 In 1968,
the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, then know as Wisconsin State University-Whitewater,
was the location of a most unique event. On the 14th day of April, a group
of young African-American men charted not just another chapter of Alpha
Phi Alpha, but instead what was to become a chapter rich in tradition.
Zeta Iota chapter has continued to be in the forefront of African-American
student scholars and leaders on the UW-Whitewater campus, as well as in
the community.
Zeta Iota continues
to uphold the aims of Alpha Phi Alpha, scholarship, manly deeds, and love
for all mankind in many ways. Members of Zeta Iota have founded the Alpha
Visions Program, sponsored Anti-Hazing seminars, participated in Take Back
the Night, Safe Trek, Adopt-A-Highway and Adopt-A-Lot, sponsored Safe Sex
& Highway Safety Education Weeks on campus,
and worked with Residence Life to help destroy racial stereotypes in a
program called "Boxes & Walls." Alpha Phi Alpha has also done programs
such as Blood Drives sponsored by the American Red Cross, Toys for Tots
Drive for Milwaukee area childern, collected canned food for families, hosted
annual Freshman library tours, tutoring at Wright Elementary and Burroughs
Middle School, and an annual Sweetheart ball/pageant, just to name a few.
We are forever
grateful to the seven courageous men, more than deserving of becoming Alphamen,
who founded our chapter. One of these men which is Joseph D. Hill, a lawyer
in Madison, vowed to continue the aims of Alpha Phi Alpha here on the UW-Whitewater
campus. The original charter members of Zeta Iota were:
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