You sound like a real go-getter. Keep it up!

Hey Shana! Welcome to Greekchat!

Welcome Shana
 

Welcome to Greekchat. We're harmless here, really :D

Name: Starla
Chapter/School: Phi Xi Chapter, Austin College
Pledged: Schroeder (Fall 05)
Offices I've Held: Webmaster/Historian 2006, President 2007, Pledge Captain 2008, Chair of the Region VII 2010 Bid Committee
Why I Joined APO: Actually, I originally joined my freshman year of college because my boyfriend at the time was the President! Bad reason I know! But, I genuinely did believe in the principles of A Phi O at the time and thought was a total bonus. However, after my boyfriend graduated I stepped into leadership positions and FELL IN LOVE! I LOVE MY FRATERNITY! I LOVE MY BROTHERS!
Anything Else: I wish I could major in APO (Cole says I can't:rolleyes:)!

Shana...
Don't believe him......;)

Welcome to the boards.....glad you're here!

Majoring in APO
 

Anything Else: I wish I could major in APO (Cole says I can't)

Sure you can! I've actually found a way!!!

I'm working on a MA in Organizational Leadership, with a Student Affairs cognate. Yup - I'm majoring in APO....

haha, sounds good to me! My best friend/current pres. of my chapter is doing the same! I'm just gonna major in math...you know...sounds good right?

NIB!!!!!
 

Name: Cynthia
Chapter/School: Iota Rho - Florida State U
Pledged: Spring 2008
Offices I've Held: None (I lost my first election tonight)
Why I Joined APO: Two reasons: first, I would have pledged last semester had it not been for trying to establish Gamma Sigma Sigma but the second reason is that I love service so much that I had to join. I have made lifelong friends in this fraternity so far that I wouldn't trade for the world.
Anything Else: I love A PHI O!

Sorry to hear about your defeat; you seem like you would make a good officer based on spirit alone :) Better luck next time, because experience is sometimes the best teacher.

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Originally Posted by PADFSUGirl2K2 (Post 1633898) Name: Cynthia Chapter/School: Iota Rho - Florida State U Pledged: Spring 2008 Offices I've Held: None (I lost my first election tonight) Why I Joined APO: Two reasons: first, I would have pledged last semester had it not been for trying to establish Gamma Sigma Sigma but the second reason is that I love service so much that I had to join. I have made lifelong friends in this fraternity so far that I wouldn't trade for the world. Anything Else: I love A PHI O!

Eh, I wouldn't worry about it. I've been in APO since Spring 2000 (8 years ago today was my induction and 3 years ago today I received my Section DSK, oddly enough :) ) and I have yet to be elected to any office but have lost more than my fair share of elections :)

I can beat that, I joined the Fraternity in 1986 (21 years ago) and I have never won an election, unless you could being awarded a sectional DSK to be that...

Name: Quita
Chapter/School: Phi Mu/Norfolk State University
Pledged: Fall 2007
Offices I've Held: None yet
Why I Joined APO: I love doing community service and helping others... I also joined to meet new people who share the same love for service as I do
Anything Else: I love all my brothers and glad that Phi Mu is back in effect!!!!!!

Welcome!

Name: Chris
Chapter/School: Phi Mu/Norfolk State University
Pledged: Fall 2007
Offices I've Held: Sergeant At Arms
Why I Joined APO: Because after doing exstencive reseach on the organiztion. I like how they carried themselves along with other things
Anything Else: Had so much fun since I joined.

Welcome new Brothers! :)

Name: Brett D.
Chapter/School: Psi Lamda, Rust College Holly Springs, MS
Pledged: Spring 1992
Offices I've Held: N/A
Why I Joined APO: Was in the scouts when I was younger
Anything Else: Just want to say hello to all my brothers of APO! Yo Vike!:D

Hello All!
 

Name: Anecia
Chapter/School: Sigma Iota /Valdosta State
Pledged: Spring 07
Offices I've Held: Pledge Class Pres, and chapter VP of Service
Why I Joined APO: I enjoyed helping people and volunteering and I liked the idea of volunteering with others.

Welcome Anecia

Welcome Brett and Anecia!

I just took over as president of the Gamma Sigma chapter of the University of Chicago. Michelle Obama is one of our re-charter advisors.

We'll be going to the National Convention for the first time this year, 2008. We're very excited!

I just took over as president of the Gamma Sigma chapter of the University of Chicago. Michelle Obama is one of our re-charter advisors.

We'll be going to the National Convention for the first time this year, 2008. We're very excited!

As in the wife of the Candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president? And do you have a good source that I can use for Wikipedia on this?

I've been working on the Notable Alpha Phi Omega Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._Omega_members) for quite some time and I know that people get picky about sources.

I'm personally *not* doubting you. (Michelle Obama is listed in the Fraternity membership records as having joined with Gamma Sigma on April 6th, 1997 and according to her Wikipedia Biography "In 1996, Obama served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, where she developed the University's Community Service Center.")

