Talk:Alpha Eta Rho

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Notable members[edit]

I am removing the following from the notable section for 1) lack of proof of notability and 2) no source connecting them to the fraternity. These individuals can be returned to the article once these requirements are met.

Joe Leonard - AirTran Airways CEO
JP Lake - (CEO) Flyjetz
Fernando Pineda - (Executive Vice President) NICHOLAS AIR

Rublamb (talk) 08:04, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Moving to a separate page.[edit]

Rublamb. I think at this point, we are well past the 50 chapters with information that mean that a separate page makes sense, but you are still actively updating it, so your call if and when.Naraht (talk) 13:07, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Naraht: I would like to wait a bit longer. I am still have 70 years of newspapers articles to go through and those are providing info for both the text and the chapter list. Can you add your edition of Baird's as a source for the chapter list? That will be needed for the stand-alone chapter list to meet notability requirements. Thanks! P.S. Thanks for finding this list and expanding what we could do for this article. I needed a break from the Divine Nine and this connects to my masters thesis on WWI aviation. Rublamb (talk) 17:15, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rublamb Cool. I was pulling from the google book clips, I need to grab my actual book to do this, maybe this week. It *really* annoys when GLOs do "you pick your chapter letters"Naraht (talk) 17:21, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree on the order of chapters names. Although, I have a suspicion that they actually used Greek letter order more often than it appears and that missing chapters and the reissuing of chapter names makes name assignment look more random than it actually is. I know I am missing around eight of the earliest chapters, both in name and campus affiliation. That would go a long way toward completing the originaly single letter chapters. It looks like the fraternity transitioned from a really active and social group in the pioneering days of aviation to a more traditional professional society by the wayings days of GLO in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I found a campus newspaper article from the 1970s that mentions the general weakness of the national organization, suggesting to me that much information about the early history could have been lost along the way. But I do like a challenge.... Rublamb (talk) 17:48, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possible chapters[edit]

I have come across hints of the following as possible colonies or chapters in the very early days of the fraternity. This would have been either before or right after Beta was chartered. References at the time indicate as many as eight chapters. It does not appear that these chapters, if actually chartered, recevied a Greek letter name.

Boeing School of Aeronautics, Oakland, California
Stanford University
University of Washington
University of California, Berkeley
China
Germany

Rublamb (talk) 04:29, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]