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Originally Posted by naraht
I won the December 1934 Scouting Magazine (For Scout leaders; Boy's Life is for Scouts).
In it there is an announcement that Alpha Phi Omega is to hold a National Convention. It begins
"Alpha Phi Omega, the National Honorary College Society for Scouts, will hold its Fifth Biennial Convention at the Hotel President in Kansas City, Missouri, December 28th and 29th, 1934"
I don't know if we were ever according to our own by-laws "the National Honorary College Society for Scouts", but it shows how much some things have changed. I'm just trying to imagine extension working under that name today.
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I'd love to get a scan of that notice.
I have several scans from Scouting magazine regarding APO. I have a notice from a 1946 issue about our upcoming NatConv (there we are called a college service organization).
Also, about ever decade they would run a decent article about APO in Scouting magazine. I have some nice articles from 1949 (by Ray O Wyland), 1961, 1963 (which focused on the chapter at Yale and their work with inner city scouts, and a short film made about their work), 1968 (by Joe Scanlon), 1975, 1985, 1990, and 1997. A couple of years ago they did one focusing on UT's MBU (which you can read on-line).
As to the term "National Honorary College Society for Scouts". While I can't comment on what was in our National Constitution & Bylaws (at that time, 2 seperate documents), I DO know that in the early days we didn't call our selves a "National Service Fraternity". The letterhead of the early "Lightbearer" during the Bartle years called us a "National Honorary College Fraternity". It had been decided at a an informal conference held shortly after Bartle became Supreme Grand Master that our designation would be "National Honorary Scouting Fraternity". I don't know if I've been able to figure out at what point we formally started to call ourselves a "National Service Fraternity". But this is some of the things that those of us on the National History & Archive Committee are trying to learn and share with others.
(on a related note, I have put together a series of 3 PPT presentations on APO History, and have offered to do a LOOONG (2-3 hours) presentation on APO History at the National Convention. I have no idea if its been accepted. The problem is that those on the planning committee may turn it down, because they may think few are interested in that.)
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