed on Gainesville and when the rains and clouds passed, Mu Beta Chapter rode away with first-place honors in the Step Contest.

Realizing that the Brothers were about to Jive their dream of stepping in New Orleans at the General Convention, another bus was chartered for the General Convention. Having ten consecutive first-place trophies for stepping, the Brothers stepped in New Orleans with a professional determination that could not be beaten.

In closing, Mu Beta Chapter wishes to congratulate Brother Keith Piques on his election as Assistant Vice President to the Southern region. "Hold that light high, Keith."

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for Beta lota The Brothers of Beta Iota of WinstonSaiem State University, WinstonSalem, N.C. would like to extend their greatest fraternal greetings throughout the House of Alpha.

Brother Antonio Dove was elected President of Beta lota. The other elected officers were Brothers Exree Hipp, Vice President; Mike Jones, Treasurer; Roger Johnson, Assistant Treasurer; Ernest Thompson, Secretary; Mike Jones, Chaplain; Obie Johnson, Fall Dean of Pledges; Mike Jones, Assistant Fall Dean of Pledges; and Calvin Suiter, Editor-to-the-Sphinx.

We, the Brothers of Beta Iota, have

made many plans and set many goals for this year, but as for last year, we carried out a number of successful service projects. We aided WSSU by recruiting students through our recruiting project. We participated in the March of Dimes Walk-a-thon to raise money to fight birth defects. We sponsored our annual Gospel Exposition which was a great success. We toured high school students who came from other parts of the country around our campus. We participated in an on campus clean-up contest which we won and received an award for. We also aided the Big Brother/Big Sister Program. We strongly participated in the University Ushers Program, and were on the Hospitality Committee during Parents/ Honors Day. We were very successful in proving that Alpha Phi Alpha is number one by winning Greek Week competition last spring.

We have had some successful interest meetings and hope to have an impressive line this fall.

In conclusion, we would like to acknowledge the never-ending support that we received from our sweethearts.

They are a strong helping hand and we really appreciate them. We take pride in saying that they are the finest group of young ladies on the yard. Our sweethearts are Jennifer Bagget, Denise Ballard, Rita Barret, Beverly Bowden, Brenda Brown, Dana Caulder, Tammy Dixon, DeCarla Gilmore, Lajane Gilmore, Carol Greene, Sandra Greene, Clintona Langley, Regenia McQuaig, Doris Rivers, Belinda Suggs, Renee Thorn, Renee Williams, and Melinda Mitchell.

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south Carolina Xi Theta Lambda submits first report The Brothers of Xi Theta Lambda Chapter of Spartanburg, South Carolina extend fraternal greetings throughout the House of Alpha.

We use this, our first article, as a means of introduction. Several years ago the local men of Alpha felt a need to establish an undergraduate chapter in Spartanburg. Invitations went out to all interested young men on the campuses of Wofford College, USC - Spartanburg and other surrounding institutions. Seven Sphinxmen were inducted as a result of this meeting. Six of the seven were permitted to cross into the Alphadom and undertake the work required to attain a charter. The chapter received its charter and became known as Omicron Chi. During the evolution of the undergraduate chapter it was decided that a graduate chapter should be established. All were in agreement that a graduate chapter would benefit all concerned parties. Twelve Spartanburg Alpha men joined together and applied for a charter, working together and waiting for the realization of a dream. It took approximately one year to convince our national office to grant us a charter. In February 1983 our dream became reality.

On April 24, 1983 the word went out to all that a new chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. was born in Spartanburg, S.C. On this day Xi Theta Lambda held a Founder's Day program; proclaiming to all that we are now in Spartanburg to show our deeds and render service. The pastor and members of Macedonia Baptist Church graciously consented to our use of their facility for this important event in Alpha history. As a token of our appreciation for this gracious gesture the chapter made a $200 donation to the church building fund.

The theme for the program was "A Strong Future For Ourselves and Our Children - Our Responsibility and Our Challenge." The message was eloquently delivered by our speaker for the day, Brother Dr. Henry Ponder, President, Benedict College. Brother Ponder expounded on the theme emphasizing harmful contradictions alive in many Black communities today. Contradictions in living which serve to confuse and stifle Black youth 58

Mu Pi Lambda's "House of Alpha. growing up in their midst. Brother Ponder asks how youth can be expected to pick wise and correct paths in life when they see role models whose speech and action oppose one another.

Also of concern to the future of Black America, Brother Ponder points out the fact that there is not enough Black support of Black colleges. Emphasizing that he is not preaching segregation, Brother Ponder stressed the fact that we, as Black Americans, must support our Black institutions. Brother Ponder has thrown his hat in the race for General President pushing a return to the types of national programs which once thrust Alpha to the forefront of movements to make the nation and world a better place. After hearing Brother Ponder's sincere expression of concerns and hopes for Alpha and mankind and the Black community in particular, we fully support him for this honored position. We, Xi Theta Lambda, along with Brother Ponder, urge all Alphas to participate in the election of the General President.

Brothers, stay or get financially active and cast your vote. We strongly suggest Brother Ponder but the most important factor is participation whoever your candidate.

In closing, we would like to present the officers of Xi Theta Lambda: Brothers Edward Butler, President; Johnnie Summers, Vice President; Arthur Brewton, Secretary; Edward N. Barksdale, Treasurer; Terry D. Logan, Editor-to-the-Sphinx; Don F. Mcjimpsey, Dean of Pledges; Ted Williams, Sgt-At-Arms; Ralph Joe, Education Director; and Roy C. Henderson,

Historian.

"We're coming out," moving onward and upward with outstanding leadership and the principles of Alpha on display by all Brothers. We have just arrived, the new kids on the block in the sparkle city . . . the best is yet to come!

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mississippi Mu Pi Lambda hosts summer picnic Greetings from Mu Pi Lambda Chapter, keyed at Brookhaven, Mississippi! Proving that "Cordiality abides among all who dwell within . . . ," Brothers, families, and guests all mellowed out, mingled and enjoyed each other, while the consumption of huge amounts of barbecued ribs, chicken, and boiled crawfish were the orders of the day at its annual picnic.

Such a good time was had by all, that planned activities were held in abeyance, never being needed. Mu Pi Lambda, where true brotherhood and fellowship are strong realities.

christian brothers college Growth and development at Nu Eta The Brothers of Nu Eta Chapter, located at Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, send fraternal greetings to all distinguished Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha.

The Brothers of Nu Eta, better known as 'Those Debonair Alphas" in the Mid-South, are elated to announce the initiation of five Brothers into the world of Alpha on March 19, 1983.

The new Brothers, known as "The Famous Five," because of their on-line antics, are Robert Holman, George King II, LeRoy Stewart, Jr., Darryl Williams, and Quinton Williams. Since the chapter's founding on November 23, 1977, 28 enlightened men have "crossed the sands" at Nu Eta. The Sphinx/Fall 1983

As the Brothers returned from the winter break in mid-January, preparation for Nu Eta's first annual Ms. Black and Gold Pageant was in progress. On January 22, 1983 the Brothers' diligence and hard work paid off as five beautiful and talented young ladies vied for the title of Nu Eta's 1st Ms. Black and Gold. Winning the crown was Ms. Laurie Lynn Lockard of Memphis.

Besides the completion of pledging, the month of March also saw the arrival of elections and the installation of the following officers for 1983-84: Gary Williams, President; Greco J. Cash, Vice President; Quinton Williams, Recording Secretary and Chaplain; Darryl Williams, Corresponding Secretary; Keith Deanes, Treasurer; George King II, Historian; LeRoy Stewart, Jr., Editor-to-theSphinx and Director of Educational Activities; Robert Holman, Parliamentarian; and I. C. Bates, Dean of Pledges. Other active members are Charles Jordan and Charles D. Winton. Tyler M. Moore, Jr. is the chapter's Advisor.

As April came, so came Nu Eta's Fourth Annual Black Achievement Awards Banquet in honor of our dear Brother Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The evening was highlighted by an outstanding address given by Brother Willie E. Lindsey of Alpha Delta Lambda Chapter here in Memphis, and the presentations of chapter awards by the Brothers. Brother Gary Williams received the chapter's Brother of the Year Award to top off a wonderful evening.

Nu Eta closed out the school year in grand fashion with its first Regional Greek Showdown, April 16, 1983 in the C.B.C. Auditorium. With the support received from the Greek community and the public, the Brothers plan to make this an annual event.

We, the Brothers of Nu Eta, have always believed that Alpha men should seek quality not quantity. With 12 active Brothers, we strive to reach for the aims of Alpha Phi Alpha: "Manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind!"

Theta Tau Lambda Chapter, located in the fertile land of the Delta area of Eastern Arkansas, sends greetings to the National Office. We take this opportunity to applaud you, Brother Michael J. Price, for the very fine issues of the Alphs Newsletter and the Sphinx magazine.

We wish to share with the Brotherhood a few of our activities during the year: 1) We were elated to have former General President, Brother Walter Washington, as our Annual Founder's Day speaker; 2) Our chapter co-sponsored a political awareness rally in Lee County, Arkansas; 3) We conducted a smoker to greet five young men interested in the Fraternity; 4) our Annual Spring Ball and 5) our Annual Family and Friends Picnic were both most enjoyable.

Brothers serving as officers in the Fraternity are Clyde E. Noel, President; Robert Scott, Vice President; Theodore Shumpert, Secretary; Willis Williams, Financial Secretary; Dr. Hosea Proffitt, Treasurer; Dr. Robert Miller, Corresponding Secretary; James E. McCoy, Editor-to-theSphinx; Arthur Sanders, Dean of Pledges; James Coleman, Historian; Fred D. Coleman, Chaplain; Walter Clemmer, Sgt.-At-Arms; Harvey Randolf, Program Chairman; and James O'Neal, Scholarship Committee.

A very special note is given to an outstanding Brother in Theta Tau Lambda, Brother Joseph Kennedy, who recently retired (see Alphas On The Move).

texas christian u House acquisition among Eta Psi's 1963 accomplishments Eta Psi Chapter of Texas Christian University, continues to shine the light of Alpha in spite of a small chapter membership. The 1982-83 school year

saw Eta Psi award a total of $1,000 in scholarships to minority male students in hope of increasing the percentage of Black male students on the university's campus. The chapter pledge to continue the principles set forth after our re-activation was handled under the realm of President Keith Morrow.

The Activities and Service Projects for the year included the awarding of another scholarship for the 1983-84 school year; coordination and carrying out of a chapter "Go-To-High-School, Go-To-College" program; lobbying with Texas Congressman Jim Wright for the proclamation of Brother Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, and also marching in a parade for that cause. Furthermore, the chapter assisted a local Brother in his bid for and subsequent re-election to the Fort Worth City Council. The chapter also opened the doors for its first "House of Alpha" during the school year.

The chapter's 1982-83 officers were as follows: Brothers Keith C. Morrow, President; L. Edwar Briscoe, Vice President; Glen McDuffie, Secretary; Hickmon H. Friday, Treasurer; Brin Q. Gaston, Dean of Pledges; Blake W. Moorman, Assistant to the Dean; and serving as Chapter Advisor was Brother Randle Howard.

The Brothers of Eta Psi would like to ensure all Brothers of Alphadom that we shall continue to uphold the light of the world.

Oklahoma state Epsilon Epsilon boasts "Efforts toward Excellence" Salutations to the Brothers of Alpha from the Brothers of the "Mighty E.E.'l We at Epsilon Epsilon are continuing our "Efforts toward Excellence in the Eighties" with renewed diligence and increased tenacity. Our efforts during the past year were well rewarded with our chapter being selected as the

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Outstanding Undergraduate Chapter in Oklahoma. In addition, our President, Brother Johnny C. Watley, was given the Brother of the Year award.

Brother Watley was very instrumental in guiding our chapter from the shadows of obscurity into the arena of public service and recognition. He has since graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication and anticipates providing even greater service to Alpha in the years to come. We wish to thank Johnny for his diligent service and commend him on his devoted dedication to the betterment of our chapter and our Fraternity.

Several Brothers were vital to our success during the past year including Brothers Robert C. Maxie, Terry L. Salmon, A. Jerome Hill, Todd Brown, Keith J. Gissandaner, Phillip Jones, Ronald McCall, Ricky Adams, and Darryl K. Walker. With the services of these and other Brothers, Epsilon Epsilon has attained most of the goals set for the year. Officers for the coming year include Brothers Darryl Walker, President; Todd Brown, Vice President; Jerry Grayson, Corresponding Secretary; George Towers, Treasurer; Keith Gissandaner, Dean of Pledges; Ricky Adams, Graduate Advisor; and Sheldon Edmond, Chapter Reporter.

The primary objective of the past year centered on the consolidation of the college chapters in Oklahoma. This involved creating and maintaining an effective network of communication. It was accomplished with projects such as our Bi-Annual College meeting; the first of which was held at our house at Oklahoma State University. The second meeting was hosted by Zeta Sigma, located at Central State University. The meetings served as a forum to air our opinions about fraternal procedures and allowed us to receive pertinent, accurate information about such matters as chapter dues, pledge programs, and fund raising projects. These meetings, coupled with the Statewide Fundraising Program, allowed us to sponsor an expense-paid trip to the Southwest Regional Convention held in Shreveport, Louisiana. Epsilon Epsilon has also been involved in the development and progress of our newest state chapter â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Omicron Nu, founded at Tulsa University. Through increased correspondence and interaction with the Brothers of "O-Nw'and other chapters, the "Spirit of Alpha" has infected all of us here in Oklahoma.

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Alpha, Brothers Jerry Grayson and Lindsley Johnson. With unyielding guidance and direction from our Past Graduate Advisor, Brother Rayfer Mainor, these Brothers crossed the "sands" and were initiated into Alphadom. Through Brother Mainor's insistent encouragement, the ship "New Dynasty" made the six weeks of orientation a very memorable part of their Alpha Experience.We wish to take this opportunity to solicit correspondence from all of our alumni. There have been proposed changes concerning the Alpha House (some of them dramatic!) and your support and input is desperately needed!

Please write to Housing Committee, 408 N. Washington, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74075 for more information.

The Brothers of the "Electrifying Epsilon Epsilon" are seriously striving day-to-day to hold Alpha high. Your correspondence and ideas are welcome so please, feel free to write!

texas Houston's Scholarship and Awards Banquet Alpha Eta Lambda successfully hosted its 10th Annual Alpha Merit Scholarship and Awards Banquet at Houston's Hyatt Regency Hotel. This banquet focuses on the recognition of citizens in our community who have made significant contributions to their respective communities. Proceeds from the banquet are funneled into the Alpha Merit Education Fund to assist the chapter in awarding two thousand dollars in scholarships to deserving high school graduates who are members of the Alpha Merit Group.

Dr. Jemison congratulates Brother Turner Goodlow, Alpha Eta Lambda's Brother of the Year.

The banquet speaker was Brother Dr. Theodore J. Jemison, Sr., President of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc. After the presentation of Community Service and Scholarship awards, the chapter saluted Brother Turner Goodlow as Alpha Man of the Year.

Brother Tophas Anderson served as General Chairman. Assisting were Brothers Donald Bonner, Co-Chairperson; Turner Goodlow, speaker and Protocol; Horace Williams, Tickets; Richard Reed, Publicity; Walter Criner, Community Awards; James Harrison, Entertainment; Charles Vienn, Souvenir Booklet; and Gerald Joseph, Alpha Merit Awards.

Shown at the Alpha Eta Lambda Scholarship Banquet are (left to right) Brother Leonard Spearman, President of Texas Southern University; Mrs. Diane Jemison Pallard, daughter of the speaker; keynote speaker Brother T. J. Jemison; and Brother Tophas Anderson, President of Alpha Eta Lambda.

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usl Zeto Xi excels at USL Greetings to our Brothers in Alphadom throughout the nation and abroad.

The Brothers of Zeta Xi Chapter in Lafayette, Louisiana have always had a significant role in the leadership of the University of Southwestern Louisiana and the local community.

With a chapter of thirty active Brothers, thirteen have majors in Business Administration, ten have majors in Engineering, three have majors in Medical and Computer Science, and four Brothers have majors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Zeta Xi is well represented in campus organizations by producing Brothers who are exercising leadership such as Vernan Roberson, Executive Council of the Union Programming Board and President of the Interfratemity Council; Joseph Johnson, Blue Key Honor Fraternity and founder and director of the Black Progressive Students Organization; Steven Jacquet, Treasurer of the Student Government Association; Leadrew Johnson, Senator of the College of Business Administration; Clark "Maestro" Joseph, Director of Musicians and conductor of the USL Gospel Choir and first place winner of the Debose National Piano Competition; and John Milton, Director of the Big Brother/Big Sister Program. Campus involvement includes participation in such organizations as the Afro-American Culture Committee, Union Program Council, Entertainment Committee, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Louisiana Engineering Society, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Fashion Committee, Upward Bound, Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity, and Kappa Kappa Psi Band Fraternity.

Zeta Xi sponsors a column in the u n i v e r s i t y p u b l i c a t i o n entitled "Distinguished Black Collegiate." Each week a student who has shown high scholastic achievement as well as positive involvement in extracurrucilar and community activities is acknowledged.

Zeta Xi also does services in the local community to help promote the United Givers Fund, the Boys Club, area nursing homes, area churches, career opportunities day, Thanksgiving baskets, voter registration, and the The Sphinx/Fall 1983

National Conference of NAFEO. Officers of Zeta Xi for the 1983-84 academic year are Vernan Roberson, President; Ronald Celestine, Vice President; Tyrone Malbrue, Recording Secretary; John Milton, Treasurer; Bernard Goodly, Corresponding Secretary and Editor-to-the-Sphinx; Keith Mathews, Parliamentarian; Chris Dargin, Chaplain; and Mark Malbrue, Sgt-At-Arms.

Since being the first Black Greek letter organization to exist as USL, an important quality of Zeta Xi is our willingness to cooperate with and support other Greek-letter organizations in their development and activities in order to promote and uplift the nature of our brothers and sisters in our college community. With the pride of Zeta Xi and the love of our A-Phi-A the Brothers of our chapter continually are first of all, servants of all, and will transcend all.

