HONORARY
In the spring of 1915 the Fraternity decided to invite to membership certain professors at Howard University: • Dr. Edward Porter Davis, German language scholar and later Dean of the College of Liberal Arts • Dr. Thomas Wyatt Turner, nationally known botanist and the first African-American to received a Ph.D. in botany who later headed the Department of Botany at Hampton University • Thomas Montgomery Gregory, author, playwright who played a key role in opening up officer training to African-Americans during WW1 • Dr. Alain Leroy Locke, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, author, philosopher, critic. PA G E 2 6
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