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THE NORTHEASTERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE

National Officers and delegates of the Northeastern Chapters assembled at the Hampton, Virginia, Holiday Inn for their 1978 Northeastern Regional Conference, November 3-5, under the direction of Mrs. Thelma D. Addison, Northeastern Regional Director.  The meeting was hosted by Hampton's Sigma Chapter led by its Basileus, Mrs. Andrea Harris Forbes.  An official welcome was extended by the Honorable T. Melvin Butler, Hampton's Vice Mayor.  Then the general body was treated to a timely dynamic Keynote address given by Mrs. Jessie Mensfield Rattley, founder of the Peninsula Business College, the first elected Black, and woman, to the Newport News City Council in 1970.  She addressed herself to the theme for the occasion "a new focus on woman power in an adverse age."  Her closing challenged us: "We are slaves to credit cards or producers of goods and services, but what do we (Blacks and women) get out of it except continued enslavement.  Would it not be better to pool our resources and develop economic security for ourselves and our children in order to provide that economic strength we need?"  To paraphrase her closing statement, our world is only as good as we make it.

At this Regional meeting, the Sorority initiated another new chapter into the LKM family, Alpha Theta of Rome, New York.  A month previously, October 7, the Grand Basileus and several National Officers including the Second Anti-Basileus, whose responsibility is to ceremoniously lead the initiation of all new chapters, traveled to Macon, Georgia, to bring another chapter into the fold.

"A Program With a Purpose"

Program themes reflect the Sorority emphasis of coping with the realities of our society by accepting a positive role in community affairs.

As an organization of business and professional women, Lambda Kappa Mu, founded in 1937 by the late Florence K. Norman, and incorporated in the State of New York, represents a cross section of business interests and professional activities.  The members have a unique opportunity to participate in cultural and educational activities while further developing individual skills and collectively performing noteworthy community service.

The National Program has a four-point emphasis on SISTERHOOD, ACHIEVEMENT, SCHOLARSHIP, and COMMUNITY SERVICE.

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Some very important people in the Sorority posed for this photograph; they are, from the left to right: Judge Margaret Haywood, Mrs. Elizabeth Proctor, both Past Grand Basili; National Grand Basileus, Mrs. Venice Harvey; National Honorary Soror Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray and the National Epistoleus Mrs. Helene S. Slater.  Getting together after lunch--the Conclave Luncheon, that is.[/caption]]

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[[caption]] Ms. Dorothy Height responds to the plaque and honor given NCNW by the Sorority.  She, too, was honored as leader of NCNW.  Ms. Height spoke of her work with Mary Macleod Bethune and with the Founder of LKM, Florence K. Norman.[/caption]]

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The Nat'l Epistoleus, Mrs. Helene S. Slater, presents Mrs. Rita Braddock, Theta's Epistoleus, with the Ida Wroten Plaque, because Theta raised the highest amount of funds for the 1978 ACORN, the Sorority organ.  Mrs. Slater gives Mrs. Braddock a sisterly kiss as the Rev. Dr. Paull Murray looks on from the left and Mrs. Ida Wroten watches from the right. [/caption]]

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