WEST California Zeta Beta Lambda installs new officers In its May 1983 meeting at the AKA House, Zeta Beta Lambda elected the following named Brothers to serve the 1983-84 term of office: Brothers Irvin Gipson, President; Jaques Barber, Vice President; Clarence Roberts, Recording Secretary; William Aldridge, Correspondence Secretary; Gerald Jones, Financial Secretary; Al Travis, Treasurer; Claude Odom, Chaplain; Wilbur Beckwith, Parliamentarian; Augustin Fairfax, Historian; Augustus Davis, Associate Editor-to-the-Sphinx; Cleve Hampton, Dean of Pledges; Clinton Tha mes, Dean of Probate; Louis Johnson, Director of Education; and John P e n n i n g t o n , SergeantAt-Arms.

Installation of these officers was formalized at the ZBL September meeting, with the wives a n d / o r sweethearts of the Brothers attending.

During the tenure of Brother Wilbur Beckwith as Chapter President, several outstanding accomplishments were realized. The primary event was the Annual Founder's Day Brunch on Sunday, March 2, 1983. This project was chaired by Brother James Shelby, assisted by Brothers Eddie Lang, Lester Riggins, Travis Parker, John Penning-

ton, Reuben Smith, Herman Smith and Clifton West.

Since the theme for this occasion was "A Tribute to Athletes," the brunch committee appropriately invited Joe Singleton, Director of Athletics at University of California at Davis, California, as principal speaker. Also on the program was one of Sacramento's outstanding professional athletes (Green Bay Packers, San Francisco 49ers) who gave an inspiring and informative discourse based on his personal academic and professional football experience.

Brother Louis Johnson, Chairman of the Scholarship Committee, was assisted by Brother George Porter in presenting monetary scholarships to eight students. Other ZLB Chapter activities included 1) A benefit musical concert at American River College presented by Brother Louis Johnson, Director of Instruction, Los Rios College District, assisted by the Music Department of that college. As a result of this activity, Brother Johnson donated $1,000 to the ZLB Scholarship Fund; 2) Under the Chairmanship of Brother Herman Sanders, the second "Youth Career and Educational Conference" was held April 15, 16 and 17, 1983 in one of the local camping areas.

Hopefully this conference will become an annual project; 3) In the month of May, Wayne Brannon, Calvin Jackson and Lee Sullivan were initiated into ZLB Chapter; and 4) Brother Eddie Lang and his Fundraising Committee have conducted two disco dances to raise funds for the Million Dollar Fund Drive. He and his committee also hosted the Annual Family Picnic on August 27.

son francisco state u Xi Rho Chapter here to stay Xi Rho Chapter, at San Francisco State University, was virtually an unknown chapter until the 1982-83 school year. With our chapter beginning in 1980 on a campus that had barred fraternities and sororities, there was a constant struggle to promote and uphold the aims of the Fraternity. Just as in 1906, others have followed our path. We now have seven other Black Greek-letter organizations on our campus. S.F.S.U. has a tradition of being a radical and very politically 61

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Xi Rho Chapter at Bax/side Treatment Center.

Brothers donated sports equipment and also tutored these children. inclined institution; its students are predominately of the working class.

We have been in the forefront, serving not only as security enforcement during marches and rallies, making sure no one tries to start trouble, but as representatives of the student body and community as well. Brother Harold Henderson, the outgoing President of the chapter, was recently elected to the position of Vice President of the Associated Students. Brother Eugene Jones, yes, that's right, some call him Kinckle, was also selected as Director of the Legal Referral Service Center. We were also extra proud of two more outstanding Brothers: Kevin B. Newsome and Carlos Lee. Kevin was a two-time AilAmerican wrestling champion and served his senior year as President of the National Association of Black Accountants, whose colors also happen to be black and gold. Just can't get away from it! Brother Newsome graduated with honors this spring, receiving his degree in accounting and landing a job with a high ranking firm.

Brother Lee, on the other hand, is a neophyte who joins the ranks of those great Brothers who crossed the sands by themselves. Beginning with a line of six, Carlos proved to be the only one worthy of Alphadom, following the path laid before by his distinguished father, a Brother who is now in the Omega Chapter. "Hail to General Lee!" Xi Rho remains active in our community with services stemming from food drives, voter registration, scholarship funds, tutorialships, volunteer counseling, and many other activities that Alpha men love to do. We are very proud of our annual dance to benefit the scholarship fund and canned 62

food drive. We discounted those who gave a can of food at the door. This raised four boxes of food, which were donated to the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center. Coming up this fall we will use the same idea, except the discount will apply only to those who register to vote.

Xi Rho rose to the top in marchinging competition in the western region, and shall remain there awaiting the challenges of other great chapters like Epsilon Mu, San Jose State University.

We also warned our outstanding Brothers of Eta Sigma, San Diego State University that they would have to step down as the dominators of chapter of the year honors.

The competition in New Orleans was very strong, but of course, we were all Alphas. We were proud to be second place finishers in the marching competition and also to participate in the basketball tournament. Xi Rho was very proud to boast the fact that nine Brothers were in attendance at the convention in New Orleans. Travelling nearly 3,000 miles in a van was a feat only to be accomplished by a strong brotherhood. Under the leadership of newly elected chapter President Timothy L. Gray, and with financial assistance provided by San Francisco's alumni chapter, Gamma Chi Lambda, we were able to make the trip safely.

The west is very strong and Xi Rho will be up front working side by side with other chapters to make it even stronger. We are Xi Rho, the Brothers where the waves are ice cold, and the sands are, well, you know!

The Brothers of the 700th Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha - Xi Pi, California State University, Hayward - would like to extend fraternal greetings to the Brothers in Alphaland. 1982-83 was a productive and memorable year for us.

On May 4, 1983, we celebrated our third year on campus with a banquet honoring our pearls and announced our goals for 1983-84 and beyond.

As the only chartered Black fraternity on campus, Xi Pi is active on campus and in the community. Neophyte Darryl Moses is a member of the Finance Committee at the University and Brother Damone Hale is on the Interclub Council, which is responsible for allocating funds for all on-campus activities. We served as tour guides on College Information Day; and we also sponsored two successful blood drives.

At our request, the West Coast Institute of Tae-Kwon-Do gave a martial arts demonstration that drew a capacity crowd. Our canned food drive with Delta Sigma Phi, the only other chartered fraternity on campus, was also a success.

We wish to extend thanks to all the Brothers in the Bay Area for supporting our annual event honoring Brother Martin Luther King, Jr. The Alpha Phi Alpha - Kappa Alpha Psi showdown, in football, resulted in a win for Xi Pi. Thanks to the key plays of Brother Sandy LaBeaux, former Division II AllAmerican in the 400 meter hurdles and current Tampa Bay Buccaneer (No. 28). Neophyte Marcus McGlory, a three time Division Ail-American triple jumper was also a contributing factor.

Our community projects were equally as successful. We sponsored a Career Day at Oakland Technical High School, where we spoke on our respective fields of study and on how to make the transition from high school to college an easy one. We concluded with a housewarming step show. A voter registration drive and a presentation by the American Cancer Society were among other community projects.

We placed third in basketball and second in stepping at regionals. However, the highlight of the year was the initiation of eight strong Brothers into our Fraternity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our largest line ever.

Our neophytes are Gareth Green, DerThe Sphinx/Fall 1983

rick Porter, Paul Greene, Darryl Moses, Michael Robinson, David Hardiman, Marous McGlory and Joe Jison.

The officers for 1983-84 are Randolph Ford, President; Gareth Green, Vice President; Robert Grant, Treasurer/ Photographer; and Derrick Porter, Secretary.

We are looking forward to 1983-84 for it will be our best yet! We will always uphold the tenets of Alpha Phi Alpha â&#x20AC;&#x201D; achievement, scholarship and leadership.

Washington Zeta Pi Lambda inducts Songhai Line Following six weeks of an exemplary pledge p e r i o d , Z e t a Pi L a m b d a Chapter, Seattle, Washington welcomes eleven Brothers into the House of Alpha.

All eleven of these neophytes did an outstanding job during their pledge period. They did what was required and necessary to join our great Fraternity; and did it with spirit we can be proud of.

The name of their line was "Songhai" (song-guy), an African empire which

Brothers of Xi lota Lambda Chapter (left to right): James Ealy; Joe Island, President; John Baugh; Robert Bond; and front center, Gilbert Calhoun. brought a revival of learning to the African continent. They were characterized as highly intelligent, industrious and aggressively invincible â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both as traders and warriors.

Songhai stands for "sons of nobility, guardians, heart Alpha inspired."

Zeta Pi Lambda neophytes (sitting, left to right): Brothers Leroy McCullough, Attorney; Raymond Scott, Accountant; Lowell Perry, Jr., Seahawks Sales/Marketing; Reggie Tate, Fur Exchanges. (Standing, left to right): Norm Rice, City Councilman; Robert Coleman, Office of Personnel Manager; Carl Smith, Metro Personnel; Charles Rolland, Energy Consultant; Bobby Wooten, Theater Director; Clarence Gills, Credit Union executive; and Ernest Ishem, Attorney.

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California Xi I o t a L a m b d a formed in C a m a f i l l o A new chapter, Xi Iota Lambda, was formed in Camarillo, California in January 1983, with seven charter members w h o will also serve initially as the chapter's officers. They are Brothers Joseph Island, President and Chaplain; John Baugh, Vice President; R o b e r t Bond, Secretary; Gilbert Calhoun, Treasurer; James Ealy, Dean of Pledges; Herbert Curtis III, Director of Educational Activities; and Lawrence E. Horner, Associate Editorof-the-Sphinx and Historian.

Official chartering ceremonies were held on July 24 in Westlake Village at the home of Brother John Baugh.

Special guests included G. Bernard Brown, Southern California Area Director, Brothers from other local graduate and undergraduate chapters, Brothers and sisters from various PanHellenic organizations in Ventura County, wives, sweethearts and friends.

Representing a combined total of 175 years of Alpha, the newly formed chapter, the first in Ventura County, has already established some very challenging goals.

Included are seminars to provide career guidance to Black youth in col63

lege; scholarships for deserving youth; support to the United Negro College Fund and to maximize attention towards the political activities which are consistent with the goals and objectives of the national organization.

California Kappa Omicron Lambda "Reaching Out" Before the phrase "Reach Out and Touch Someone" became associated with calling a friend, the Brothers of Kappa Omicron Lambda, Vallejo, California, adopted this slogan as a commitment to reach out and acknowledge, reward and assist the Black youth of the community. In keeping in line with this objective, the chapter recently selected the recipients of their $1,000 dollar scholarships. The scholarships are awarded to the two outstanding high school male students in the county. The applicants are judged on their scholastic achievements and community involvement.

In keeping with the spirit of the Fraternity's community involvement, the chapter supports the Professional Development Program.'The program provides counseling and transportation for tenth and eleventh grade minorities from the county. The students participate in college preparatory classes five weeks during the summer and winter at the University of California-Berkeley.

Finally, the chapter's annual Spring Scholarship Dance was held on May

Brothers Forrest Pritchett (left) and Elmon Elmore (right) welcome Reverend jemison to San Francisco.

7th. The affair was a huge success and has become one of the areas best attended events. June 11 was the date of the annual picnic. The Brothers and their guests all had a wonderful time.

June was also the month that new officers were elected. The officers for the 1983-84 year are Brothers Matthew Dawson, President; Maurice Lee, Vice President; Edward Woodard, Secretary; John Barber, Treasurer; Major T. Jordan, Jr., Editor-to-the-Sphinx; Reedy Pratt, Jr., Sgt.-At-Arms; Henry W. Elliott, Sr., Chaplain; J. Oscar Williams, Historian; Jesse Bethel, Sr., Director of Education; Gerald Mc-

Connell, Dean of Pledges; and Otha Green, Custodian.

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Day Area chapters host Brother Jemison During his recent visit to San Francisco to address the National Council of Churches, Dr. Theodore J. Jemison, Sr., President of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., met over breakfast with Alpha. Brothers of the Bay Area. At this affair, hosted by Gamma Chi Lambda Chapter, Brother Jemison shared with the Brotherhood his dreams for the National Baptist Convention and for Black Americans in general. High among his priorities will be church growth, voter registration, support of Black colleges and economic self-sufficiency. Recognizing that the convention is not a political or a civil rights organization, and yet keenly aware that "politics is involved in everything we do," Brother Jemison promises to address and help eliminate the ills that plague Blacks.

Brother Jemison was welcomed to the Bay Area by Brother Joe C. Thomas, Gamma Chi Lambda Chapter President and Northern California District Director of the Fraternity. The affair was arranged by Brother Forrest Kappa Omicron Lambda Brothers pictured (left to right) are Ed Woodard, Reedy Pratt, Mat-Pritchett who attended college with thew Dawson, Bill Thurston, award winners Ronald Burke II and Reginald Clermont, HenryBrother Jemison at Virginia Union University.

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Omega Chapter* Laurence T. Young, Sr., Editor

Brother BOOKER T. ANDERSON, age 55, entered Omega Chapter May 25, 1983 at his home in Plainfield, New Jersey, following a brief illness.

Brother Anderson received his elementary education in Plainfield, New Jersey; graduated from Howard University, Washington, D.C.; and continued his education at Seaton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, where he received his Baccalaureate degree.

After serving in the United States Army as a 1st Lieutenant, Brother Anderson returned to Plainfield, where he became a director of the Model Cities Program.

Brother Anderson was an active member of Zeta Nu Lambda Chapter, Plainfield, New Jersey and was employed as an Administrator with the New Jersey State Department of Education.

Final rites were conducted at Shiloh Baptist Church in Plainfield, May 28, 1983 with the Reverend Jerry W. Henry officiating.

Brother JOSEPH W. COLLINS entered Omega Chapter January 6, 1983 in a local hospital in Washington, D.C. following a brief illness.

Brother Collins was born in Richmond, Virginia, where he received his early education. He received his collegiate training at Virginia Union University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology degree. His graduate study in Guidance and Counseling Psychology was done at American University in Washington, D.C. Brother Collins was a veteran of the Air Force, in which unit he served as a pilot and bombardier-navigator. He retired in 1974 after 28 years of service to the federal government with the Veteran's Administration, Department of Labor, and as Chief of the Social Service Branch, Social Security Administration.

Brother Collins held dual memberships in Mu Lambda and Kappa Phi Lambda Chapters. Funeral rites were conducted January 11 at Calvary Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. Brother Collins is survived by his wife, Feme; several aunts and numerous collateral relatives. Military rites were observed at gravesite and internment at Arlington Cemetery.

Brother DARBY DONALD ERVIN was born in Lafayette, Louisiana on September 2, 1913 and entered Omega Chapter January 1, 1983. His family moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1921. He attended the public schools of Kansas City, Missouri and graduated from a Presbyterian Academy in Arkansas. He received his B.A. degree from Knoxville College and his M.A. degree from the University of Missouri.

In November 1942 he entered the Army and served with the 92nd Division in Italy and with the 45th Division in Korea. Among the military awards he received were the Bronze Star Medal with the First Oak Leaf Cluster; the Combat Infantry Badge with Stars; Army Commendation Ribbon with Medal; United Nations Service Medal; World War II Victory Medal; the Italian Corce de Merita de Guerre and Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation. He retired from the Army in 1962 as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Brother Ervin entered his second career with the Kansas City School System. He started out as a home-school coordinator in 1962. That was only the beginning. He served as Vice Principal of Northeast High School in 1967, helped start Humboldt High School in 1968, and served as Vice Principal at Central High School in 1969. Brother Ervin served as Vice Principal at Southwest from 1969-1975. He retired in 1975.

At Southwest Brother Ervin served as Vice Principal in charge of student discipline. He was more than a disciplinarian. His way of communication, using love as his main ingredient in which he was truly sincere, brought out the best in students with problems. Big or small, he took a personal interest in each student as if they were his own son or daughter. He always used just the right balance of kindness and sternness to make a student not only love but respect him.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mattie Ervin of the home; a son, Paul Smith; and a sister.

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Brother MATTHEW DEWEY FAIR entered Omega Chapter May 2, 1983 in DeLand, Florida, following a brief illness. Brother Fair was born June 13 1927 in DeLand.

Brother Fair was a graduate of Euclid High School, and Florida A&M University, where he received his Baccalaureate degree. At the time of his passing, he was serving a third term as DeLand City Commissioner.

He was a teacher and football coach at Euclid Senior-Junior High School, and Southwestern Junior-Senior High School, and at the time of his passing he was Assistant Principal at the high school. He was an ardent member of St. Peters Roman Catholic Church, where he served as Lector and was a Past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus.

Brother ROBERT JAMES HALL entered Omega Chapter Sunday, March 27, 1983, on Palm Sunday, the most solemn day on the church calendar, in Los Angeles, California following a brief illnesss.

Brother Hall was an active member of Beta Psi Lambda in Los Angeles, having held many chapter offices. He was initiated at Alpha Psi Chapter, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri.

Brother Hall was born in Nacogdoches, Texas, September 21, 1926, receiving his elementary education in Little Rock, Arkansas.

He received his secondary education at AM&N College in Pine Bluff, and earned his Baccalaureate degree at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri. He received his Law degree (Doctor of Jurisprudence) from St. Louis University.

He was continuously engaged in the practice of law until his passing and was known as the lawyer's lawyer, being the sole owner of a Professional Law Corporation known as Robert J. Hall, Inc. He did extensive legal work in the field of condemnation and eminent domain.

Brother Hall was a dedicated member of 2nd Baptist Church; many local and National Bar Associations, the Los Angeles Urban League and many other local and national civic organizations.

Final rites were conducted by the Reverend Thomas Kilgore, Jr. of Angelus Crenshaw Chapel in Los Angeles; internment at Inglewood Park Cemetery on Friday, April 1, 1983. He is survived by his wife, Frankie Jane; a daughter, Susan; a son, David; his mother, Sallie; many aunts and uncles and collateral relatives.

Brother SIGMUNDT A. HERMAN, age 67, entered Omega Chapter July 7, 1983 at Providence Hospital, Mobile, Alabama, following a brief illness.

