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When was the Fraternity officially founded? - ✔✔Tuesday, Dec 4, 1906
Where was Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity founded? - ✔✔Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Who are the Regional Officers and what are their positions (elected officers)? - ✔✔Southern Regional
Vice President - Big Brother Kelsey Rushing; Southern Regional Assistant Vice President - Big Brother
Hisuan B. R. Yates
Who is known as the Mother of Alpha Phi Alpha? Why? - ✔✔Mrs. Annie Singleton. Majority of meetings
were held her home. She also fed them and encourage them as they did their work.
Who was the first General President - ✔✔Big Brother Moses A. Morrison
What was the first Alumni Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha? - ✔✔Alpha Lambda located in Louisville, KY
Who were the first initiates of Alpha Phi Alpha - ✔✔Big Brother Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones, Big Brother
Gordon Jones, and Big Brother Lemuel Graves
When and where did the first and second incorporation's take place? - ✔✔First - Albany, NY on January
29, 1908; Second - Washington, DC on April 3, 1912
What were the names, designations, and occupations of Alpha Phi Alpha's founders? - ✔✔Jewel Big
Brother Henry Arthur Callis (Physician); Jewel Big Brother Charles Henry Chapman (Agriculture
Educator); Jewel Big Brother Eugene Kinckel Jones (Executive Secretary of the Urban League); Jewel Big
Brother George Biddle Kelly (Civil Engineer); Jewel Big Brother Nathaniel Allison Murray (Educator); Jewel
Big Brother Robert Harold Ogle (Secretary for Senate Appropriations); and Jewel Big Brother Vertner
Woodson Tandy (Architect).
, What is the last sentence of the poem "If"? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A
Development in College Life
To who is the History book of Alpha Phi Alpha dedicated? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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; and Chapter 7 - The Leaven of Self-Examination
Who proposed the name of the Fraternity? - ✔✔Jewel Big Brother George Biddle Kelley
Where was the first initiation banquet held? - ✔✔Masonic Hall otherwise known as Redman's Hall or
Odd Fellows' Hall
List seven items from the menu of the first initiation banquet? - ✔✔Cream Tomato Soup; Salted Wafers;
Broiled Lamb Chops; Hashed Brown Potatoes; Finger Rolls; Peas in Tubs; Wild Apple Jelly; Shrimp Salad;
Rolled Bread; Olives; Pickles; Neapolitan Ice Cream; Lady Fingers; Chocolate Cake; Demi-tasse; Crackers,
Cheese; Alpha Phi Alpha Punch; and Brotherhood Smoke
Why did C.C. Poindexter resign from the Alpha Phi Alpha Society? - ✔✔He believed that Negros in
America had no cultural background upon which to build the framework of a college fraternity and that
this should be a work for a later period
Who was the first Editor-In-Chief of the Sphinx? - ✔✔Big Brother Raymond W. Cannon
Write the Greek Alphabet and their symbols. - ✔✔Alpha - Α
Beta - Β