The sorors of the Far Western Region set to work recruiting friends, neighbors and business women to join with them to serve their local communities. There were two graduate chapters, Alpha Omicron, Denver, Colorado and Alpha Phi, Los Angeles, California, when the region was established in 1946. A Revision of the Constitution in 1946 increased the number of regions to Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western, Southwestern and Far Western and designated the states to be included in each. Originally, our Constitution designated four regions, North, South, East and West.
Lola Mercedes Parker died on March 19, 1987, and was buried in Lincoln Cemetery, 12300 Kedzie Avenue, Blue Island, Illinois.The natural beauty of the western states run a range from majestic snow-capped mountains, rolling hills, fertile green valleys, scenic vistas, magnificent sea coasts, enchanting deserts, exotic tropical islands and frozen natural glaciers to buttes, mesas and plateaus, charming old towns, rambling ranches, historic mansions, bustling-cosmopolitan cities and everything in between. She was active in many national and community organizations including a member of Olivet Baptist Church served as National Vice-President to the Women’s Army for National Defense National Council of Negro Women, co-organizer of the first Chicago Section Life Member NAACP People’s Welfare Organization YWCA and many national and local organizations engaged in civic endeavors for racial, educational and economic progress. The sorority was one of three sororities present, along with representation from other national organizations. Mary McLeod Bethune held the historic first meeting of the National Council of Negro Women on December 5, 1935, in Harlem. In 1935, as the sorority’s National President, she was instrumental in Iota Phi Lambda Sorority being present when Dr.
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Donnelley Corporation Secretary-Treasurer, Business and Professional Association’s Credit Union and Business manager, South Parkway YWCA. Mitchell Director of Women’s Activities Chicago Negro Chamber of Commerce first Negro Department Manager at R.H. Parker held many important positions: Administrative Assistant to Congressman Arthur W. Parker was the founder of a premier sorority and its National President from 1929 to 1946 and President-Emeritus until her demise in 1987.
Its aim: “To encourage young women to enter the Business Field by means of business training”. Williams, then president of the National Baptist Convention, she founded Iota Phi Lambda. In 1929, while employed as secretary to Rev. Two children were born of this union, both of whom preceded their parents in death. In 1919, she became a resident of Chicago, Illinois, where she began her post-secondary education, culminating with graduation from Chicago Business College. After finishing elementary school, she and her family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she completed high school. Lola Mercedes Parker, the founder of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to Mr.
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