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does much campus, community, and na-
tional service, with scores of projects to
benefit the needy, senior citizens, a Boys'
Club, and the American Diabetes Associ-
ation. It also sponsors a bloodmobile and
is getting into recycling paper and glass.
Said Iota Lambda President Michael
Richey (also an Eagle Scout), "In just the
first half of the fall semester, we have
averaged 81 hours of service per brother."
At each biennial national convention of
Alpha Phi Omega, a chapter which has
done outstanding work for Scouting re-
ceives the M.R. Disborough Service to
Scouting Award. It is given in memory of
a former APO national president and
Scout executive who died in 1980.
The 1988 winner was Epsilon Lambda
Chapter at Michigan Technological Uni-
versity at Houghton. That chapter's presi-
dent, Gregory Viau, said the award was
given for Epsilon Lambda's work in run-
ning camporees, pinewood derbies, and
other events in the Copper Country Dis-
trict of the Hiawathaland Council and
weekly swims for Scouts and Girl Scouts.
Alpha Phi Omega has had a proud his-
tory. It was the first college fraternity
founded on service and the first to admit
students of all races and creeds. Today it
has more than 200,000 alumni.
The fraternity was the brainchild of
Frank Reed Horton, who had been a naval
officer during World War I and was a
29-year-old senior at Lafayette in 1925.
He had not been a Boy Scout, but became
a Scout commissioner and Scoutmaster
through his friendship with another Hor-
ton—Herbert G., no relation—who was
then Scout executive in Easton.
In explaining why he started Alpha Phi
Omega, Frank Horton later wrote:
"I felt that there ought to be a college
organization in which former Scouts
could get together and pursue activities
like they had done in Scouting... It would
follow on the heels of the Boy Scout move-
ment and would be an organization that
would continually strengthen men in the
high ideals they had learned as Scouts, so
that when they graduated, they would be
fully prepared to meet, and withstand,
the challenges and temptations which
would constantly confront them."
His goal for the fraternity was summed
up in three words: leadership, friendship,
and service. Alpha Phi Omega was born
on December 16, 1925, when Alpha
Chapter initiated 14 men at Lafayette.
Eight were from Horton's social frater-
nity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, five were
from another social fraternity, and one
was an independent. All were former
Scouts or Scouters as required by the
charter.
Many Alpha Phi Omega members also
belong to social fraternities and sorori-
ties. APO itself leavens its serious pur-
poses with social events, too.
National President Stan Carpenter is a
strong supporter of the alliance with
NESA, even though his own Scouting ex-
perience was limited to Cub Scouting in
Abilene, Tex.
"We're very interested in getting more
Eagles," he said, "because they're ex-
actly the kind of people we're looking
for—not so much for the Scouting aspect
of it, although that's important to us, as for
the leadership aspect. These kids are au-
tomatically leaders when they walk on
campus," Dr. Carpenter explained.
He joined APO's Xi Omicron Chapter
at Tarleton State College in Stephenville,
Tex., in 1968 at the invitation of friends
because he saw it as an outlet for altruism.
He is now chapter adviser to Xi Delta
Chapter at Texas A&M University where
he is associate professor of educational
administration and coordinator of the uni-
versity's Higher Education Administra-
tion Program.
(Xi Delta, incidentally, is one of those
that aid Scouting. "We have worked with
handicapped Scouts for years," Dr. Car-
penter said, "and every year we do at
least one Scout camp cleanup.")
He sees a renewal of interest in student
voluntarism on college campuses as re-
flected in the growth of other service or-
ganizations. "Also," he noted, "on many
campuses there is now a staff" position
called coordinator of volunteer services."
Today's collegians may be less likely to
volunteer than they were in his under-
graduate days in the 1960s, Dr. Carpenter
said, "but the ones who do volunteer are
just as enthusiastic. In Alpha Phi Omega
we're having a resurgence," he said.
"We're having the best years that we've
had in the past 20 years in terms of mem-
bership and, I dare say, in enthusiasm,
too."
All of which bodes well for Scouting.
With Alpha Phi Omega and the National
Eagle Scout Association buddying up, and
with APO reemphasizing its Scouting
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