Brother Herman was a veteran of World War II; a retired supervisor, teaching Pharmacist of the Veteran's Administration, Los Angeles, California; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Unity Life Insurance Company; Charter Member of Beta Omicron Lambda Chapter; International Trade Club; a graduate of Ohio State University, College of Pharmacy; and a member of the Knights of Peter Claver, 2nd and 4th degree.

Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 11, 1983 at St. Mary's Catholic Church, with the Reverend Father Cordell J. Lang celebrant.

Brother Herman is survived by two sisters, Consuella and Langenious, and many collateral relatives and friends.

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Brother HERMAN THEODRIC JONES entered Omega Chapter, April 2, 1983 in Prairie View, Texas, following a brief illness.

He was an active member of Epsilon Tau Lambda Chapter, being a Charter Member thereof. He was born May 26, 1906 in Little Rock, Arkansas; his family moving to Kansas City, Kansas when he was a child.

He was educated in the public schools of Kansas City and received his Baccalaureate degree and his Master's degree from the University of Kansas, with advanced studies at the University of Oklahoma and at Plattsburg. New York. He served as Dean and Registrar of Western University in Quindaro, Kansas for several years.

Brother Jones was on the faculty at Prairie View A&M University for the greater part of his adult life, retiring from the same in 1971, and then served as Consultant to the Waler Independent School System of Waller County, Texas.

Brother Jones was a great churchman, a member of St. Martin DePorres Catholic Church, where he served faithfully as a Lector, Minister of the Eucharist and as Director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine programs.

Brother Jones held membership in many educational professional organizations, as well as local and national civic organizations.

Mass of the Resurrection was celebrated at St. Martin DePorres Church, April 6, 1983; Father Jerome LeDoux, celebrant. Brother Jones is survived by his wife, Gwendolyn; a son, Ralph; three daughters; five grandsons; two granddaughters; one sister, Mayola; two brothers, Stanley and George; and many collateral relatives.

Brother LEON EDWARD JORDAN, age 60, entered Omega Chapter January 11, 1983 following a brief illness. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri January 21, 1922.

Brother Jordan's elementary and secondary training was received in Kansas City. He received his Baccalaureate degree in Science from Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri, and a Master's degree in Zoology from Kansas State University in 1950. He was initiated into the Fraternity by Upsilon Chapter, Kansas University in 1942.

Brother Jordan was a member of the faculty of Knoxville College (Tennessee) for five years; thence moving to Phoenix, Arizona and joined the educational system there. He held posts in several local high schools and became coach in basketball, football, and related sports.

Brother Jordan held membership in many professional associations, including the National Education Association, Arizona Education Association, National Science Teacher's Association, Phi Delta Kappa and others. He held membership in Tanner Chapel A.M.E. Church, on the local YMCA Board and many other local and civic organizations.

Brother Jordan is survived by his wife, Kathleen; a daughter, Gwendolyn; and a son, Steven.

Brother WILLIAM JACK LAMBE entered Omega Chapter December 12, 1982, in a local hospital in St. Albans, New York. He was born June 22, 1922 in Asbury Park, New Jersey and received his early education in Laurel, Delaware.

Brother Lambe was an active member of Zeta Zeta Lambda Chapter, St. Albans, New York, having served every chapter office with distinction.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. He received his Baccalaureate degree from Delaware State College, furthering his training at the Spaden School of Investigation. He came to New York City in 1950 and was assigned to the Department of Social Sciences in New York City, where he remained for 26 years.

Omega services were held in St. Albans by Zeta Zeta Lambda Chapter with Brother Thomas Coleman conducting and words of tribute by Chapter President Brother Amos Gaillard, Jr. Brother Lambe is survived by his wife, Estella; his children, Jill, Lynda, and Jacqueline; two grandchildren; and a host of relatives and friends.

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Brother JOHN AARON LAWSON, JR. entered Omega Chapter December 26, 1982, at the home of his daughter, Jeannell, in Orlando, Florida, following a brief illness.

Brother Lawson was born February 17, 1911 in Sanford, Florida. He acquired his elementary education in Sanford, graduating from Crooms Academy. He later continued his education at Florida A&M College, where he received his Baccalaureate degree in Science.

Brother Lawson furthered his education at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa and the University of Illinois, Champaign, where the degree of Master of Science was conferred upon him.

Brother Lawson was an ardent churchman, a devoted member of St, Paul Missionary Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida. He was married in 1938 to Flossie Reid, now deceased, having enjoyed 40 years of marital bliss, to which union a daughter, Jeannell, was born.

Brother Lawson was a Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha, and Historian of his local chapter. He held membership in many local and national educational organizations.

Final rites were held at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida, with the Reverend Amos C. Jones officiating; entombment was at Eichelberger Cemetery.

Brother Lawson is survived by his daughter, Jeannell; a granddaughter, loselynne; and many collateral relatives and a host of friends.

Brother BELTRON LAFAYETTE ORME was born in Kansas City, Kansas, on November 17, 1904 and entered Omega Chapter March 8, 1983.

He attended the public schools of Kansas City, Kansas and graduated from Kansas University. Brother Orme was a professor at Prairie View A&M University and held teaching positions at Northeast Junior High, Sumner High School and Sumner Junior College. He also served as coordinator of Adult Basic Education in the Work Incentive Program for the School District of Kansas City. He was also a retired employee from the United States Postal Service.

Brother Orme was a Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He was initiated in 1923 in Upsilon Chapter at Kansas University and later affiliated with Beta Lambda. While a member of Beta Lambda he served in various capacities as President, Convention Chairman and Secretary. He was a polished writer with an extensive vocabulary and astuteness in composition. As Recording Secretary of the Alumni Chapter his minutes were witty, clear, and full of humor. Many Brothers would come to the meeting to hear Brother Orme read his minutes. Brother Orme had the kind of character that transcended others. He carried himself in such a way and expressed himself in a way that commanded respect. He always seemed to champion the cause of young Brothers. He was never too busy to listen, share conversation, and give advice to Fraternity Brothers.

He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Lillian Taylor Orme of the home; a daughter, Irma Jean Coe; three sisters; ahd a host of other relatives.

Brother VERNON M. LEE, age 54, entered Omega Chapter July 7, 1983 at the Lawnwood Medical Center in Fort Pierce, Florida after suffering a heart attack at his home a few hours earlier.

Brother Lee was a lifelong resident of Fort Pierce where he received his high school diploma from Lincoln Park Academy in June, 1951.

He also attended the Florida School for Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine before furthering his educatioin at Florida A&M University where he obtained a degree in Political Science and Law. Brother Lee was an active member of Eta Kappa Lambda Chapter where he served in many capacities. He served the chapter twice as its President after being a Charter Member in 1960. His Life Membership affiliation No. 3810 was among the first to be received by some 37 members of Eta Kappa Lambda. He crossed the burning sands at Beta Nu Chapter on November 20, 1953 at Florida A&M in Tallahassee.

He was an active worker in the community and his church, Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church. Besides his membership in Alpha, Brother Lee held membership in many organizations including Pride of St. Lucie Elks Lodge #1189; Northside Little League Baseball; the NAACP; Fort Pierce Lions Club; Lincoln Park Recreation Center Board of Trustees; Florida

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Federation of the Blind; and American Federation of Blind Lawyers Association. In many of these organizations Brother Lee held leadership positions.

For many years he worked and directed the Outreach Program of the St. Lucie County Community Action Organization (CAO). He once served on the State of Florida Governor's Advisory Committee for the Treasure Coast Region.

Omega Chapter services were conducted by the local chapter on Friday, July 15, and final rites were held on Saturday, July 16 at Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Howard D. Coleman officiating.

Burial was in the Pine Grove Cemetery.

Brother Lee is survived by his wife, Imogene; his daughter, Verna Lee Brown; his mother, LeeAnna Stevenson; three brothers; six sisters; and a host of relatives and friends.

Truly and indeed. Brother Lee will be missed by the community in general and by Eta Kappa Lambda Chapter in particular.

Brother JAMES DALLAS PARKS entered Omega Chapter August 15, 1983, following a three year illness. He was born August 25, 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his formal education at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois and his post-graduate education at the University of Iowa, where he was initiated into the Fraternity in 1926.

Brother Parks earned an invaluable reputation as an artist; some of his art work appears in the History of Alpha Phi Alpha on pages 278 and 431.

Brother Parks was respected nationally as a great oil painter and art educator. He was constantly called upon as an art consultant, art critic and art exhibitor during his professional life. He served as head of the Art Department at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri from 1927 to 1976.

He was an active member in Beta Zeta Lambda Chapter, having served in every official capacity therein, steering the chapter on a steady course.

Appropriate Omega Chapter services were conducted by the officers and members of Beta Zeta Lambda Chapter prior to the final rites.

Brother CHARLES F. PATTERSON entered Omega Chapter August 9, 1983 at Greene Memorial Hospital, Xenia, Ohio, following a brief illness.

Brother Patterson was born May 27, 1926 in Leland, Mississippi and received his elementary and high school education in Leland. He received his Baccalaureate degree in Biology from Alcorn A&M College (Mississippi), thence to Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA College, following which he began a 28-year career as Program Director and later Executive Director in many YMCA organizations.

Brother Patterson was an active member of Chi Lambda Chapter in Wilberforce, Ohio, later transferred to Zeta Delta Lambda. He was an active member in the local A.M.E. Church.

Final rites were conducted at the McLin Funeral Home, Xenia, Ohio, with the Reverend R. L. Gates officiating. He is survived by his wife, Mary; one son; two daughters; two step-sons; four step-daughters; two sisters; and many collateral relatives and a host of friends.

Brother JOSEPH HOBERT RAIBON II, an outstanding Life Member of Alpha Eta Lambda, joined Brothers in Omega Chapter April 20, 1983.

Brother Raibon was born June 29, 1930. He attended Houston Public Schools and matriculated at Fisk University and Wiley College.

Brother Raibon was also active with the National Association of Postal Supervisors, the American Bridge Association, the Les Famille Social Club and the Pleasantville Civic League.

Eulogistical rites were held at

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Pleasantville United Methodist Church where Brother Raibon served as Chairman of the Administrative Board and Vice President of the Usher Board.

He is survived by his devoted wife, Frankie; sons, Joseph III, Michael and David; grandchildren, Karletta, Joseph IV, and Michelle; and a host of other collateral relatives and friends.

Brother (REV.) JAMES LLOYD REAUX made his transition June 30, 1983. The 65 year-old school administrator, amiably known as "The Old Gray Fox" because of his grey, silky hair, attended Texas Southern University and earned the Bachelor's and Master's degrees.

The articulate, impeccably dressed Reaux served with distinction as a French language interpreter with the United States Army.

Brother Reaux served admirably with Alpha Eta Lambda as well as many other professional, civic, religious and fraternal orders.

The final rites included a rosary and requiem Mass at Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church.

Survivors include his wife, Jessyetine; a son. Tammy; a daughter, Jeanette; six sisters; a brother; other relatives and a multiplicity of friends.

Brother WILLIAM T. REED, retired Virginia State University professor, entered Omega Chapter July 17, 1983 following a brief illness.

Brother Reed was a native of Montrose, Virginia and had lived in Petersburg, Virginia since 1951.

He was an active member of Nu Lambda Chapter, having held every office the chapter afforded.

Brother Reed received his elementary education in the Westmoreland and County Public Schools, and his secondary education was completed at Hampton Institute, followed by graduate study which led to a Master's and a Doctor's degree at the University of Pittsburgh.

Brother Reed was an outstanding educator, having been on the faculties of St. Paul's Polytechnic Institute; Florida A&M University and finally Virginia State University where he spent his later educational career. He was an active member in many educational societies and many local and national civic and social organizations.

Nu Lambda Chapter conducted Omega Chapter services at the funeral parlor in Petersburg, Virginia, July 17, 1983. He is survived by his wife, Margaret; two sisters; two brothers; and a host of nieces and nephews, scores of friends, and collateral relatives.

Brother G. FREDERICK STANTON, age 77, who in 38 years at Howard University, Washington, D.C. was regarded by faculty and students as a thorough, efficient and trustworthy administrator, entered Omega Chapter August 10, 1983, following a brief illness.

Having held many key positions at Howard University, Brother Stanton retired in 1971 as Vice President for Special Projects and Secretary of the university.

During the turbulent student uprisings in the sixties, Brother Stanton's dedication to purpose and his ability to work behind the scenes made him an effective Chairman of the

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university-wide Committee on Student - Faculty Relations.

Brother Stanton was born in Des Moines, Iowa. A product of the public schools of St. Louis, Missouri, he came to Washington, D.C. in the early 1930s and earned a B.S. in Commerce and Finance and an M A . in Economics at Howard Univesity; later he earned a Master's degree in Business Administration at Columbia University, New York City, New York.

In addition to active membership in Mu Lambda Chapter, he held membership in the Metropolitan Washington United Service Organization; the Howard University Alumni Association; and many other local and national educational organizations. He was a member of the 7th Church of Christ, Scientist.

He is survived by his wife, Ethel; a daughter, Louella; and many collateral relatives and a host of friends.

Brother GILBERT STEWART entered Omega Chapter March 8, 1983, at his home in Lawrenceville, Virginia, following a brief illness.

He was born March 6, 1909 in East Orange, New Jersey.

Brother Stewart received his elementary and high school education in the public schools of East Orange and his Baccalaureate degree from St. Paul's College, where he was an outstanding football player.

He received his Master's degree from Columbia University, New York City.

After fulfilling his military obli- â&#x20AC;˘ _ ^ _ _ gations during World War II, he worked in the Public School System of Brunswick County, Virginia for approximately 35 years.

He was a Life Member of the Fraternity; an active member of St. Paul's Memorial Church, where he served on the Vestry; served on the Board of Directors of Southside Virginia Senior Citizens, Inc.; and the Board of Directors of Brunswick Health Care, Inc. Brother Stewart is survived by his wife, Nathelene; a daughter, Janice; two grandchildren, Jamar and LuTeenya; a sister, Myra; and many collateral relatives and friends.

Brother H. THEODORE TATUM entered Omega Chapter June 16, 1983, following an extended illness. He was born January 18, 1894, in Columbus, Texas.

Brother Tatum received his elementary education in Beaumont, Texas. His education continued at Wiley College, Bachelor of Arts; Columbia University, Master of Arts in Education; with further post-graduate study at the University of Chicago. While at Columbia University he became affiliated with Alpha Phi Alpha, and membership in Phi Delta Kappa Educational Fraternity.

Brother Tatum's career as an educator began as a teacher and later VicePrincipal of McDonough High School in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1925 he became a resident of Gary, Indiana, and served as Principal of Virginia Street School and East Pulaski High School until 1932; then as Principal of Roosevelt High School from 1933 until his retirement in 1961.

Brother Tatum's life was devoted to his family, his church, and to the education of students. His services to the community included membership on the Board of Directors of Methodist Hospital and of the Gary Goodwill Industries. He was co-organizer of the Urban League of Gary, and he held membership in many other local and national organizations.

Gamma Rho Lambda Chapter conducted Omega services, followed by funeral rites at Grace United Methodist Church, June 21, 1983, with the Reverend Paul D. Arnold as celebrant.

He is survived by his children: Joyce, Harbart, Robert, and Richard; several grandchildren; and many other relatives, including Brother Michael J. Price, Editor-in-Chief, The Sphinx.

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Brother HAROLD TAYLOR entered Omega Chapter Friday, June 10, 1983, in his home at Hampton, Virginia, following a brief illness.

Brother Taylor was born in New Haven, Connecticut at the turn of the century. He was a reknown educator and recently retired from the Milford School System.

Brother Taylor was a communicant of Wesley Grove United Church of Christ and a Life Member of the Fraternity. He held membership in many local and national educational organizations: Les Hommes Social and Civic Club; Ever-Blooming Garden Club; Guy & Dolls Bowling League; Pinocle Pest Club; and the Retired Teachers Association of Newport News; and Talladega Alumni Association.

Zeta Lambda Chapter conducted Omega Chapter rites for Brother Taylor, Tuesday, June 15, 1983, with the President of the chapter officiating. This preceded funeral rites held Wednesday at Wesley Grove United Church of Christ, with the Reverend G. W. Raney III officiating.

Brother Taylor is survived by his wife, Margaret; four daughters, Mary, Kathryn, Cora and Margaret Yvonne; a son, William; three sisters, Bessie, Mildred and Edna; and many collateral relatives and friends.

Brother BUFORD THOMPSON entered Omega Chapter June 2, 1983 at the Veteran's Administration Hospital, Martinez, California following an extended illness.

Brother Thompson was a native of Quitman, Texas and a World War II veteran. He made his home in Vallejo, California for the last 25 years. He was a retired Civil Service jet engine instructor, and President of the Home Acres Improvement Association. He also served as a Steward and Sunday School instructor at Kyles Temple, A.M.E. Zion Church in Vallejo.

He was a dynamic force in the founding and establishment of Kappa Omicron Lambda Chapter, and will always be remembered for his profound belief that any seven good men can accomplish any task they set out to do.

Brother Thompson is survived by two sons: Lamont and Gerald; a daughter, Terri; a brother, Taft; three sisters: Bertha, Lois and Precious; many collateral relatives; and a host of friends.

Omega Chapter service was conducted by members of Kappa Omicron Lambda Chapter at the Cooleys and Riolo Mortuary on June 5, 1983 prior to the funeral rites in Quitman, Texas.

Brother ROBERT H. WILKERSON, JR. entered Omega Chapter July 22, 1983 at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, following a brief illness. He was born June 30, 1907 in Bachitane, Oklahoma, receiving his elementary education in the public schools of Muskogee County, Oklahoma.

His secondary education was received at Langston University, Oklahoma, and the University of Oklahoma; his graduate work was done at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

The teaching career of Brother Wilkerson began in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma; later Principal of Rosenwald High School of Henrietta, Oklahoma for 14 years; thence moved to Chicago where his educational career continued until the time of his passing in 1972.

Xi Lambda Chapter conducted Omega Chapter rites July 25, 1983, preceding his funeral rites at 6th Grace United Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois.

He is survived by his wife, Annie L.; a sister and brother-in-law, Maudeline and Preston Kelly; many cousins and collateral relatives.

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THE SEVEN JEWELS

Henry A. Callis, M.D.

