AKA’s Celebrate Founders’ Day – 102 Years of Service
Special to The Truth
On Sunday, February 28, 2010
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. celebrated its 102 years
founding at Brandywine Country Club.
This event was open to the public and hosted by the three
local chapters of the nation’s first
African American
Greek-letter organization for college educated women.
Undergraduate chapters at Bowling
Green State University and The
University of Toledo and the
graduate chapter of Zeta Alpha
Omega welcomed 200 guests and members to join this
celebration whose theme was “Sustaining the Vision:
A Celebration of our
Founders.”
Founded on the campus of Howard
University in 1908, this small group of 20 women has
grown to a membership of more than 250,000 college-educated
women affiliated with undergraduate and alumna chapters
worldwide. The credo of “service to all mankind” guides the
sorority in its programs which center on significant issues
of the black family, communities, economics, health,
entrepreneurship, technology and the arts.
The guest speaker was Jala Anderson, former
Channel 13
Action News anchor. Anderson
spoke of her great love for the Toledo community and how she
welcomed the opportunity to return and share her incredible
journey since she left the area.
She was married in Toledo
and left for a new job in North
Carolina. Within a three-year period she lost her job
with that local TV station, moved back to her hometown of
Chicago, secured a position
with a pharmaceutical company, was downsized and, most
devastatingly, lost her husband in a car accident.
Anderson spoke of how she was changed by these events and
how her faith and trust in God
and her grandmother’s love and encouragement sustained her
and helped make her a stronger and better person today. She
has written a book about her journey which will be released
this year. |
