The first six Morehouse College students initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha via Alpha Rho Chapter are featured on the top row, followed by the six men who joined in the fall of the Charter year.

Pictured: The first six Morehouse College students initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha via Alpha Rho Chapter are featured on the top row, followed by the six men who joined in the fall of the Charter year.

As for the Morehouse men now listed as initiates into Alpha Rho Chapter in Spring 1924, they include Brother Alfred Julian McGhee, who's father, Brother Norman Leroy McGhee, served as one of the two national officers of the fraternity who installed Alpha Rho in early January of that same year. The elder McGhee's official role within the organization was as National General Secretary between 1919-25, and later as the Editor to The Sphinx Magazine. He was also one of 22 Charter Members of Washington, DC's Mu Lambda graduate chapter.

Abraham Henderickson Peeler, one of the six Brothers to join the fraternity in the fall of the Charter year, was the son of the 6th president of Bennett College (Morehouse's sister college) and was an important African American educator in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1931, he became principal of J.C. Price School, was later involved in the establishment of Nocho Park, was life-long an advocate of scouting, and was the first African American to serve on the Greensboro Recreation Commission beginning in 1947. Greensboro's Peeler Recreation Center is named in his honor.

Source: Alpha Rho Chapter Alumni Association (APCAA).
Historic Image De-Coded To Reveal 12 Previously Unknown Alpha Rho Initiates In SP1924 + FA1924