Central Region

Established: 1925
First Regional Director: Pauline Kigh Reed
First Regional Conference: May 1931, Indianapolis, IN

Geography at Creation
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin
At the 1926 Boule, renamed North Central Region. Kentucky was added before being moved to the South Eastern Region (1928). The Region was again realigned at the 1928 Boule, at which time the North Central Region once again became the Central Region and Minnesota rejoined the Region. Kentucky rejoined the Region in 1956.

Geography Today
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, St. Louis and Cape Girardeau (MO)

First Undergraduate Chapter Chartered
Beta (Chicago, IL); Oct. 13, 1913
Charter members: Geraldyne Hodges (Major), Virginia Jaines (Thomas), Beatrice Lee, Bertha Mosely (Lewis), Eva Overton (Lewis)

First Graduate Chapter Chartered
Mu Graduate (St. Louis, MO); Dec. 2, 1920 (existed 1920-1922)
Charter members: Hazel B.McDaniel, Helen E.McWorter, Althea Merchant, Felicia Stevens, Clara Mosby, Edith Rhetta 
Gamma Omega (St. Louis, MO); 1922
Charter members: Felicia Stevens Alexander, Dawn Casey Slaughter, Edith Stevens Rhetta, Hazel McDaniel Teabeau, Helen McWorter Simpson, Clara Scaffner Wilson

1920 AKA University of Chicago

Undergraduate & Graduate Chapters at Creation
Undergraduate – 5
Graduate – 4

Undergraduate & Graduate Chapters Today
Undergraduate Chapters – 33
Graduate Chapters – 53

Region Highlights

• Host to 10 Boules
• Home of 5 International Presidents: Loraine R. Green, 2nd Supreme Basileus; Maudelle B. Bousfield, 6th Supreme Basileus; Maude B. Porter, 7th Supreme Basileus; Linda M. White, 26th Supreme Basileus; Barbara A. McKinizie, Centennial Supreme Basileus
• Home of the Sorority's first "Diamond Soror" (75-year member), Loraine R. Green
• Home of Gamma Chapter, the first established on a predominately white campus (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Site of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Corporate Office – the first headquarters building owned by a Black Greek-letter organization
• Site of the organization’s first reading experience workshop and first Leadership Fellows program

Region Directors

Pauline Kigh Reed Frederika Brown Carolynne Payne Murray B. Atkins Althea M. Simmons Blanche Hayes Clark Alice M. Smart Arlene J. Washington Blanche L. Patterson Williams

Maenell Hamlin Newsome Lucille Wilkins Evelyn Roberts Maude L. Mann Annetta M. Lawson Lee Anna Shelburne Ordie A. Roberts Johnetta Randolph Haley Gloria E. Bond

Peggy J. LeCompte Mabel Evans Cason Loann Honesty King Yvonne Perkins Martha Perine Beard Peggy J. LeCompte Nadine C. Bonds Dorothy Wilson Buckhanan Pamela Bates Porch