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Jemison will be the featured speaker at 100th anniversary of the founding of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

Jemison will be the featured speaker at  100th anniversary of the founding of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

The event, sponsored by the AKA's Gamma Zeta Omega Chapter, is open to the public and will be preceded by a reception and exhibition at 1 p.m. It will include a book signing by Jemison, who made history when she flew aboard the shuttle Endeavour on Sept. 12, 1992. She paid tribute to Alpha Kappa Alpha by carrying the sorority's banner with her and her space suit is a part of the sorority's national traveling Centennial Exhibit. Jemison, founder and president of two technology companies, is a sought after speaker who champions the cause of education and promotes the advancement of science literacy. She has also hosted a science and nature program on the Discovery Channel and developed an international science camp for youth. Astronaut Mae Jemison, the first Afro-American woman in space, served as a Peace Corps Medical Officer in Sierra Leone.

Jemison will be the featured speaker at 100th anniversary of the founding of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

Black sorority to celebrate 100 years
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority will host a luncheon to mark the centennial anniversary of the founding of the chapter. Former astronaut Mae Jemison will be the featured speaker.
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Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel in space will give the feature address when the local chapter celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at a luncheon from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 17.

Jemison, an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, will speak during the Centennial Founders' Day Luncheon at the Doral Golf Resort, 4400 NW 87th Ave.

The event, sponsored by the AKA's Gamma Zeta Omega Chapter, is open to the public and will be preceded by a reception and exhibition at 1 p.m. It will include a book signing by Jemison, who made history when she flew aboard the shuttle Endeavour on Sept. 12, 1992. She paid tribute to Alpha Kappa Alpha by carrying the sorority's banner with her and her space suit is a part of the sorority's national traveling Centennial Exhibit.

Jemison, founder and president of two technology companies, is a sought after speaker who champions the cause of education and promotes the advancement of science literacy. She has also hosted a science and nature program on the Discovery Channel and developed an international science camp for youth.

Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded on Jan. 15, 1908, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., by nine students led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle to address the social ills of the day and promote scholarship among black women and girls.

The sorority has a membership of 200,000 college-trained women in 975 chapters in the United States, Canada, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Notable members include Peggy Quince, a Florida Supreme Court justice; Maya Angelou, poet; Jada Pinkett-Smith, actress; and the late Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks, activists; and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Gamma Zeta Omega members, who live around the county, include state Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami; Kay Sullivan, clerk of the County Commission and chapter first vice president; Dorothy Edwards, charter member; Sue Francis; Gwendolyn Welters; Cynthia Curry, special assistant to the county manager; Geneva Woodard, an assistant school superintendent; Charlie Powell Albury; Willie Pearl Porter; and Lydia Ross.

The late community activist and businesswoman M. Athalie Range was also a member of the chapter.

The Gamma Zeta Omega chapter, which is headed by Deborah Varnadore-Simmons, was chartered in 1940 and reports providing scholarships valued at tens of thousands of dollars. The chapter sponsors a reading tutorial program, provides voter education and registration, promotes health and financial literacy initiatives; sponsors the Ivy Rosettes, a teen mentoring program; and supports other community-based organizations such as the Sickle Cell Disease Association, the Black Archives and Research Foundation of South Florida and the Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Benefit.

The Centennial Founders' Day Luncheon is the culminating event of a weekend of celebrations that includes a day of service with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Miami Feb. 16 at one of its home building sites.

Tickets for the luncheon are $75 per person; proceeds will benefit the chapter's scholarship fund. To make reservations of for more information, call Jacquelyn Davis, 305-827-9443, or e-mail jdavis1017@aol.com.

Additional information about Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Gamma Zeta Omega is available at www.akagzo.org.




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