Arthur E. Prince was the superintendent of the Enterprise School District. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and was active in civic events in Southern California. He and his wife were the second black family to reside in Pasadena. John Winiford Rout was a dentist who practiced in Oakland, California. Alpha Phi Alpha member portraits in the El Rodeo (University of Southern California yearbook): John Taylor (College of Pharmacy), Howard Allen, John Rout (College of Dentistry), Arthur Prince, Leonard Stovall, M.D., and Thomas A. Greene, D.D.S. The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity (ΑΦΑ) was founded at Cornell University in 1906. The Alpha Delta chapter of was founded on February 2, 1921 as the fourth Greek-Lettered Organization chartered on the campus of the University of Southern California. Dr. Leonard Stovall (1887-1956) was the first African American to graduate from Hollywood High School in 1906, the first African American graduate of USC Medical School and the first African American physician on staff at General Hospital.
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African American Greek letter societies Taylor, John Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Rout, John Winiford, b. 1896 Prince, Arthur E., 1902-1977 Stovall, Leonard S Greene, Thomas Augustus, Jr., 1895-1988 Allen, Howard, 1902-1978
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