ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED ®,
GAMMA MU OMEGA CHAPTER History
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® in 1908, became America’s first Greek-letter organization established by Black women, with roots dating back to Howard University, Washington, D.C., where the idea for formation was visualized by Ethel Hedgemon Lyle of St. Louis, Missouri. ,
As a result of this incorporation, 33 years later, on December 14, 1941, six distinguished women, including Mildred Peterson, Joyce Engram, Phannye Huger, Marion Lancaster, Nadine Ferrell, and Angie Douglas, chartered the first graduate chapter among AfricanAmerican Greek-lettered organizations established in Volusia County, specifically in Daytona Beach, Florida. Throughout the last 80 years, thirty-one (31) professional, committed and zealous women have served as Presidents of Gamma Mu Omega Chapter, all trailblazers in their own right. Presidents of Gamma Mu Omega Chapter, listed in succession, are as follows: Mildred Peterson, Charlotte F. Clark, Larzette G. Hale, Dufferin Harris, Florence L. Roane, LeRosa H. Smith, Joyce Engram, Edith Starke, Nadine Ferrell, Isabelle Ambrose, Clarice Biggins, Theresa Gainous, Gladys M. Green, Buford Moore, Ann Dismuke Taylor Green, Jessie Jackson Childs, Julia Griggs, Myra Miiddleton Valentine, Joneva Loper, Jennifer Thomas, Mae Frances Davis, Sandra Williams Anderson, Shelia Davis Jackson, Belinda Williams-Collins and Tracia Culver. Some have served subsequent terms. Ida Duncan Wright currently serves as the 31st President. Gamma Mu Omega Chapter established Gamma Tau Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® an undergraduate chapter located on the campus of Bethune-Cookman University, on April 30, 1949, and was also instrumental in the chartering of two Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® graduate chapters, Tau Chi Omega Chapter, located in DeLand, Florida and Chi Delta Omega Chapter, located in Palm Coast, Florida. ,
Gamma Mu Omega Chapter, for the past 80 years, has demonstrated its sensitivity and commitment to community needs through the involvement of its members in a multiplicity of projects and programs including, but not limited to, the following: Junior Artists’ Recitals, Fashionetta, Ebony Fashion Fair, Men of Tomorrow Program, Debutante Cotillion Program, Accent on Youth Program, Adopt A-Child Program and Take the Elderly to Lunch Program. Gamma Mu Omega Chapter has undertaken other projects that include providing coats, food and socks to the homeless through Halifax Urban Ministries and providing coats and toys to young children through the Breakfast with Santa Program. The Chapter has partnered with other agencies such as the Council On Aging (COA), volunteering in the Meals on Wheels Program; and has made contributions to the Rose Marie Bryon Children’s Center for the delivery of Thanksgiving Baskets to local residents, to the United Way, Incorporated for stocking the Second Harvest Food Bank shelves with peanut butter and jelly, and various other community agencies to sponsor financial wellness clinics.
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