Iota Phi Chapter Charter

Photo of the original Chapter Charter taken on June 1 2019.

Importance

The Chapter Charter is the document that recognizes the Iota Phi Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega at the University of California, Davis, as an individual chapter in accordance with the national office. The original charter is normally kept in the possession of the Chapter President and considered to be a token of the president, in addition to the gavel. However, due to the age and fragile nature of the document, Brothers may not steal the Chapter Charter from the Chapter President to avoid damaging the document. As stated on the document, the Iota Phi Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega was established on May 27, 1951, with the installation of 46 brothers, whose names are listed in the transcription below.

Transcription of the Document

Alpha Phi Omega

This National Service Fraternity, by authority of the Active Chapters, the National Executive Board and the National Convention, does hereby and by this charter, believing you to be true and loyal Brothers of the Fraternity, grant unto you full power and authority to inaugurate, establish and found a Chapter to be designated as

Iota Phi Chapter

University of California

Davis Campus

and to be conducted and perpetuated according to our national constitution and by-laws. We also by the aforesaid authority grant unto you and to all subsequent members elected by the Chapter all the rights benefits and privileges of the Fraternity to be enjoyed to their fullest extent.

This charter is presented to Brothers

Iota Phi Founding Brothers:

1. Raymond M. Bloom
2. Bradford Cleo Burris
3. Clyde Harvey Campbell Jr.
4. Mark Thomas Clevenger
5. George Edward Clinton
6. Haworth Alfred Clover
7. Jerry A. Davis
8. William H. Edgar
9. Allan Wallace Fenton
10. Edward W. Gills Jr.
11. John Beede Grohl Jr.
12. Joe R. Held
13. William H.K. Herron
14. Maximo Kalaw Katigbak
15. Amos Krausg
16. Lawrence Samuel Krown
17. Douglas Rhoads Leach
18. Harold E. Lee
19. Walter G. Lyon
20. Walter A. McCall
21. Gale A. McClish
22. Thomas M. McGinn Jr.
23. William R. Manclark
24. Reuben Ohad
25. Lawrence Burtis Perry
26. George Albert Dortor Jr.
27. Kenneth Lilacci
28. William Aylett Sparkes
29. Fred W. Stafford Jr.
30. Robert M. Swartz
31. Richard M. Frank
32. David Lawrence Welch
33. George B.E. West
34. J. Price Gittinger
35. Robert M. Hagan
36. Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
37. Harlan Kelly Pratt
38. Lester L. Skolil
39. Eugene S. Wilson
40. Lysle D. Leach
41. Martin Mockford
42. Walter R. Widden
43. Edwin A. Fairbairn
44. Claude Burton Hutchison
45. Ben Duncan Moses
46. Knowles A. Ryerson

to take effect on the 27th day of May in the year of our Lord 1951 and of the Fraternity the 26th. In witness whereof we affix our hand and the seal of the Fraternity.

Daniel Den Uyl, National President

Jeffery B. North, National Secretary