{"id":3512,"date":"2012-07-28T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2012-07-28T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T18:51:27","slug":"alpha-chapter-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/28\/alpha-chapter-1932\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Chapter (1932)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/phibetasigma\/1366574807\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Alpha Chapter (1932)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1248\/1366574807_0f366fe430_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alpha Chapter (1932)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we embark on the Summit, do not ever forget that you come from greatness. Just thought that I would pull out an 80 year old picture today &#8211; Dignity &amp; Pride.<\/p>\n<p>Bro. R.A. Billings (front row, middle center) was made at Zeta Chapter (Morris Brown College) in the early 1920s, but he was President of Alpha Chapter in 1932 (he was a med Student at Howard&#8217;s Medical School then), just a little known history fact. Dr. Billings went on to have a distinguished career at Morris Brown College and was the 10th International President of Fraternity (1941-1944), the World War II years.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to see if I can locate the exact location of the Frat House in 1932, I am told this was on 13th Street, NW here in DC.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what, I would mind finding that Sigma maker on the house.<\/p>\n<p>This picture is from the <a title=\"1932 Bison yearbook\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/phibetasigma\/1367470118\/\">1932 Bison yearbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we embark on the Summit, do not ever forget that you come from greatness. Just thought that I would pull out an 80 year old picture today &#8211; Dignity &amp; Pride. Bro. R.A. Billings (front row, middle center) was made at Zeta Chapter (Morris Brown College) in the early 1920s, but he was President &#8230; <a title=\"Alpha Chapter (1932)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/28\/alpha-chapter-1932\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alpha Chapter (1932)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}