The Sisterhood Connection Volume 3, Issue 26

June 2013

Kappa Omega Newsletter

Volume 3, Issue 26

The Sisterhood Connection

Promoting a Legacy of Service, Leadership and Sisterhood

Kappa Omega Chapter

P.O. Box 50081, Atlanta, GA 30302

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2013 Chapter Officers

Basileus Franka H. Young

Anti-Basileus Icey Johnson

Grammateus Jan Hilliard

Anti-Grammateus Joyce Spaulding

Epistoleus Anna Jones

Tamiouchos Lynn Jones

Pecunious Grammateus Annette Hall

Hodegos Fredreca King

Philacter Ethel Foster

Parliamentarian Muriel Jones

Ivy Leaf Reporter LeKeisha D. Jackson

Graduate Advisor Richardean Few

Historian Doris Stroud

Chaplain Melva Costen

Standards Chairman Janis Drake

A S isterly Messa g e from the Ba sileus

Dear Sorors,

Congratulations to everyone who either graduated or had a member of your family to graduate this year. Also, to the educators...WE SALUTE YOU!!!

I would also like to say congratulations to Sorors Anne W. Watts and Shirley Barlow for their recent accomplishments. Morehouse College unveiled an oil portrait of Dr. Anne W. Watts at their Baccaluareate on Saturday, May 18. The oil portrait will hang in the Hall of Honor at the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel. In other news, Shirley Barlow was recently elected as the President of the National Alumni Association of Morris Brown College.

I hope you will join us this Saturday for our June Relaxer. Much planning has gone into this relaxer and we want you to enjoy the fellowship, food, and fun with Kappa Omega. Also, please feel free to dress comfortably in your Alpha Kappa Alpha attire. The details of the June Relaxer are provided in this newsletter.

We will not meet for Executive Board or Chapter meeting until September. I hope you will take this time to relax and spend quality time with your family and friends!!! We have much more work to do and remember Kappa Omega's service to all mankind is a serious matter!!! All hands on deck in the Fall!!!

We will have our Fall Retreat on Saturday, September 14, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Ivy Community Center. This retreat will be packed with important information regarding the sorority and the chapter. Please make every effort to attend.

Sorors, please enjoy your summer and we look forward to seeing you in September!!!

With Sisterly Love,

Soror Franka H. Young, Basileus

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Vice President &

Hodegos Report

Prog ram Chairman

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP THROUGH TIMELESS SERVICE

Dear Sorors,

The Program Initiatives have been busy the first six months of 2013. Workshops, seminars, and volunteerism have played a vital role with Kappa Omega in providing "service to all mankind". EYL held a beautiful Mother-Daughter Tea Luncheon on Sunday, June 2, 2013 at the Ivy Community Center. Committee members are to be commended.

Although the summer is fast approaching, we are taking time to review, revisit, and redirect our thoughts and vision for ending 2013 on a high note!

Members of the program initiatives will be actively soliciting new members to join their committees and will not take "no" for an answer! After all, we did pledge our service...active service to Kappa Omega when we joined this great organization. We can't back out now, we just can't!!

The Anti-Basilei Council met Wednesday, May 29, 2013. It was the consensus of the group that the 2013 EYL Summit be postponed until January 2014. Kappa Omega will still be the lead chapter for this event. Our "kick-off" meeting will be at the Ivy Community Center, August 1, 2013. Sorors Sarah Williams, Tameka Dukes, and Anna Jones will be our lead contacts. We have already begun planning for this event, including assigning all 14 metro chapters to specific committees. More information with be forthcoming.

Additional topics such as Global Poverty and Health were also discussed at the meeting. Several chapters are actively engaged in service projects highlighting health issues affecting the African American Community.

