Far Western Region

Established: 1921
First Regional Director: Ida L. Jackson
First Regional Conference:

Geography at Creation
California

Geography Today
Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington

First Undergraduate Chapter Chartered
Rho (University of California, Berkeley); Aug. 1, 1921
Charter members: Virginia Stephens, Ruby Jefferson, Aretha Richardson, Myrtle Price, Ida Louise Jackson

First Graduate Chapter Chartered
Alpha Gamma Omega (Los Angeles, CA); 1927; first graduate chapter West of the Rockies
Charter members: Alice Garrott, Coty Johnson, Edith Jones, Louise Kenner, Leola Lewis, Naida McCullough, Ursula Murrell, Ruth M. Pearson, Vada Summerville, Neosha Tatum, Minnie Wickliffe

1932 AKA Los Angeles

Undergraduate & Graduate Chapters Today
Undergraduate – 24
Graduate – 42

Region Highlights

• Host to 5 Boules
• Home of Ida L. Jackson, 8th Supreme Basileus and only past National President from the Region; UC Berkeley’s Ida Louise Jackson Graduate House was renamed in her honor—the campus’s first structure named for an African American woman

Regional Directors

Ida L. Jackson Nada McCullough Edith Jones Ursula Murrell Essie Tucker Manila Smith Lee Ann Beacham Brown Audrey B. Jones

Carolyn Carrington Mary King Lucille B. Bryant Leadie M. Clark Laura Banks Winifred Rhodes Mildred L. Robinson Charlene Carodine

Norma Tucker Archalene A. Martin Billie J. Barrett Cornelia H. Banks Grace B. Strauther Diana G. Shipley E. Lavonne Lewis