[11614] in APO-L
Alpha Chapter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Labell, Lawrence N)
Wed Mar 1 11:38:22 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 11:36:00 EST
Reply-To: "Labell, Lawrence N" <Labell@VOLPE1.DOT.GOV>
From: "Labell, Lawrence N" <Labell@VOLPE1.DOT.GOV>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Why is Alpha not active? ...because there is not a demand on the campus for
it. We can not - and we should not exist where we are not wanted enough for
people on the campus to work for it. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't
try to "seed" chapters on campuses currently without - it just means that
once we've given it a good try, we need to wait a litte while before we can
reasonably try again...
...and to me it does not matter too much that Alpha is inactive. Alpha Phi
Omega today is not the same as it was in the 1920s (as it should be - the US
ans the world are very different now than they were then). We have kept the
"brotherhood", the service, the hope of a "more peaceful world in which to
make a living", and we have enriched it with the experiences, cultures,
diversity, etc. that more than 250,000 members have brought. Just as
children grow up, and eventually do not need their parents nearly as much as
they did when they were younger, so we have progressed.
The "Alpha" chapter we think of, the one we might pilgrimedge to sometimes,
is the one from December 16, 1925, and whose President is Frank Reed
Horton...and although nearly all the founding brothers are no longer with us
- that chapter shall forever remain active.
Larry Labell
Life Member #something - the card is at home!
