The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-03-22
THE ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRAZIER.
NIFTY.
Phoenix-like has Arisen from it's Ashes
in the Reorganization Of Mu
CHAPTER.

Phoenix-Iike has Arisen from it's Ashes
in the Reorganization Of Mu
Chapter.
The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
was founded at Ithaca, N. Y, in 1906,
by seven students of Cornell Univer-
s1ty. Like the commencement of all
other great and glorious organizations
there were innumerable sources of op.
position and Encouragement. How
ever, in the course of a few years,
this Greek letter fraternity organized
to meet the demands for society in
which colored college men could en-
joy each others companionship under
the most favorable conditions, had in
corporated in the state of New York
and chapters have been organized all
over the United States and in Canada,
comprising such schools as Yale, Har-
ward, Columbia, and the University of
Pennsylvania in the east; the Univer-
sites of Chicago, Northwestern, ILL.,
nois, Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas,
Western Reserve and Ohio in the
west.
The present membership of the AL
pha Phi Alpha Fraternity is over a
thousand, all of whom are of college
grade, alumni and honorary.
Because a man is student in one
Of these universities which is the seat
of a chapter in our fraternity, does
not, alone, qualify him for member
ship. The standard Of requirements
to obtain an invitation into our body
has been set high; because it is ex-
pected Of our representatives to show,
wherever they may go, the quality
and character of a man in whom the
honor Of our allegiance has been in
vested. Scholarship and high moral
standard and other things which
shadow the tendencies toward moral
debasement are the principal qualifi-
cations which render students eligi-
BILE to unite with us.
In the United States there are five
colored Greek letter fraternities. The
Alpha Phi Alpha is the largest of all.
These fraternities, because of the in
convenience of representation during
the sessions of school or summer va
cation, have it's delegates meet in an
nual convention during the holiday
season of each year. Owing to the de.
plorable conditions resulting from a
loss Of so many members from these
fraternities by entering the army, it
became impossible for all of them to
have an annual convention last year.
The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity did
have convention converting at Cleve-
land, Ohio. .t.-<
| ments, the credit of which falls to
our fraternity, was training camp
for colored army officers at -Des
.Moines, Iowa. Another, of equal i'm
portance, was the success which
many of our Chapters had in fighting
discrimination in the S. A. TIC. in the
white colleges throughout the country
When our government was forced to
arms against Kaiserism for world de-
mOcracy, more than 500 members OF
the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity were
| among the loyal colored men who Of
>fered their lives for this great coun.
try. At least ten per cent of the Off
GERS commissioned at Fort Des Moines
Training Camp were Alpha Phi Alpha
men, and but three who were Alpha
Phi Alpha men failed to get commits
sions. -. -.
Recently several of the alumni
members of our fraternity in the Twin
Cities imbued with the spirit which
won glory and endless fame for thei1
fraternal brothers on the field of Elan
ders, the spirit that never dies, have
reestablished Mu chapter at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, which has fol
some years been inactive. This chap
ter is represented by the very bes
! and well known students at the Uni
versity of Minnesota and will help te
make Mu Chapter one of the strong
/ est and most influential in the organ
! ization. IS
! The present officers of MI Chapter
are: v. j. Henley, President; Ear
] Weber, Vice-president; Everett Rob
erts, Secretary; Wylie Barnes, Treas
urer; other members are, Messrs
George Lark, Allie Faeman and Car
roll Brown.
The Alumni members are Atty. Gale
P. Hilyer. James Titus, John r. White
Jr., Drs w. B. Burton and G. e
Cheeks, and Atty. w. T. Francis.