"DEVELOPS LEADERS, PROMOTES BROTHERHOOD AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, WHILE PROVIDING SERVICE AND ADVOCACY FOR OUR COMMUNITIES"
95th Annual Alpha Theta Chapter Celebration
The Do Work District
"The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless." ---Jewel Henry Arthur Callis, May 1946 "Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status." ---Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones, August 1936
"We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of all humanity... I want you to understand that there never was or has been or will be, in the minds of the founders, including myself, the thought of any reward any notice coming to us for this experiment in brotherly cooperation and comradeship, which we initiated and which has developed, not necessarily because of any efforts of ours, into one of the best regarded organizations in the Negro collegiate world." ---Jewel Charles Henry Chapman, 1931 "I went though hell founding this organization and I want something done about these problems. Think of it, we have over a hundred and twenty chapters and I ask what are we doing...We must fight till hell freezes over and then fight on the ice." ---Jewel Vertner Woodson Tandy, December 1937
"We never founded Alpha Phi Alpha to be a light skinned fraternity or one in which fellows could trace their ancestry back for years and years. We chose Alpha Phi Alpha for men, regardless of family, for what they themselves are doing, what they can do for the future of the fraternity." ---Jewel George Biddle Kelley, December 1933 "To say that your Founders met with discouragement is only putting the matter lightly. I can recall staying up with others as late as three A.M. trying to make some antagonistic brother see a point in argument, only to fail, and tackle the same again the following night." ---Jewel Nathaniel Allison Murray, October 1936
Welcome to the home of the Alpha Theta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, seated at The University of Iowa, located in the heart of downtown Iowa City, Iowa. We are pleased to have you with us as we celebrate over 90 years of service, advocacy, and a long standing legacy of building our communities in and around Iowa’s campus. Alpha Theta was established on March 11th, 1922 by 12 distinguished gentlemen, who wanted to see a lasting brotherhood developed on campus, in which they found in Alpha Phi Alpha. Again, thank you for taking the time to visit our site, and please join the brothers of the Alpha Theta Chapter in celebrating over 90 years of service!
