"Emblem of Campus Service" badge pictured as thumbnail is worn by nearly half a million Alpha Phi Omega USA. "What is Alpha Phi Omega national coeducational fraternity? It is founded on the cardinal principles of leadership, friendship and service. It provides its members the opportunity to develop leadership skills as they provide service to their campus, to youth and community, to the nation, and to members of the Fraternity. The basis of the Fraternity's brotherhood comes from a foundation of shared beliefs, experiences, and an understanding of our fraternal history and goals." ! Quoted from Leave College With More Than a Degree brochure. Such a cohesion provides indispensable incentive which turns the college youth into the poised, self-confident person equipped with enthusiastic mind, a greater appreciation and broader sympathies strengthened by a group of TRUE and UNDERSTANDING friends which will abide throughout life. EPSILON ACTIVES Album / Category is dedicated to active members of Epsilon chapter located at Claro M. Recto, Manila campus of University of the East. It features member interactions, chapter activities, schedule of events, service projects or programs and other meaningful endeavors by Active members at UE. Contributions of color or black and white pictures and news articles or write-ups by chapter actives are welcome. Submit new or old pictures to: Bro. Jess Castillo '68 at jess_castillo68@yahoo.com or Bro. Rob Merilo at robert_merilo@yahoo.com website editors. Please include your email address or contact number when submitting materials for posting. Note: A-c-t-i-v-e [instead of the weird Philippine term "Resident"] is the usual and accepted terminology used in Alpha Phi Omega since 1925 and by every social fraternity/sorority in America. Infact, all American college fraternities and sororities call members past the Pledging stage, active or simply fraternity/sorority 'initiate.' According to information researched from the Baird's Manual, Alpha Chi Rho national fraternity founded on June 4, 1895 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut is the lone Greek letter society in America that uses the term "Resident" applied to initiates still in college. Alpha Chi Rho national fraternity own fraternity houses where AXP members reside. All well-established American fraternities and sororities who own fraternity lodges, halls, tombs, houses (real estate property) on campus call these college students Active Members. Where in the Philippines did the non-APO USA term "Resident" come from you might ask? Answer: This editor believes the strange term "Resident" came from the fraternity vocabulary coined by several U.P. fraterities such as Upsilon Sigma Phi (1920), Pan Xenia (1923), Beta Epsilon Engineering fraternity (1929), Sigma Beta (1932) Tau Alpha Engineering fraternity (1932), Phi Kappa Mu Medical fraternity (1933), and Sigma Rho Law fraternity (1938). These University of the Philippines fraternities popularized usage of the word 'Resident' because at U.P. Diliman, student housing was affordably available to out-of-town students therefore, a flausible explanation of the term "Resident" or "Residente". As a matter of policy and practise A-Phi-O does not own real estate properties on campus nor maintain fraternity/sorority houses for lodging by members in the U.S. or the Philippines. ~x~x~x~ The image or graphic art of a pearled crown center and arms APO Pin gold badge used here for the thumbnail illustration was originally owned by a chapter secretary in 1969 who, in all probability, served Delta Psi chapter at Eastern Illinois University, a chapter in Region VI, Section 48, APO USA. N.B.: Epsilon Chapter (U.E.) was added by the website artist for graphic enhancement purposes only and is not part of the official APO Pin design. Click on thumbnail picture's title to see the entire album content. Live the Ritual!

09 Distinguished List	1 Active ' E' House	1 Active APO House	1 Early History
1 Easy Greek	1 FRH & HRB	1 Great Seal	1 Proud Wear
1 R.P. Dry Seal	121625 Song	1925 Birth Place	1952 Revisited