An AKA's (Alpha Kappa Alpha) Post Boule Tour: South Africa

COME ALONG AND VISIT SOUTH AFRICA WITH THE AKA's!! Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) was founded in 1908 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. It is the ­oldest Greek letter sorority in the United States. The word "sorority" comes from the Greek word "soror" which means sister. It is a society of college women. Every two years the total membership meets at a national convention called a "Boule" (pronounced boo-lay), also from the meeting of the Greek city-states. The Boule is usually followed by a pilgrimage to a foreign country. In 2008, to celebrate our 100th year of our existence, we made a pilgrimage to South Africa where many of our services are felt and seen through our support of schools in that area. This little book tells the story of our trip in words and pictures. Come along and visit South Africa with the AKA's!! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Fannie Lillian Miles Bellamy was born in Drakes Branch, Virginia. She is a graduate of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. She has done graduate work at George Washington University, the University of Virginia, Howard University and the Universities of Bordeaux and Toulouse. She retired from teaching after one year in Dillon County, South Carolina and twenty-nine years in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is a retired member of the Fairfax County Teachers' Association, the Virginia Teachers' Association, and the National Teachers' Association. She has been a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority for more than thirty-seven years. For the past seventeen years she has been substituting at Luther Jackson and Kilmer Middle Schools and Oakton High School. She makes her home in Fairfax County, Virginia with her husband Paul L. Bellamy, Jr. Mrs. Bellamy is the author of three adult nonfiction books: Defaming Teddy; My Love Affair with the French; and Two Frenchmen Hiking Across 1946 America. She has also published two other children's books. One, in French (with English translations), about her pet, JACQUES, Le Chien Terrier et Son Ami Chanel and another, FANNING ISLAND, about a very remote island in the Pacific Ocean. Several of these titles may be found at www.rockpublishing.com.