{"id":456,"date":"2008-08-22T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/happy-birthday-to-the-oldest-known-living-sigma\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T14:59:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T22:59:06","slug":"happy-birthday-to-the-oldest-known-living-sigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/happy-birthday-to-the-oldest-known-living-sigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to the Oldest Known Living Sigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/phibetasigma\/2787460794\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bro. Wesley Carter\" title=\"Bro. Wesley Carter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3165\/2787460794_cfa63f2118_m_d.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today, August 22, 2008, Bro. Welsey Carter turns 101 years old. Bro. Carter joined Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity at Lambda Chapter (Virginia Union University-Richmond, VA) in February of 1927. He is the OLDEST KNOWN living Sigma to date.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Iota Sigma Chapter in Richmond, VA honored Brother Carter as the Iota Sigma Brother of the Year at the Iota Sigma Chapter 1st Annual Community Impact Awards &#038; Brotherhood Luncheon.<\/p>\n<p>Attached is a photo of Bro. Malcolm Holmes (Iota Sigma Chapter President) awarding Bro. Carter a plaque recognizing him as the Iota Sigma Brother of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Bro. Carter is also the oldest living alumnus of Virginia Union University (another little known Sigma History fact for today)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Today in SIGMA HISTORY &#8211; August 22, 2008 &#8211; HAPPY 101 TO BRO. WESLEY CARTER &#8211; A SIGMA MAN FOR 81 YEARS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, August 22, 2008, Bro. Welsey Carter turns 101 years old. Bro. Carter joined Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity at Lambda Chapter (Virginia Union University-Richmond, VA) in February of 1927. He is the OLDEST KNOWN living Sigma to date. Last month, the Iota Sigma Chapter in Richmond, VA honored Brother Carter as the Iota Sigma Brother &#8230; <a title=\"Happy Birthday to the Oldest Known Living Sigma\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/happy-birthday-to-the-oldest-known-living-sigma\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday to the Oldest Known Living Sigma<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}