Chapter History

In July 2010, fifteen financial brothers in the Southern Maryland Alpha Planning Committee endorsed the application to petition the General Organization of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. to grant a charter establishing an Alumni Chapter seated in Waldorf, MD to join the brotherhood and serve the communities of Charles County specifically, and Southern Maryland generally.​

On July 24th, 2010 the Sigma Alpha Lambda Chapter, Key 677 of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. was charted at the 104th Anniversary Convention, 90th General Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, the official Charter Members consisted of:

1. Bro. Walter Stafon Bowman, Sr.

2. Bro. Kenneth L. Briscoe

3. Bro. Edsel M. Brown, Jr.

4. Bro. Frederick Alan Edwards

5. Bro. Kenneth Oscar Ford

6. Bro. Kenyatta Dorey Graves

7. Bro. Alan Lamarc Hudson

8. Bro. Elijah Johnson, Jr.

9. Bro. Reginald Kearney

10. Bro. Sean Damien Meredith

11. Bro. Derrick DeWayne Nunn

12. Bro. Tyrone W. Ross

13. Bro. Theodore J. Short

14. Bro. Ramon Taylor

15. Bro. Marc Williams

In December of 2010, the brothers of Sigma Alpha Lambda created the Alpha Lights program, a mentoring and education program designed and implemented by the Sigma Alpha Lambda Foundation, Inc. The initiative continues the fraternity’s decades-long commitment to supporting the habits of mind and intellectual capacities of young people by encouraging a successful secondary school and college experience.