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Article requests : If there was a crest. please upload it. Were there only 12 members? Other history and datapoints would be helpful. I created the infobox but there is very, very little information available about this historically important fraternity. One item should be highlighted: Apparently there was a fellow attending Ohio State who transferred to Cornell to become the founder of Alpha Phi Alpha. Name was Charles Poindexter. Apparently he was "influenced" by seeing Pi Gamma Omicron. What was the connection? He's not listed among the Pi Gamma Omicron members. Nor is Pi Gamma Omicron listed in the OSU Makio yearbooks for 1906, '07, '08 or '09. I believe I saw Shackelford as a Law grad in the 1908 book. I assume this was toward the tail end of Shackelford's participation in the fraternity. Did the group die off once the founders graduated? That's not uncommon for locals, but did they leave a file, or other traces?
Citing sources : Could use additional citations. These could be from Baird's manual, or a notable publication or book, a university yearbook or official university portal for the student organization.
Photo : Probably too much to ask, but if a photo would be available that will be a nice find.
Update : This is an important article, about an organization that was a pioneer for other African-American fraternal societies. Thus a more extensive history section, if we can find one, is justified even though it extended to only a local chapter.
Wikify : Upload and add a crest. Add color swatches. Add relevant symbolism to the infobox.
Needs expansion: What was Charles Poindexter's connection to Pi Gamma Omicron, if any, a few years before he founded Alpha Phi Alpha? How is he connected to Robert H. Ogle? (As mentioned in Parks reference.) Several paragraphs in the Alpha Phi Alpha article discuss this.
An Anon editor advised this doesn't make sense, on the main article. I moved that comment here. Jax MN (talk) 04:03, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
