Commemorating the 100 Anniversary of Beta Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Incorporated
WHEREAS, Beta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated was chartered October, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois and is celebrating 100 years of existence and service;
WHEREAS, Beta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated was the second chapter organized and the first chapter established under the provisions of Sub-chapter Three of Chapter XVII of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia in the second largest city in the United States;
WHEREAS, Beta Chapter was the hostess chapter to the 2nd Boule of Alpha Kappa Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated held December 1919 at the War Camp Community Center in Chicago, IL;
WHEREAS, Lorraine Richardson Green, President of Beta Chapter was elected and served as the second Supreme President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated and that during her administration the
sorority's Founders 'Day Celebration was initiated, sorority pin adopted, and first issue of the Ivy Leaf magazine published;
WHEREAS, Beta Chapter through the years has earned many awards for service and scholastic achievement and
many academic firsts including the first Black woman awarded a master s degree in Sociology at the University
of Chicago, first Black woman awarded the Gertrude Seltz Scholarship for the highest grade point average among first-year women, and the first Black woman to receive a doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, the
first recipient of Alpha Kappa Alpha's Foreign Travel Grant from Central Region and the recipient of Central Region s
First Undergraduate Achievement Cup awarded by the region;
WHEREAS, 100 years of service to mankind has witnessed Beta Chapter's involvement in the Chicagoland
Community and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority s National Programs from the National Guidance Program in
1924. To Global Leadership Through Timeless Service and Beta Chapter members have gone forth to serve th...
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