10 February 1887 Honoring our Guiding Light on her 136th birthday. Ethel Hedgemon Lyle, viewed #AlphaKappaAlpha as an instrument for enriching the social and INTELLECTUAL aspects of college life by providing mental stimulation through interaction with friends and associates. #1913, after #AKA1908's incorporation as a PERPETUAL body, #AlphaKappaAlphaSororityInc gradually branched out and became the channel through which selected college trained women improved the socioeconomic conditions in their city, state, nation, and the world; "Service To All Mankind". "The spirit of AKA hovering over us and our little deeds and acts—smoothing here, covering there, broadening younger, and making us do our best to think, to act, up to the highest in us. It is a force bigger than we are, stronger than we are, and it compels us to climb to the heights where it dwells." — Ethel Hedgemon Lyle #EthelHedgemonLyleIsBlackHistory #EthelHedgemanLyleIsBlackHistory #AKAHistoryIsBlackHistory #AKAHistoryMaker #EthelHedgemanLyle #EthelHedgemonLyle #AKA1908 #AKAExcellence #MinerHall #HowardUniversity #HBCUS @akasorority1908 @prettykonnected @howardalumni @phamilyties0608 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cofl3eIryMp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=