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50 years of service and sisterhood

4/25/2024, 6 p.m.
Women who attended Virginia Commonwealth University and were initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s Theta Rho Chapter celebrated their 50th …
Dr. Colita Fairfax, Alpha Kappa Alpha Mid-Atlantic Archivist and Archives Committee chairperson, speaks during the 50th Chartering Anniversary at VCU on April 20. Photos by Clement Britt

Women who attended Virginia Commonwealth University and were initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s Theta Rho Chapter celebrated their 50th Chartering Anniversary April 20 at the university with a commemorative bench dedication on the university’s main campus. Several of the chapter’s 13 chartering members were in attendance.

Charter members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority chapter at VCU, included Gloria Reeves Spratley, Ruth Thompson Hill, Betty Waller Gray, Forrestiner Adams Dickerson and Valerie Warner (left to right).

Charter members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority chapter at VCU, included Gloria Reeves Spratley, Ruth Thompson Hill, Betty Waller Gray, Forrestiner Adams Dickerson and Valerie Warner (left to right).

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was the first Black Greek letter sorority. It was founded at Howard University on Jan. 15, 1908. The Theta Rho Chapter was chartered on the campus of VCU on April 21, 1974, and since that time has engaged in civic and social action and environmental and educational initiatives that represent the sorority’s objectives of improving the conditions and stature of girls and women.

Dr. Lillian H. Gilliam cuts the ribbon to celebrate the sorority’s 50th Chartering Anniversary at VCU.

Dr. Lillian H. Gilliam cuts the ribbon to celebrate the sorority’s 50th Chartering Anniversary at VCU.