Our Founders

​Alpha Chapter was organized October 10, 1947, at Manor Farms, Sparta, New Jersey. The first elected officers were:

• M. Bernice Hamilton, President
• Hazel Gibson, First Vice President
• Sallie Glenn, Second Vice President
• Marian Race, Recording Secretary
• Lillian Kane, Corresponding Secretary
• Ruth Duffley, Treasurer
• Reba Eaton, Parliamentarian

These officers were installed at the meeting in Atlantic City in November, when the name was officially given to the chapter.

Charter Members

Alma K. Berhandt 
Jane Lynd Booser 
Evelyn A. Bowman 
Edith A. Brander 
Lillian A. Calcia 
Mary H. Card 
E. Winifred Crawford 
Ja Dea Davis 
Minnie Lee Davis 
I. Ruth Deffley 
Helen F. Denfeld 
Mattie S. Doremus 
Martha Downs 
Reba E. Eaton 
Dorothy Fort Jacquith s
Hazel Gibson 
Sallie C. Glenn 
Anne Graffam 
Lena D. Griffith 
Mildred Rust Groder 
Bernice Hamilton

​Ruth Anne Ireland
Lillian Kane
Grace E. Koerner
Marou Little
Eva P. Miller
Frances M. Mitchell
Frances Oliphant
Marjorie Lynd Paulson
Elizabeth M. Pomeroy
Marian N. Race
Florence P. Richardson
Genevieve Secord
Helen C. Snyder
Henryette Sperle Legreid
Viola M. Stoke
Josephine L. Taylor
Hazel I. Terhune
Ruth H. Thomas
Frances B. Tibbits
Leonore Vaughn-Eames

Past Presidents

1947-1949 M. Bernice Hamilton
1949-1952 Sallie C. Glenn
1952-1953 Viola M. Stokes
1953-1954 Cornelia Boyd
1954-1956 Irene L. Hapgood
1956-1958 Dr. Mildred R. Groder
1958-1960 Margaret B. Bender
1960-1962 Tillie Hoitsma
1962-1964 Mary L. Briant
1964-1966 Jeanette Middlebrook
1966-1968 Barbara Murphy
1968-1970 Addie K. Chamberlain
1970-1972 Ruth Kane Fern
1972-1974 Beatrice A. Searles
1974-1976 Florence L. Athay
1976-1978 Grace Brown
1978-1980 Marie McGuire
1980-1982 Marie McGuire
1982-1984 Alberta Mount
1984-1986 ​Joan Konetschny

1986-1988 Carol M. Corby
1988-1990 Judith R. Merz
1990-1992 Margaret Anzul
1992-1994 Bonnie McKevitt
1994-1996 Cynthia Sokoloff
1996-1998 Claire A. Swanson
1998-2000 Mary Jane Park
2000-2002 Deborah Hoeflinger
2002-2004 Barbara Ann Ellert
2004-2006 Jean Jaeger
2006-2008 Janice Paxton
2008-2010 Cynthia Sokoloff
2010-2012 Barbara Ann Ellert
2012-2014 Catherine Cleenput
2014-2016 Catherine Cleenput
2016-2018 Deborah Hoeflinger