Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Gamma Delta Omega Chapter: Seventy-Five Years of Timeless Service
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Fannie Chamblis Bullock
I have a Masters Degree in Public Administration with a Financial Management Concentration. I have been a member of the sorority since 1978 and a member of Gamma Delta Omega since 1992. I have served as President, Vice-President, Treasurer and various other chapter offices and committees through the years. Originally from Montgomery, Alabama and now I currently reside in Chesapeake, Virginia. My three daughters are members of the sorority. I would like to leave a legacy for my chapter!
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Gamma Delta Omega Chapter - Fannie Chamblis Bullock
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
Foreword
Historical Perspectives
AKA International Historical Perspective for Timeless Histories
Signature Program Initiatives
A Historical Perspective of the Mid-Atlantic Region
Founding and Organization
Charter Members
Membership and Growth of the Chapter
Governance and Operations
Former Chapter Presidents
International Programs through the Years
Educational Support & Scholarships
2010-2014 Program Targets
Global Poverty
Social Injustice and Human Rights
Emerging Young Leaders (EYL)
Health Initiatives
Paint Your Heart Out
Economic Security Initiative
Internal Leadership Training for External Service Initiative
Chapter Signature Programs
A Pink and Green Fantasy
Debutante Cotillion
Annual Chapter Book Fair
Technology
Future of Gamma Delta Omega
Appendices
Appendix A—Chapter Member Listing
Appendix B—Alphabetical Listing of Ivies Beyond the Wall
Appendix C—Chapter Leaders
Appendix D—Chapter Awards & Recognition
Appendix E—Chronological List of Chapter Officers
Appendix F—Twenty Pearls Incorporated
Glossary
Bibliography
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED ®
MID-ATLANTIC REGION
GAMMA DELTA OMEGA CHAPTER
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF TIMELESS SERVICE
Karen W. Colden, Chapter Basileus
Fannie C. Bullock, Chapter Historian
Linda H. Gilliam, Mid-Atlantic Regional Director
Linda Simmons-Henry, Mid-Atlantic Regional Historian
Carolyn House Stewart, Esq., Supreme Basileus
Earnestine Green McNealy, PhD, International Historian
Acknowledgement
A debt of gratitude is owed to the many people who have helped to bring this book into reality. First, I want to thank the members of Gamma Delta Omega for their confidence in believing that I could complete this task within the established deadline. Special thanks to Soror Clarine B. Roberts whose undying love, support and words of encouragement inspired me to complete this accomplishment by always saying You can do it!
Then there are the people who supported me; the Archives committee members and the sorors who simply helped because their assistance was needed. Jeanette Akujuobi, Addie Lenyon, Eartha Garrett, Karen Colden, Aurelia Williams, Mae B. Haywood, Monica Bond, LaEunice Brown, Deitra DD
Jones, Antonell McGlone, Clarine B. Roberts, Beatrice Riddick and Rita Hedgespeth. Thank you from the depth of my heart!
I thank the former Basilei who took the time to compile their timeless histories so that they could be included. Sorors Karen Settles, LaEunice Brown, Deitra Jones, and Beatrice Riddick thanks for assisting with your writing expertise. Special thanks to the GDO editing team: Sorors Barbara Watford, Shirley Bowen, Ethel Boykins and LaEunice Brown for their editorial expertise. Soror Mildred Johnson answered my calls with sisterly advice. I also thank Mr. Larry Jones who designed the magnificent cover for the book. Finally to my daughter, Soror Christie Chamblis Murray thanks for your editorial assistance during this journey.
Having the responsibility for the writing and compiling of the timeless history of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, ® Gamma Delta Omega chapter has truly been a labor of love. In December 2010, the Supreme Basileus detailed her vision to write chapter, regional and international histories simultaneously and inspired us all to capture our vision fair
in print history. During this process, I found that our history is more than writing in chronological order but telling the story from our charter members’ perspectives and the members who followed. Our chapter’s history is worthy of the telling. In 2014, Gamma Delta Omega will celebrate seventy-five years of serving the community in Portsmouth and other areas in Hampton Roads. Since the beginning, the chapter has participated in shaping the history of Portsmouth, Virginia. So for whatever part you have played in the completion of our chapter’s history book, I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
—Fannie C. Bullock
Foreword
Gamma Delta Omega was established by eleven smart, hard-working, professional African American women in Portsmouth, Virginia, who aspired to achieve the best for themselves and for those who were to follow. All of these women were successful in their chosen professions, most of them in education. I knew and loved every one of these sorors when I affiliated with Gamma Delta Omega in 1951; and even before that time, they taught me in the Portsmouth Public School System.
My contemporary sorors and I admire these ladies who are our role models; we stand on their shoulders. They, intentionally and unintentionally, impacted our lives; and we follow in their footsteps. I see it happening, more and more; we provide young ladies with a new way of life—that of doing what is good, what is honest, what is true, and what is pleasing in God’s sight. As an example, we, as older and golden sorors, should project a bold and positive attitude in all that we say and do, proving to our young sorors that success is inevitable and that our sojourn with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is everlasting. Being a golden soror should be the aspiration of all Sorors; it’s worth working for, I tell you!
Sisterly,
Clarine Baltrip Roberts
Golden Soror
Historical Perspectives
AKA International Historical
Perspective for Timeless Histories
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED
A Legacy of Sisterhood and Timeless Service
Confined to what she called a small circumscribed life
in the segregated and male-dominated milieu that characterized the early 1900’s, Howard University co-ed, Ethel Hedgeman dreamed of creating a support network for women with like minds coming together for mutual uplift and coalescing their talents and strengths for the benefit of others. In 1908, her vision crystallized as Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Negro Greek-letter sorority. Five years later (1913), lead incorporator Nellie Quander,