Our Illustrious Founders and Incorporators

The nine Howard University students who had been led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle into a sisterhood in 1908, Nellie Quander and her gallant group who contributed the added dimension of national organization and perpetual membership, and those who have come after them, the never-ending stream of eternally young, hopeful enthusiastic women, need to be remembered. The efforts of these Alpha Kappa Alpha women in scholarship promotion, vocational guidance, encouragement of foreign study, health services, and the promotion of human and civil rights constitute a priceless part of the Black experience in America.

The Founder's Original Group

Marjorie Hill	Lucy D. Slowe	Lillie Burke
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle	Anna E. Brown	Marie Woolfolk Taylor
Beulah E. Burke	Margaret Flagg Holmes	Lavinia Norman

The Sophomores of 1908

	Norma Boyd
Ethel J. Mowbray	Alice P. Murray	Sarah M. Nutter
Joanna B. Shields	Carrie E. Snowden	Harriett J. Terry

The Incorporators

Norma Boyd	Julia E. Brooks	Ethel Jones Mowbray
Nellie M. Quander	Nellie Pratt Russell	Minnie B. Smith

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