{"id":3852,"date":"2014-08-08T10:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2014-08-09T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T17:36:08","slug":"honoring-our-beloved-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/08\/honoring-our-beloved-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Our Beloved Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Honorable Bro. A. Langston Taylor | Founder, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>January 29, 1890 &#8211; August 8, 1953 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brothers, yesterday, I paid homage to the great Bro. Francis Hall. Today, I am honoring our Founder who passed away 61 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have to thank, Bro. Hall, who I told you, kept almost everything. In his collection were the following items:<\/p>\n<li>An <i>In Memoriam to Founder Taylor<\/i> flyer<\/li>\n<li>An <i>Invitation to the Taylor College of Public Health<\/i> &#8211; Interesting in 1950 our Founders states that health is one of the weak links in our chain of social and economic development. 64 years later, I can say the same thing.<\/li>\n<li>A flyer for the Taylor Art Museum &#8211; I wonder if the T.L. Alston mentioned in the Exhibits was our Charter Member?<\/li>\n<li>Advertisement for the Taylor University<\/li>\n<li>Minutes from the Alpha Sigma Executive Committee Meeting, held August 10TH to induct Founder Taylor into the Omega Chatper &#8211; Bro. Hall&#8217;s handwriting.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, hand written notes of Bro. Hall&#8217;s that lays out the planning of Founder Taylor&#8217;s funeral.<\/li>\n<p>Put this in your collection and have a good weekend.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/phibetasigma\/14674360788\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3910\/14674360788_1963fd8515_d.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honorable Bro. A. Langston Taylor | Founder, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. January 29, 1890 &#8211; August 8, 1953 Brothers, yesterday, I paid homage to the great Bro. Francis Hall. Today, I am honoring our Founder who passed away 61 years ago today. However, I have to thank, Bro. Hall, who I told you, &#8230; <a title=\"Honoring Our Beloved Founder\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/08\/honoring-our-beloved-founder\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honoring Our Beloved Founder<\/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\/3852"}],"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=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}