This Is HERstory..........
It all began 96 years ago!!
A vision lit the path for our 20 illustrious founders. This vison has continued to flourish for over 94 years and is growing storonger everyday.
On January 15th, 1908 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. was founded in Miner Hall on the campus of Howard University. Five years later on January 29, 1913 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was incorporated to perpetuate the lifelong rituals and traditions of the sisterhood. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated was the first Greek letter organization founded by and for black women. Over the past nine decades, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated has flourished into an international organization with over 800 chapters. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated is the epitome of class, grace, and womanhood.
...and Gamma Theta Continues the Legacy
It was on a Saturday, February 15, 1947, on the campus of Hampton Institute, when Soror Edna Over Campbell, Supreme Basileus officiated at the chartering ceremony of the Gamma Theta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. The chapter consisted of eleven new Sorors and one transfer. Their names were: Jacquelin Brandon, Gwendolyn Bridge, Ernestine Faucette, Mercedes Hardwick, Mozelle Jenkins, Alberta Mangana, Julia Moore, Rosemary Morris, Margaret Rogers, Barbara Southall, Mabelle Warren, and Ruby Dowles.
Ever since its inception, Gamma Theta has been diligently involved with service projects some of which include---the annual freshman rap session/campus orientation, senior citizen and Veterans Administration Hospital visitations, financial aid seminars for high school students, tutorial programs, voter awareness drives, Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets, adopt a child, UNCF, Adopt-a-Highway, several joint activities with the Gamma Upsilon Omega Chapter, and Red Cross Blood Drives.
The path of leadership was started at Hampton University, but it continues as Sorors of Gamma Theta have excelled in such areas as medicine, politics, education, business, religion and law.
