A Proud Legacy of Leadership Through Timeless Service
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The Epsilon Phi Omega Chapter History Committee, consisting of Sorors Beulah Jones Grant (Chairman), Tesha Isler (Basileus), Vernal Best, Renita A. Dawson, Regina R. Harvey, Dolores Hayes, Brenda Herring, JoAnn Lloyd, Arzie S. Mason, Thelma Smith, Christine Strowbridge, Melba Uzzell, and Eva Wilder worked diligently with tireless effort and dedication in order to see this project to fruition. For their work, overwhelming gratitude, love and appreciation are extended. Thank you to Soror Dorothy Woodard Hardy for the design of the book cover. Additional thanks is given to past chapter basilei and chapter members for their contributions in words and pictures. This project was a collective effort by many; therefore, thank you is extended to everyone who helped make the printing of Epsilon Phi Omega Chapter’s history a reality.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
History Committee
1. Dedication
2. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated A Legacy of Sisterhood and Timeless Service
3. A Historical Perspective of the Mid-Atlantic Region
4. Introduction
5. In the Beginning—The Making of Epsilon Phi Omega
6. Epsilon Phi Omega’s Thirty-Second Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference - The Finale
7. Involvement in Boules, Regional Conferences, Leadership Seminars, Clusters, and Retreats
8. A Boule Anecdote
9. The Spirit of AKA
10. Support of Newly Chartered Chapters
11. Epsilon Phi Omega Chapter Basilei Profiles Deceased*
12. Interesting Basilei Anecdotes
13. In Memory of Ivies Beyond the Wall
14. Founders’ Day
15. Sisters’ Reunion
16. The Centennial Celebration ~~ 2008
17. Soror Arlena Parks’ Celebration
18. Epsilon Phi Omega Celebrates Birthday of Diamond Soror
19. National and International Targets
20. Local Chapter Programs
21. Recognitions and Awards
22. Community Outreach
23. Notable Events
24. Chapter Officers
25. Members Profiles
26. Appendix
1. A. Chapter Firsts
2. B. Chapter Facts
3. C. Basilei Newsletter Themes
4. D. Recognition of Chapter Members
5. E. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
6. F. Timeless Service in Fundraising and Scholarships
7. G. Epsilon Phi Omega Chapter Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
27. Bibliography
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Epsilon Phi Omega Chapter History Committee, consisting of Sorors Beulah Jones Grant (Chairman), Tesha Isler (Basileus), Vernal Best, Renita A. Dawson, Regina R. Harvey, Dolores Hayes, Brenda Herring, JoAnn Lloyd, Arzie S. Mason, Thelma Smith, Christine Strowbridge, Melba Uzzell, and Eva Wilder worked diligently with tireless effort and dedication in order to see this project to fruition. For their work, overwhelming gratitude, love and appreciation are extended. Thank you to Soror Dorothy Woodard Hardy for the design of the book cover. Additional thanks is given to past chapter basilei and chapter members for their contributions in words and pictures. This project was a collective effort by many; therefore, thank you is extended to everyone who helped make the printing of Epsilon Phi Omega Chapter’s history a reality.
HISTORY COMMITTEE
image_Page_02_Image_0003.jpgSitting (Left to right): Sorors Dolores Hayes, Tesha Isler, Beulah Grant, and Christine Strowbridge
Standing (Left to right): Sorors Vernal Best, Regina Harvey, Melba Uzzell, Renita Dawson, Eva Wilder, JoAnn Lloyd, and Arzie Mason. Not pictured, Sorors Brenda Herring and Thelma Tracy
Smith
DEDICATION
Soror Doris L. Brown Horton
This twenty thirteenth edition of Epsilon Phi Omega’s history book is dedicated to Soror Doris (Tommy) Littlejohn Brown Horton posthumously
(March 19, 1999).
47829.pngShe was a visionary charter member of Epsilon Phi Omega Chapter who served as the chapter historian for nearly four decades. She tirelessly and lovingly kept records of chapter events, memorabilia, and newspaper clippings which she stored in her home as the chapter’s archives. She summarized all the chapter notables and combined them in a yearly composite which was read to chapter members at the final meeting of the year.
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED
A LEGACY OF SISTERHOOD AND TIMELESS SERVICE
Confined to what she called a small circumscribed life
in the segregated and male-dominated milieu that characterized the early 1900s, Howard University co-ed Ethel Hedgeman dreamed of creating a support network for women with like minds coming together for mutual uplift, and coalescing their talents and strengths for the benefit of others. In 1908, her vision crystallized as Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Negro Greek-letter sorority. Five years later (1913), lead incorporator Nellie Quander ensured Alpha Kappa Alpha’s perpetuity through incorporation in the District of Columbia.
Together with eight other coeds at the mecca for Negro education, Hedgeman crafted a design that not only fostered interaction, stimulation, and ethical growth among members; but also provided hope for the masses. From the core group of nine at Howard, AKA has grown into a force of more than 265,000 collegiate members and alumnae, constituting 972 chapters in 42 states, the District of Columbia, the US Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Liberia, and Canada.
Because they believed that Negro college women represented the highest—more education, more enlightenment, and more of almost everything that the great mass of Negroes never had—Hedgeman and her cohorts worked to honor what she called
an everlasting debt to raise them (Negroes) up and to make them better." For more than a century, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sisterhood has fulfilled that obligation by becoming an indomitable force for good in their communities, state, nation, and the world.
The Alpha Kappa Alpha program today still reflects the communal consciousness steeped in the AKA tradition and embodied in AKA’s credo, To be supreme in service to all mankind.
Cultural awareness and social advocacy marked Alpha Kappa Alpha’s infancy, but within one year (1914) of acquiring corporate status, AKA had also made its mark on education, establishing a scholarship award. The programming was a prelude to the thousands of pioneering and enduring initiatives that eventually defined the Alpha Kappa Alpha brand. Through the years, Alpha Kappa Alpha has used the Sisterhood as a grand lever to raise the status of African-Americans, particularly girls and women. AKA has enriched minds and encouraged life-long learning; provided aid for the poor, the sick, and underserved; initiated social action to advance human and civil rights; worked collaboratively with other groups to maximize outreach on progressive endeavors; and continually produced leaders to continue its credo of service.
Guided by twenty-eight international presidents from Nellie M. Quander (1913-1919) to Carolyn House Stewart (2010-2014), with reinforcement from a professional headquarters staff since 1949; AKA’s corps of volunteers has instituted groundbreaking social action initiatives and social service programs that have timelessly transformed communities for the better—continually emitting progress in cities, states, the nation, and the world.
Signature Program Initiatives
2000s—Launched Emerging Young Leaders, a bold move to prepare 10,000 girls in grades 6-8 to excel as young leaders equipped to respond to the challenges of the 21stcentury; initiated homage for civil rights milestones by honoring the Little Rock Nine’s 1957 desegregation of Central High (Little