Ridgel, Vice President; Arnold W. Wright, Treasurer; Donald W. Lyons, Secretary; H. B. Baker, Chaplain; and Sherron Jackson, Editor-to-the-Sphinx. The Brothers of Gamma Beta Lambda and Beta Mu chapters (Frankfort, Kentucky) hosted a state planning meeting on March 31, 1984. With Brother Ivan L. Cotman, Vice President of the Midwestern Region presiding, Alphas from all regions of Kentucky (in keeping with the historic spirit of the fraternity) planned an exciting and ambitious schedule of activities for the coming year. The issue of highest priority during the planning session was 'The Rejuvenation of Alpha in Kentucky". The key element within this broad objective was the provision of top flight leaderhip and role models for the Brothers associated with college chapters. During the "Summit" Brothers discussed an array of problems that appeared to be common among chapters Gamma Beta Lambda across the state. Brother Cotman apspearheads pointed a cabinet level advisory comrejuvenation in Kentucky mittee to study and suggest possible solutions to the problems identified at Gamma Beta Lambda Chapter has the planning conference. Those apcompleted a most productive year inpointed to serve on the "Kentucky cluding the selection of a new slate of Advisory Committee" are: William W. officers; the celebration of Brother Bearden, Gamma Beta Lambda; Ernest Arnold W. Wright's fifty years of serL. Ellis, Alpha Pi; Lee A. Jackson, vice to Alpha; the eightieth birthday of A l p h a Beta L a m b d a ; S a m u e l Brother H. B. Baker; and the presentaMorehead, Gamma Epsilon Lambda; tion of the annual "Best All-Round Jimmie Stewart, Gamma Epsilon Senior" Award. Officers elected to Lambda; Frank S. Black, Xi Pi serve in the 1984-85 fiscal year are: Lambda; William Braxton, Alpha William W. Bearden, President; Gus T. Lambda; George T. French, Jr., Alpha Pi; Sherron Jackson, Gamma Beta Lambda; Tay Seals, Alpha Beta Lambda; Dwayne Sutton, Beta Mu; and Donald W. Lyons, (Chairman) Gamma Beta Lambda; Gus T. Ridgel, Gamma Beta Lambda; and Arnold W. Wright, Sr., (Senior Advisor) Gamma Beta Lambda. In the strong tradition that brought forth such outstanding and innovative leadership to the national administrative level of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (S. Broaddus, E. Collins, G. Ridgel, and I. Cotman), the t r a d i t i o n that d e v e l o p e d and highlighted the imminent success of Whitney M. Young, Jr., Lymon T. Johnson, and Rufus B. Atwood. We are looking to complete another hard day's work. In an historic one-day working meeting designed to reactivate, reorganize and reaffirm Alpha in the state of Kentucky, we dealt with issues such as: scholarship, Alphas on The Brothers of Beta Beta at their Spring Smoker (I to r): Brothers Michael Langford, Davidwhite and traditionally black camWashington, Kenneth DeHart and John Sharkey. The Sphinx/Fall 1984 4o
The Brothers of Beta Beta would like to recognize the last two lines initiated into the Brotherhood of Alpha Phi Alpha. They are John Sharkey, Arnold Hornsby, and Michael Langford of the "Tenacious Trio" initiated December 10, 1982; Neophytes Kenny DeHart, Rodney McCoy, Brian Smith, Ricky Ruffins, G a r y H o p k i n s , T o d d McGruder, Tony Evans, and David Washington of the line "Survival" initiated on April 18, 1983. With the addition of these new brothers, our chapter will play a prominent role in the upcoming school year. Scholastic excellence is what we strive for on campus. Among the ten fraternities on campus, Alpha Phi Alpha ranked third in scholastics with a cumulative GPA of 2.715. This year we plan to take over the number one spot. We are looking forward to the 1984-85 school year. Plans for the fall semester consists of a Back-In-TheGroove Disco, a can food drive at a home game of Nebraska, a Halloween Dance fund raiser in Lincoln, our Frontier Day, our annual Founder's Day celebration and party, a fall smoker, and also a Break-Dancing contest. For the spring, we have planned our second annual Miss Black and Gold Pageant. At this time, we would like to recognize our Miss Black and Gold from 1983-84, Miss Jackie Dixon. Miss Dixon is a senior at the University of NebraskaLincoln. We wish her continued success in the upcoming school year. Also, this
year we are proud to be the co-host with our graduate chapter, Beta Xi Lambda, of the Midwest Regional Convention that will be held this year in Omaha. Brothers, Omaha is the place to be in '85. We would like to say goodbye to our graduating seniors: Richard Bates, Christopher Glenn, Robert Botts, Skip Thomas, Andrei Howze, and Dwain Alexander. Good luck Brothers in your chosen professions. The brothers of Beta Beta will continue to strive, both individually and collectively, for excellence in the name of Alpha. We have come a long way in a short time and we urge all brothers to continue to march onward and upward toward the light.
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