CHARTERING SUPERVISORS
W.H.BUSH, UNIV. OF ROCHESTER---- M.B. McADEN, ALPHA CHAPTER
W.H. HILL,C.T. KIMBROUGH,T.J. PETER OF SYRACUSE UINV. AND MEMBERS OF KAPPA CHAPTER
MEMBERSHIP CONSISTED OF GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE MEN ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO
THE FIRST NEGRO GREEK FRATERNITY TO BE ESTABLISH IN WESTERN NEW YORK ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER
OFFICERS
K.R.S. MYRON C. McGUIRE K.F. DR. EARL C. PAYNE FEBRUARY 1924---INITIATED JAMES HOLBROOK(FAMOUS ELEC. ENG.) AND WILLIAM W. "POP" JACKSON(DIRECTOR OF NEW MICHIGAN AVE. YMCA) JANUARY 1925--- 2ND ANNIVERSARY FORMAL DANCE. ENTERTAINED BRO. ROLAND HAYES(FAMOUS SOLOIST) FEBRUARY 1927--- CELEBRATED 4TH ANNIVERSARY. ENTERTAINED BRO. CARL DITON(NOTED PIANIST) 1928--- PHI OMEGA REPREENSENTED AT GRAND CONCLAVE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK CITY BY BRO. C.C. JONES. THE CONCLAVE WAS INVITED TO BUFFALO, BUT BID WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL AS THE CONCLAVE WENT TO ALPHA CHAPTER. BRO. MOSBY McADEN WAS APPOINTED 2ND DISTRICT REPRESENTIVE BY THE CONCLAVE. OCTOBER 1932--- INITIATED GUS MOORE(FAMOUS TRACK STAR),ROY OTTLEY OF ST. BONAVENTURE COLLEGE AND C. BRANCH OF CORNELL UNIV. 1935--- BRO. McADEN D.R. WAS GIVEN THE JURISDICTION OVER SIGMA CHAPTER EMBRACING TORONTO AND MONTREAL CANADA. 1939---16TH ANNIVERSARY. THE SPRING FORMAL WAS HELD AT THE HOTEL MARKEEM AT UTICA AND MAIN. WW II---CHAPTER AT WAR. REACTIVATED AFTER THE WAR. 1946---ESTABLISHED PHI EPSILON CHAPTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO. CHARTER MEMBERS WERE: THOMAS A. TALLY BAS.--EDGAR QUARLES--WALTER J. GIVENS--WILLIAM SIMS--JAMES BARNEY--JESSE E. NASH--WILLIAM MELVIN--JAMES DUNN--JAMES BELL--ARCHIE HUNTER. ALL OF THE MEN ABOVE EXCEPT THOMAS TALLY FORMED THE FIRST "LINE" OF PHI EPSILON CHAPTER. JUNE 1947-- 24TH ANNIVERSARY. JUNE 6,7,& 8 HOSTED THE JUNIOR CONCLAVE OF THE 2ND DISTRICT. BRO GENERAL BASS WAS DISTRICT MARSHALL. 1973--BRO. HERBERT BECAME THE CHAPTER'S FIRST 50 YEAR MEMBER. 1975--CHAPTER'S FIRST LIFE MEMBERS: CRAVANE M. GIVENS LM 551 AND WILLIAM HOLLINS LM 552. 1981--PARTICIPATED IN ESTABLISHING BUFFALO AREA ENGINEERING AWARENESS FOR MINORITIES PROGRAM(BEAM) 1984-- HOSTED 2ND DISTRICT MEETING. CRAVANE M. GIVENS, DISTRICT MARSHALL. THE CHAPTER TALENT HUNT PROGRAM WAS NAMED AFTER BRO. RENOLD N. SCOTT WHO WAS THE PROGRAM'S LONG TIME CHAIRMAN.