Charles H. Chapman

Eugene Kinckle Jones

George B. Kelley

Nathaniel A. Murray

Robert H. Ogle

Vertner W. Tandy

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Walter W. Sullivan, Chairman 1800 N e w Hope Road, SW Atlanta, GA 30331 James B. Blanton, Secretary James M. Trent, Treasurer John W. Walker, Counsel Ivan L. Cotman Ernest L. Hollo way Keith Miller Henry Ponder Jesse H. Sterling Paul C. Williams Ozell Sutton, Ex-Officio

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SENIOR ALPHA AFFAIRS Laurence T. Young, Sr. 555 E. 33rd Place, |1208 Chicago, IL 60616

PAST GENERAL PRESIDENTS Moses Melvin Morrison*

Howard H. Long*

B. Andrew Rose*

Roscoe C. Giles*

W. A. Pollard*

Frederick Miller Drawer "M"

Daniel D. Fowler*

Charles H. Wesley 7632 17th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20012

L. L. McCee*

Rayford W. Logan*

S. S. Booker*

Belford V. Lawson, Jr. 1813 Kalorama Sq. N.W. Washington, DC 20009

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Raymond W. Cannon 2008 Virginia Road Los Angeles, CA 90016

A. Maceo Smith*

William H. Hale*

Ernest N. Morial 1101 Harrison Avenue New Orleans, LA 70122

T. Winston Cole 124 S.W. 23rd Gainesville. FL 32601

Walter Washington Alcom State University Lorman, MS 39096

Lionel H. Newsom Central State University Wilberforce, OH 45384

James R. Williams 584 Avalon Akron, OH 44320

"Myles A. Paige

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Directory of Chapters All chapters are required to submit a Chapter Directory to the General Office within ten (10) days after the election of chapter officers. This form should list the chapter's "Official Contact person" - to whom all chapter mail is sent. This listing contains both those addresses sent to the General Otiice for 1983-84 and last recorded addresses for Chapters which have not filed.

LEGEND I Advisor President Corresponding Secretary Secretary . Financial Secretary Recording Secretary

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EAST INTERNATIONAL Director Elmer Moore 2717 lennyson St. NW Washington. DC 20015 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Kappa Phi (U ol Liberia - Cuttington Coll

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#439) No Report ALUMNI CHAPTERS Epsilon Theta Lambda (Hamilton, Bermuda - #219) No Report Eta Epsilon Lambda (Monrovia. Liberia - #260) No Repoit Theta Epsilon Lambda (St. Thomas. VI - #282) No Repoit Theta Theta Lambda (Franklort. Germany - #285) Lt. Col Donald C Thomas. Ir (CS) Weiheistrasse #7 6797 Waldmohr W Germany lota Epsilon Lambda (Nassau. Bahamas - #506) No Report lota Sigma Lambda (St. Croix. VI - #518) No Report Mu Phi Lambda (Seoul. South Korea - #565) Johnny Thomas (P) HHC. EUSA S)A TDS AP0 San Francisco, CA 96301

NEW ENGLAND Director To Be Appointed COLLEGE CHAPTERS Sigma (Metropolitan - #17) John Searles (S) 471 Memorial Dine Cambridge. MA 0 2 1 3 9 Alpha Gamma (Brown U - #25) Mark Frentress (P) Box 1167 - Brown University Providence. Rl 0 2 9 1 2 Alpha Kappa (Metropolitan - #32) Anthony Silver (P)

Bm 184 American Int'l College Springfield MA 01109 Theta Ztta (Dartmouth College #381) Matthew A. Lopes, Ir. (P) Hinman Bon 5024 Hanover. NH 03755 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Epsilon Gamma Lambda (Boston - #214) John H McMullen. If. (P) 8 Pine Street Sharon. MA 02067

Theta tola Lambda (Springfield - #286) Jesse Parks (P) 184 Middlesex Street Springfield. MA 01109 Nu Xi Lambda (Sudbury - #540) Clifton E Reed (P) 14 Gedick Road Burlington. MA 01803 Mu Theta Lambda (Providence - #553) Howlett Chandler (T) P 0. Box 6062 Providence, Rl 0 2 9 4 0

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND Director To Be Appointed COLLEGE CHAPTERS Zeta (Yale U - #6) M i Corey Nicholson (CS) Box 2388 Vale Station New Haven, CT 0 6 5 2 0 Kappa Delta (U ol Connecticut - #423) Barry Walker (S) Brock Hall. Room 327 U of Connecticut Storrs. CT 06268

Mu Phi (U of Bridgeport - #461) Gerald Roach (S) 533 Gregory Street, Apt #1 Bridgeport. CT 06604 Mu Psi (SCSC - #463) No Report ALUMNI CHAPTERS Beta Sigma Lambda (Hartford - #161) Royce A Rosmond (P) 2 Christine Circle Bloomfield. CT 06002 Zeta Phi Lambda (Stamford - #253) Michael P. Williams (S) 5 Donald Court Bridgeport. CT 06606 Eta Alpha Lambda (New Haven - #256) Logan M Hill (P) 42 Bungay Terrace Seymour. CT 06483

METRO NEW YORK COLLEGE CHAPTERS Director Clifford R Clemmons 221-25 Manor Road Queens Village. NY 11427 Eta (Metropolitan - #7) No Report Delta Chi (City of Brooklyn - #308) Gary Halley (S) P 6. Box 2822 Brooklyn. NY 11202 Z.UEta (Columbia U - #338) Ralph Lmera (P) 600 West 113th Street

#806 New York. NY 10025 Theta Epsilon (Adelphia U - #380) David C Tanner (VP) Adelphia U Center. Room 109 Garden City, NY 11530 Kappa Rho (C. W. Post College - #435) John A Fletcher (VP) 19 Burnett Hempstead. NY 11550 XiPsi (Hofstra University - #707) Ramond Remirez (ED) Box 42 Hofstra University Hempstead. NY 11550 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Alpha Gamma Lambda (New York - #125) R. Delmar Woods (P) 392 Central Park West Apt. 3.1 New York. NY 10025

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Gamma lota Lambda (Brooklyn-Long Island - #175) John M Williams (P) 51 Alabama Avenue Hempstead. NY 11550 Zeta Zeta Lambda (St Albans - #239) Roy Faust (CS) 112-01 175th Street Jamaica, NY 11433 Eta Theta Lambda (Wyandance - #263) George Mims (P) 885 Seneca Road W Hempstead. NY 11552 Eta Chi Lambda (Nyack - #276) Walter Blunt, Ir. (S) P 0 Box 165 Orangeburg. NY 10962 Kappa Xi Lambda (New York - #536) No Report Kappa Upsilon Lambda (Micf Hudson Valley - #542) James E Royal, Jr (P) 38 North Street Newburgh, NY 12550

CENTRAL NEW YORK Director Eugene Sharpe 2811 Country Club Road Endwell. NY 13760 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Alpha (Cornell U - #1) Amigo Wade (P) 409 Elmwood Avenue Ithaca, NY 14850 Delta Zeta (Syiacuse U - #94) John 0 Francis (P) 1537 E. Genesee Sheet Syracuse, NY 13210 Kappa Zeta (Utica College - #425) Richard Cumberbatch (P) P 0. Box 73 - South Hall Utica College of Syracuse Univ Utica. NY 13502 Omicion Upsilon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - #726) Dr. Paul Zuber (CS) Oept. of Urban and Environmental Studies R.P.I. Troy. NY 12181 Pi Beta (State U ol New York at Binghamton - #731) Joseph Porter, Jr (S) 24 Fremont Avenue Binghamton, NY 13760 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Beta Pi Lambda (Albany - #159) Irving Smith, Jr. (S) 35 Bnarwood Road Loudonville. NY 12211 Theta Chi Lambda (Schenecdtady - #298) No Report lota Theta Lambda (Endicott - #509) John H. Coleman (P) 1433 Campus Drive Binghamton. NY 13903 lota lota Lambda (Rome - #510) No Report lota Kappa lambda (Syracuse - #511) Melvin Beard (P) P 0. Box 6565 Teall Avenue Station Syracuse, NY 13210

WESTERN NEW YORK Director Rufus McGee 201 Warner Street Rochester, NY 14606 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Delta Epsilon (U of Buffalo - #93) Mr. Jonathan Westbrook (T) 53 Monticello Place Buffalo, NY 14214

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Mu Sigma #458) (U of Rochester Kevin Huff (P) Box 569 25 Andrews Memonal Drive Rochestei. NY 14623 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Rho Lambda ( B u f f a l o - #116) Robin D Thompson (CS) 59 Wood lawn Avenue Buffalo, NY 14209 Eta Rho Lambda (Rochestei - #271) Anthony Henderson (AE) P. 0. Box 15522 Rochestei, NY 14615

NORTHERN NEW JERSEY Director Jim Wilson 4 Westminister Drive Livingston, NJ 0 7 0 3 9 COLLEGE CHAPTERS lota Rho (Newark College of Engineering

- #413) Oerncke R Summeifield (CS) 235 Pomona Avenue Newark. NJ 07112 Omicion Zeta (Fairleigh Dickinson U - #713) Dairyl lohnson (VP) Box 287, 1000 Rivei Road Teaneck, NJ 07666 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Alpha Alpha Lambda (Newaik - #123) Warren E Sherwood (S) 15 Columbus Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 Beta Alpha Lambda (Jersey City - #145) No Report Delta Mu Lambda (Paterson - #199) Joseph Fulmore (P) 496 East 29th Street Paterson. NJ 07514 Zeta Epsilon Lambda (Red Bank - #238) Kenneth M. Morgan (S) 2 Marlow Place Neptune. NJ 07753 Zeta Nu Lambda (Plainfield - #245) Malcolm L. Champion (P) 1030 Prospect Avenue Plainfield, NJ 07060 Kappa Theta lambda (Teaneck - #531) Dr. Archie Lacey (P) 168 Stuyvesant Road Teaneck, N) 07666

Treasurer Editor-to-the Sphinx Vice President Dean of Pledges Dean of Pledges Assistant Secretary

Theta Psi Lambda (Somerset - #299) James P. McNeil (CS) 15 Cortland Drive Someiset, NJ 08873 Kappa lota Lambda (Burlington County - #532) William H Myers (S) 227L Park Crest Village Glassboro, NJ 08028 Nu Gamma Lambda (Glassboro - #570) No Report

EAST PENNSYLVANIA Director Robert Myers 2 Hercules Court Sewell. Nl 0 8 0 8 0

(Trenton State College - #406) Algernon Ward (P) 851 Carteret Avenue Trenton. NJ 08618

Nu (Lincoln U - #12) Charles V Martin (P) Lincoln University, Box 728 Lincoln University, PA 19352 Psi (U ol Pennsylvania - #22) Antionio Johnson (P) c/o Office of Fiat. Affairs 3734 Locust Walk Philadelphia. PA 19104 Delta Pi (Cheney College - #302) Michael L Hill (P) 155 Fairview Avenue Teaneck, Nl 07666 Zeta Psi (West Chester State College - #353) No Repoit lota Sigma (Millersville State College - #414) Alpha Phi Alpha Millersville Slate College Millersville. PA 17551 ALUMNI CHAPTERS (Philadelphia - #16) Haiold D. Trawick (P) 6632 Boyer Street Philadelphia. PA 19119 Zeta Theta Lambda (Harnsburg - #241) E. S Herring (P) P 0 Box 10436 Harnsburg, PA 17105 Zeta Omicron lambda (Philadelphia - #247) Waverly Easley (P) 2332 Bryn Mawr Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19143

Nu lota (Glassboro State - #472) Phillip L. lackson (P) 227L Park Crest Village Glassboro. NJ 08028 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Alpha Theta Lambda (Atlantic City - # 1 3 0 ) 0. C. Edwards (P) 310 North Illinois Avenue Atlantic City. N) 08401 Zeta lota Lambda (Trenton - #242) Everett L Mills (CS) 194 Crescent Avenue Trenton. NJ 08638

6828 Rolling Drive Spnngfield. VA 22151 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Beta (Howard U - #2) Herb V. McMillan. Ill (P) P. 0 Box 506 Howard University Washington, DC 2 0 0 5 9 Nu Beta (American U - #465) Kenneth Hamilton (P) 4110 18th Stieet NW Washington. DC 20005 Omicron Omicron (UDC - #721) Rodney Johnson (P) 609 "Q" Street NW Washington, DC 20001 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Mu Lambda (Washington - #111) Osmond H. Brown (P) 8 Longfellow Stieet NW Washington, DC 20011 Omicron Lambda Alpha (Washington - #500) Robert M. Moore (P) 1495 Newton Street NW #402 Washington, DC 20010

DELAWARE Director Warren Scott 23 Spectrum Drive Newark. DE 19713 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Gamma Sigma (Delaware State College -#83) Darnell Wilkerson (P) Box 371 Delaware State College Dover, DE 19901 Xi Omicron (U of Delaware - #499) Byron Bullock (A) 5024 N. Tupelo Turn Wilmington, DE 19808 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Gamma Theta Lambda (Wilmington - #174) W i l b e i l l . Miller (P) 27 Arommink Drive Newaik, DE 19711 Zeta Rho Lambda (Dover - #249) John H. Quarles (P) 347 Beechwood Drive Dover, DE 19901

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA Director Hairy Budd 142 Maple Street Slippery Rock. PA 16057 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Omicron (U ol Pittsburgh - #14) Charles R. Davis. Jr. (P)

P. 0. Box 7184 Oakland Station Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Gamma Nu (Pennsylvania State U Walter W Laurel (P) 532 E, College Avenue

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Director Ryle Bell

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SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY Director Dr. Emerson E. Smith, Jr. 40 Twilight Lane Willingbom. NJ 08046 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Delta lota (Rutgers U - #97) Matthew Robinson (P) L. P. 0. Box 11048 Piscataway. NJ 08903 lota lota

ALUMNI CHAPTERS Alpha Omicion Lambda (Pittsburgh - #136) Alfred E Richardson (P) 218 Manoi Court Pittsburgh, PA 15241 Kappa Beta Lambda Eiie - #525) No Report Nu Upsilon Lambda (Pittsburgh - #586) Walter H. Green (S) 420 Graham. #6 Pittsburgh, PA 15232

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Apt. 7A State College. PA 16801 XiMu (Slippery Rock State College

- #496) Phillip White (VP) P. 0. Box 242 Slippery Rock. PA 16057 Xi Sigma (Indiana U of Pennsylvania - #702) Lynn W. Hinson (P) Box 1700 Folger Indiana U of Pennsylvania Indiana. PA 15705

Director Hanley Norment 12500 Arbor View Terrace Silver Spring, MD 20902 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Beta Alpha (Morgan State U - #45) Henry Jones (P) 40 Polaris Court Baltimore. MD 21234 Delta Nu (U of Maryland. E.S.

- #100) James Conely (S) U.M.E.S., P. 0. Box 1780 Princess Anne, MD 21853

ALUMNI CHAPTERS Beta Gamma Lambda (Richmond - #147) Melvin A. Crenshaw (S) 1500 Little John Road Richmond, VA 23227 Gamma Alpha Lambda (Charlottesville - #167) Stephen D. Waters (S) Box 3036 Charlottesville. VA 22903 Zeta Upsilon Lambda (Reston - #252) John A. Mann (FS) 9525 Heathwood Court Burke, VA 22015 Theta Rho Lambda (Arlington - #293) Otha L. Meyers (P) 4716 Deer Run Court Alexandria, VA 22306 Xi Alpha Lambda (Prince Williams County

Eta Zeta (Bowie State College - #359) No Report lota Zeta (U ol Maryland - #403) No Report Mu Rho (Towson State - #457) Kenneth Green (CS) Mu Rho Chapter Box 906, Towson State U Towson, MD 21204 Mu Upsilon (Frostburg Stale College - #460) Sherwood 0. Davis (S) 529 Fredrick Hall Fmstbuig State University Frostburg. MD 21532 Nu Kappa (UM Baltimore County - #473) No Report ALUMNI CHAPTERS Delta Lambda (Baltimore - #104) Robsol G Pinkett (S) 3201 Clifton Avenue Baltimore. MD 21216 Delta Omicron Lambda (Princess Anne - #203) James M White (P)

- #59") Chester F lohnson (CS) 5610 Broadmore Street Alexandria, VA 22310 Xi Delta Lambda (Henrico County - #593) Leo H. Ross (P) 5210 Bonington Road Richmond, VA 23234

TIDEWATER VIRGINIA

P. 0 Box 1151 Univeisity of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne. MD 21853 Kappa Epsilon lambda (Landovei - #258) Kevin E Byrd (RS) 3204 Reed Street #2334 Lanham. MO 20706 Eta Eta Lambda (Annapolis - #262) Randolph Robins (RC) P 0 Box 45 Gambnlls. MD 21054 lota Alpha Lambda (Aberdeen - #502) Brady B. Johnson (P) 436 Cokesbuiy Road Port Deposit. MD 21904 lota Upsilon lambda (Silver Spring - #520) Adrian V Nelson (S) 4005 Manor Park Court Rockville. MD 20853 Kappa Kappa Lambda (Baltimore - #533) Seaton I White. Ill (S) P. 0 Box 11347 Baltimore, MD 21239 Kappa Phi Lambda (Columbia - #543) Kenneth M. Jennings. 1 P 0. Box 321 Columbia, MD 21045 NORTHERN

Director Edward N lones 42 Bainbndge Road Hampton, VA 23663 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Gamma lota (Hampton Institute - #75) Anthony W Starks (P) 1214 Easterly Avenue Hampton, VA 2 3 6 6 9 Epsilon Pi (Norfolk State U - #324) Anthony C. Hall (S) Norfolk State University Box 2033 Norfolk, VA 23504 Kappa Pi (William A Maiy - #434) Gerald W S Carter (P) College of William & Maiy College Station, Box 9040 Williamsburg, VA 23186 Nu Theta

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Director J. A. Mann 9525 Heathwood Court Burke. VA 22015 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Gamma (Virginia Union U - #3) Odell Ferrell. Jr (P) 1500 N Lombardy Street Room 135 Richmond, VA 23220 Theta Rbo (Virginia Commonwealth U - #391) No Report lota Alpha (Washington S Lee U - #398) No Report lota Beta (U of Virginia - #399) Kirk T. Bowen (S) Newcomb Hall. Box 430 Charlottesville, VA 22904 Xi Delta (James Madison U - #489) Steven D Fields (P) Box 4 1 7 2 James Madison University Hatrisburg, VA 22807

