In 1933, she happily accepted the organization's invitation to give the keynote address at the 16th Boule, also the 25th anniversary of the sorority's founding. She urged her sorors: "unless we constantly examine our activities and improve upon them, we are not making the most of our capacity for growth and development." Her speech gently goaded listeners to consider how the sorority may better serve the evolving educational needs as well as how they should participate in national and international affairs specific to Black women in her uplifting speech. She concluded with an inspiring vision that "we in this organization shall climb to the top of a very high mountain and there get a vision of the sea and that its beauty and its vast expanse will be the measure of our imagination and of our purpose for our future work."