Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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The brothers of Alpha Phi Omega started the college year of? in September with the running of the cur-pool. Its function was to locate, among the student body, those who wanted riders. This involved the printing, distribution, tabulation and organization of the results of some two thousand six hundred car-pool applications. On October 24th, eleven members of the fraternity went to Mitchell Field, Long Island, to help to organize a dance for the Explorer Scouts of the Queens Council. UNIVAC examining a pledge. Sociability is our aim. Once I had a secret love . . . Many hours throughout the month of November and early December were employed by A.P.O. members for both the Christmas Concert of the Glee Club, and the Manhattan Players production of Coriolanus. The Quadrangle was presented by Alpha Phi Omega, with five wooden racks in which the Quad could be placed for easy distribution. These rocks were designed and constructed by the car- penters of the chapter. 159

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An office for each Brother. The Lambda Gamma Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega was formally installed at Manhattan College on May 16th, 1953, by representatives of A.P.O. from Wagner College, Staten Island. The first official year tunof'ficially the secondi of Alpha Phi Omega on the Manhattan Campus saw its mem- bership grow from twenty-seven charter members to forty brothers as mid-year was reached. Alpha Phi Omega is primarily a service fraternity and Manhattan's chapter is the only national service fraternity on the campus. A.P.O.'s maior obiective is the uniting of Sunday afternoon tea dance. collegemen in friendship, in order to render service to th student body, to the faculty, to the community, and subs- quently to the nation. The fraternity is composed of me who have at one time or another been connected with th Boy Scouts of America. How well the Manhattan contingent of Alpha Phi Omeg has fulfilled the obiectives of the fraternity can best be see in the projects which it has successfully completed in the pa year; The unselfish zeal with which the brothers have serve the Manhattan community has been indeed salutary.

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Time is all hallowing. Any cause having a background of the years possesses a quality for which there is no substitute. Such is the Alpha Sigma Beta fraternity. This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the brotherhood of ASB. The fraternity could not have existed for such a time associated with Manhattan College if united action, love for Alma Mater and respect for the learned Christian Brothers, our over-sympathetic teachers, did not permeate the entire spirit of ASB. Down through the years have come those customs which are called Tradition. The collective actions of the fraternity have successively become part of that tradition. Above all this there must have been a primary purpose. Although taken out of context, the fraternity's founding words best express this purpose. ALPHA SIGMA BETA . . . tell me, John, how's everything upon Riverdale Avenue . . . And it shall be the primary function of Alpha Sigma Be to unite the sons of Manhattan in stimulating pride a interest in the achievements of Alma Mater. The opinion is held by some that the history of Manhatt is a history of ASB as well . As evidence of this close be of friendship which exists between Manhattan and its old fraternity one need only to look about the campus and s the Brother's Stations of the Cross and hear the Angelus B The Cardinal Hayes Library recorded some of its earli support from the fraternity. The Quadrangle, the colleg newspaper, was conceived by the members of Alpha Sig Beta. It also organized the first Senior Prom and presen donates numerous medals and awards to the college. Amo these are the Pope Pius XII Medal for Labor Managem