Spring – Summer 1948

 

Official Opening of Alpha Headquarters

 

 

Eight national officers of the Fraternity were present in Chicago during the first week in May to help formally open headquarters of the full-time secretary of Alpha Phi Alpha in the Binga Arcade Building located on South State at Thirty-Fifth Street. Brother Bennie D. Brown, (Seated), Alpha’s first full-time Secretary, occupies two suites of offices in the Arcade. He is shown with seven of his fellow officers, namely, from left to right. 

 

 

Brother H. Councill Tenholm, of Alabama State College, Director of Education; Belford V. Lawson, of Washington, D.C., General President; Charles F. Lane, of Chicago, General Counsel; William N. Lovelace, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Midwestern Vice President; Cornelius Parrish, of Chicago, Lay Member of the Executive Council; William D. Hawkins, of Nashville, Chairman of the National Auditing Committee; and Lewis O. Swingler, of Memphis, Tenn., Editor-in-Chief of the Sphinx Magazine.