Fort Valley State University - Flame Yearbook (Fort Valley, GA)

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PHI BETA SIGMA Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., is an international organization of college and professional men, founded in 1914 at Howard University. It has its principles of Brotherhood. Scholarship, and Service. As one of eight Black Greek-letter Organizations, Phi Beta Sigma has a membership of over 65,000 with chapters throughout the continental United States, Switzerland and Africa. The fraternity’s conception of Brotherhood coincides with that of the great Indian philosopher. Sir Aurobindo, who defines brotherhood as “equal freedom of self development on a common aim, a common life, a unity of mind and feeling, founded upon the recognition of this inner spiritual unity.” Kneeling: Anthony Bryant. Row 2: Lawrence Walker, Lawrence Bacon, Eddie Jackson, Frank Smith, Vernon Smith. Row 3: Leon Troutman, Leon Hunter, Willie Williams, Norman Hicks, Eric Hughey. Greeks Non-G reeks—89

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The Gamma Zeta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on the campus of Fort Valley State College on May 21,1948. The guiding principle of the fraternity is that service in the public interest and for the development of st rong leadership while achieving in every field of human endeavor is a must. It is through efforts to uphold that principle that the men of Kappa Alpha Psi are able to maintain a high degree of excellence in service to the community and the college. If there is a friend to be made or a task to be done, the men of Gamma Zeta will accept the challenge of service to mankind. KAPPA ALPHA PSI Row 1: Grady Miles, Kirk Huggins. Donald Hatcher. Jeffrey Stargell. Jerome Kemp. Row 2: Andre Green. Chris London, Isaiah Coley, Gerald Nicholson. Milton Myers, Kevin Parker. Thomas White. Row 3: Wayne West, Fernandez Meadows. Norman Johnson, Melvin Barrow, and Darryl Turner. 88—Greeks Non-Greeks

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OMEGA PSI PHI Wavne Pope. Allen King, Ronald Atkinson, John Ezell, Randall Bighatn, Boris Stevens, Reginald Bigham, Jeffery Mobley, Marvin Hall. John Ores, Moses Everrett, Wendell McBurrows. Omega Psi Phi is the pride of an institution of men, dedicated and solemnly-pledged to the four cardinal principles of Manhood, Scholarship, Perserverance, and Uplift. As elusive as the bird in flight, and as visible and tangible as the idea of brotherhood itself, the spirit of Omega came to Fort Valley State in the fall of 1946. Established nationally in 1911, the Omega spirit has become a mystical thing, half human and semi-sacred, having been made so by the enormous souls who lent their ideals, percept ions, and hopes to an idea and made of it something refined, something which breathes and stirs, something which alters and illuminates human history. As the finest spirit of democratic living, Upsilon Sigma Chapter has always placed transcendent accent on individual achievements, concurring with Carlyle that history is but an account of the illustrious lives which animate it. Similarly, the spirit of Omega in its magnitude and beauty defies description. 90 (Ireeks Non-Greeks