[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 5-6]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




TRIBUTE TO THE BETA BETA LAMBDA CHAPTER OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, 
                                  INC.

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                        HON. FREDERICA S. WILSON

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, January 6, 2012

  Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to 
the Beta Beta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
  Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc was founded on Tuesday, December 4, 
1906 at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, as the First African-
American Intercollegiate Fraternity. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. 
was founded by seven courageous men who will forever be known as the 
Noble Jewels of the fraternity; Henry Arthur Calis, Charles Henry 
Chapman, Eugene Kinkle Jones, George Biddle Kelly, Nathaniel Allison 
Murray, Robert Harold Ogle and Vertner Woodson Tandy.
  The fraternity's aims of ``manly deeds, scholarship and love for all 
mankind'' have always been displayed by its many national programs 
which includes, ``Go to High School, Go to College'', ``A Voteless 
People is a Hopeless People'' and Project Alpha.
  Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., successfully completed the building 
of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument in Washington, 
D.C., the only African-American and non-president to be so honored on 
The National Mall.

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  The local chapter in Miami-Dade County, Beta Beta Lambda Chapter 
raised over $2.1 million during the leadership of seven chapter 
presidents and the monument coordinator (Brothers Gordon Murray, W. 
Ajibola Balogun, Dana Moss, Ola Aluko, David Young, Maurice Hurry, 
Trevor Wade and Gregory Gay) for the building of the Reverend Dr. 
Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument in Washington, DC. Today, I commend 
the Beta Beta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. for 
their contribution and their effort in building the Reverend Dr. Martin 
Luther King, Jr. Monument in Washington, D.C.

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