Hey you APhiO's and GSS's! (current & alum)
 

I have good news, we getting our charter this month!

The bad news is that along with that I have to step down from my social chair position of a year and a half :( , because we are re-electing. We are having nominations tomorrow.

I have the knack of getting people to come to events and joining organizations, and I want to use that strength for a position in my chapter. What would best suit me? VP membership? Rush chair? Publicity?

My advisor won't give me any specifics.

What school do you go to? Congrats on getting your charter soon! I'm a charter member myself, seems like yesterday...

APO is trying to get organized at my school (Georgia State) as well.

Well if you have those kinds of skills, I would think VP of Membership would suit you pretty well. Since I'm a Sig and not a brother, that's just my thought.

Much 2 5 Love!

Always In Service...

Thank you. :)

What is the specific description of VP membership?
All I know is well..it has to do with membership.

I can only describe what the duties are for my sorority, but what our MVP's do is coordinate all the membership activities for the chapter (Rush) and for the chapter. She also serves as the pledge dean for the new pledge line that comes into the chapter.

The MVP also tries to come up with activities for the chapter to foster sisterhood.

Hope this helped a little bit.

Always in Service...

Membership VP
 

Dionysus,

What chapter are you chartering?

The Membership VP supervises four aspects of membership, unless your Petitioning Group has decided to break up the responsibilities:

1. Recruitment/Rush
2. Pledge Education
3. Fellowship
4. Retention

A detailed description of responsibilities is available on APO.org, under publications, then documents. "Membership VP" is under the chapter documents.

gamma_girl, no harrassment in over a month!

LFS

Brother dardenr,

Glad to hear that. Keep doing your thang :D and keep your head up! Keep me posted on your progress if that's okay with you.

Much 2 5 Love...

Always in Service...

Congratulations to you and yours! I'd really like to know which chapter it is. Will your chapter be making it out to Nationals this year?

An update!
 

Unfortunately, I didn't get the position I wanted.
But, the good news is that as of last night we became the 362nd active chapter of APO. We got our charter! The ritual was SO beautiful, I'll never forget it! :)

What are your chapter letters???
 

Congratulations! What school? What chapter letters???

I attend UM. :)

University of Michigan? Montana? Maine? Maryland? Mississippi? Minnesota?

We need some more info, Brother!

Why in the WORLD are you being SO evasive??? Please tell us which chapter it is!

One of my friends was in the frat at Um a bit back.. he aid they didn't have a house... that it was a social frat but he said that he loved it there and that many of his close friends in university were made there. He's 24 or 25 now so he would;ve graduated a few years ago i think.. wonder if you know him.. PM me

One of my friends was in the frat at University of Michigan a bit back.. he aid they didn't have a house... that it was a social frat but he said that he loved it there and that many of his close friends in university were made there. He's 24 or 25 now so he would;ve graduated a few years ago i think.. wonder if you know him.. PM me

Still trying.
 

Over here at MVSU the APO are still trying to get a chapter and they are still getting the run around. Why is that so? They have been trying for the longest to. What steps do they have to take. They have well over enough members. Unlike us, we are still trying to get chartered and we need 10 members to do that and I think that we will be chartered this Fall. Help me out so that I can help them out.

Gamma Sigma Sigma
Providing Service Nationwide

Re: Still trying.
 

Having enough numbers is the biggest challenge. But, if that chapter's numbers are alright and they are still getting no where it is probably because of apathy, laziness, or internal conflict. Sounds familiar? We've been there and done that.

Re: Still trying.
 

Hi Sigmacated,

Who are they getting the run around from?

I am the Sponsor of an Interest Group at an HBCU. Any of the students trying to restart APO at MVSU can email me and I can try to answer their questions to the best of my ability. My email is rashid01@hotmail.com.

In Service,
Rashid Darden

Re: Re: Still trying.
 

Well, I just took a quick look on the National Website, and I saw some "possible" problems:

Have the students contacted Alpha Phi Omega's headquarters? That is the first step. APO has to KNOW that there is interest so that they can line up the volunteers necessary to help. This is VERY important because there are NO active APO chapters in Mississippi. Therefore, APO needs to find people who are willing to travel to help the students.

Contact me with any more questions.

Dionysus - Chapter confusion
 

I am completely confused as to what chapter Dionysus attends. He said chapter 362 which is Omicron Beta at Marietta College which is inactive and none of the extension efforts this year that have come to fruition have been at schools called UM (the only one we lost that might fit into that is University of Montana @ Billings)

Dionysus, you need to give more info!

Re: Dionysus - Chapter confusion
 

Oops, maybe it was the 363rd? It was 360 something. Ok, ok it's University of Missouri, Sigma Alpha. Oh, yeah I'm female. :D

Say, sigmacated, is there any chance that you're from Cleveland, Mississippi?

UMSL
 

Cool on Sigma Alpha. Congrats on rechartering.

Is it true A PhI Oue was founded buy members of Omega Psi Phi

No.
 

No, that is definitely not true. The story of our founding can be found on http://www.apo.org.

As Rashid said, The story behind the founding is the place to start.
The founders included 8 brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 5 brothers of Crescents (a local at Lafayette, which became a chapter of Kappa Delta Rho a couple of years later) and one independent. I don't believe Lafayette had enough Negros (non-modern term used deliberately) to make the creation of Omega Psi Phi there reasonable...

As for why the Historically Black chapters of Alpha Phi Omega use the term "Ay Phi Que" and whether that relates to any
membership by brothers of Omega Psi Phi, I don't know, however, it certainly would not have occured until well after the founding of the Fraternity, We were founded in 1925 and the first chapter at a historically black school was at Johnson C. Smith University (then college) in 1947.

Not true Nationally, but I do know of one chapter, Psi Phi @ Tennessee State, where the majority of the chapter founders at the school were also members of Omega.

Where did you get that from?

Always in Service...

I believe that we were founded by SAE.

APO and SAE
 

Alpha Phi Omega was not founded by any fraternity. Rather our founders were members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. However Alpha Phi Omega has no affilitation whatsoever with SAE.

That's what I meant. :D

Like, all but one of the founders was members of SAE.

only 8 SAEs
 

The 14 founders had 8 that were in SAE, 5 that were Crescents (which a year or so later became a Kappa Delta Rho Colony) and one independent. Source Alpha Phi Omega History Book.