I wanted to thank the brothers who came out to the Highland Cigar Bar Friday night. We all had a great time! We had some brothers who had never smoked cigars before; and we had cigar aficionados that having been smoking for years. I can't tell you last time I had so much fun. A nice dark Cohiba and Brandy mixed with laughs and storytelling do wonders for the soul.

More importantly, this was an opportunity to maintain fraternal bonds with brothers we see at least monthly and to re-establish those bonds that were broken by sporadic absences. At the end of the night every brother told me that we will have to do this again. I concur.

Lastly please contact any non-active brother, that you may know, that does not belong to a chapter. I am asking each brother to make a small effort and contact these brothers whether by phone, email, facebook, or twitter and send them my email address or telephone number (404-354-2129).

I am looking forward to our next event.

Bro. Edward Hightower

Membership Intake Coordinator

Chairman, Reclamation Committee

“Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities,
with all of its members presumably far above the average
American…should be able to take into their hands the leadership
in the Negro’s struggle for status.”

---Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones, August 16, 1936

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