ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED
TAU UPSILON OMEGA CHAPTER
HONORING OUR LIVING LEGACY
GOLDEN SORORS
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.
E. Johnetta Wilson
Initiated January 1951
BS Degree in Math and Secondary Education, Clark Atlanta University
MA Degree in Counseling
Chapman College
Estella San Juan
Initiated December 1953
BS Degree in Education
Texas Southern University
MA Degree in Education
Curriculum and Instruction
Chapman University
*Former Chapter President
Earline Murray
Initiated November 1959
BA Degree in English
Southern University
MA Degree in English
University of Santa Clara
*Former Chapter President
Cliffy Jones
Initiated May 1968
BA Recreation Therapy
Grambling State University
MA Degree Therapeutic Recreation
New York University
Bertha Hamilton
Initiated May 1968
BA Music and Minor in Education
San Jose State University
MA Degree in Education and Instruction
Arizona State University
Gwendolyn Lawton
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
Jennifer Ritchie
Initiated December 1969
BA Speech Pathology
Indiana State University
MA Degree in Speech Pathology
Indiana State University
Ria Rabun Persinger
Initiated February 1972
BS Business Administration
San Jose State University
Charter Member Zeta Psi
San Jose State University
*Former Chapter President