COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
SOLUTIONS
◉ Where was Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity founded? Answer: Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853
◉ Who is known as the Mother of Alpha Phi Alpha? Why? Answer:
Mrs. Annie C. Singleton because the early mtgs
were held at her house where she fed and encouraged the Brothers
as they did their work.
◉ Who was the first General President? Answer: Big Brother Moses
A. Morrison
◉ What was the first alumni Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha and its
location? Answer: Alpha Lambda, Louisville, KY
(2 pts for Chp Name & 2 pts for location)
◉ Who were the first initiates of Alpha Phi Alpha? Answer: Big
Brother Lemuel E. Graves; Jewel Big Brother
,Eugene Kinkle Jones; Big Brother Gordon Holmes Jones (2 pts per
initiate)
◉ When and where did the first and second incorporations take
place? Answer: Albany, NY on
Jan 29, 1908; Washington, DC on April 3, 1912 (2pts/location &
2pts/date)
◉ What were the names, designations, and occupations of Alpha Phi
Alpha's founders? Answer: Jewel Big Brother
Henry Arthur Callis - physician;
Jewel Big Brother Charles Henry Chapman - educator;
Jewel Big Brother
Eugene Kinckle Jones - Exec Sec of National Urban League;
Jewel Big Brother George Biddle Kelley - civil
engineer;
Jewel Big Brother Nathaniel Allison Murray - educator
; Jewel Big Brother Robert Harold Ogle -
, secretarial field;
Jewel Big Brother Vertner Woodson Tandy - architect
◉ What is the last SENTENCE of the poem "If"? Answer: If you can
fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds
worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
and which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
◉ What is the complete title of the Fraternity's History Book?
Answer: The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A
Development in College Life
◉ To whom is the History book of Alpha Phi Alpha dedicated?
Answer: To the youths who march onward and
upward toward the light, this volume is respectfully dedicated
◉ What are the titles of the first seven chapters of the History Book?
Answer: Chapter 1 - The Origin of Alpha Phi
Alpha; Chapter 2 - The Period of Consolidation; Chapter 3 - The First
Steps in Expansion; Chapter 4 -
Local and National Strivings; Chapter 5 - Permanent Foundations;
Chapter 6 - Expansion and Internal
Development; Chapter 7 - The Leaven of Self-Examination