In 1969, the Long Island Alumni Club established a Scholarship Fund in honor of Alpha Phi Delta’s Seventh Grand Consul, John Pasta.  John was initiated into Beta chapter at Columbia University in 1920 while he was studying for his LLB degree (Legum Baccalaureus in Latin) more commonly known as Bachelor of Laws degree.  He was a graduate of The City College of New York in 1919 and received his LLB degree from Columbia in 1922.  

Brother Pasta was unanimously elected Grand Consul at the Cleveland Convention of December, 1924.  He is credited for regrouping a disintegrating fraternity during his tenure in off and initiated many of the legal steps which solidified Alpha Phi Delta’s position on campuses today.  He was a familiar face at almost all National Conventions, and was an active member of the Long Island Alumni Club.

Brother Pasta was a former Assistant District Attorney for Queens County, New York. Active in community and fraternal affairs, he was former Judge Advocate for the American Legion and Knights of Columbus and a former President of the Queens Council Boy Scouts of America.

John Pasta and his wife, Lillian, lived in Roslyn Estates, New York. Their ties with Alpha Phi Delta were even more solidified with the marriage of their daughter Rosemary to Anthony Armore, Jr., son of John’s schoolmate and brother at Columbia who presented them with three grandchildren.  

In 1969, the Long Island Alumni Club established a Scholarship Fund in his name years before the creation of the Alpha Phi Delta Foundation. For many years the fund has the largest single named award in the Scholarship Division.

John Pasta passed away on April 13, 1984.