
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED
TAU UPSILON OMEGA CHAPTER


HONORING OUR LIVING LEGACY
PEARL MEMBERS
(65+ Years of AKA Service)
Since its founding over a century ago, Alpha Kappa Alpha's mission has been to cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical standards, to promote unity and friendship among women, and to study & help alleviate problems concering girls and women in order to improve their social stature and to be of 'Service to All Mankind.'
The Tau Upsilon Omega Chapter is proud to highlight seven members of our prestigious sorority that have served the community for 50 or more years. These women are known as our Golden Soror's and we salute them.
GOLDEN MEMBERS
(50+ Years of AKA Service)


E. Johnetta Wilson ~ PEARL
Initiated January 1951
BS Degree in Math and Secondary Education,
Clark Atlanta University
MA Degree in Counseling
Chapman College

Earline Murray~ PEARL
Initiated November 1959
BA Degree in English
Southern University
MA Degree in English
University of Santa Clara
*Former Chapter President


Cliffy Jones ~ GOLDEN
Initiated May 1968
BA Recreation Therapy
Grambling State University
MA Degree Therapeutic Recreation
New York University
Bertha Hamilton ~ GOLDEN
Initiated May 1968
BA Music and Minor in Education
San Jose State University
MA Degree in Education and Instruction
Arizona State University

Jennifer Ritchie ~ GOLDEN
Initiated December 1969
BA Speech Pathology
Indiana State University
MA Degree in Speech Pathology
Indiana State University

Gwendolyn Lawton ~ GOLDEN
Initiated November 1969
BA Mathematics/Science
Florida A & M University
MA Degree in Statistics
Florida State University
MA Degree in Education & Instruction
University of California Berkeley
*Former Chapter President
Ria Persinger ~ GOLDEN
Initiated February 1972
BS Business Administration
San Jose State University
Charter Member Zeta Psi
San Jose State University
*Former Chapter President

Alice Claiborne - Henry ~ GOLDEN
Initiated November 1974
BA in Fashion Design
Memphis State University
MA Degree in Student Counseling
University of Laverne