The Eleven members of the Iris Club
Orville Menees Coston AF 1 from
Birmingham, AL,
Ralph Austin Smith AF 2 from Mobile, AL,
Julian Berringer
Foster AF 3 from Tuscaloosa, AL,
Garret Hagan AF 4 Birmingham, AL,
Graves William Styles AF 5 from Gurley, AL,
Willis C Royal AF 6 Montgomery,
AL, Sydney William Smyer AF 7 from Birmingham, AL,
Robert Arnold Hamrick AF 8 from Birmingham, AL,
William Henry Beatty AF 9 from Birmingham, AL,
William Vance Weir from Gadsden, AL, and Dudley Fitts from Birmingham,
AL
(The later two were not part of the Founding Fathers).
The Beginning: The Iris Club Becomes Alpha Phi Zeta
The Alpha Phi Zeta began its tenure at the Capstone under the name of “The Iris Club”. This organization was merely a gentleman’s club made up of eleven men, nine of whom later became our founding fathers.