Conclave 2012 Tau Kappa Phi created The Kappa Sapphires committee to research developing and executing programs that mentor LBGT teens. The committee is working diligently to develop programs aimed at assisting the LBGT teen community.
However, we can get involved within our local communities.
The Founding Jewels of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. were no ordinary achievers. Given racial attitudes in 1906, their accomplishments were monumental. As founder Henry Arthur Callis euphemistically stated—because the half-dozen African American students at Cornell University during the school year 1904-05 did not return to campus the following year, the incoming students in 1905-06, in founding Alpha Phi Alpha, were determined to bind themselves together to ensure that each would survive in the racially hostile environment. In coming together with this simple act, they preceded by decades the emergence of such on-campus programs as Affirmative Action and Upward Bound. The students set outstanding examples of Scholarship, Leadership and Tenacity —preceding the efforts even of the NAACP and similar civil rights organizations.
Henry Arthur Callis became a practicing physician, Howard University Professor of Medicine and prolific contributor to medical journals.
Charles Henry Chapman entered higher education and eventually became Professor of Agriculture at what is now Florida A&M University.
Eugene Kinckle Jones became the first Executive Secretary of the National Urban League.
George Biddle Kelley became the first African American engineer registered in the state of New York.
Nathaniel Allison Murray pursued graduate work after completing his undergraduate studies at Howard. He later returned home to Washington, D.C., where he taught in public schools.
Robert Harold Ogle entered the career secretarial field and had the unique privilege of serving as a professional staff member to the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations.
Vertner Woodson Tandy became the state of New York’s first registered black architect, with offices on Broadway in New York City. The designer of the Fraternity pin holds the distinction of being the first African American to pass the military commissioning examination and was commissioned First Lieutenant in the 15th Infantry of the New York State National Guard.
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GREEK HISTORY
"The Seven Jewels"
Tribute to the founders of Alpha Phi Alpha the first African-American College Fraternity