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1931
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Boule of Alpha Kappa Alpha

The thirteenth annual Boule of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority convened at Wiley College, December 27-31, 1930. Upon the arrival of a special from the North and points West and South bearing eager sorors to Marshall, Texas, a boule that goes down in history as a most commemorable one spent in southern hospitality with Phi chapter and Wiley College as its hostesses was begun. This marks the first time that the boule has been entertained in the Southwest and the second time in the South.

The meeting of the Directorate in Daniel Brainard Memorial Chapel, Saturday afternoon started everything going with plenty of vim.

Phi Chapter first greeted its sorors in the Library Auditorium on the evening of December the twenty-seventh from six to nine o'clock, where the president and faculty of Wiley College in receiving line greeted many elaborately gowned sorors of Alpha Kappa Alpha, while sweet music floated over a soft room of amber bedecked with palms and holly.

At nine o'clock company escorted the sorors to the Wiley refectory where the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity entertained superbly with the first semi-formal dance, amid beautiful Christmas decorations. The music was furnished by Groner's "Red Devils."

Sunday morning, all the sorors, fellow-Greeks, and non-Greeks met in the Daniel Brainard Memorial Chapel on the occasion of a public program where the visiting sorors were welcomed to the city of Marshall by Honorable William Caven, to Bishop College by President J.J. Rhoads, to Wiley College by President M.W. Dogan, and to the interfraternal activities by representatives from each organization. Soror Maudelle Bousefield of Chicago, Supreme Basileus of the national organization, introduced the main speaker of the morning, Soror Elizabeth B. Jones, wife of Bishop R.E. Jones. Soror Jones very efficiently and effectively treated the subject, "Adventurous Living." Soror Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, founder and honorary basileus of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest sorority for college women, was next introduced by the supreme basileus.

The hospitality and willingness to make the boule a success was shown by Bishop College who entertained Sunday afternoon with an informal tea where the visitors were received by the president and faculty of the college in the Music Studio.

The business sessions of the boule were held in the Library Auditorium, where achievements and the activities for the past year, their development and plans for future were brought forward with precision of superior rank as can be attributed to the supreme basileus. It is the first time that all business was finished as the program outlined.

The sorors spent Monday morning, from four to seven-thirty, with the Omega Psi Phi fraternity and Delta Sigma Theta sorority in a "Spring Dawn Dance" where the guests "tripped the light fantastic toe" to the sweet strains of music from Groner's "Red Devils." The decoration was a beautiful spring array of lovely flowers, and this decoration coupled with lovely gowned ladies gliding along on the arms of well groomed dancing partners