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The Omicron Gamma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. presented a community forum to inspire and recognize talent in the performing and visual arts. Elementary, middle, and high school students from across Anne Arundel County displayed their talents through vocal performance, dance, paintings, drawings, musical instruments, and oratorical speeches. Monetary awards and certificates were given to students in the performing and visual arts categories. In the visual arts category, the winners were Sierra Hicks 1st Place, The Severn School; Sianna Westley 2nd Place, Rippling Woods Elementary School; and Connor Rinehamer 3rd Place, Hilltop Elementary School. In the performing arts category, the winners were Natayia Riley 1st Place, Old Mill High School (Dance); Alaina Groskreuz 2nd Place, Davidsonville School (Cello); Diamond Moore 3rd Place, Belvedere School (Singing). An inspirational and encouraging charge was given to the youth by Kevin McIlvane, a noted actor, singer, and historian.

Omicron Gamma Omega also awarded nine scholarships to deserving high school seniors in the Anne Arundel County area. The scholarship recipients were the following: Brittani Brown, Meade Sr. High School; Joey Brown, Meade Sr. High School; Imani Higgenbotham Northwestern High School; Melyssa Haubenstricker, Meade Sr. High School; Raven Keenan, Chesapeake High School; Marissa Massey, Meade Sr. High School; Nicati Robidoux, Old Mill High School; Ashley Soto, Severna Park High School; and Samonne Whitehead Arundel High School.

Kudos to Soror Tracey Spain of Omicron Gamma Omega chapter on being chosen as Hilltop Elementary School’s Educator of the Year for 2011 by the Northern Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce.

Soror Tracey was recognized along with 54 other North County educators at the 14th Annual Educational Excellence reception for the dedication she has demonstrated in educating youth.  

She currently works as a guidance counselor at Hilltop Elementary School in Glen Burnie, Maryland.  

Congratualtions to the Sorors of Alpha Delta chapter at Morgan State University!

Alpha Delta was voted the University's 2011 Female Student Organization of the Year.

Soror Felicia K Winsboro (2nd Anti-Basileus & Connections Chairman) for Omicron Eta chapter has been selected as a 2011 Cultured Pearls recipient. 

As a recipient of this award, Soror Felicia's name will be featured in the 2011 Summer Issue of the Ivy Leaf Magazine and she will receive a token of award recognition at the 2011 Leadership Seminar. 

Soror Felicia will proudly represent Cluster III of the Notable North Atlantic Region.

Congratulations to Soror Felicia Winsboro of Omicron Eta Chapter!

Soror Felicia will be inducted into the Psi Chi Honor Society on Friday, April 29th at Pace University in Plesantville, NY. 

Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship and advancing the science of psychology.  Candidates for induction must have completed 9 credits of psychology courses and have a GPA that is in the top 35% of their class, a 3.0 GPA overall and a 3.0 GPA in psychology.

The 2nd Vice President, Connection Commitee Chairman of Omicron Eta chapter and President of the NPHC at Pace University, Soror Felicia is a Junior at Pace University.

Kudos to Theta Omega Omega Chapter!  Their Emerging Young Leaders Program was recently featured in the Gazette newspaper!

Emerging Young Leaders is one of the Sorority's signature international programs. Its goal is to  impact the lives of 10,000 girls in grades six through eight by providing leadership development, civic engagement, enhanced academic preparation and character building. It addresses the increasing demands of the twenty-first century that mandate our youth to be better leaders at a younger age making smart choices with positive consequences.

Eleven girls from Redland Middle School in Derwood and three girls from Fleet Street Middle School in Rockville were selected to participate in the program by the sorority's Montgomery chapter, Theta Omega Omega.

For the full story as it appeared in the Gazette, click here.

Soror Yolanda Armstrong, principal of G.W. Pepper Middle School in Philadelphia, has received the prestigious Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Principal Leadership.

The award, which comes with a $10,000 prize, recognizes and rewards principals who have made significant leadership and humanitarian contributions to students, staff, and the community.  Seven principals in the 200,000-student district – the nation’s eighth-largest district -- were recognized. Soror Armstrong was the only middle-school principal so honored.

Soror Armstrong, a native Philadelphian, was educated in its public schools, graduating from John Bartram High. She is an active member of Theta Pi Omega Chapter in Moorestown, N.J. A Silver Star and Life member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Soror Armstrong was initiated into Gamma Theta Chapter at Hampton Institute in 1973.  She is married and the mother of a son and two daughters.

She started her career in the classroom as a health teacher and science teacher before becoming assistant principal at Carnell Elementary School in Philadelphia.

As  principal at Pepper Middle School since 2005, Soror Armstrong has spearheaded a “body, mind and spirit” approach to learning. The school staff and students tend flower and vegetable gardens with the assistance of the community’s Southwest Senior Farmers. Her school also hosts a Parent’s Academy on Saturdays “to assist parents in being able to further help their children scholastically by being familiarized and acclimated with the educational programs that they use,” she said.

She intends to designate her award stipend for the creation of a choir program at the school and to purchase handheld wireless clickers that “enable students to register responses and individual opinions. … [A teacher’s] questions are presented via Promethean Boards for interactive learning in the classroom where the student responses are reported and compiled by specialized software programs on the teacher’s computer.  This streamlines the learning process in the classroom, while simultaneously exposing the students to inventive new technologies,” Soror Armstrong said.  

The award was formally presented during ceremonies April 6 at The Prince Theater in Center City Philadelphia. This was the first year for the foundation to honor school principals.  The foundation was established to recognize excellence in university teaching, and had expanded that mission to exemplary public-school teaching.

Happy birthday to Soror Beatrice Coleman who celebrates her 107th birhday on April 20th!

A member of Theta Psi Omega chapter in Providence, RI, Soror Coleman is the oldest living graduate of Brown University.

To learn more about Soror Coleman, click here to read the feature story about her appearing in the Providence Journal.

Congratulations to Soror Constance R. Pizarro, Regional Director of the Notable North Atlantic and Managing Director at BNY Mellon.  She will be an Alumni Honoree at the 21st Annual Scholarship and Recognition Dinner at Hofstra University on April 30.

The Black/Hispanic Alumni Association is recognizing Soror Pizarro, who was initiated into Kappa Phi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. at the university in 1979. The BHAA Scholarship Fund helps to offset the financial constraints of African American and Latino undergraduates attending Hofstra University. Over the last decade, BHAA has awarded nearly $100,000 in scholarships to deserving students.  In addition to the scholarship awards, BHAA provides mentoring and networking opportunities for Hofstra University students and recent alumni.

The dinner will take place at the Hofstra University Club on the north side of the campus in Hempstead, N.Y. Anyone interested in attending should contact the Office for Alumni Affairs at 516-463-6636 or alumni@hofstra.edu. Limited seating may be available.

Contributions to the Black/Hispanic Alumni Association Scholarship Fund may be made in support of Constance R. Pizarro. Send checks to the BHAA Scholarship Fund in care of the Office of Alumni Affairs, 150 Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y., 11549-1500.

Rho Kappa Omega's program celebrating Women's History Month was covered by a local online television station. 

The "A Woman's Worth" program was held on Thursday, March 31, 2011 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Bethune Life Center in Jersey City.  The Program included a panel of dynamic women that discussed women’s suffrage, domestic violence, love, physical health, mental health, spiritual wellbeing and helped both men and women rediscover the woman’s worth.  Free prizes such as complementary hairstyling, music, gift cards and other great gifts were raffled to guests.