A senate RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR THE TAU ETA CHAPTER OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC., AT THE CELEBRATION OF ITS TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY AND TO WISH THE CHAPTER MUCH CONTINUED SUCCESS AND GOOD FELLOWSHIP IN THE YEARS AHEAD.

Whereas, since its founding on December 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; and

Whereas, Alpha Phi Alpha long has stood at the forefront of the African American community's fight for civil rights through leaders such as W.E.B. DuBois, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Edward Brooke, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Andrew Young, William Gray, Paul Robeson, and many others; and

Whereas, in the fall of 1997, graduate brothers Cedric Rivers and David Hartwell felt a strong need to establish a chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha on the campus of the College of Charleston, and with the help of the Mu Pi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha at Charleston Southern University, led by Brother Jason Jurkowski, president, and Brother Timothy Green, advisor, crossed Brother Damion M. Waymer from the College of Charleston during the spring 1998 intake as the first founder of the Tau Eta Chapter; and

Whereas, after initiating Virgil Smith III, Robin F. Fraiser, Kendall J. Garvin, Charles I. Brown, and Keiron T. Kennedy in the fall of 1998 and then Quincy O. Tate in the spring of 1999, the group reached the number needed to start a chapter; and

Whereas, accordingly, the Tau Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., was chartered on Sunday, September 5, 1999, and since that time many more brothers have joined the ranks of the chapter's founding members; and

Whereas, the South Carolina Senate is pleased to salute the members of the Tau Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., at the celebration of its silver anniversary. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the South Carolina Senate, by this resolution, recognize and honor the Tau Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., at the celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary and wish the chapter much continued success and good fellowship in the years ahead.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to the Tau Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

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