"We help each other"

Sisterly,

Soror Icey L. Johnson

icey@

Condolences ? Golden Soror Emma Howard Scott passed on Monday

June 10, 2013. More details are to follow. Her son is Dr. Franklin Scott and he can be reached at 3320 B.E. Mays Drive S.W., Atlanta, GA 30311

Medical Report: ? Soror Mable Ann Jenkins was admitted to the hospital

on Wednesday, June 5, 2013. She is requesting that she have no visitation at this time. However, encouraging cards and well wishes can be sent to the following address: 4809 Clove Drive SW, Mableton, GA 30126, (770) 732-6009 ? Soror Hattie Ruth Jones reported that Soror Nellie Adams is a patient at Emory Midtown and is resting nicely. She asks for prayers of the sorors. Her home address is: 2780 Chaucer Drive S.W., Atlanta, GA 30311

Announcements: ? Morehouse College unveiled an oil portrait of Dr. Anne

W. Watts at their Baccalaureate on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. The oil portrait will be hung in the Hall of Honor at the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel. ? Soror Shirley Barlow was voted as the National Alumni President of Morris Brown College!!

Sisterly,

Soror Fredreca S. King, Hodegos

fredreca@ (678) 650-5700 ? Cell

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Sisterly Relations

Membership MATTERS!!!

All committee members are asked to bring at least one, and no more than five, gift items from a dollar store. Bring your receipt if you would like to be reimbursed. For your convenience, Greenbriar Mall has two stores with great $1gifts - Deal$ and Conway.

The Sisterly Relations Committe will also continue with its Adopt-a-Soror Initiative. Please contact Soror Faye Evans for more information.

Sisterly,

Soror Tuwaner Lamar, Chairman

Soror Tireon Rucker, Co-Chairman

If you know any inactive Sorors, please give their names and contact information to the membership committee. We are planning a reactivation, reclaiming & renewing roundup for September.

We need mentors for our reactivating/transferring Sorors. Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a mentor.

A special welcome to those who decided to make Kappa Omega their home this year!

Soror Anna Jones, Chairman Soror Ethel Foster, Co-Chairman Soror Bettye Johnson, Co-Chairman

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Ivy Leaf RTepheoSrtiestrerhood CJoUnNneEctioRnELAXER

QUESTION???

The Sisterhood Connection Sorors, where can you go on a Saturday afternoon, preferably June 15, 2013 at 1:30pm, and have...

Kappa Omega submitted the following five articles to the local media, respectively, and Ivy Leaf Magazine reporting the following for the month of April 2013:

Choices:

"Hot Fun In The Summertime"?

? Chapter News: Kappa Omega Celebrates 90 years of Timeless Service ? Spotlight Achievements: Soror Marjorie H. Young recognized during the 20th Anniversary of AKA Day at the Capitol in GA ? Social Settings: Pink Cultured Pearls Debutante Cotillion 2013 ? Ivy Beyond the Wall: 1. Sheila Mobley 2. Gwendolyn Fluellen

Kappa Omega will be submitting articles for Summer Ivy Leaf Magazine (July 15, 2013 Submission Deadline).

Public Relations Committee The Public Relations committee has established an online system to keep track of pictures from all chapter events. At this time, we are requesting any pictures that you have taken for any events that have occurred between January and June of 2013. When sending pictures please identify the name, date and location of the event. Please send them to the following email address: sophisakated@ or kappaomega1923@

Media release forms will available at the June chapter meeting.

If you have a direct contact to the local media please contact Soror LeKeisha Jackson, so we can continue to make sure our chapter events receive adequate publicity.

Sisterly Yours,

Soror LeKeisha Jackson, Chairman

Kappa Omega Ivy Leaf Reporter / Public Relations 678-978-7368 sophisakated@

a) Shopping b) Cook-out c) Card Party d) Talent Show e) All of the above

Answer: (e). That's right Sorors, you can have it all on June 15, 2013, at our World Renowned June Relaxer!!

Come out and enjoy some relaxed time with your Kappa Omega sisters. We have worked hard these past five and a half months providing service to all mankind! Now it's our time to celebrate and fellowship with one another!!!

Vendors will be present to entice you to their fine shopping, your taste buds will be seduced by the elegant culinary tastes by Chef Murrell, your wits and memory will be challenged with dominoes, spade, hearts, bridge, and bid whist, and yes....we want to hear your latest joke, poem/poetry, and song! And did we mention we will have line dancing and Zumba for your active participation?

So........don't forget!!!

Kappa Omega's June Relaxer

Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 1:30 p.m.

Ivy Community Center

PLEASE WEAR YOUR AKA PARAPHERNALIA TO THE

JUNE MEETING AND JUNE RELAXER!!!

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