The six Crescent Club members attended a meeting, and were given Crescent Club information, and a schedule of activities and assignments. Also during this meeting, the six Crescents and their Advisor, Brother Walton, set forth a date for the Initiation into the Fraternity, and the date selected was January 9, 1976, a significant date, as the Fraternity itself had been founded on January 9, 1914. Other objectives for this date were to allow focus on academics as the fall semester was winding down, and to bring greater excitement to the traditional Annual Founders’ Day Celebration Program with the addition of new Brothers as members and the birth of the Chapter at UA.

The next day following this Crescent Club Meeting, Brother Walton, on behalf of the six Crescents, submitted a formal petition to the University’s Office of Student Life and the Interfraternity Council for a charter for a recognized Greek-letter student organization. In addition to the names of the six Crescents, the petition included three members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity who were in graduate school at the University of Alabama: Brother Charles McPherson, Brother Larry Ruby, and Brother Lonzell Wilson, whose inclusion enabled the Interfraternity Council to recognize the petition as meeting its required numbers.