The Founders
Anna Easter Brown - First Tamiouchos Alpha Chapter.
Beulah Elizabeth Burke - Created organization name, motto & colors.
Lillie Burke - Co-created organization motto.
Marjorie Hill - Died: 1909; first Ivy Beyond the Wall.
Margaret Flagg Holmes - Member first Constitution & Bylaws Committee.
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle - Named honorary President at 1926 Boule, a title she carried until her death, and which no other woman has held.
Lavinia Norman - Presided over the first Ivy Day celebration
Lucy Diggs Slowe - First President, Alpha Chapter
Marie Woolfolk Taylor - Helped organize Kappa Omega Chapter; first President
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The Sophomores
Norma Elizabeth Boyd - Longest-living Founder
Ethel Jones Mowbray - Became Alpha Chapter Basileus President the last semester of her senior year in March 1910
Alice P. Murray - Had a number of articles published by the Howard University Journal
Sarah Meriweather Nutter - Charter member Beta Beta Omega Chapter (Charleston, WV) in 1934
Joanna Mary Berry Shields - Member Tau Omega Chapter (New York, NY)
Carrie Snowden - Charter member Xi Omega Chapter (Washington, DC)
Harriet Josephine Terry - Wrote Alpha Kappa Alpha initiation hymn
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The Incorporators
Believing that Alpha Kappa Alpha
should influence members throughout their lives and “horrified” when met with
proposals by some members to form an entirely new organization *, Nellie Quander initiated a
dynamic plan: the organization would incorporate and expand. A committee
was formed to take appropriate action. Committee members included: Norma Boyd, Julia Brooks, Ethel Jones Mowbray,
Nellie Pratt Russell
and Minnie Smith.
Along with Quander,
these members are referred to as the organization’s “Incorporators.” Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority was legally incorporated January 29, 1913.
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