The support of these community partners and stakeholders was especially helpful as the group faced the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic that began in March of 2020. The Links Incorporated Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated and Andrew J. Jones, Jr., Councilman Fourth District Cathy Bevins, Councilwoman Sixth District local chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Community Assistance Network, Inc. Jones, Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates Julian E. Dutch Ruppersberger, who is currently serving his ninth term in the United States House of Representatives Adrienne A. Word of the work Pearls by the Bay was doing in Eastern Baltimore County quickly spread, leading to the enthusiastic support of local and statewide officials and other stakeholders such as: Baltimore County Executive John “Johnny” Olszewski, Jr., a product of Eastern Baltimore county the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Maryland, Boyd Rutherford Senator Chris Van Hollen Congressman C.A. That desire to serve led to the development of several community partnerships in Turner Station including: the Eastside Family Shelter, the Fleming Senior Center, Turner Station Girl Scouts Troop #353, Turner Station Boy Scouts Troop #270, and Turner Station Conservation Teams, Inc. The group of 26 swiftly went to work to reactivate and reclaim as many pearls as they could, and quickly grew to 45 members with diverse backgrounds and a vast array of expertise and experience but all with a common goal and desire to serve the people of Turner Station and the surrounding communities of Eastern Baltimore County, MD.
This method of operating led to the creation of what would become the Three Pillars of Pearls by the Bay:įive years of hard work, continued service, and planning paid off and in December 2019, Pearls by the Bay received the vote from the Executive Body of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® to become an official interest group. Using the motto “Membership is PEARLfection,” the group quickly decided to operate differently than they had ever experienced in other chapters. That spark quickly grew to a flame, and together, with 20 other exceptional women, a group interested in establishing a new chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® was formed. Lowe-Smith to expand the organization’s footprint of service into an often-forgotten area that had no ongoing or consistent presence from any service organizations. A spark of interest was lit in AKA Member Cylia E. Turner Station was the home of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cancer cells were harvested by Johns Hopkins Hospital and, without her consent, became the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized cell line and one of the most important cell lines in biomedical research.
The epic odyssey to becoming an official chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® began in 2014, after a chance conversation and subsequent visit to Turner Station, a historic African American community located in Dundalk, MD. The Journey to Becoming Alpha Beta Gamma Omega
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