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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

Founded at Cornell, 1906

Eighty-nine Chapters
Established at Wiley, 1925

The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, founded Dec. 4, 1906 at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., is the oldest Negro intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity in America.  It is one of the milestones in the history of the Negro in America.  At present there are 89 chapters in the U.S. and Canada.

Alpha Sigma Chapter was founded in 1925.  Its officers, members on teh campus and faculty members affiliating are as follows:

Eugene B. Cavil - President
L. B. Prater - Vice-President
Algernon S. Penn - Secretary
Osby M. McDaniels - Corresponding Secretary
L. B. Manns Nutter - Chaplain
H. t. S. Johnson - Associate Editor to Sphinx

Bernard A. Adams, Jr.
Alfred Baker
Willie Combs
Walter B. Ford
Edward C. Griffin
Jerry Gist, Jr.
William M. Hill
Charles R. Pierson, Jr.
V. Lewis Russell
V. E. Daniel
J. R. Houchins
F. T. Long
R. A. Wilson
J. A. Pierce