(Old Dominion U - #471) Rodney Hines (P) 817 Marshall Avenue Norfolk. VA 23504 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Zeta Lambda (Newport N e w s - #106) Claude Carter (CS) 12 Suburban Parkway Hampton. VA 23661 Delta Beta lambda (Hampton - #190) James E. Blacken (RS) P. 0. Box 483 Hampton. VA 23669 Epsilon lota Lambda (Suffolk - #220) B L Davis, Jr (CS) 311 SL James Avenue Suffolk, VA 23434 Epsilon Nu Lambda (Portsmouth - #223) Vmston L. Porter (P) P 0. Box 1096 Portsmouth, VA 23705 Nu Delta Lambda (Surry County - #571) No Report Alpha Phi Lambda (Norfolk - #142) Willis Hams, Ir. (P) P. 0 Box 816 Norfolk, VA 23501

SOUTHERN VIRGINIA Director Leon Moton Route 1. Box 275A Prospect. VA 23960

The Sphinx / Fall 1983

COLLEGE CHAPTERS Beta Gamma (Virginia State College -#47) tetry Cannon (S) P. 0. Box 135 Virginia State Univeisity Petersburg, VA 23803 Delta Tan (St. Pauls Polytechnic - #305) Anthony Ellis (CS) Delta Tau Chapter St. Paul's College Lawrenceville. VA 23668 Theta loa (Virginia Polytechnic U - #384) No Report XiZeta (Hampden-Sydney - #491) Christopher Vim (P) Box 381 Hampden-Sydney College Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Nu Lambda (Virginia State College -#47) R I Hayes (CS) 21329 Sparta Drue Eltnck, VA 23803 Alpha Kappa Lambda (Roanoke - #132) No Report Gamma Nu Lambda (Lynchburg - #178) Augustus Petticolas (P) 7139 Sunciest Drive Lynchburg, VA 24502 Delta Nu Lambda (Danville - #200) Pinckney York (P) 225 Crosland Avenue Danville, VA 24543 Epsilon Omlcion Lambda (Lawrenceville - #225) Ernest L. Morse (CS) P 0. Box 595 South Hill, VA 23970 lota Tau Lambda (Charlotte Court House - #519) Robert L. Early (S) Route 3. Box 274 Farmville, VA 23901 Nu Omicron Lambda (Fort Lee - #581) Michael C. Walker (CS) 849 West Wythe Street Petersburg, VA 23803

MIDWEST ILLINOIS (Central) Director Arthur B Cooper P 0. Box 2085 - Station "A" Champaign. IL 61820 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Tau (U ot Illinois - #18) Steven Ingram (P) 908 N Broadway Street. #405 Urbana. IL 61801 Zela Nu (Eastern Illinois - #343) Morris Ratlins (T) 321A Stieet Charleston, IL 61920 Eta Tau (Illinois Slate U - #371) Knstophei A. McCoy (P) P 0 Box 604 Normal, IL 61761 Theta Omicion (Millikin U - #389) Michael Johnson (S) 1078 W William Decatur, IL 62522 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Omicion Lambda Beta (Champaign - #501) No Report Nu Psi Lambda (Bloomington - #589) Tim Walker (P) 1517 Hershey Bloomington. IL 61701

ILLINOIS (NORTHERN) Diiector Robert L. Thirston 1734 Grove Avenue North Chicago. IL 60064 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Epsilon Phi (Northern Illinois U - #329) Reginald Greenwood (S) Northern Illinois U Epsilon Phi Chapter, Box 66D DeKalb, IL60115 MuMu (Elmhurst College - #452) Dpvid A. Lewis (P) 8960 South Anthony Chicago, IL 60617 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Kappa Chi Lambda (Waukegan - #544) Mezell Williams (CS) P. 0. Box 512 Noith Chicago, IL 60064 Mu Alpha Lambda (DeKalb - #546) No Report

Mu Mu Lambda (Glen Ellin - #556) Clarence R Lewis (P) 19 W 101 18th Street Lombard, IL 60148

ILLINOIS (NORTH CENTRAL - I)

Mu Delta Lambda {Springfield - #549) Dennis C. Minei (P) 2832 Stanton Apartment 4 Springfield. IL 62703 Mu Chi Lambda (Rock Island - #566) Obie Houston (RS) P 0 Box 1644 Rock Island, IL 61201

Director Allen Knox 5020 S Lake Shore Drue #2704 INDIANA (SOUTHERN) Chicago, IL 60616 Director COLLEGE CHAPTERS Theo Hamiter Theta (U ol Illinois -Chicago #8) 7158 Avalon Trail Court Anthony Irvin (P) Indianapolis. IN 46250 951 W 114th Street COLLEGE CHAPTERS Chicago. I I 60643 Gamma Eta Alpha Mu (Indiana U - # 7 3 ) (Northwestern U - # 3 3 ) Prentiss Walkei Joseph J Fleming (P) P 0 Box 1698 Noms CA0 Bloomington. IN 47406 1999 Sheridan Road Zeta Rho Eianston. IL 60201 (Indiana State U - #347) ALUMNI CHAPTERS No Repoit Xi Lambda Nu Pi (Chicago - #113) (U ol Eiansulle - #478) Edgat Hamilton (P) No Repoit 5020 S lake Shore Drue ALUMNI CHAPTERS lota lambda #1402 (Indianapolis- # 1 0 9 ) Chicago. IL 60615 Leslie House (CS) Zeta Xi Lambda P 0 Box 88131 (Eianston - #246) Indianapolis. IN 46208 No Repoit Kappa Rho Lambda Theta Mu Lambda (Evansville - #539) (Joliet - #288) No Report No Report Nu Nu Lambda lota Delta Lambda iBIoomington - #579) (Chicago - #505) Fiank Motley (P) Mitchell Roberson (VP) 3643 Longview Drive 1021 W Dakin. #3E Bloomington, IN 47401 Chicago. IL 60613

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INDIANA (NORTHERN)

Diiectoi tra demons, Jr Director 4004 Eastern Drive Arndel Ricks. Ji Anderson. IN 46012 8841 S Prairie COLLEGE CHAPTERS Chicago. IL 60619 Gamma Rho COLLEGE CHAPTERS (Purdue - #82) Nu Delta Darryl Farrow (S) (Chicago State U - #467) 121 W Wood Street Michael Wright (P) W Lalayette, IN 47906 3631 W 175th Place Theta Xi Countryclub Hills. I I 60477 (Ba |, S l a t e „ _ r m ) Nu Epsilon Alpha Phi Alpha (Lewis U - #468) Box 355 Student Cti Adrian Willis (P) Muncie, IN 47305 Lewis U Iota Theta Route 53 (Calumet College - #405) Romeoiille. IL 6044 William Robinson (P) Nu Rho 1624 Virginia (NT - #479) Gary. IN 46407 Lester McCarroll. J (P) ALUMNI CHAPTERS 71 E 71st Street Gamma Rho lambda Chicago. IL 60637 (Gary - #182) Omicion lota Everett S Palmer (P) (DePaul U - #716) 6529 Birch Avenue Darryl Porter (P) Gary, IN 46403 9104 Longwood Drue Theta Xi Lambda Chicago. IL 60620 (South Bend - #290) Omicion Xi inactive (Rooseielt U - #720) Theta Upsilon Lambda Darwin A Wilson (P) (Foit Wayne - #296) 425 S. Wabash Iimothy R Williams (S) Rooseielt Unn , Room 118 P 0. Box 10747 Chicago, IL 60605 Ft. Wayne, IN 46853 (NORTH CENTRAL • II)

ILLINOIS (SOUTHERN)

Epsilon Eta (Eastem Michigan U #316) Lauience Welkei (P) Campus Life 117 Goodison Hall EMU Ypsilanti, Ml 48197 Eta I i (U of Detroit - #366) Christopher Smith (S) 3939 Florence Reno #222 Detroit, Ml 48221 Omicion Mu (Oakland Univeisity - # 7 1 Charlie Harrison (P) 85 Car. KANSAS (WESTERN) Ponliac. Ml 48058 Dnector ALUMNI CHAPTERS P J Williams Gamma Lambda 3601 Randolph (Detroit - #103) Topeka, KS 66611 0sc3r B Session (P) COLLEGE CHAPTERS 19475 S Stratford Delta Mu Detroit. Ml 48221 (Wichita State U - # 9 9 ) Epsilon Upsilon Lambda No Report (Flint - #230) Epsilon Omicion Billye G Thompson (Washburn U - #323) P 0 Box 1247 No Repoit Flint. Ml 48503 Xi N U Theta Zeta Lambda (Emporia State College - # 4 9 7 ) ( A n n A l b 0 1 . „ 2 8 3 ) Un Dannrt V .. . .- ' No Report William L Harris (S) ALUMNI CHAPTERS 2861 Eisenhowei Delta Eta lambda Ann Arbor. Ml 48104 (Topeka - #195) lota Rho lambda P J Williams (P) (Pontiac - #517) 3601 Randolph SW No Report Topeka. KS 66611 MICHIGAN (NORTHERN) Eta Beta Lambda (Wichita - #257) Director Manuel T Bucknei (FS) James H Gaddis 1458 N Estelle 4028 Wisnei Wichita, KS 67214 Saginaw, Ml 48601 COLLEGE CHAPTERS KENTUCKY (EASTERN) Gamma Tau Director (Michigan State U - #84) Shirley Cunningham. Ji Glen D Oliver (P) First National BuildingSuite 9 0 6 4 1 8 N o „ „ Case „,,, Lexington, KY 40507 Michigan State U COLLEGE CHAPTERS East Lansing, Ml 48823 Alpha Pi Zeta Beta (U of Louisville - #37) (Ferris State - #333) Ron Nichols (P) William Lykes (P) Student Center Room 12 Box 4 - Rankin Centei Louisville. KY 40208 Ferris State College BetaMu Big Rapids, Ml 49307 (Kentucky State U - # 5 5 ) Zeta Delta Dolph Seals (T) (Northern Michigan - #335) 1441 Blanmore Rd No Repoit Lexington. KY 40502 Theta Tau Epsilon Chi (GMI - #393) (U ol Kentucky - #330) No Repoit Keith Fisher (CS) ALUMNI CHAPTERS Univeisity Station Epsilon Upsilon Lambda P 0 Box 978 (Flint • #230) Lexington, KY 40506 Billye G Thomson Xi Alpha P. O Box 1247 #4861 (Motehead State U Flint, Ml 48503 No Report Eta Nu Lambda ALUMNI CHAPTERS (Grand Rapids - #267) Alpha lambda No Report (Louisville - #101) tola Chi Lambda Alpha Lambda Chapter (Saginaw - #522) Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Charles Mathews (P) P 0 Box 11426 5805 Ambassador Louisville. KY 40211 Apt. # 8 Alpha Beta Lambda Saginaw, Ml 48603 (Lexington - #124) Kappa Delta Lambda Earl G Smith (P) (Lansing - #527) P 0. Box 1248 Blanche Martin (P) Lexington, KY 40590 1831 Nemoke Gamma Beta lambda Haslette. Ml 48840 (Fiankfort _ #168) COLLEGE CHAPTERS Upsilon (U of Kansas - #19) David Wardes (P) 1014 Mississippi Lawrence. KS 66044 Gamma Chi (Kansas State - # 8 7 ) No Report Kappa Tau (Kansas State U - #437i Olatunii Fakoya (P) 319 Goodnow Hall Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66502

IOWA Director Director John Reeies Donald W Lyons (S) Cleon Brown, Jr 3519 Converse Aienue Box 121 K.S.U 3720 Patricia Drive East St Louis, IL 62207 Frankfort, KY 40601 Apt. 20 COLLEGE CHAPTERS KENTUCKY (WESTERN) Urbandale. IA 50322 Beta Eta (Southern Illinois U - # 5 1 ) COLLEGE CHAPTERS Director Alpha Theta Mark E Davis (P) limmie Stewart (U ol Iowa - # 3 0 ) 404 W Mills. Apt. 3 514 E Cedar Street - Apt Tracy Powell (P) Carbondale. IL 62901 Franklin, KY 42134 lota Pi P. 0. Box 506 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Zeta Omicion (SIU Edwardsville - # 4 1 2 ) Iowa City, IA 52240 Alpha Nu Theartry Green (P) (Murray State U - #345) (Drake U - # 3 4 ) 514 N 24th Street Lanti M Biles, (S) Michael Easley (P) E St Louis. IL 62205 2309 Unn Station 1333 30th Street ALUMNI CHAPTERS Murray, KY 42071 Delta Epsilon lambda Des Moines, IA 50311 Eta Rho (East St. Louis - #193) Omicion Pi (Western Kentucky U - # 3 6 Garland Hawkins (P) (Iowa State Univeisity -#722! Mike Hughes (FA) P. O. Box 885 Basil M. Rhymes (P) Peacelord Tower E. St. Louis. IL 62203 P. 0. Box 1401 Assistant Dorm Director Apt Mu Kappa lambda Welch Ave Station Bowling Green. KY 42101 (Carbondale - #555) Ames. Iowa 50010 ALUMNI CHAPTERS No Report ALUMNI CHAPTERS Gamma Epsilon Lambda Kappa Lambda (Hopkmsville - #171) ILLINOIS (WESTERN) Zeta (Des Moines - #243) Samuel Morehead (P) Director Oscai E Jones (P) 7007 Foiest Paik Blvd Curley R Bradford 3009 Vilura Pkwy Hopkmsville. KY 42240 3109 9(4 Street Des Moines, IA 50310 MICHIGAN (EASTERN) Rock Island. IL 61201 Mu Tau Lambda Director COLLEGE CHAPTERS (Cedar Rapids - #563) Anthony Crutchfield Epsilon Kappa No Report 447 Palmerston (Bradley U - #319) Nu Chi Lambda Detroit Ml 48218 Eugene Stampley. Jr. (P) (Iowa City - #588) COLLEGE CHAPTERS 14933 S. Vail James E. Tolbert (P) Epsilon Harvey. IL 60426 2427 Bartlet Road (U of Michigan - # 5 ) Eta Eta Apartment 1C Alpha Ph, Alpha Fraternity. Inc (Western Illinois - #360) Iowa City. IA 52240 Epsilon Chaptei Michael Smith (P) KANSAS (EASTERN) 1323 Cambridge Ave 1118 Lincoln Hall Ann Arbor. Ml 48104 Director Macomb. IL 60455 Alpha Upsilon Richard Marshall ALUMNI CHAPTERS (Wayne State U - # 4 1 ) 626 Oakland Kappa Pi Lambda Lawrence H. Hale. II (P) Kansas City. KS 66101 (Peoria - #538) 9960 Fielding James E Peeples (P) Detroit Ml 48228 1208 N. University Peoria. IL 61606

MICHIGAN (WESTERN) Director Nathaniel Allen 3321 Mallert Street Muskegon Heights. Ml 49444 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Epsilon Xi (Western Michigan U #322) John Wright (P) 1323 Greenwood Apt 105 Kalamaioo. Ml 49007 lota Epsilon (Grand Valley - #402) Anthony W Gladney (T) Ravine Apts # 5 8 GVSC Allendale, Ml 49401 ALUMNI CHAPTERS lota Phi lambda (Muskegon Heights - #521) Ronald 0 Malone (P) P O Box 3972 Muskegon Heights. Ml 49444 Kappa Psi Lambda (Kalanwoo - #545) Kenneth Martin (S) P 0 Box 2468 Kalamaioo. Ml 49003 Nu Rho Lambda (Benton Harbor - #583) No Report

MINNESOTA Director James Beard J ^ ' p X d Ave

South Minneapolis. MN 55407 COLLEGE CHAPTER Mu (U of Minnesota - # 1 1 ) No Repoit

