HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - PROCLAMATION - 03/04/2008 - PROCLAMATION DECLARING MARCH 8, 2008 AS ALPHA KAPP PROCLAMATION
City of Fort Collins
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins 1pha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, is
the first international Sorority organized by African American women in 1908 on the campus of Howard
University in Washington D.C.; and
WHEREAS, the women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated support its purpose to
cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical standards, to promote unity and friendship among
college women, to study and help alleviate problems concerning girls and women, to promote a progressive
interest in college life and to be of service to all mankind; and
WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins is proud of the many contributions made to businesses,
community organizations, schools, colleges and universities, and the legal and political communities by
Alpha Kappa Alpha women; and
WHEREAS, the Colorado Cluster celebrates local and national members who have made
significant contributions over the years to the arts, education, medicine, politics, business, the military,
science, and the community: Marie Greenwood, Cleo Parker Robinson, Florida Pitt-Waller, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, Mae Jemison, Maya Angelou, Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Jada Pinkett
Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, and many more; and
WHEREAS, the Fort Collins chapter at Colorado State University is known as the Xi Eta Chapter
and has 7 members participating in its activities; and
WHEREAS, it is fitting and appropriate that the City of Fort Collins, on behalf of our citizens,join
the Colorado Cluster and the member so Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated in celebrating Alpha
Kappa Alpha and the vision of the founders whose motto "Service to Mankind" has resonated through our
communities 100 years later.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Doug Hutchinson, Mayor of the City of Fort Collins, do hereby proclaim March
8, 2008 as
"ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA DAY"
to celebrate its centennial anniversary as the "100 Years of Extraordinary Service to all Mankind" Founders
Day celebration.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the City of Fort Collins
this 4th day of March, A.D. 2008.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk