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[[images- 12 black and white photographs of African American women]] [[captions]] Soror Ann Porter EARLINE CARTER Advisory Judicial and Grievance Detroit, Mich. Soror Mae Bolling Curry SOROR ETHEL MADISON Founder and First Grand Basileus Mattie Rankin Soror Ivy Burt Morris Dorothy Sylvers Brown Soror Atheline Shelton Soror Katherine Douglas Soror Lena Reed EDITH H. KEELAN Parliamentarian New Orleans, La. ETHEL HOLBERT Grand Tamias]] Our aim, as an organization, is to have enough wisdom to think in the right channels, enough perception to see an opportunity, enough judgement to appraise it, and enough energy to embrace and make use of it. We are ever seeking, and keenly aware of community problems, and only by participation and involvement will our organization be known. HISTORY ETA PHI BETA SORORITY was organized September 4, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan by eleven (11) women who felt the need of a closer relationship between women in the business and professional community. It was the desire of this group of women to seek ways and means of obtaining for Negro women, the highest standards standards in all business and professional fields, and to implement this goal through the establishment of a Scholarship Fund and contributions to the Retarded Child Program, working cooperatively with kindred organizations and contributing to worthwhile community endeavors. The eleven women who met that September day in sisterhood to give meaning and structure to their ideas and ideals were: Merry Green Hubbard Lena Reed Ivy Burt Morris Ethel Madison Katherine Douglas Athleline Shelton Ann Porter Earline Carter Dorothy Silvers Brown Mae Edwards Curry Mattie Rankin The first elected officers were: Merry Green Hubbard, Basileus; Ann Porter, Anti-Basileus; Ethel Madison, Tamiouchous; Dorothy Sylvers Brown, Chaplain Parliamentarian; Mae Edwards Curry, Tamias; Lena Reed, Epistoleus; Earline Carter, Grammateus; Ivy Burt Morris, Guard; Mattie Rankin, Keeper of Peace, and Katherine Douglas, Historian. The officers were installed by Mrs. R. Louise Grooms, Founder-President of the Detroit Institute of Commerce, and later to become the Sorority's first honorary member. Thruogh the years of our organization it has grown. The ideals and objectives of the founders have been approved and cherished. We have turned our hands and our will to the task of giving purpose and meaning to our organization. We have reached out to perform various functions to forward the general welfare of the community. Dedication, effort, and devotion have marked our sisterhood through the years. Though we have not always agreed on methods and procedure, or ways and means of achieving our goals, it is with pride that we can point to our unity in concentrating on the basic needs and objectives of a growing organization, in the spirit of our motto, "NOT FOR OURSELVES, BUT FOR OTHERS." 234