Cecil A. Partee Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

joined other organizations for the purpose of . . .
A: Well, I didn't join any other organizations for the purpose of getting well-
known. I was already a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and, of
course, that was a social group that I had joined in college and it had a
chapter here.
Q: oh?
A: So I was a member of that and a couple of other clubs, One was The
Assembly, which was a very large club of up-and-coming progressive men.
But that was about the extent of my clubs.
Q: Where was the Kappa Alpha Psi chapter?
A: It was located in Chicago and we had a house over at 47th and Ellis
Avenue.
Q: So it wasn't connected with a particular school?
A: No, Men from all over the country, who belonged to that fraternity, when
they came to Chicaga they would join that particular Chicago alumni chapter.
Q: Oh, I see, alumni chapter.
A: Yes.
Q: And it was quite active, then?
A: ah, quite active. Some of the leading business and professional men i n
Chicago in my community were members.
Q : Can you name some of them?
A: Oh, sure. There was--now, that--there again, I hate to name them because
T'm going to leave out some very important ones in there.
Q: Yes, sir.
A: I would rather not name then. Let me just say that there were a large
number of doctors and lawyers and school principals and school teachers and
businessmen who were members.
Q: Yes. Were there any that were particularly helpful to you?
A: Yes, there's one fellow, whose name is C. Roger Wilson, who was a very
highly placed state employee in the state unemployment office. He was a very
highly placed man in that and when I came--it was through him that I got my
first job when I came up to Chicago that one summer, through that connecltian.
Q: And he was in a Chicago office here or a state office?
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