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[[caption]] MRS. ETHELDIA C. CONLEY
National Dean of Pledgees [[/caption]] 

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[[caption]] MRS. BEATRICE CRAWFORD
Regional Director-Eastern [[/caption]] 

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[[caption]] MRS. ROZELIA I. R. ASHLEY
National Treasurer [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] MRS. ADA W. TASSO
National Convention Chairman
Houston, Texas [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] MS. MARTHA GAMBLE
Recording Secretary [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] William S. McEwen, Director, Equal Opportunity Affairs, Monsanto, St. Louis, Missouri, indicates his company's concern in helping young women to pursue a business career by presenting to the National President, Dr. Fredda Witherspoon, a check of $1,000 for Iota's Scholarship Fund. [[/caption]]


IOTA PHI LAMBDA SORORITY, INC.
IOTA PHI LAMBDA SORORITY, INC., a business and professional sorority, was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929 during the beginning of the great depression which swept this country and left many Black persons without employment. Women who were working [[text cut off]] comparatively new skills in white-collar jobs in the business field were especially hard-hit, for they were penalized by both race and sex, while working against formidable odds. Thus, seven women sought to bring into being an organization that would give encouragement and add prestige to women in the field of business. The result of much diligent planning was IOTA PHI LAMBDA SORORITY, the brain-child of Mrs. Lola Mercedes Parker. Later the scope was enlarged to include women in a wide variety of professions. Today there are more than one hundred chapters with an approximate membership of three thousand stretching across the width and breadth of our country in eighty-five cities, representing thirty states, the District of Columbia, as well as Bangalore, South India.

The purposes of IOTA PHI LAMBDA SORORITY, INC., are: (1) to unite in a sisterhood of qualified business and professional women for the purpose of encouraging the elevation of their self-concept as it relates to the role of women in our highly complex, competitive, and often clandestine business and professional world, (2) to promote interest in the broad field of business education among high school and college young women by awarding scholarships and utilizing other channels of encouragement to those seeking to enter the business arena, (3) to encourage women, particularly minority women

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