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Originally Posted by emb021

Too often your 'official histories' are sanitized and gloss over or ignore the bad things that happen.

Well, in terms of source material, the Torch and Trefoils are pretty good and as best as I can tell the main reason that the National Office hasn't posted the ones they have is time and a fairly frustrating situation with their webpage hoster.

The things that spring to mind as *interesting* things that happened that I'd be interested in finding out more about than is in the Pledge Manual history.

1) Changeover from FRH to HRB.
2) Expansion to Community Colleges in the late 1960s and 1970s relative to the few ones which have stayed inactive
3) Votes on going co-ed, which conventions had them and what was the vote.
4) More information on why the National Fraternity continued to try to get an exemption to Title IX for at least 5 years after the National Fraternity had gone co-ed.
5) What happened to cause APO-USA and APO-Phil to lose touch for those many years.
6) The removal of Masonic titles. etal from the majority of the Fraternity concepts and ceremonies.
7) Longer list of Female unofficial affiliate groups beyond Gamma Sigma Sigma, Omega Phi Alpha, Jewels of Tau and the Phyettes (not even counting the single school ones like Kappa Alpha Kappa).
8) Efforts to expand to Canada. (Since the 1930s!)
9) The degree to which Alpha Phi Omega was viewed as a subsidiary of BSA in the 1930s...
10) When APhiQ became a common term for Alpha Phi Omega at HBCUs, how long after the Q as a term for Omega Psi Phi did it come into existance.
11) Where and when the term Viking started use.
12) When was Trefoil Club first used as the name for the Alpha Phi Omega Pledge Club at HBCUs.


Just throwing out somethings...