ohio Delta Alpha Lambda raises money for hungry For the second year, the Cleveland Graduate Chapter, Delta Alpha Lambda, adopted the West Central Hunger Task Force Food Center at Triedstone Baptist Church on Cleveland's east side. Fraternity members delivered food stuffs and participated in the center's operations. Chapter members also sponsored a special Hunger Center Raffle that raised $710 for the center, under the leadership of Brother A. Williams Perry, Committee Chairman. Brother Perry presented a check for $710 to Sue Darden, manager of the Triedstone Baptist Church Hunger Center.
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Representative Julian Dixon (left) is greeted by Delta Alpha Lambda Brothers Hilton Smith, Sidney Thompson, and Leonard Hamilton.
Epsilon Delta members active in and out of Alpha Greetings Brothers of Alpha. We, the Brothers of Epsilon Delta Chapter at Kent State University bid all those of Alphadom the warmest of greetings. We have just completed our 1982-83 school year and we are proud to be able to say that we are upholding the standards of Alpha Phi Alpha. We have recently taken a group of aspiring young men into the House of Alpha. These men call themselves Pieces of a Dream, and they crossed the burning sands on April 8, 1983. The members of this line include William Freeman, Otis Smith, Jr., Frederick Brown, Jr., Charlie Heyman, Charles Fleming, Marc White, Alvin Walton, and Christopher Tall. O u r officers are Brothers Michael Oxner, President; Victor Tall, Vice President; Marc White, Secretary; Frederick Brown, Jr., Treasurer; Craig Stephens, Dean of Pledges; William Gaither, Assistant Dean; Christopher Tall, Editor-to-Sphinx; Otis Smith, Jr., Chaplain; and Dr. Willie B. Francis, Advisor. The remaining Brothers are Maurice Stevens, William Bass, Edgar Wright, Brian Boykin, Duane Miller, Robert Southgate, Darrell McNair, Harvey Smith, and Lonnie Angel. We would like to congratulate Brother Willie B. Francis for completing his Doctorate program. Good luck in the 46
n Brother A. William Perry (center) presents donation to Sue Darden. Also pictured (l-r) Andrew Venable, President of Delta Alpha Lambda; Ethel Ward, a hunger center volunteer; and Brother William Bennett. future to Brothers Edgar Wright, Richard Scott, and Lonnie Angel for completing their undergraduate studies. The Brothers of Epsilon Delta have presented the university and its community with a myriad of service projects which include the Brother Oscar W. Ritchie b o o k voucher-scholarship fund; a third annual Thanksgiving canned food drive; a second annual benefit basketball game with Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.; a Black Parent's Day Program, the first of its kind and largest assemblage of Black
parents ever at KSU; participation in the Progressive Education School; and we organized a trip to bring 40 students to Washington, D.C. for Martin Luther King's birthday celebration. The Brothers of Epsilon Delta have also received many honors and have held many offices on the KSU campus, such as: Michael Oxner, student senator; Darrell M c N a i r , student senator and homecoming king candidate; Harvey Smith, Vice President of Black Aesthetics; William Gaither, R.S.A.; Otis Smith, Jr., R.S.A.; Lonnie The S p h i n x / W i n t e r 1983