The Far Western Region's History of Timeless Service

In 1920, college student Ida Louise Jackson conceived of organizing a chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley for young Negro college women. An interest club was formed, and in 1921 the National Office dispatched Soror Inez Wood Fairfax to the Northern California area to organize and to officiate the chartering of the first Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter west of the Mississippi river, Rho chapter. The book is presented chronologically with...
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In 1920, college student Ida Louise Jackson conceived of organizing a chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley for young Negro college women. An interest club was formed, and in 1921 the National Office dispatched Soror Inez Wood Fairfax to the Northern California area to organize and to officiate the chartering of the first Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter west of the Mississippi river, Rho chapter. The book is presented chronologically with the Undergraduate chapters, Graduate chapters and Regional Directors presented together in a unified timeline which mirrors the development of the Far Western Region. Regional Director Barbara Denson Trotter's dynamic leadership focused on a theme of doing ?Big Things? within the Far Western Region. Undergraduates have been doing ?big things? in the programs and leadership of AKA. In the first two years of this administration, the Far Western Region undergraduates have increased participation in the AKA Leadership Fellows Program, and have been selected for the prestigious AKA-Arbor Day Internship Program and Peace Corps Campus Ambassador program. Undergraduates have blossomed in Undergraduate Cluster Co-Coordinator positions. Graduate chapters of the Far Western Region have also been recognized for doing ?big things.? Between 2012 and 2014 seven chapters were selected as Signature Sites as part of the MLK Service for Peace Program.