The December 1920 SAE Convention in St. Louis professionalized the fraternity, officially transforming it into the business it was already becoming. Among other things, it established the National Endowment Fund, allowing SAE to ask alumni for donations to construct the war memorial. It was the Roaring Twenties, a time of unparalleled prosperity in the United States, and donations poured in from SAE members and alumni across the country. The December 1926 SAE convention in Boston featured an in-depth discussion of the temple project; when Levere died a few months later in February 1927, he bequeathed $25,000 of his own money for the project.
In 1928, SAE’s Supreme Council officially endorsed Levere’s vision, naming the future memorial after Levere and engaging SAE Arthur Knox as architect and engineer for the project.
Read the full Report of the Supreme Council on Levere Memorial here.
Learn more about Brother Knox here or read his letter where he was asked to provide sketches of the Temple here.
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