ALUMNI CHAPTER Gamma Xi Lambda (Minneapolis - #179) No Repoit

COLLEGE CHAPTERS Alpha Alpha Director (U of Cincinnati - #23) Hilton 0 Smith Nelson F Bioadus (P) 3038 Momcelln Blvd 6673 Ins Avenue MISSOURI (EASTERN) Cleveland OH 44118 Cincinnati. OH 45213 Director COLLEGE CHAPTERS Delta Upsilon James Williams Pi (Miami U - #306) 1620 El ligre (Cleveland State/ Thurmond Brentley (P) St Louis, M0 63138 Western Reserve - # 1 5 ) 96 Bishop, Miami Univ COLLEGE CHAPTERS Steven Boyd (P) Oxford. OH 45056 Alpha Eta 11713 Princeton ALUMNI CHAPTER (St. Louis - # 2 9 ) Cleveland. OH 44105 Delta Gamma Lambda Stephen Wolle (S) Alpha Tau (Cincinnati - #191) P. 0. Box 20376 (U of Akron - # 4 0 ) Ivan Reynolds (P) SI. Loois. MO 63112 Carlton 0 Barnett. Jr (P) 650 Springer Avenue Epsilon Psi 462 Dorchester Road Cincinnati OH 45215 (UM-Rolla - #441) Akron. OH 44320 Vernon L Younge (CS) Epsilon Delta WEST VIRGINIA (REGION Highway 63 & Elm (Kent State U - #313) Director C Michael Oxner (P) Rolla. M0 65401 Douglas Mi I lei Box A Student Lite Office Xi Gamma P 0 Box 271 (Southeast Missouri State #488) Kent State Univeisity Institute. WV 25112 Kent. OH 44242 Michael E Hughes (S) COLLEGE CHAPTERS lota Phi P 0 Box 440 Alpha Zeta (Mount Union College - #417) Cape Girardeau. M0 6370 (West Virginia State - #28) No Repoil ALUMNI CHAPTERS Antonio Bethel (S) Xi Chi Epsilon Lambda P 0 Box 511 (Baldwin-Wallace College - #706) institute"" WV25112 (St Louis - #105) Darryl Wilson (P) „„ Hli Roscoe McWilliams (CS) 1269 Hodiamont U 0 ? 6 m n , °Su R a d ann (Marshall U - #475) St. Louis. MO 63112 Shaker Hts, OH 44120 l a m K c yenable (PI Epsilon Eta Lambda Omicion Epsilon , , , 1 5 3 9 Rittei Blvd (Charleston - #218) (Youngstown State University #712) H u n t j n , , o n w v 2 5 ; 0 i Michael A Crawford (P) Edward W Barrett (P) 109 Webb Street ALUMNI CHAPTERS 201 W Tom Brown Street Alpha lota Lambda Youngstown OH 44505 Charleston. MO 63834 (Charleston - # 1 3 1 ) ALUMNI CHAPTERS John Scott (S) MISSOURI (CENTRAL) Beta Rho Lambda P 0 Box 303 Director (Youngstown - #160) Institute. WV 25112 Kennei Tippin No Repoit WEST VIRGINIA (REGION 3621 Evergreen Delta Alpha Lambda Columbia. M0 65201 Duectoi (Cleveland - #189) COLLEGE CHAPTERS Adolphus Young. Jr Andrew A Venable (P) Alpha Psi P O Box 99551 P O Box 13 (Lincoln University - #44) Cleveland. OH 44199 Institute, WV 24852 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Inc Eta Tau Lambda COLLEGE CHAPTERS P 0 Box 292 (Akron - #273) Beta Theta Lincoln University Sylvester Small (CS) (Bluefield State College - #52) Jefferson City, MO 65101 579 Wildwood Avenue Dean Leftwich (P) Zeta Alpha Akron. OH 44320 301 Pieston (U ol Missouri - #332) Kappa Mu Lambda Bluefield WV 24701 leiome Smart (P) (Lonain - #534) Xi Theta 200 Read Hall No Report (Concoid College - #493) U of Missouri A Marco Dowell (P) OHIO (CENTRAL) Columbia M0 65201 Box D-228 Concord College Diiector lota Xi Athens. WV 24712 William Nelson. Ph D (Noitheast Missouri - #410) ALUMNI CHAPTERS Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc 2572 Bumaby Drive Alpha Zeta Lambda Columbus, OH 43209 NMSU Student Bldg (Bluefield - #128) COLLEGE CHAPTERS Kuksiille, M0 63501 Adolphus Young. Ii (S) Kappa ALUMNI CHAPTER P 0 Box 271 (Ohio State U - # 1 0 ) Beta Zeta Lambda Institute, WV25112 No Report (Jefferson City - #150) Gamma Delta Lambda Phi William T Edmonson (P) (Beckley - #170) (Ohio U - # 2 0 ) P O Box 462 Inactive Dennis Johnson (P) Jefferson City, M0 65101 WISCONSIN 21W S Couit. Apt 6 MISSOURI (WESTERN) Director Athens, OH 45701 James Fleming Coleman 0 Wells Omicion Rho 2309 N. 10th 922 W Zedlet Lane (Ohio Wesleyan U - #723) Blue Springs. M0 64015 Darryl Peal (S) Milwaukee. Wl 53092 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Omicron Rho Box 1023 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Delta Rho Ohio Wesleyan U Gamma Epsilon (UMKC - #303) Delaware OH 43015 (UW Madison - # 7 1 ) Douglas S Shipley (VP) ALUMNI CHAPTER lohn L. Davis (P) 8429 E 56th Terrace Alpha Rho lambda 837 W Badgett, # 1 Kansas City, M0 64129 (Columbus - #138) Madison Wl 53713 Zeta Gamma Elustei L Fields (P) Epsilon Tau (Central Missouri - #334) 13318 Havens Corners Rd (UW Milwaukee - #327) No Report Palaskala. OH 43062 lesse G Waid (S) ALUMNI CHAPTER 4152 N 41 Stieet OHIO (WEST CENTRAL) Beta lambda Milwaukee. Wl 53216 Director (Kansas City - #102) Zeta lota Edward While Donald lee (P) (UW Whitewatei - #340) 5211 Big Bend Drive 8916 Tennessee Darryl Johnson (P) Dayton. OH 45427 Kansas City. MO 64138 1125 W Capital Drive COLLEGE CHAPTERS Milwaukee. Wl 53206 Xi NEBRASKA Eta Beta (Wilbeiforce U # 1 3 ) (WSU Platteville - #355) Director No Report No Report To Be Appointed Gamma Theta COUEGE CHAPTER Eta Pi (U of Dayton - # 7 4 ) Beta Beta (WSU Oshkosh - #368) Patrick Elroy (S) (U ol Nebraska - #46) No Report 300 College Park No Report Mu Epsilon Univeisity of Dayton ALUMNI CHAPTER (Carthage College - #446) Dayton. OH 45469 Beta Xi Lambda No Report COLLEGE CHAPTER (Omaha - #157) Nu XI Delta Xi Alfred B Grice (S) (Marquette U - #476) (Central Slate U - #300) 5520 North 49th Street Gerald Hyler (P) Michael Brown (P) Omaha, NE 68104 2434B N Gramer P 0 Box 441 Milwaukee Wl 53211 OHIO (NORTHERN) Wilbeilorce. OH 45384 Nu Omicion Director ALUMNI CHAPTERS (Carroll College - #477) Joe Sansbury Theta Lambda No Report 1430 Abbinglon (Dayton - #108) ALUMNI CHAPTERS Toledo, OH 43607 William I Jackson (P) Delta Chi Lambda COLLEGE CHAPTERS 3346 Germantown Street (Milwaukee - #210) Epsilon Alpha Dayton. OH 45408 Richard E Williams (VP) (U of Toledo - # 3 1 0 ) Chi Lambda 6599 N Broadmaur Lane Nathaniel I. Young (S) (Wilbeiforce - #121) Glendale. Wl 53209 911 CuthbeitRoad Samuel B Kidd (CS) Mu Eta Lambda Toledo, OH 43606 Box 522 Stover Drive (Madison - #552) Epsilon Theta Wilberforce. OH 45384 Duane McCrary (P) Zeta Delta Lambda (Bowling Green U - #317) 1730 Bairdstreet (Springfield - #237) Anthony Franklin (CS) Madison. Wl 53713 James Smith (S) Alpha Phi Alpha 842 E Possum Road 130 S. Prospect Dayton, OH 45562 Bowling Green. OH 43403 ALUMNI CHAPTER ALABAMA OHIO (SOUTHWEST) Alpha Xi Lambda Director OJrectof (Toledo - #135) Clarence Franer Leotis Peterman Jimmy I Gaines (P) 1145 Wionna Avenue 4340 Yorkshire Drive 3716 Victory Cincinnati, OH 45224 Toledo. OH 43607 Montgomery, AL 36108

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Delta Xi Lambda (Orlando - # 2 0 2 ) Felton A. Johnson (P) P 0 Box 5548 Orlando, FL 32855 Epsilon Mu Lambda Atlanta. GA 30342 (Pensacola - # 2 2 2 ) Beta Upsilon Neroy Anderson (P) (Alabama State U - # 6 3 ) 1301 East Fisher Theta Gamma Lambda Cordell Crawford (S) Pensacola, FL 32503 (Dothan - # 2 8 0 ) P 0 Boi 28 Epsilon Pi lambda Alfred D Lott (CS) Alabama State University (Ocala - # 2 2 6 ) P 0 Box 6893 Montgomery, A L 3 6 1 9 5 William E Jackson (S) Dothan. AL 36302 Gamma Kappa 1822 SW 4th St, Kappa Nu Lambda (Miles College - # 7 6 ) Ocala, FL 32674 (Leighton # 5 3 5 ) No Report Zeti Alpha Lambda Jerry W Smith (P) Gamma Phi (Ft Lauderdale - # 2 3 4 ) 2907 Cole Street (Tuskegee Institute - # 8 6 ) Nathaniel L Hankerson (P) Florence. AL 35630 Roderick Holland (CS) 746 S W 3rd Street Mu Iota Lambda P 0 Bo. 36 Oania. FL 33004 (Mobile - # 5 5 4 ) Tuskegee Institute AL 36088 Eta Kappa Lambda Reginald Crenshaw (CS) Delta Gamma (Ft Pierce - # 2 6 5 ) P 0 Box 213 (Alabama A t M - # 9 1 ) Havert L. Fenn (S)' Mobile AL 36601 Lavon LaCounte 2601 Avenue I Mu Psi Lambda P 0 Box 220 Ft, Pierce, FL 33454 (Homewood - # 5 6 7 ) Alabama A & M University Theta Eta Lambda Larry Buie (P) Normal, AL 35762 (St Petersburg - # 2 8 4 ) P 0 Box 2281 Epsilon Nu Frank E Smith (RS) Birmingham, AL 35201 (Stillman College - # 3 2 1 ) 4173 Beach Drive. S.E No Report St Petersburg, FL 33705 lota Beta Lambda Theta Delta (Cocoa - # 5 0 3 ) (U ot South Alabama - # 3 7 9 ) Director John C Rawls liley Mitchner (P) Michael A Carlton (P) 335 Country Lane Drive RL 4 - Box 183P P 0 Box U 7 0 I Cocoa.

FL 32922 Gainesville.

FL 32601 Mobile. AL 36688 lota Pi Lambda lota Nu COLLEGE CHAPTERS (Miami - #516) (UAB - # 4 0 9 ) Beta Nu Wendell H Carr (P) Belgee Falkner (S) (Florida A 4 M - # 5 6 ) 12990 SW 190th Street Votker Hall - U A B Brian Green (P) Miami, FL 33177 P 0 Box 329 1149 S MLK Blvd Mu Zeta Lambda Birmingham, AL 35294 Tallahassee. FL 32304 (Lakeland - # 5 5 1 ) Kappa Alpha Delta Beta Donzell Floyd (CS) (U ol Alabama - # 4 2 0 ) (Bethune Cookman - # 9 0 ) 445 Avenue B. NE Vincent Walker (CS) Michael L Goodman (P) Winter Haven, FL 33881 P 0 Box 7368 565 Second Ave # 1 Nu Eta Lambda University. AL 35486 Daytona Beach. FL 32014 (Gainesville - # 5 7 4 ) Kappa Gamma M U Psi Allied Peoples (S) (U of North Alabama - # 4 2 2 ) (Florida Memorial Coll #309) 611 SE 13th Terrace Derrick T Morgan (P) Renard Dowdell (P) Gainesville. FL 32601 U ol North Alabama 15800 N W 4 2 n d Avenue Xi Omicron Lambda Box 5554 Miami, FL 33054 (Fort Myers - # 6 0 3 ) Florence, AL 35630 Eta Delta No Report (U ol Miami - # 3 5 7 ) Nu Tau Xi Rho Lambda Cyrus M Jollivette (ADV) (U ol M o n t e v a l l o - # 4 8 1 ) (Belle Glade - # 6 0 5 ) Randall Williams (CS) 103 Ponce Building No Report Drawer X Umv of Miami U of Montevallo Office of Development Montevallo, AL 35115 P 0 Box 248073 Coral Gables. FL 33124 XiBeU Director (Troy State U - # 4 8 7 ) Theta Gamma Robert Willis (U of South Florida - # 3 7 8 ) Darrell R Hayes (S) 3604 Revere Rd S W Derek Smith (P) P 0. Box 154 Atlanta.

GA U ol South Florida. 16PJr> Troy, AL 36082 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Tampa, FL 33620 (iXi lota Theta Sigma (Jacksonville - # 4 9 8 ) (Morris Brown College - # 9 ) (U of Florida - # 3 9 2 ) Darrell Green (P) Frederick C Walton (S) John C Pittman (T) P 0 Box 81 P 0. Box 92055 125 N W. Avenue 10th Sheet Jacksonville State U Atlanta. GA 30331 Apt. # 2 Jacksonville. AL 36265 Alpha Rho Gainesville. FL 32601 Omicron Alpha (Morehouse College - # 3 8 ) lofi Delta (Auburn U at Montgomery No Report (Florida State U - # 4 0 1 ) #708) Alpha Phi George Black Kenneth Avery (P) (Clark College - # 4 2 ) FSU Box 2779 2027 Beach Street Carl B Fountain (P) Tallahassee. FL 32301 Auburn, AL 36108 Clark College. Box 137 Kappa Upsjlon Omkron Kappa COLLEGE CHAPTERS Alpha Seta (Talladega College - # 2 4 ) Franklin * Thomas, Jr (CS) 3640 N Stratford Road, N E

Epsilon Delta Lambda (Talladega - # 2 1 5 ) T Y Lawrence (S) 114 Baker Street Talladega, AL 3 5 1 6 0 Theta Alpha Lambda (Gadsden - # 2 7 8 ) No Report

FLORIDA

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(Auburn U. at Auburn - # 7 1 7 ) Ferdinand B. Williams, Jr (P) P 0. Box 1865 Montgomery. AL 3 6 8 3 0 Omicron Sigma (Birmingham Southern - # 7 2 4 ) Victor E Stevenson (P) 2015 Avenue " 0 " Ensley Birmingham. AL 35218 Pi Delta (Livingston U - # 7 3 3 ) No Report ALUMNI CHAPTERS Omicron Lambda (Birmingham - # 1 1 4 ) Samuel I Jackson (S) P 0 . Box 6058 Birmingham. AL 36106 Alpha Nu Lambda (Tuskegee Institute - # 1 3 4 ) Aubrey Ford, Jr. (P) P. 0. Box BBB Tuskegee Institute. AL 36088 Alpha Upsilon Lambda (Montgomery - # 1 4 1 ) Samuel L Jackson (S) P 0 Box 6058 Montgomery. AL 36106 Seta Omicron Lambda (Mobile - # 1 5 8 ) Alvin J Allen (RS) 1205 St Madar Street Mobile, AL 36603 Delta Theta Lambda (Huntsville - # 1 9 6 ) A. I. Garth (CS) P. 0 Bon 33 Alabama A&M University Normal. AL 3 5 7 6 2 Delta Pi Lambda (Selma - # 2 0 4 ) William P. Cook (P) 505 Woodrow Ave. Selma. AL 36701 Delta Phi Lambda (Tuscaloosa - # 2 0 9 ) Bruce Crawford (S) 1812 D 48th Street East Tuscaloosa. AL 35405

(Metropolitan - # 4 3 8 ) James E Bryant, Jr (S) 5020 Cleveland Rd Apt 228 Jacksonville, FL 32209 Mu Theta (U of West Florida - # 4 4 9 ) No Report Xi lota (U of Central Florida - # 4 9 4 ) Johnny Mack (P) 3435 Saddle Blvd Apt. 189 Orlando. FL 32817 Xi Kappa (Florida Tech - # 4 9 5 ) Ronald F Mathieu (S) Florida Tech P. 0 Box 5281 Melbourne, EL 32901 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Upsilon Lambda (Jacksonville - # 1 1 9 ) Frederick Newton (S)

P 0 Box 40081 Jacksonville, FL 32203 Beta Beta Lambda (Miami - # 1 4 6 ) Albert Hall (P)

P 0. Box 510027 Miami. FL 33151 Beta Delta Lambda (Daytona Beach - # 1 4 8 ) David H. Staples (P) 803 S, Thompson Avenue Deland. FL 32720 Gamma Zita Lambda (Tampa - # 1 7 2 ) No Report Gamma Mu Lambda (Tallahassee - # 1 7 7 ) Charles R. Russell (S) 433 Mercury Drive Tallahassee. FL 32304 Delta Delta Lambda (West Palm Beach - # 1 9 2 ) Charles E. White (P) P. 0 Box 982 West Palm Beach, FL 33402

Atlanta. GA 30314 Gamma Zeta (Ft. Valley State No Report

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Delta Delta (Albany State - # 9 2 ) Morris V. Jones (VP) P O 36. Albany State College Albany, GA 31705 Delta Eta (Savannah State Coll - # 9 5 ) Ransom J. Ricks (CS) Savannah State College P 0 Box 20742 Savannah, GA 31404 ZitaMu (Georgia State U - # 3 4 2 ) David Sprowl (P) P O. Box 542 Georgia State Univ Atlanta. GA 30303

Zeta Pi (U of Georgia - # 3 4 6 ) Don R, Weston (P) 180 Myers Hall Athens. GA 30609 Eta Alpha (Pame College - # 3 5 4 ) Donald Murray (S) 1235 15th Street Paine College, P. 0 Box 77 Augusta. GA 30910 Theta Beta (Columbus College - # 3 7 7 ) Louis Davis, Jr. (P) 312 Yuchi Ave. Columbus. GA 31907 lota Eta (Mercer U - # 4 0 4 ) Meredith Ransom (P) P 0 Box 958 - Mercer U Macon. GA 31207 Mu Alpha (Emory U - # 4 4 2 ) Eric Morrow (S)

Box 21185 Emory U Atlanta. GA 30332

Mu Gamma (Georgia College - # 4 4 4 ) Johnny Bryant, III (P) Box 1982 - Georgia College Milledgeville GA 31061 Mu Delta (Georgia Southwestern - # 4 4 5 ) Anthony Tonye (S) Georgia Southwestern College

Box 1196 Amencus, GA 31709 Mu Omicron (Valdosta State - # 4 5 5 ) Steven Robinson (S) Valdosta State College

Box 13 Valdosta. GA 31601 Nu Gamma (West Georgia Coll - # 4 6 6 ) Howard McFarland, Ir. (P) West Georgia College

P 0 Box 10016

Eta Omicron (North Carolina State U Keith E. Haynes (CS) Umv Station

P 0. Box 5631

Box 1954

Kappa Beta (MS State U - # 4 2 1 ) Gregory Davis (P)

Raleigh. NC 27650 Kappa Omicron

S C State College Orangeburg, SC 29117 Gamma Gamma (Allen U - # 6 9 ) No Report Gamma Pi (Benedict College - # 8 1 ) Douglas Showell (S)

Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 29762 Mu Xi (USM - # 4 5 4 ) No Report Nu Upsilon (U of Mississippi Chiton Johnson (P)

MuZeta (U ol North Carolina - # 4 4 7 ) Otis J Jeffries Umv, ol N C at Chapel Hill P 0 Box 551 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 MuTau (UNC - Charlotte - # 4 5 9 ) Damon M Stinson, III 6554 Idlewild Road Charlotte, NC 28212 NuZeta (Western Carolina U - # 4 6 9 ) Antonio Glenn (P)

