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Friday at 1 p.m. Other social events include a re ception for directors at 4 p.m. Sun day; a luncheon for the director ate at 12:30 p.m. Monday; a fash ion show luncheon at 1 p.m. Tues day; a breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Wed nesday; a breakfast for the direc torate at 8 a.m. and a luncheon for undergraduate surors at 12:30 p.m. Thursday; the 50th anniver sary ball at 10 p.m. Friday; and the 50th anniversary banquet at 8 p.m. Saturday. On the business side, the house program includes a public meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday; a series of workshops on Thursday afternoon; and daily business sessions. Guest speakers include Carl T. Rowan, prize-winning reporter for the Min neapolis Tribune, who will addess the public meeting; investment broker John A. Roosevelt, who speaks at 2 p.m. Thursday; and Wayne University sociologist Mel J. Ravitz, who will speak on “Lead ership in a Democratic Organiza tion” at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Tuesday's fashion show luncheon , is expected to be one of the high lights of the house. Dorothea Tow les, internationally - known model and a member of Alpha Kappa Al pha, will be the featured artist, and some 1,400 women are expect ed to view the program. According to Annetta G. Wal lace of Knoxville, Tenn., national president of the 20,000-member so rority ,this year’s meeting will be the largest held by the group in its 50-year history. Each of the sorority’s 275 chapters will be rep resented at the meeting, Mrs. Wal lace said. The membership of the organization includes undergrad uate chapters at 105 colleges and univrsities and graduate chapters in 169 cities in the United States and in Monrovia, Liberia. The latter chapter was installed by Mrs. Wallace during ceremonies in Mon rovia two weeks ago. Now the nation’s oldest and largest social Greek-letter organi zation for Negro women, Alpha Kappa Alpha was conceived at a meeting of 12 coeds at Howard University on January 15, 1909, and authorized as a University- sanctioned group less than two months later. The first basileus (president) of the organization was Lucy Diggs Slowe, who was later to become dean of women at How ard. Other founders included Ann Brown of Rocky Mount, N. C., Beulah E. Burke of Washington, Margaret Flagg Holmes of New York City, Lavinia Norman of Washington, Joanna B. Shields of New York City, Marie Woolfolk Taylor of Atlanta and Harriett J. Terry of Normal, Ala., all of whom are living. Deceased members of the ori al group include Miss Slowe, Lil lian Burke, Marjorie Hill, Ethel Hodgman Lyle and Sara Meriweth er Nutter. The three local chapters of the sorority will serve as house hosts. They are Alpha at Howard, Beta
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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Sat, Aug 16, 1958
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