{"id":133400,"date":"2024-04-22T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T19:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133400"},"modified":"2024-04-22T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T19:01:39","slug":"tampas-alpha-chapter-celebrates-79-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133400","title":{"rendered":"Tampa\u2019s Alpha Chapter Celebrates 79 Years Of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Left to right. Andrew Francis, Landus Pemberton, George South, Denzel Brown, Dwayne Ifill, Bust of C. Blythe\u00a0Andrews, Jason Grundy (Chapter President), Rank Carter, Steve Smith, Gabriel Solomon, and Nicholas Walker.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carrying bricks to identify the founders of Tampa\u2019s Alpha fraternity: Andrews, Martin, Burney, II, Ervin, Yates, Avery, and Cousin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Gamma Zeta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., seated in Tampa, Florida, recently celebrated 79 years of service with a meaningful march to\u00a0the bust of the late C. Blythe Andrews.<\/strong> Brothers C. Blythe Andrews, F. B. Martin, I. H. Burney, II, P. A. Ervin, Roland Yates, Eugene L. Avery, <\/strong>and S. A. Cousins<\/strong> received the charter that established Gamma Zeta Lambda chapter as the 172nd<\/sup>\u00a0House of the fraternity on March 21, 1945.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During the celebration which took place on March 21, 2024, the brothers of Gamma Zeta Lambda Chapter marched from the parking lot of Tampa General Hospital to the Riverwalk area where the bust of C. Blythe Andrews<\/strong> is located.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The celebration was led by Chapter President Jason Grundy<\/strong> through a ceremony of remembrance and recommitment, honoring the attributes of each of the\u00a0chapter chartering members. The event culminated in the brothers posing for pictures with the bust of C. Blythe Andrews<\/strong> and joyfully “stepping” in celebration of the chapter and Fraternity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since the chartering, the Gamma Zeta Lambda chapter has been an active member of Tampa\u2019s Black community, advocating for Civil Rights, Education and Voting Rights.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Additionally, the chapter partners with other charitable organizations such as Big Brothers and Big Sisters, American Cancer Society, Alzheimer Association and\u00a0the March of Dimes\/March For Babies to make a positive impact in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 Left to right. Andrew Francis, Landus Pemberton, George South, Denzel Brown, Dwayne Ifill, Bust of C. Blythe\u00a0Andrews, Jason Grundy (Chapter President), Rank Carter, Steve Smith, Gabriel Solomon, and Nicholas Walker. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carrying bricks to identify the founders of Tampa\u2019s Alpha fraternity: Andrews, Martin, Burney, II, Ervin, Yates, Avery, and Cousin. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Gamma […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133402,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133400\/revisions\/133402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}