General Knowledge & TG History

Founded?

Wednesday, January 15, 1908 West Wing 2nd floor, Miner Hall, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Incorporated Date

Wednesday, January 29, 1913

Theta Gamma Chapter Charter Date

Monday, November 3, 1973, at The University of South Carolina

Our Mission is to

• cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical standards

• promote unity and friendship among college women

• to study and help alleviate problems concerning girls and women in order to improve their social stature

• to maintain a progressive interest in college life

• be of service to all mankind

Initiative Mission

Soaring to greater heights of service and sisterhood

Flower

Pink Tea Rose

Symbol

Ivy Leaf

Color and Meaning

Salmon Pink & Apple Green; Femininity and Vitality

Badge

Green enameled ivy leaf with a rim of pearls

Official Publication

Ivy Leaf Magazine, first published in 1921

Initiative 1

Strengthen our Sisterhood (Programs: Leadership Development, “We are One” AKA Service Day)

Initiative 2

Empower our Families (Programs: Mental Health Awareness, Childhood Hunger Initiative Power Pack AKA CHIPP)

Initiative 3

Build our Economic Wealth (Programs: supporting women entreprenuers, sister circle)

Initiative 4

Enhance our Environment (Programs: Tree planting, Community and Home Garden)

Initiative 5

Advocate for Social Justice (Programs: Voter Education, Registration, and Public Policy Forums)

Initiative 6

Uplift our Local Community (Programs: Celebrating Local Community Impact)

Current International President

Danette Anthony Reed (31st President)

Region

South Atlantic Region (SC, GA, FL)

Cluster

Cluster VII (administrative grouping for chapters in region)

South Atlantic Regional Director

Tiffany Moore Russell

Past South Atlantic Regional Director

Sharon Brown Harrit (TG Fall’76)

#of Chapters

1,115

AKA Motto and who created it:

By Culture and by Merit, made Beulah Burke and Lillie Burke

First Ivy Beyond the Wall

Marjorie Hill

“Ivy Beyond the Wall”

deceased soror

Founders

• Anna Easter Brown

• Beulah Elizabeth Burke

• Lillie Elizabeth Burke

• Marjorie Hills

• Margaret Flagg Holmes

• Ethel Hedgemen

Incorportators

1. Norma Elizabeth Boyd

2. Julia Evangeline Brooks

3. Ethel Jones

4. Nellie May Quander

5. Minnie Beatrice Smith

6. Nellie Pratt Russell

Who was Ethel’s?

Ethel Tremaine Robinson, a faculty member at Howard who shared her sorority experiences at Brown University

When did TG start?

1972, when Mary Solomon and Olivia Johnson (Gamma Nu Omega Chapter) met with and interested USC Student, Ernestine “Tena” Walker. Spring Semester of 1972, Tena Walk became an AKA

How many women at USC where interested/when?

26 women but only 24 made it!, Fall 1972, initated a year later through the help of Edna Young (Gamma Nu Omega Member), chartered on Monday November 3, 1973.

When did Tena Walker become an AKA?

Spring 1972

TG Charter Members 1-5

• Dimitri Battles

• Linda Beaty

• Gwedolyn Buggs

• Brenda Crosby

• Clarice Doctor

TG Charter Members 6-10

• Hope English

• Gerti Floyd

• Deanna Gant

• Gail Garvin

• Deborah Graham

TG Charter Members 11-15

• Juanita Hall

• Peggy Harrison

• Cheryl Moore Adamson

• Cynthia McLeod

• Sephronia Presley

TG Charter Members 16-20

• Naomi Rice

• Margaret Riley

• Doris Starks

• Connie Sumpter

  • Loretta Tailfair

TG Charter Members 21-24

• Bettye Ware

• Cynthia White

• Rose Williams

• Corretta Wright

Largest TG Line

Spring 2012, 89 Simply Kaptivating S.P.I.R.I.T.S

Basileus & Anti-Basileus

Kristin Pondexter, Cherish Allen

Tamiochos

Alayna Champ

Epistoleus & Hodegos

Dalisa DeWitt & Deidre Graham