Note for those of you keeping score on the Presidential Candidates and their wives APO wise. (As far as I know)

Hillary Clinton is an honorary brother of SUNY-Plattsburgh (Alpha Beta Chi)
Bill Clinton is a brother (joined as an undergraduate) of Georgetown University (Mu Alpha)
Barack Obama none
Michell Obama is a brother (joined as an advisor)
John McCain none (But there is *a* John McCain who is listed in the Membership rolls as becoming a brother at Pi Delta chapter at Western Carolina University in 1975)
Cindy McCain none

Talked to the National Office. They confirm a Michelle Obama as a rechartering advisor at Gamma Sigma and are pretty sure that is the person who we think it is. They aren't really pushing her as best as I can tell because right now she is *theoretically* transitorially notable. Were everything to fall apart for Sen. Obama's campaign between now and the Democratic convention, her notability as a US Senator's wife would probably not qualify her. (Though with university presidents from the 1940s on the list...) As wife of the Democratic Nominee for President, I think probably, as First Lady, definitely.

To me, her situation is somewhere between that of President Clinton and Senator Clinton. Like President Clinton, she joined before she was at all famous. Like Senator Clinton she hasn't been an active brother.

Name: Ashleigh
Chapter/School: Delta Iota/Mercer University
Pledged: Fall 2007
Offices I've Held: Pledge Class Historian, Chapter Historian
Why I Joined APO: I wanted to join a respectable organization and serve the community.
Anything Else: I love my chapter more than I ever thought I would.

Welcome
 

Welcome to the Forum!

YiLFS
Randolph Finder
Kappa Chapter alumnus

[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']Name:[/FONT][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'] Maxdiel ( I’m a girl =))
Chapter/School: TCC-PG
Pledged: Spring 07
Offices I've Held: treasure (currently=))
Why I Joined APO: I love helping people, volunteering and having fun, I meet the president of my PG and others members at the new student orientation and in rush week I ask my BBF to join APO with me and I love it, everybody got along really well and joining APO was the best decision I could ever make [/FONT]
[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']Anything else: [/FONT][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']soon we will became a chapter yeah so, I can’t wait [/FONT]

Welcome and rock on TCC!

TCC as in Tallahassee Community College?

Tarrant County
 

TCC is one of the campuses of Tarrant County College which is the County that Ft. Worth, Texas is in.

Love to see Tallahassee Community College come back as well. :)

So I randomly bumped into this forum while trying to look deeper into what APO is really about. Good thing too!! Im looking to become more active and meet more brothers to ask for help/guidance along the way to re-chartering.

Name: Gian
Chapter/School: Omega Sigma/ Cal State University - Fullerton (Petitioning Group)
Pledged: May 2007
Offices I've Held: None (Yet)
Why I Joined APO: One of my best friends down in San Diego told me all about APO and what LFS means. My friend on campus randomly came up to me about helping him re-charter APO at CSUF and the rest is history.
Anything Else: Apparently I have family members who are brothers in APO in the Philippines. They have been very excited to see me act as a founding father and taken involvment in what they were once a part of.

Name: Elizabeth
Chapter/School: Iota Rho/Florida State University
Pledged: Fall 2006
Offices I've Held: TShirt Chair
Why I Joined APO: I dig community service, and all my brothers rocked.
Anything Else: I joined my senior year, but it may have been the best move I made in college. I had so much fun with my chapter [and got in a lot of trouble with them :D]

Welcome
 

Welcome to the Alpha Phi Omega board on GC!

Name: Jeri (jaREE)
Chapter/School: MIGHTY Zeta Phi, Howard University
Pledged: Fall 2007
Offices I've Held: VP of Communications (currently) and Founder/Editor of Black Beta News (chapter e-newsletter)
Why I Joined APO: I have been involved in service my entire life and I feel that (especially at Howard) that APO is the epitome of what Leadership, Friendship, and Service is all about, and I HAD to be a part of that legacy. (That is my short answer...lol)
Anything Else: I LOVE taking road trips with my brothers to meet other chapters, so let me know if anyone has any special things happening b/c we will come. Also, I have been around the board before as a lurky...lol, but now I'm a real member!...yay!

^^^Congrats and welcome!!! :)

THANKS!!!:D

Hey Bro!

<----- 9-Mu Alpha-Spring '99 (You know who it is ;))

Welcome!
 

Welcome to the board. Hope to see you in the spring at the section 85 conference! I'm going to be doing a seminar there.

Hey Jeri!!!! :-) Bout time you came on here!

@Elizabeth, heeeey chapter bro!

I didn't want to start a whole new thread about it, but is there a new group at UC Santa Cruz? I've heard whispers of one starting, but they don't show up on the list of registered clubs.

^^ Our website says that it's currently an interest group.