- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated 23rd Supreme Basileus Mary Shy Scott, Ivy Beyond the Wall, April 15, 2013
- Date of Original:
- 2013-04-15
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta---History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Mary Shy Scott. Birth date: (not recorded). Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: April 15, 2013. Church: St. Phillip A.M.E. Church (Atlanta, Ga.). The Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder number: 388
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_scottmaryshy20130415
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_scottmaryshy20130415
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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MARY SHY SCOTT ADMINISTRATION 1990-1994
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When we recount the life of Alpha Kappa Alpha's twenty-third leader (1990-1994), we recall one who lovingly gave her heart, mind, and strength to make Alpha Kappa Alpha supreme in service. Fondly called the Hugging Supreme, Mary Shy Scott used touch to ready members to address the crises of the 1990s. Her leadership style was based on evoking sorors' feelings of "love joy, and commitment"-emotions she elicited "when I hugged them." With the membership on board, she "profoundly imprinted" the Alpha Kappa Alpha program into the fabric of communities around the world.
Through programming, we said to the world that we were interested in the arts, that we were interested in children andfamilies, that we were interested in our people having economicprowess, and that we were interested in all ofthepeople ofthe world knowing that each ofus has the right as a citizen ofthe world to be comfortable.
At the heart of actions that exemplified the interests was the perpetuation of the African-American heritage. Black Family initiatives ranged from structured tutorials and arts via the Ivy AKAdemy to "Buy Black, Give Back," an initiative to encourage support for Black-owned businesses. She also revived the Alpha Kappa Alpha Heritage Series on successful African-American professionals and the Domestic Travel Tour for high school girls; and she initiated a Black Faces in Public Places campaign with the installation of the first non-military memorial to World War II hero Doris Miller.
Soror Mary's mark on Alpha Kappa Alpha operations was equally impressive. With the burgeoning number ofinternational committees, she scheduled meetings en masse, reducing the number ofweekends required from family and providing the opportunity for committees to interface. Stressing the need for undergraduates to receive expert guidance, she introduced Graduate Adviser certification. Also, convinced that Alpha Kappa Alpha's contributions should be known by the world, she opened the Alpha Kappa Alpha Archives (Moorland-Spingam Research Center, Howard} to the public; and she instituted a Media Corps of chapter correspondents.
In programs and in operations, her initiatives were coundess. But her "greatest contribution'' was the addition of the third floor to Alpha Kappa Alpha's Corporate Office because it "would enable the sorority to deliver greater services more efficiendy," she said. Such was fitting. Beginning with her initiation in Kappa Omega Chapter in Adanta, Ga. and continuing with her emerging prowess exhibited on Regional and National committees and as director of the South Adantic Region (Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina}, Mary Shy Scott had continually sought ways for optimum service. Nevertheless, she always understood that service delivery was intertwined with demonstrating love to others and imbuing love from them. The result was a "profound imprint" that made a beautiful difference in the lives of others.
-Earnestine Green McNealey, Alpha Kappa Alpha Historian
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ST. PHILLIP AME CHURCH 240 CANDLER RoAD, SE
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
APRIL 22, 2013, 9:45A.M.
SOROR CAROLYN HOUSE STEWART, SUPREME BASILEUS SOROR}ULIA B. PURNELL, 16TH SUPREME BASILEUS
SOROR MATTELIA B. GRAYS, 18TH SUPREME BASILEUS SOROR FAYE B. BRYANT, 21ST SUPREME BASILEUS SOROR EvA L. EVANS, 24TH SUPREME BASILEUS
SOROR NORMA S. WHITE, 25TH SUPREME BASILEUS SOROR MARsHA LEWIS BROWN, SOUTH ATLANTIC REGIONAL DIRECTOR
SOROR SUSAN SIMMS MARSH, SUPREME GRAMMATEUS SOROR FRANKA H. YOUNG, BASILEUS, KAPPA OMEGA CHAPTER
SOROR SHERRY WARE, SOLOIST SoRoR ELoisE DuKEs, AccoMPANIST