This article will appear in tomorrow's Plain Dealer...
"Despite its centennial, Alpha was overshadowed here this year by the slightly younger Delta Sigma Theta, which broke from Alpha in 1913. Delta made the news when a leading sister, the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, was succeeded in Congress by Marcia Fudge, once the sorority's national president.
But Cleveland has played a big role in Alpha too. Its Alpha Omega chapter, formed in 1913, was the sorority's first chapter for college graduates. Cleveland also has a second chapter for graduates, Lambda Phi Omega, and an undergraduate one, Omega.
Alpha Omega was the first chapter of any sorority to run a federal job training center -- the Cleveland Job Corps, which the chapter operated from 1965 to 1995. Now an Alpha Omega subsidiary runs Ivy Plaza, a senior citizen complex in Mount Pleasant named for a sorority symbol. "
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008...rority_ha.html
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