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P 0, Box 3251 University, MS 38677 Omicron Gamma (Millsaps College - # 7 1 0 ) Kenneth Carter (S)

P 0. Box 1818 LaGrange, GA 30241 Iota Gamma Lambda (Brunswick - # 5 0 4 ) Richard Wilson (S) P. O Box 98 While Oak. GA 31568 Kappa Tau Lambda (Valdosta - # 5 4 1 ) Calvin Willis (P) 4021 Lantern Lane Valdosta. GA 31601 Nu Mu Lambda (Decatur - # 5 7 8 ) Coleman Seward (P) 3650 Paddock Decatur. GA 30034

MISSISSIPPI Director Wiley Jones Alcorn State University P. 0. Box 285 Lorman, MS 39096 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Gamma Upsilon (Tougaloo College - # 8 5 ) Abron Washington (H) 3340 Harley. Apt. 7D Jackson, MS 39209 Delta Kappa (Alcorn State U - # 9 8 ) Robert E Moses, II (P) P, 0 Box 267 Lorman, MS 39096 Delta Phi (Jackson State U - # 3 0 7 ) No Report Zeta Phi (MS Valley State U - # 3 5 1 ) Reginald C. Adams (VP) 108 Beale Street Belzoni, MS 39038

P 0 Box 543 Cullowhee, NC 28723

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(Wake Forest U - # 4 9 2 ) Frederick D Jones (P) P 0 Box 6476 Reynolds Stat Winston-Salem, NC 2 7 1 0 9 Omicron Beta (Atlantic Christian - # 7 0 9 ) No Report Omicron Theta (Univ. of Wilmington - # 7 1 5 ) No Report ALUMNI CHAPTERS Kappa Lambda (Greensboro - # 1 1 0 ) William Finger (CS) P. 0 Box 21052 Greensboro, NC 27420 Phi Lambda (Raleigh - # 1 2 0 ) P. P Thompson (RC) 1305 Foxrun Drive Raleigh, NC 2 7 6 1 0 Alpha Pi Lambda (Winston-Salem - # 1 3 7 ) David H. Wagner (P) 3440 Cumberland Road Winston-Salem, NC 27105 Beta Theta lambda (Durham - # 1 5 2 ) Jerome Coleman (P) P 0 Box 3522 Durham, NC 27702 Beta Mu Lambda (Salisbury - # 1 5 5 ) Herbert C Chambers (S) 615 West Council Street Salisbury, NC 28144 Beta Nu Lambda (Charlotte - # 1 5 6 ) lames G Heath (P) P. O Box 16153 Charlotte, NC 28216 Gamma Kappa Lambda (Wilmington - # 1 7 6 ) No Report

Xi Zeta Lambda (Moss Point - # 5 9 5 ) Hugh B Grant (P) P 0 Box 283 Pascagoula, MS 39567

NORTH CAROLINA Director Rudolph Hendricks

P 0 Box 16153 Charlotte. NC 28212 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Alpha Omicron (Johnson C Smith U

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Rodney K Hood (P) 1327 Orvis Street Charlotte, NC 28216 Beta Epsilon (AST State U - # 4 9 ) Donald Smith (CS) Box A 14, NC A«T SU Greensboro, NC 27411 Beta Zeta (Elizabeth City State U No Report

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Beta lota #53) (Winston-Salem Stale U Dennis Turnage (P) P. 0 Box 14793 Winston-Salem, NC 27102 Beta Rho (Shaw U - # 6 0 ) No Report Gamma Beta (North Carolina Central U Marty T Comai (P) Route 4, Box 305C Oxford, NC 27565 Gamma Mu (Livingstone College • # 7 7 ) Cleveland Gadsden (P) P 0 Box 62 Salisbury. NC 28144 Gamma Psi (St. Augustine's College Austin R Cooper. II (P)

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Raleigh. NC 27611 Epsilon Zeta (Fayetteville State U - # 3 1 5 ) Manuel Blackmon P. O. Box 862 Fayetteville. NC 28301 Zeta Epsilon (Barber-Scotia College - # 3 3 6 ) No Report #365)

Gamma Psi Lambda (Asheville - # 1 8 8 ) Lawrence Gilliam (P) 10 Gilliam Place Asheville. NC 28801 Epsilon Rho Lambda (Fayetteville - # 2 2 7 ) James E. Carson (P) 1866 Geiberger Drive Fayetteville. NC 28303 Epsilon Sigma Lambda (Rocky Mount - # 2 2 8 ) W. 0 Warner 403 Atlanta Avenue P. O Box 761 Rocky Mount. NC 27801 Epsilon Chi Lambda (Elizabeth City - # 2 3 2 ) Roger A McLean (P) Box 21

Elizabeth City State U Elizabeth City, NC 27909 Zeta Eta Lambda (Greenville - # 2 4 0 ) i , c g , Walter B Council (S) ' P. O. Box 1187 Greenville, NC 27834 E U Mu Lambda (Gastonia - # 2 6 6 ) No Report

P. 0. Box 26611

EUNu (East Carolina U No Report

# 3 6 7 ) Beta Delta (South Carolina State Michael Hubbard (S)

(Duke U - # 4 3 3 ) Robert Harrington (CS) Box 4783 - Duke Station Durham, NC 27706

P 0 Box 1472

Carrollton, GA 30318 P, 0 Box NuMu Millsaps College (Southern Tech Inst, - # 4 7 4 ) Jackson, MS 39210 Brett M Gaines (P) Omicron Psi Room 108, Dean of Students Bldg, (Delta State U - # 7 2 9 ) Georgia Institute ol Technology No Report Atlanta. GA 30332 ALUMNI CHAPTERS XiTau Alpha Epsilon Lambda (Georgia Southern College - # 7 0 3 ) (lackson - # 1 2 7 ) Crandall Jones (CS) Oliver Rice (P) LB 10131 P O Box 374 Georgia Southern College Tougaloo, MS 39174 Statesboro. GA 30460 Epsilon Xi Lambda ALUMNI CHAPTERS (Mound Bayou - # 2 2 4 ) Ela Lambda George I Bacon (RS) (Atlanta - # 1 0 7 ) 1501 Kennedy Cove Larry Epps (CS) P. 0 Box 5531 P 0 Box 92576 Greenville. MS 38701 Atlanta. GA 30314 Zeta Mu Lambda Alpha Chi Lambda (Biloxi - # 2 4 4 ) (Augusta - # 1 4 3 ) Mack B Harris (CS) Willie G Marshall (FS) P. 0. Box 4254 829 Strother Drive 1908 30th Avenue Augusta. GA 30901 Gullport. MS 39501 Beta Phi Lambda E U Phi Lambda (Savannah - # 1 6 4 ) (Columbus - # 2 7 5 ) Chester Ellis (CS) Otis Barry (P) P 0 Box 1361 P 0 Box 464 Savannah. GA 31402 Columbus, MS 39701 Gamma Omicron Lambda Theta Sigma Lambda (Albany - # 1 8 0 ) (Natchez - # 2 9 4 ) Edwin A Green (P) John Hendricks P 0 Box 4054 P O Box 42 A.S.U Albany. GA 31707 Lorman, MS 39096 Gamma Sigma Lambda Mu Gamma Lambda (Ft Valley - # 1 8 3 ) (Hattiesburg-Laurel - # 5 4 8 ) Ralph Malone (S) No Report 1211 Beverly Street Mu Pi Lambda Fort Valley, GA 3 1 0 3 0 (Brookhaven - # 5 6 0 ) Delta lota lambda No Report (Columbus- #197) No Repory Epsilon Beta Lambda (Macon - # 2 1 3 ) Albert I Abrams (S) P 0 Box 5329 Macon. GA 31208 Eta lota Lambda (Athens - # 2 6 4 ) Hugh Goodrum (CS) P 0. Box 902 Athens. GA 30603 Theta Nu Lambda (LaGrange - # 2 8 9 ) Alfred McNair (S)

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COLLEGE CHAPTERS

Iota Gamma (Rust College - # 4 0 0 ) Timothy Stacks (T) Rust College # 4 5 8 Holly Springs, MS 38635

TheU Omicron Lambda (Goldsboro - # 2 9 1 ) Willie Nowlin. Jr. (S) P. O Box 788 Goldsboro. NC 27530 Nu l o U Lambda (Kinston - # 5 7 6 ) Herbert Gran (S) Route 7, Box 279 Kinston, NC 28501 Nu Kappa lambda (Lumberton - # 5 7 7 ) No Report

SOUTH CAROLINA Director Peter Felder P. 0 Box 41 Clallm College Orangeburg. SC 29115

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Bacoats Hall Benedict College Columbia, SC 29204 DelU Alpha (Claflin College - # 8 9 ) Eric Hill (S) The High Rise Box 334, Claflin College Orangeburg, SC 29113 EU loU (Voorhees College Herbert Pittman (S)

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670 Porter Drive Denmark, SC 29042 TheU Nu (U ol South Carolina - # 3 8 7 ) Lemar F Marshall (P) Box 85128 - USC Columbia. SC 29208 Kappa Chi (Francis Marion College - # 4 4 0 ) No Report MuPi (Baptist College - # 4 5 6 ) Michael Butler (P) P 0 Box 135. Baptist College Charleston. SC 29411 Nu Phi (USC - Conway # 4 8 3 ) No Report Xi Epsilon (Morris College - # 4 9 0 ) Phillip Brown (P) Morns College Box 60 Sumler, SC 29150 Xi Phi (Wmthrop College - # 7 0 5 ) Darrell Johnson (P) Wmthrop College WP0 5018 Rock Hill. SC 29733 Omicron Chi (Wollord College - # 7 2 8 ) Robert D. Mickle, Jr, (P) Box 163 - Wofford College Spartanburg, SC 29301 Pi Alpha (Clemson U - # 7 3 0 ) No Report ALUMNI CHAPTERS Alpha Psi Lambda (Columbia - # 1 4 4 ) Samuel Heyward (P) 3903 Brewer Street Columbia, SC 29203 BeU Kappa Lambda (Charleston - # 1 5 4 ) lames T, McKim (CS) P. 0, Box 2714 Charleston, SC 29403 Gamma Gamma Lambda (Greenville - # 1 6 9 ) Morns F, Hall (P) P O Box 5244 Greenville. SC 29606 DelU ZeU Lambda (Orangeburg- #194) Hayward E Bovian (P) 764 Cherry Lane Orangeburg. SC 29115 DelU Kappa Lambda (Florence - # 1 9 8 ) Joseph Heyward (S) P O Box 384 Florence, SC 29503 E U Omicron Lambda (Rock Hill - # 2 6 9 ) No Report TheU Phi lambda (Bennettsville - # 2 9 7 ) F Eugene Crawford (CS) 122 Campbell Street Chesterfield, SC 29709 l o U E U lambda (Denmark - # 5 0 8 ) No Report Mu Epsilon lambda (Conway - # 5 5 0 ) No Report Xi Gamma Lambda (Beaufort - # 5 9 2 ) Cleadus W, Ferguson (S) 1403 Greenlawn Drive Beauforl, SC 29902

(LeMoyne-Owen College No Report BeU Omicron (Tennessee SUte U Gregory Diggs (P) T.S.U. Box 419 Nashville. I N 37203

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BeU Pi (Lane College - # 5 9 ) Paul S Adams (P) Lane College Jubilee Residence Hall Jackson, I N 38301 Gamma Omicron (Knoxville College Phillip Jackson (P)

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901 College Knoxville, I N 37921 EUPhi (UT-ChatUnooga - # 3 7 3 ) No Report TheU Pi (Austm-Peay State U - # 3 9 0 ) Reginald I Budges (P) Austin Peay State U Clarksville, I N 37040 Kappa EU (Memphis State U - # 4 2 6 ) Stanley Green (CS) 3807 Nornswood Memphis, TIM 381T1 Kappa TheU (Vanderbill U - # 4 2 7 ) Charles Biggs (P) Box 5270, Station B Nashville, TN 37235 Kappa Xi (Middle Tennessee State - # 4 3 2 ) Bert Finley MTSU P. 0 Box 655 Murlreesboro, TN 37132 MuBeU (UT - Martin - # 4 4 3 ) Vincent Beasley (CS) P 0. Box 121 U of Tennessee at Martin Martin. TN 38237 Mu l o U (University of Tennessee al Knoxville - # 4 5 0 ) Randolph Wilkerson (CS) 1810 Lake Avenue Knoxville. TN 37916 Nu EU (Christian Brothers Coll - # 4 7 0 ) Gary Williams (P) 1438 Kyle Street Number 4 Memphis. TN 38111 Omicron Phi (Tennessee Technological University - #727) Mr Anthony Charles Sims (P) Box 8502 Cookeville, TN 38505 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Tau Lambda (Nashville - # 1 1 8 ) Wilson Welch (CS) P 0 Box 5646 Nashville, TN 37208 Psi Lambda (Chattanooga - # 1 2 2 ) Virgil V McGee (P) 734 M L King Blvd ChatUnooga. TN 37403 Alpha DelU Lambda (Memphis - # 1 2 6 ) William J Hawkins (P) 2525 Fontaine Road Memphis, TN 38106 Alpha Mu Lambda' (Knoxville - # 1 3 3 ) Leonard A. Jackson (CS)

P 0. Box 2091 Knoxville, TN 37901 BeU Upsilon Lambda (Jackson - # 1 6 3 ) No Report Kappa ZeU Lambda (Clarksville - # 5 2 9 ) No Report Mu Nu Lambda (Kingsport - # 5 5 7 ) No Report

SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS Director Hubert Brown 1716 Fluker Street Pine Bluff, AR 71601 COLLEGE CHAPTERS BeU Chi

(Philander Smith College - # 6 5 ) No Report Gamma DelU (U of Ark. at Pioe Bluff - # 7 0 ) Micheal Nettles Everett Flemings (P) 6535 Premier Drive - # H 5 915*4 W. Barraque Nashville. I N 37209 Pine Bluff. AR 71601 COLLEGE CHAPTERS TheU Kappa Chi ,>(Henderson SUte Coll. - # 3 8 5 ) (Meharry Medical College - # 2 James Moore (VP) No Report Box H 2982 Alpha Chi Arkadelphia. AK 71923 (Fisk U - # 4 3 ) TheU Upsilon Jonathan L. Bush (CS) (Arkansas SUte U - # 3 9 4 ) P. 0. Box 101 Sherwin Harvey (P) Fisk University P. O, Box 1366 Nashville, I N 37203 SUte University, AR 72467

TENNESSEE Director

Theta Psi (U of Central Arkansas - # 3 9 7 ) Alpha Phi Alpha Bo» 646 - U C A Conway AR 72032 Kappa Iota (Southern Arkansas U - # 4 2 8 ) Mike Dedner (P) P 0 Box 777 - SAU Magnolia. AR 71753 Kappa Kappa (t) of Arkansas - # 4 2 9 ) Samuel Turner (P) 836 Fairvrew Fayette.ille AR 72701 Kappa Psi (UA Little Rock - # 4 4 1 ) Nu Report Nu Alpha (Arkansas Tech U - #4641 James w Taylor (S) 1401 Parker Place Apt # 1 8 Russellnlle. AR 72801 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Pi Lambda (Little Rock - # 1 1 5 ) lames E Wilson (P) 4216 Tatum Little Rock, AR 72204 Delta Sigma Lambda (Pine Bluff - #2061 Dan F Graham (CS) P 0 Bo« 6041 Pine Bluff AR 71611 Theta Tau Lambda (Helena - # 2 9 5 ) Willis Williams (ES) 51 Lambert Drive W Helena. AR 72390 Mu Omicmn Lambda (Blytheville - # 5 5 9 ) Clarence Freeman (S) P O Box 272 Osceola AR 72370 Nu Psi Lambda (Baton Rouge - # 6 0 0 ) No Repoit

Desmond Abies 4634 Francis Drive Ne« Orleans LA 70126 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Beta Sigma (Southern U - # 6 1 ) LaRence Snowden (CS) P O Box 11769 Southern IJniveisity Baton Rouge LA 70813 Beta Tau (Xaviei U - # 6 2 ) Rene Allen (S) 2118 Simon Bolivai New Orleans, LA 70113 Beta Phi

COLLEGE CHAPTERS Delta (Huston-Titlotson College No Report Alpha Sigma

P 0 Box 3129 IS Huston LA 71272 ElaCbi (Northeast Louisiana - # 3 7 4 ) Darryl w Carey (D O P ) NLU Box 2474 - Olm Monroe LA 71212 Theta Theta

Herbert Paul (P) Jackson Hall Wiley College Marshall, TX 75670 Gamma Alpha (Texas College - » 6 7 i Nkwocha Onyewucht (P) Gamma Alpha Chapter Texas College Tyler TX 75702 Delta Theta (Texas Southern U - # 9 6 ) Reginald Lee ( 0 3016 Blodgett # 3 Houston TX 77004 Epsilon Gamma (Bishop College - #3121 Elroy Roberson (S) 3837 Simpson Stuart Rd Dallas. TX 75241 Epsilon Iota (U ol Texas - # 3 1 8 ) Charles H Stafford (P) 3805 Avenoe B #203 Austin [X 78751 Epsilon Rho (Lamar U - #3251 Vernon Davis (P)

P 0 Box 10729 Lamar University Beaumont TX 77710 Epsilon Sigma (SI Mary's U - # 3 2 6 ) Clarence [ Cook, li (Pi P O Box 8009 San Antonio. TX 78208 Zeta Kappa (UTEI Paso - # 3 4 1 ) Leroy Chapman Ir (Pi Warren Terrace Apts # 1 4 1 4740 N Mesa El Paso. TX 79912 Zeta Tau (East Texas State - # 3 4 9 ) Derrick Craver (CS) Barry Hall Room 252 Commerce TX 75428 Zeta Chi (UT Arlington - # 3 5 2 1 Kevin D lackson (P) Umv ol Texas at Arlington

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McNeese State Umv Lake Charles, LA 70609 Theta Phi (U of New Orleans - # 3 9 5 ) No Report Theta Chi #396)

Natchitoches. LA 71497 Kappa Mu (Nicholls State U - # 4 3 0 ) Tyrone Melancon (CS) P 0 2209 NSU Thibodaux. LA 70310 Kappa Nu (Southeastern Louisiana - # 4 3 1 ) No Report Nu Psi (Louisiana State U - # 4 8 5 ) Roderick Teamer (P) P 0 Box 21902 Baton Rouge, LA 70893

