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Fourteen members of the "Mighty Gamma Nu" chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, Penn State's first predominantly African-American fraternity, pose for a formal group photo in 1948. Fraternities were first recognized at Penn State in 1888, and the University graduated its first African-American student, Calvin Waller, in 1905. But African-American students and fraternities did not actually converge until 1947, when sixteen students organized a chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter society in the United States established for men of African descent, was established. (Alpha Phi Alpha was already legendary on many college campuses, having been founded at Cornell University in 1906.) Today, Penn State has eight historically African-American fraternities and sororities, under the governing umbrella of The National Pan-Hellenic Council. Read more about the NPHC and its activities at http://www.greeks.psu.edu/nphc/enter.htm
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