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. Brother Walter Stafon Bowman, Sr.

2. Brother Kenneth L. Briscoe

3. Brother Edsel M. Brown, Jr.

4. Brother Frederick Alan Edwards

5. Brother Kenneth Oscar Ford

6. Brother Kenyatta Dorey Graves

7. Brother Alan Lamarc Hudson

8. Brother Elijah Johnson, Jr.

9. Brother Reginald Kearney

10. Brother Sean Damien Meredith

11. Brother Derrick DeWayne Nunn

12. Brother Tyrone W. Ross

13. Brother Theodore J. Short

14. Brother Ramon Taylor

15. Brother 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.