Honorary Member

First African American named "American Mother of the Year," by the Golden Rule Foundation of New York (1946). This pioneer was the mother of seven, and was cited for her outstanding personal qualities as a mother of children all serving their country and people, a tribute to the "great American spirit." She was the mother of a college president, a professor of physics, a professor of English, an army chaplain, a Red Cross field director in Italy, an executive of the Women\'s Home and Missionary Society of the AME Church, and the wife of the director of the Inter-American Education Foundation in Haiti, Bishop George C. Clement. She was a graduate of Livingstone College, which is also the alma mater of her children.