Alice P. Murray

        There is only a meager record of the life history of Alice P Murray, 
one of the founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.  It is known that she was 
a member of the group of sophomores admitted to the sorority in the spring of
1908, and that she was an active participant in the early days.
        Her father was P. A. Murray, and the family lived on U. Street in 
Washington, D.C. She entered Teachers College of Howard University in 1906, 
and graduated with a B.A. degree in liberal arts and pedagogy in 1910.  As a 
student, she took many classes in kindergarten teaching methods.  A number of
articles written by Alice Murray were published by the Howard University 
journal.  She was obviously very interested in music and she reviewed the 
Howard University Glee Club performances.  Her short stories reveal her to 
have been a sensitive, cultivated person, Alice Murray disclosed some of her 
thoughts in the following  poem included in a short story published when she 
was at Howard University.

                Men I dreamed of autumn
                I visioned pomp and charm,
                A mallard winging swiftly south
                Fleeing a hunter's harm;
                A wild goose flying high and fast
                Over swamp and moor
                A weasel weaving through the grass
                Training a rabbit's spoor
                But autumn as I saw it,
                Was not like this, alas
                The duck is in the haversack,
                The goose lies in the grass.
                The rabbit hangs in the market,
                And the weasel will never pass.