APE Bansalan

History

In the year 1961 before Martial Law, a fraternity was organized by a student and a professor in Zamboanga A. E. Colleges and named Alpha Epsilon Omega. When this organization was introduced in the said school some interested students both Christian and Muslims joined. Recruitment and initiations were done secretly because the fraternity is still unrecognized by the institution.
As per records of Zamboanga City chapter, twenty eight males had undergone the necessary initiations but only few, at least seven people survived. From this, in 1970s one of the surviving members Danillo Suarez departed from the Alpha Epsilon Omega because of conflict among the members. From that time on he organized his own fraternal group of twenty three male people and out of this member only four passed or survived that initiations and became the pioneer batch of the Alpha Deltans. This batch was named “The Golden Shepherds” and the members were the following: Meng Fei II (now Ulysses Sr.) who is presently the Supreme Head of the Alpha Phi Epsilon; Camagong - as the bull of the Ages and the remaining two survived members joined other fraternity after the dissolution of the Alpha Deltans.
On August 31, 1975 the Supreme Head - Meng Fei II (now Ulysses Sr.) organized a fraternity in his hometown (Cotabato City) recruited his friends who is now the Vicar General of the Alpha Phi Epsilon – Efren F. Gaviola, baptized as "Spartacus". Later, as they moved recruited females to be the sorority that started with sisters Estrella Catalan and Lourdes Gaviola. The Alpha Phi Epsilon has extended to Notre Dame University and in the Philippine Harvardian College, Cotabato City, until it reached the Southern part of Mindanao which is General Santos City and continued to move towards the Northern, West and East parts. The date of the AΦE’s foundation August 31, which is being recognized today is actually uprooted from the day when it was organized but the year which is 1961 were adopted from the year when the Alpha Epsilon Omega was founded due to the reason that the fraternal activities being implemented by Alpha Phi Epsilon is the actual practice of the Alpha Deltans where the Supreme Head survived.