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✔✔Who is the Regional Director of your region? What is her role? - ✔✔-Mary Bentley
LaMar: North Atlantic Regional Director
-Role: serves as member of the Board of Directors and follows guidelines, program
targets, and procedures set by the Supreme Basileus
✔✔How does a Soror become a member of an International Committee? - ✔✔All
committee members, excluding Nominating, are appointed by the Supreme Basileus.
The Nominating Committee is composed of elected regional representatives.
✔✔To whom do you report to as a candidate? What is her role? - ✔✔-Membership
Chairman
-Role: To serve as liaison between the chapter and the candidates
✔✔Regarding AKA Constitution and Bylaws, when may the Bylaws be amended? -
✔✔The Bylaws may be amended at a regular meeting of the Boule by 2/3s of the votes
cast, provided that the proposed amendments shall have been circulated to chapters no
later than April 30th preceding the Boule
✔✔What is a Regional Conference? - ✔✔A Regional Conference is a study session
designed to clarify procedures and resolve problems of the chapters within a region
through workshops, discussions, demonstrations, and other types of group activity.
✔✔Which former Supreme Basilei are still living? - ✔✔- Norma Solomon White, LHD
(25th Pres)
-Barbara Anne McKinzie, LHD (27th Pres)
-Carolyn House Stewart, Esq. (28th Pres)
-Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson (29th Pres)
-Glenda Baskin Glover, PhD, JD (30th Pres)
✔✔Are some of the members elected geographically? Who? When would you be
eligible to run for this office? - ✔✔-Yes.
-Regional Director.
-After serving at least 1 term as a Basileus of a graduate chapter and attending at least
1 of the last 3 regional conferences immediately preceding nomination, and residing in
the Region
✔✔Who is AKA Sorority's chief officer? What is her role? - ✔✔-Supreme Basileus
-She shall preside at all meetings of the Boule and Directorate. She shall appoint, with
the approval of the Directorate, the chairmen and members of all committees of the
sorority, and fill any vacancies except as otherwise provided for in the Bylaws. She shall
exercise general supervision over employed personnel and over the Boule.
, ✔✔How far in advance is the Supreme Basileus of AKA Sorority elected? Does she
hold this title at the time of her election? - ✔✔-4 years
-No. She serves as 1st Supreme Anti-Basileus for 4 years following her election, and
then is installed as Supreme Basileus.
✔✔Other Local Chapters - ✔✔-Pi Phi Omega (Norwalk CT)
-Theta Tau Omega (Bridgeport CT)
-Epsilon Omicron Omega (Hartford CT)
-Theta Epsilon Omega (New Haven CT)
-Tau Xi Omega (Hamden CT)
-Pi Iota Omega (White Plains NY)
-Zeta Nu Omega (New Rochelle NY)
✔✔ Standing committees - ✔✔-archives
-building and properties
-connection
-constitution
-finance
-graduate advisors certification
-honorary members/awards
-human resources
-investment
-leadership development
-membership
-nominating
-program
-protocol
-sisterly relations
-standards
-technology
-undergraduate activities
✔✔the signature project for target 1: HBCU for Life: A Call to Action - ✔✔#CAP (College
Admissions Process)
✔✔5 program targets for 2018-2022 - ✔✔-target 1: HBCU for Life: A Call to Action
-target 2: Women's Healthcare and Wellness
-target 3: Building Your Economic Legacy
-target 4: The Arts!
-target 5: Global Impact
✔✔primary focuses for target 2: Women's Healthcare and Wellness - ✔✔-Breast
Cancer Awareness and Prevention
-Heart Health
-Nutrition and Wellness