WELLINGTON THE MAGAZINE – September 2020

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The Crowned Pearls of Wellington is a local official interest group of the international Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

The Crowned Pearls Of Wellington Support A Wide Variety Of Local Causes

Community Service BY M. DENNIS TAYLOR

The Crowned Pearls of Wellington is a new community service organization that has stepped up to the plate over the past year to help a variety of local causes. The Crowned Pearls is an official interest group of the international organization Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., the nation’s oldest sorority for African American women.

Wellington resident Jenny Hassell, now retired from her position as director of employer and labor relations in North America for Johnson & Johnson, is the president of the Crowned Pearls, which aims to become a fully recognized chapter within the Alpha Kappa Alpha organization. Founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Jan.

15, 1908, the sorority is a worldwide sisterhood of approximately 300,000 college-educated women operating more than 1,000 chapters in communities across the United States and around the world. “Our mission is to cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical standards, promote unity and friendship among college women, to study wellington the magazine | september 2020

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