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Negro Group Is Celebrating Its 25th Year
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By Frank L. Hayes.
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Source: Chicago Daily News, 10 August 1933, pg. 13.
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A quarter of a century of progress was observed today at the Century of Progress exposition, in the Illinois Host building, by the oldest organization of Negro college women, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, founded in 1908 at Howard university. The second chapter was formed at the University of Chicago.
Spokesmen of the organization said this convention was its largest and probably the largest convention of Negro college and university women ever held in the United States. The management of International house reported that the opening meeting held there, attended by 2,000 persons, was the largest gathering at the house since it was built.
100 Chapters Now.
"When we last had our convention in Chicago, in 1919," said Mrs. Maude E. Brown, president, "the organization had seven chapters. Today we have 100 chapters in thirty states, with 5,000 members."
The organization voted to appropriate a special scholarship fund, in the neighborhood of $500, to each of its regional divisions for the aid of needy students. Scholarship and student loan funds are an important phase of the work of the sorority, which has awarded three foreign fellowships, one at Oxford, one at the University of Paris and one at the University of Berlin, and hundreds of scholarships at American institutions. Hazel Brown, a member of Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholarship society and a master of arts of Kansas university, was last year's fellowship recipient, studying at Berlin.
Welcomes Delegates.
Miss Helen Bennett, assistant to the director of the social science division of A Century of Progress, welcomed the delegates. Mrs. Maude e. Brown responded. Mrs. Wendell E. Green presided. There were solos by Wilhelmina Harrison Alexander, Nelmatilda Richie and La Jeune Fisher.
Another college graduate's group, the Boule, a federation of Negro fraternity men, met at the Binga Arcade building, 35th and State streets. Among the distinguished guests was Prof. G. David Houston of Washington, a classmate at Harvard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Page compiled: 14 January 2006
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