COLLEGE CHAPTERS Beta Kappa (Langston U - # 5 4 i Harold Dickerson (S) P 0 Box 386 Langston OK 73050 Epsilon Epsilon (Oklahoma State U - # 3 1 4 ) Danyl Walker |S) 408 N Washington Stillwater OK 74074 Zeta Zeta (U of Oklahoma - # 3 3 7 ) Rodney Ford (P)

Box 4193

2412 W Brooks #7 Norman, OK 73069 Zeta Sigma (Central State U - #3481 lerry Robinson (P) Apt 124 Brentwood Forest tdmond OK 73034 Zeta Upsilon (Northeastern State Coll

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N Report Eta Theta (East Central State - # 3 6 1 ) No Report Kappa Epsilon (Cameron U - # 4 2 4 ) Michael A Wilson (P) P O Box 6397 Lawton OK 73505 Omicmn Nu (University ol Tulsa -719) Darryl D White (P) Umv of Tulsa Box 266 Westby Tulsa, OK 74104 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Alpha Tau Lambda (Tulsa - # 1 4 0 ) Emanuel Palmer (S)

P O Box 6152 lulsa OK 74106 Beta Epsilon Lambda

(Boley - #149) L G Ashley (S) P 0 Box 247 Boley, OK 74829 Beta Eta Lambda (Oklahoma City - # 1 5 1 ) Oliver Stripling (P) 345 NE 60 Oklahoma City OK 73105

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(Wiley College - #39)

Oklahoma City OK 73111

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(Northwestern Stale U Ronald Page (P) NSU P 0 Box 5232

Director Gerald Joseph 2421 Delano Houston TX 7 7003

Director William G Henderson 1214 N E 67th

(USL - # 3 4 4 ) Vernan Roberson |P) Univ of Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette LA 70504 Eta Kappa (Louisiana Tech U - # 3 6 3 ) Byron J Baioie (H)

P 0 Box 251 Southern Methodist University Dallas TX 75275 Kappa Sigma (West Texas State - # 4 3 6 : No Report Mu Nu (Southwest Texas State - # 4 5 3 ) Michael Tapscott (P) Mu Nu Chapter LB1 Student Center SW Texas San Marcos TX 78666

TEXAS

OKLAHOMA

(Dillard U - # 6 4 ) Kevin Jones tP) 2601 Gentilly Blvd New Orleans. LA 70122 Delia Sigma (Grambhng U - # 3 0 4 ) Edwin Smith (S) P 0 Box 200 Grambling, LA 71245 Epsilon Upsilon (SUNO - # 3 2 8 ) Nn Report

lota Mu (SF Austin State U - » 4 0 8 i Otis Rhodes (A) SFA 13017 Nacogdoches TX 75962 lota Omrcron (Southern Methodist U - » 4 t l l Rodney Carter (Pi

Beta Chi Lambda (Muskogee - # 1 6 5 ) Jimmie L White. Ir (S) Box 26 Warner OK 74469 Zeta Gamma Lambda (Langston - # 2 3 6 ) Raymond lohnson Sr (P) Box 836 Tulsa. OK 74123 Eta Xi Lambda (Lawton-Ft Sill - # 2 6 8 ) Johnnie Tilman (P) P 0 Box 6752 Lawton OK 73505

Opelousas LA 70570 Nu Alpha Lambda (Manero - #5681 Joseph J Eweli Jr iS) P 0 Box 1605 Harvey LA 70059 Nu Theta Lambda (St Martinville - # 5 7 5 ) Lawrence M Abraham (P) Route 1 Box 122A SI Martinville LA 70582 Nu Sigma Lambda (Natchitoches - # 5 8 4 ) Nu Repr.it

LOUISIANA Director

(McNeese Stale U Roderick Steele Theta Theta Chapter

ALUMNI CHAPTERS Sigma Lambda (New Orleans - # 1 1 7 ) Desmond M Abies (CS) 4634 Francis Drive New Orleans LA 70126 Beta Iota Lambda (Baton Rouge - # 1 5 3 ) Washington Taylor ( E D D ) P 0 Box 9260 Baton Rouge LA 70813 Delta Upsilon Lambda (Shreveport - # 2 0 8 ) lames C Leaty (T) 2961 Looney Street Shreveport, LA 71103 Epsilon Kappa Lambda (Giambling - # 2 2 1 ) Allen Williams P 0 Drawer 604 Giambling. LA 71245 Epsilon Psi Lambda (Alexandria - # 2 3 3 ) Alum. Lee(P) 2929 Wise Street Alexandria. VA 71301 Zeta Chi Lambda (Bogalusa - # 2 5 4 l No Repoil Zeta Psi Lambda (Lake Charles - # 2 5 5 ) Adrian L Wallace (?)

P 0 Box 1102 Lake Charles LA 70601 EU Gamma Lambda (Lalayette - # 2 5 8 ) Richard Iravers (S) P O Box 5224 Lafayette LA 70502 Eta Delta Lambda (Monroe - # 2 5 9 ) Louis Pargoud (CS) P 0 Box 815 Monroe. LA 71201 lota Xi Lambda (Opelousas - # 5 1 4 i Donald I Bush i l l P 0 329

Arlington TX 76010 Eta Gamma (Prairie View - # 3 5 6 ) Robert Price (CS) P 0 Box 2255 Prairie View TX 77445 Eta Epsilon (North Texas State - # 3 5 8 ) Darryl Thornton (P) P O Box 5493 - N T Station Denton TX 76201 Eta Mu (U of Houston - # 3 6 4 ) Roscoe W Overton (P) 5103 Sampson Houston TX 77004 Eta Upsilon (Texas Tech u - # 3 7 2 ) laroy Bassett (ED) 2212 5th. # 7 2 Lubbock TX 79401 Eta Psi (Texas Christian U - # 3 7 5 ) Brian Q Gaslon (P) 4836 Foard Street Fort Worth, TX 76119 Theta Alpha (Jaryts Christian College - # 3 7 6 ) Darryl Dowe (S) P 0 Box 69 Hawkins TX 75765 I V ! , MU (Sam Houston State U - # 3 8 6 ) Lawrence Ramey (P)

P O Box 2840 Huntsville, TX 77340 lota Kappa (Paul Qumn College Rogei M Provost (PI 1020 Elm Waco TX 76704

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ALUMNI CHAPTERS Alpha Eta Lambda (Houston - # 1 2 9 ) Tophas Anderson 111 (P) 15222 Ridgewell Drive Houston IX 77062 Alpha Sigma Lambda (Dallas - - 1 3 9 i Vernell Rosenthal iSi P 0 Box 26324 Dallas TX 75226 Beta Tau Lambda iFI W'ir'h - # 1 6 2 ) Samuel Watson (CS) 5637 Wamwiighl Drive Fort Worth TX 76112 Gamma Eta Lambda (Austin - # 1 7 3 l Allen M lohnson (S) 9901 Mandeville Ctr Austin 1X78750 Gamma Pi Lambda (Galveston »181 Edward Clack (T) P 0 Box 3429 Galveston, TX 77550 Gamma Tau Lambda (Beaumont - # 1 8 4 ) Howard Mills (P) 4165 Simpson Drive Beaumont, TX 77705 Gamma Upsilon Lambda (Marshall - # 1 8 5 i I 1 Lamothe III (P) 715 West End Blvd Marshall TX 75670 Delta Rho Lambda (San Antonio - # 2 0 5 ) James L Pickett (P) P 0 Box 10071 San Antonio TX 78210 Epsilon Alpha Lambda (Tyler - # 2 1 2 i Pea'lie Henderson (Pi Rt 21 Box 440-A Tyler. TX 75709 Epsilon Epsilon Lambda

(Waco - #216) Alvm Pollard (P) P O Box 1405 Waco TX 76703 Epsilon Tau Lambda (Pranie View - # 2 2 9 l Johnson Pennywell (P) P 0 Box 2241 Prairie View TX 77446 Epsilon Phi Lambda (Poll Arthur . # 2 3 1 l Mr Charles A lones. Jr |P) 4975 Beaumont Drive Beaumont. TX 77708 Zeta Tau Lambda (Amarillo - # 2 5 1 ) Eta Upsilon Lambda (Odessa - * 2 7 4 i Bntish C Daniels (Pi 704 Ohio Big Spring. TX 79720 Theta Delta Lambda (El Paso - # 2 8 1 ) Michael A Jacques (P) 3404 Slocum Street El Paso TX 79936 Theta Kappa Lambda (Lubbock - # 2 8 7 ) No Report Kappa Gamma Lambda (Texarkana - # 5 2 6 ) Henry McFadden (PI 512 State Line Plaza

Box 8025 Texarkana. AR 75502 Kappa Sigma Lambda (Killen - # 5 4 0 l No Report Mu Rho Lambda (Longview - # 5 6 1 ) No Report Nu Pi Lambda (Arlington - # 5 8 2 ) lohn Hanson (P)

P O Box 120221 Arlington TX 76012 Xi Beta Lambda (Temple - # 5 9 1 ) A C Houston (P) 3410 Shady Hill Circle Temple TX 76502 Xi Eta Lambda (Nmth Harris County - # 5 9 6 ) N lrV|r"' Xi Kappa Lambda (Missouri City - # 5 9 9 ) No Report

WEST SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA/ HAWAII Director G Bernard Brown 3946 Bumstde Avenue Los Aogeles CA 90008

Director Clifton Wesl 7350 Southland Park Drive Sacramento CA 95826 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Theta EU (UC Davis - # 3 8 2 Mark F Baker (Pl 919 Drake Drive # 1 4 4

308 Westwood Plaza # 4 9 1 Los Angeles CA 90024 MuChi

Mu Kappa (UC Santa Barbara -

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Percy Lyle (CS) P 0 Box 2975 Denver CO 80202 lota Omicron Lambda (Colorado Springs - # 5 1 5 i lota Omicion Lambda Chapter

NORTH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

COLLEGE CHAPTERS Alpha Delta (USC - # 2 6 ) Michael Green (CS) 909 W Adams #A-6 Los Angeles CA 90008 Gamma Xi (UCLA - # 7 9 ) Brett J York (P)

(Cal Stale Long Beach Don Dorsey (P) 607 Noith Chvden Compton CA 90220

ALUMNI CHAPTERS Delta Psi Lambda (Denver - # 3 1 1

Kappa Eta Lambda (Bakerslield - # 5 3 0 ) Paul Anderson (Pl Kappa Eta Lambda f 0 Bo. 2114 Bakerslield CA 93303

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ALUMNI CHAPTERS Beta Psi Lambda iLos Angeles - # 1 6 6 l Hnmei Mason (P) P 0 Box 75367 Los Angeles CA 90075 lota Zeta Lambda (Compton - * 5 0 7 i Douglas Alston (CSi

P 0 Box 90672 Los Angeles CA 90009 Mu Beta Lambda (Honolulu - #5471 Moddy K Bryan iP) 46-332 Kumoo Loop Kaneohe HA 96744 Mu Xi Lambda (Rralto - # 5 5 8 ) No Repoit Mu Sigma Lambda (Culvei City - * 5 6 2 l luny Mitchell (Si

P 0 Box 3261 Los Angeles CA 9 0 2 3 0 Xi Iota Lambda (Camanlo - # 5 9 8 i lohn G Baugh (VPi 31716 Saddletiee Drive Westlake Village CA 91361

INLAND EMPIRE Director Charles Neal 6576 Parksrde San Diego CA COLLEGE CHAPTERS

P 0 Box 2158 Bouldei CO 80306

Davis CA 95616 Nu Chi (U ol the Pacific - # 4 8 4 i Kevin Smith iDOP 1427 N San Joaquin Stockton CA Pi Gamma (CSU - Sacramento No Report

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ALUMNI CHAPTERS Zeta Beta Lambda (Sacramento - # 2 3 5 ) Irvin M Gipson (P)

P 0 Box 22261 Saciamento CA 9 5 8 2 2 Kappa Omrcron Lambda iVallejo «537i Edward Woodward (Si 201 Tamapais Valleio CA 94589 Nu Beta Lambda iStockton - # 5 6 9 ) Kenneth 0

Peters Si (Si

2663 Fallenieaf Dove Stockton CA 9 5 2 0 9

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Director Joe Thomas 178 Bridgevrew Drive San Francisco. CA COLLEGE CHAPTERS Alpha Epsilon (UC Berkeley - # 2 7 i Kerry Lewis (S) 944 Willow Street Oakland CA 94606 Delta Omicion (Stanfoid Nn Reporl Epsilon Mu

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(San lose State U - » 3 2 0 i lethioe Moore II (P) 3221 Napa Drrve San lose CA 95148 Nu Sigma (Stanford - # 4 8 0 ) Tony L Nolen VP

Eta Sigma P 0 Box 10033 (Metro San Diego - # 3 7 0 ) Stanlotd CA 94305 Phillip J Williams (P) Xi P I 4310 54th Apt 210 (Hayward - # 7 0 0 ) San Diego CA 95115 Randolph Ford I P I lota Chi 2511 E 15lh (U ol Redlands - # 4 1 8 ) Oakland CA 94601 Denae Regrns (P) Xi Rho 805 Kentwood Drive (San Francisco - #701) R.verside CA 92807 Timothy L Gray (S) lota Psi 994 tngerson Avenue (California Polytechnic U - #4191 San Francisco CA 94124 Steven I Wright (Pi 1231 Pasadena Street Apl 30 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Pomona CA 91767 Gamma Phi Lambda Omrcron Eta (Berkeley - # 1 8 6 ) lU ol Calilornia - Irvine - # 7 1 4 ) Capers G Bradham (P) No Report P 0 Box 3238 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Zeta Sigma Lambda (San Diego - #250> Sam Thomas (Pl 7594 Careybrook Lane San Diego CA 92114

Berkeley CA 94703 Gamma Chi Lambda (San Francisco - # 1 8 7 ) Joe C Thomas (P) 208 Chadwick Way

Eta Pi Lambda (Pasadena - # 2 7 0 ) No Report

Bemcia CA 9 4 5 1 0 Eta Sigma Lambda (San Jose - # 2 7 2 ) Darryl Parker (Pl

Nu Tau Lambda [Orange County - # 5 8 5 ) Lloyd Chandler (RS) 2814 Burly Avenue E Orange. CA 92669

3819 Seven Trees Blvd San Jose CA 95111 Theta Beta Lambda (Oakland - # 2 7 9 ) Inactive

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Kappa Alpha Lambda (Monterey - # 5 2 4 l William I Hill (P)

Duectoi Lecostel Hailey 1904 Dracena Bakerslield

CA 93303

COLLEGE CHAPTERS Epsilon Beta (Fresno State - # 3 1 1 ) lohn M Wimmons (P) 1505 E Yale #F Fresno, CA 93704 Xi Upsilon (California Polytechnic - # 7 0 4 ) Christopher Santee (T) 1043 Santa Ynez. Number 7 San Luis Obispo CA 93401 ALUMNI CHAPTERS lota Nu Lambda (Fiesno - # 5 1 3 ) No Repoit

P 0 Box 1128 Seaside CA 93955

ROCKY MOUNTAIN Director Phillip Cochran 1165 Drexel Boolder CO 80303 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Alpha lota (U of Denver - # 3 1 ) No Report lota Upsilon (Utah State U - # 4 1 6 ) No Report Omicion Tau (Fort Collins - # 7 2 5 ) James Darden III (P) 205 Aylesworlh Hall Colorado State University Ft Collins, CO 80523

P 0 Box 15083 Colorado Springs CO 80910 Mu Upsilon Lambda (Bouldei - * 5 6 4 i Ronald Reese (Si Mu Upsrlon Lambda

GREAT PLAINS Director Dr James Hill 8536 N 45th Drrve Glendale A2 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Zeta Theta (U of Arizona - # 3 3 9 i Jerord D Patterson (VPl 4917 E 26lh Sheer lucsun A2 85711 Mo Eta (Arizona State U - # 4 1 6 i No Report ALUMNI CHAPTERS Delta Tau Lambda (Phoenix #207i William Cntbin (CSi 2401 W Cherry Lvnn Road Phoenn AZ 85015 Eta Psi Lambda (Tucson - # 2 7 7l Richard Davis (CSi 5620 E S Wilsture Drrve Tucson AZ 85711 Theta Pi Lambda Las Vegas - #2921 No Repoit

PUEBLO STATE Director B-iyd lackson 1305 Fvelyii Court Albuquerque

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COLLEGE CHAPTERS Omicion Delta lU ol New Mexico No Reporl

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ALUMNI CHAPTERS lota Psi Lambda (Albuqueique #523i N.i Repof

GREAT NORTHWEST Director Herbert Starke 15013 SE 171st Street Renton WA 98055 COLLEGE CHAPTERS Alpha Xi (U of Washington - # 3 5 l Vincent R Newsome rP) 4135 Brooklyn NE Number 213 Seattle WA 98105 Beta Psi (U ol Oregon - # 6 6 .

No Repoit iota Tau (Eastern Washington u Joseph E Taylor (Pl c o Alpha Phi Alpha

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P 0 Box 2213 CS Pullman WA 99163 ALUMNI CHAPTERS Epsilon Zeta Lambda (Portland - # 2 1 7 i Willia A Williams 5623 N Harght Portland OR 91217 Zeta Pi Lambda (Seattle - # 2 4 8 ) Tommy L Bogao (P) 6961 South Rustic Road Seattle WA 98178 lota Mu Lambda (Tacoma - # 5 1 2 ) lames Randal) (P) lota Mu Lambda P 0 Box 171 - Fern Hill Station tacoma WA 98412 Nu Epsilon Lambda (Richland - # 5 7 2 ) Phillip Lavender (CS) 400 N Oklahoma Kennewick WA 99336 Nu Phi Lambda (Spokane - # 5 8 7 ) James Smith Jr iS) W 5515 Lowell Spokane WA 99208

FAR NORTH Director fied Johnson Anchorage AL ALUMNI CHAPTER Nu Zetai Lambda (Anchorage - # 5 7 3 ) No Report

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