Sixth Annotation for NHD 08-09

"Honoring the Past." Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority ,Inc. A Legacy of Sisterhood and Service. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.. 6 Nov 2008 http://www.aka1908.com/past/.

This website gives me the motto they go by "By Merit and Culture". I found out the names of their distinguishing colors. Their stamp is on the page it is the letters AKA going down the middle of it and the middle is salmon pink and the two sides are apple green and in both sides of the green it is two images one up and the other down they are for what the sorority stands for. At the bottom there is words in greek lettering in a scroll out banner. The stamp is shaped like a shield and above it there are two hands joined together.

Introduction

Ethel Hedgeman Lyle born as Ethel Hedgeman on February 10, 1885 in St, Louis, Missouri. She is the daughter of Albert Hedgeman and Maria Hubbard Hedgeman. Her father worked for the YMCA and her mother cared for her two sisters, Iota and Thelma. She attended public schools in St. Louis and graduated with honors from Sumner High School in 1904 with a scholarship to Howard University. She entered the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University in 1904. That year she had to stop due to some health issues she was having. She graduated in 1909 with a B.A. in liberal arts. After graduating she went to Enfala, Oklahoma. During that summer she taught music in the Summer Normal School and continued to teach in the public school of Enfala until 1910. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle was the first Black woman college graduate to teach in a normal school in Oklahoma and the first to receive a Teacher's Life Certificate from the Oklahoma State Department of Education. During the school year 1910-1911 she taught in the public schools of Centralia, Illinois. After she was done teaching in Centralia, she married her high school and college sweetheart, George Lyle, in New York on June 21, 1911, they resided in Philadelphia where their only child, George, Jr., was born. Mrs. Lyle continued her career in Philadelphia in 1922 she taught English at the Thomas Purham School and then at the Arthur School after that she retired in 1948.

Fifth Annotation for NHD 08-09

"What organization was founded by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle?." Wiki Answers. 6 Nov 2008 .

This website tells me organizations that Ethel Hedgeman Lyle was apart of and the ones she founded her self. It tells me that she was an educator for forty years and for more than twenty years she was the national treasurer of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority Inc. The website also mentions that she was the founder and first president of Omega Omega. She also was the founder of the West Philadelphia chaspter League of Woman Voters and the Mothers club in the city.

Thesis Statement

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority Inc. was formed by a female named Ethel Hedgeman Lyle. She wanted to form an association of woman students through which the talents and strengths of these students could be organized for the mutual benefit of all. This formation was not formed by one woman but that one woman brong together what they call "The Divine Nine" . Later on the nine decided to induct seven sophomores.