AKA MIP ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Who was elected as the first president? - ✔✔Lucy Diggs Slowe
✔✔By whom was Ethel Hedgeman Lyle influenced? - ✔✔school teachers Tremain
Robinson and Elizabeth Appa Cook
✔✔What is the Alpha Kappa Alpha Connection? - ✔✔A communications network
✔✔When was the 1st international chapter set up? Where was it located? - ✔✔Year:
1948
Location: Liberia
✔✔How are chapter program activities determined? - ✔✔By the International Program
Committee, as defined by the Supreme Basileus
✔✔Supreme - ✔✔International
-Ex) Supreme Basileus = International President
✔✔When was the Domestic Travel Tour initiated? What was it? - ✔✔-Initiated: 1969
-What it was: a 1-week tour of cities with sites that are significant to Black heritage
✔✔In February 1908, 7 students were admitted into the sorority without initiation. List
these individuals. - ✔✔-Norma Boyd
-Ethel Jones
-Harriet Terry
-Joanna Berry
-Sara Meriweather
-Carrie Snowden
-Alice Murray
✔✔Beulah Elizabeth Burke - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator, 1st Black woman to earn a MA in Home Economics at Columbia
-Created the name, motto (by culture and by merit) and colors for AKA
-Burke sisters
, ✔✔Lillie E. Burke - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
-Charter member of Xi Omega (1st graduate chapter in D.C.)
-Burke sisters
✔✔Marjorie Hill - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
-died during the summer of 1909, becoming the group's first Ivy Beyond the Wall
✔✔Margaret Flagg (Holmes) - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
-helped write Alpha Kappa Alpha's first constitution and bylaws
-Earned a Masters degree in Philosophy from Columbia in 1917
-Received by the Pope in 1931
✔✔Ethel Hedgeman (Lyle) - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
-only member ever to be named Honorary Supreme Basileus (International President)
-served as Supreme Tamiochous (national treasurer) for 23 years
-charter member and president of Omega Omega Chapter in Philadelphia
✔✔Lavinia Norman - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
- A "dreamer" and a "visionary" of AKA
-member of Alpha Kappa Alpha's first Constitution and Bylaws committee
-presiding officer at the first Ivy Day ceremony
-Last survivor of the original 9 founders, lived to be 100 years old
✔✔Lucy Diggs Slowe - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-College Dean and Educator
-First Basileus (President) of AKA
-First Black woman to win a national sports title in tennis
✔✔Marie Woolfolk (Taylor) - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Social worker
-lyric soprano with the HU Choir
-served as its first Grammateus (secretary)
-member of the first Constitution and Bylaws committee
-extended invitations to the Howard sophomores who were eventually added to the
founding group
-became the chartering president of Kappa Omega Chapter in Atlanta
✔✔Anna Easter Brown - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
✔✔Who was elected as the first president? - ✔✔Lucy Diggs Slowe
✔✔By whom was Ethel Hedgeman Lyle influenced? - ✔✔school teachers Tremain
Robinson and Elizabeth Appa Cook
✔✔What is the Alpha Kappa Alpha Connection? - ✔✔A communications network
✔✔When was the 1st international chapter set up? Where was it located? - ✔✔Year:
1948
Location: Liberia
✔✔How are chapter program activities determined? - ✔✔By the International Program
Committee, as defined by the Supreme Basileus
✔✔Supreme - ✔✔International
-Ex) Supreme Basileus = International President
✔✔When was the Domestic Travel Tour initiated? What was it? - ✔✔-Initiated: 1969
-What it was: a 1-week tour of cities with sites that are significant to Black heritage
✔✔In February 1908, 7 students were admitted into the sorority without initiation. List
these individuals. - ✔✔-Norma Boyd
-Ethel Jones
-Harriet Terry
-Joanna Berry
-Sara Meriweather
-Carrie Snowden
-Alice Murray
✔✔Beulah Elizabeth Burke - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator, 1st Black woman to earn a MA in Home Economics at Columbia
-Created the name, motto (by culture and by merit) and colors for AKA
-Burke sisters
, ✔✔Lillie E. Burke - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
-Charter member of Xi Omega (1st graduate chapter in D.C.)
-Burke sisters
✔✔Marjorie Hill - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
-died during the summer of 1909, becoming the group's first Ivy Beyond the Wall
✔✔Margaret Flagg (Holmes) - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
-helped write Alpha Kappa Alpha's first constitution and bylaws
-Earned a Masters degree in Philosophy from Columbia in 1917
-Received by the Pope in 1931
✔✔Ethel Hedgeman (Lyle) - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
-only member ever to be named Honorary Supreme Basileus (International President)
-served as Supreme Tamiochous (national treasurer) for 23 years
-charter member and president of Omega Omega Chapter in Philadelphia
✔✔Lavinia Norman - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
- A "dreamer" and a "visionary" of AKA
-member of Alpha Kappa Alpha's first Constitution and Bylaws committee
-presiding officer at the first Ivy Day ceremony
-Last survivor of the original 9 founders, lived to be 100 years old
✔✔Lucy Diggs Slowe - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-College Dean and Educator
-First Basileus (President) of AKA
-First Black woman to win a national sports title in tennis
✔✔Marie Woolfolk (Taylor) - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Social worker
-lyric soprano with the HU Choir
-served as its first Grammateus (secretary)
-member of the first Constitution and Bylaws committee
-extended invitations to the Howard sophomores who were eventually added to the
founding group
-became the chartering president of Kappa Omega Chapter in Atlanta
✔✔Anna Easter Brown - ✔✔-1 of the original 9 founders
-Educator
