Series II. Programs, Documents, and news clippings
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes correspondence between Cornell Alumni News editor John Marcham and Mrs. Donald B. Saunders, September 30, 1968 and October 11, 1968; photographs of Robert H. Ogle, Vertner W. Tandy, George B. Kelley, and Henry A. Callis (chapter officers), and of meeting places and ceremonies; clippings and articles; and posters, handbills, brochures, and other miscellaneous items of Alpha Phi Alpha at Cornell University. Includes Round-Up Banquet programs. Early records from 1910-1929 include minutes of meetings, Annual Convention Reports, committee reports, scrapbook, and correspondence.
Contains materials related to the fraternity's Cornell pilgrimage (2005) and centennial celebration (2006), including a November 19, 2005 album signed by past presidents and members who attended the event and a poster signed by brothers who were present at the December 4, 2006 meeting of the New York Association of Chapters of Alpha.
Complete digitized set of the Sphinx Magazine available on a hard drive.
Master/raw video footage filmed by Rubicon Production, Inc. related to the production of the centennial documentary film entitled Alpha Phi Alpha: A Century of Leadership. Includes 95 Betacam SP Videocassette tapes; 4 DVM 60 Mini digital videocassette tapes; and 4 hard disk drives. The footage includes extensive interviews with many Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers, as well as non-fraternity members; professionally staged re-enactments of historical moments and scenes from the Fraternity's history; and footage from events and activities at the General Conventions in Detroit and Philadelphia. Also an MP3 file containing an interview conducted with brother Dr. Donald Graham.
Dates
- 1907-2021.
Creator
- From the Collection: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Alpha Chapter (Cornell University) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Access Restrictions:
Access to Box 2 restricted to members of any chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha with current fraternity ID card (fraternity provides list of members) or by permission from current members of Alpha Chapter, Iota Iota Lambda Chapter, Alpha Chapter Alumni, or the National Historian, either in person or by signed letter.
Extent
6.3 cubic feet. (6.3 cubic feet.)
5.8956 terabytes. (5.8956 terabytes.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
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