Alpha Phi Alpha's Rho chapter hosts scholarship and book awards program

Jul 16, 2019
Jul 16, 2019
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Alpha Phi Alpha's Rho chapter hosts scholarship and book awards program

Scholarship recipients hold a check from Alpha Phi Alpha’s Rho chapter’s education foundation. — PHOTO: Robert C. Seiwert

Robert C Seiwert

Alpha Phi Alpha Rho chapter hosts scholarship and book awards program

Alpha Phi Alpha’s Rho Chapter members join scholarship recipients outside of African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas at 6361 Lancaster Ave.

J.R. Brockman, Scout Master of St. Thomas Troop 133 holds the foundation check with Alpha Phi Alpha Rho Chapter President Robert Bruce Hill Jr.

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Alpha Phi Alpha Rho chapter hosts scholarship and book awards ceremony 2019

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Alpha Phi Alpha Rho chapter hosts scholarship ceremony

Wilson Darko, chapter member and Robert Bruce Hill Jr. show a book award recipient how to fix a bow tie.

Alpha Phi Alpha Rho chapter hosts scholarship ceremony 2019

The scholarship program took place at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas on Lancaster Avenue. PHOTO: Submitted

The Rho chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha presented several book awards during the recent program.

Rho Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. hosted its annual Brother Dr. O. Wilson Winters Memorial Scholarship Program recently, awarding almost $15,000 in college scholarships and book awards.

In alignment with the fraternity’s aim of “manly deeds, scholarship and love for all mankind,” the Brother Dr. O. Wilson Winters Memorial Scholarship Program, consisting of the Rho Chapter Awards, Watkins Family Memorial College Awards, Whitney Family Memorial High School Awards, and Paul F. Frost Memorial Awards, provides young men from the greater Philadelphia region with monetary awards to assist in their educational pursuits.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. is among the oldest and most loyal investors in higher education in the United States. The fraternity began as a study group of Black men who defied racial segregation at Cornell University in 1906. Its concepts for community advancement and inclusion in higher education have created 706 chapters throughout the U.S., Africa, West Indies, Europe, Asia and the Virgin Islands.