{"id":35,"date":"2006-01-09T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2006-01-09T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T15:00:46","slug":"happy-founders-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/09\/happy-founders-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Founders&#8217; Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px\"><a title=\"Honorable Abram Langston Taylor\" href=\"http:\/\/pbs1914.org\/History\/taylor.asp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bluephi.net\/images\/sigma\/taylor.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px\"><a title=\"Honorable Charles Ignatius Brown\" href=\"http:\/\/pbs1914.org\/History\/brown.asp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bluephi.net\/images\/sigma\/brown.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px\"><a title=\"Honorable Leonard Francis Morse\" href=\"http:\/\/pbs1914.org\/History\/morse.asp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bluephi.net\/images\/sigma\/morse.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs1914.org\">Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.<\/a> was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.,  January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pbs1914.org\/History\/taylor.asp\">Honorable A. Langston Taylor<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pbs1914.org\/History\/morse.asp\">Honorable Leonard F. Morse<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pbs1914.org\/History\/brown.asp\">Honorable Charles I. Brown<\/a>, wanted to organize a Greek letter fraternity that would truly exemplify the ideals of <strong>brotherhood, scholarship, <\/strong>and <strong>service<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe founders deeply wished to create an organization that viewed itself as &#8220;a part of&#8221; the general community rather than &#8220;apart from&#8221; the general community. They believed that each potential member should be judged by his own merits rather than his family background or affluence&#8230;without regard of race, nationality, skin tone or texture of hair. They wished and wanted their fraternity to exist as part of even a greater brotherhood which would be devoted to the &#8220;inclusive we&#8221; rather than the &#8220;exclusive we&#8221;.<br \/>\nFrom its inception, the Founders also conceived Phi Beta Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the general community. Rather than gaining skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their immediate families, the founders of Phi Beta Sigma held a deep conviction that they should return their newly acquired skills to the communities from which they had come. This deep conviction was mirrored in the Fraternity&#8217;s motto, &#8220;<em><strong>Culture For Service and Service For Humanity<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders, Honorable A. Langston Taylor, Honorable Leonard F. Morse, and Honorable Charles I. Brown, wanted to organize a Greek letter fraternity that would truly exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, and service. &#8230; <a title=\"Happy Founders&#8217; Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/09\/happy-founders-day\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Founders&#8217; Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,8,9],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}