Dr. Emmett J. Conrad was initiated at the Alpha Sigma chapter at Southern University.  After serving our country in the military, he received a scholarship to complete his college education.  He attended Stanford University for one year and then enrolled in Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee where he earned his M. D. degree in 1948.  During a long and distinguished medical career, Brother Conrad made history when he became the first Black Chief of Staff at St. Paul Hospital.  Dr. Conrad was also very committed to equal and accessible education for all students.  This commitment manifested itself in his being elected as the first Black Board of Trustees member of the Dallas Independent School District.  Later, the Texas State Board of Education appointed him to the Select Committee of Public Education (SCOPE). The SCOPE committee proposed a number of reforms to improve the quality of education in Texas including the controversial NO PASS, NO PLAY Rule and the implementation of TECAT examinations.  Dr. Conrad was also elected to the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) in 1984 and was serving a third term at the time of his death.  Dr Conrad joined the Chapter Invisible on September 9, 1993.  He served as Province Polemarch from 1968 to 1971 and was a mentor to several Brothers within the chapter who would later serve at the provincial level.  The chapter’s annual college scholarship was named in his honor in 1980 and in 2004 a new DISD high school was named for him as well.

For a fourth time, in 1969, Dallas Alumni hosted the 33^rd Southwestern Province Council Meeting.  The co-hosts were Delta Sigma Chapter at Bishop College (which relocated to Dallas in 1961) and Fort Worth Alumni Chapter.