Alpha Phi Alpha 2000 - Epsilon Pi Chapter

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, the first intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity established for Black college students, was organized at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York on Tuesday December 4, 1906. The first unit of this national fraternity, organized by college men of African-American descent, was called “Alpha Chapter.” Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity was born out of the desire for maintaining close association and unified support for members of this small minority group, inasmuch as they were denied, for the most part mutual helpfulness which the majority of students attending their university regularly enjoyed. The seven visionary founders, or JEWELS, at Cornell were Henry A. Callis, Charles H. Chapman, Eugene K. Jones, George B. Kelley, Nathaniel A. Murray,
Robert H. Ogle, and Vertner W. Tandy. These men labored in years of severe economic struggle and racial conflict in the United States. Despite their difficulties of organization in this untried field of student life, the early fraternity pioneers succeeded in laying a firm foundation and remained steadfast in their goals pointing toward development of the Fraternity’s membership - that is the espousing of the principles of good character,
sound scholarship, fellowship, and the uplifting of humanity, especially the struggling Black minority in the United States. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated has grown steadily in influence throughout the years. It integrated its racial membership in 1945 and it has expanded mightily to the extent that there are now approximately 700 chapters located throughout the United States, Caribbean Islands, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the West Indies.

The Epsilon Pi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated was chartered by fifteen courageous men on the campus of Norfolk State University on October 12, 1962. Since that historical day, the chapter has continued to uphold the legacy of those visionary founders as well as the aims of the Fraternity: Scholarship, Manly Deeds, and Love For All Mankind. Epsilon Pi has continually been a powerful presence on campus,
as well as in the community for over 35 years. As the next millennium rapidly approaches and our great fraternity draws near its 100th anniversary, the Ice Cold Brothers of the Notorious Epsilon Pi, will ALWAYS hold it high.

E-PI ‘TIL WE DIE!!!