BAYAREAHOUSTONALUMNAECHAPTER deltasigmathetasorority,incorporated
homecoming ODYSSEY
SATURDAY & SUNDAY | APRIL 13 - 14, 2024
saturday | april 13, 2024
1:00PM Arrival / Check-in Discovery Ballroom
2:30PM welcome / prayer Discovery Ballroom
3:00PM activity #1 Discovery Ballroom
5:00pm physical activity apollo
5:45pm break Discovery Ballroom
6:30PM dinner Discovery Ballroom
7:30PM activity #2 Discovery Ballroom
9:00PM talent show Discovery Ballroom
sunday | april 14, 2024
7:00AM continental breakfast hospitality suite
7:45AM ecumenical service Discovery Ballroom
8:30AM activity #3 Discovery Ballroom
10:00AM warm fuzzy discovery ballroom
10:30AM special ceremony Discovery Ballroom
12:30PM lunch Discovery Ballroom
1:30PM wrap-up / dismissal Discovery Ballroom
ODYSSEY
homecoming PROGRAMMING
a message from our
President
I warmly welcome each of you to BAHA's Odyssey Weekend Experience!
To our Pyramids, focus, embrace, and enjoy this weekend of bonding activities with each other and your Big Sisters!!
To Sorors, thank you for all the work that has gone into planning this event and those in attendance for being on the journey with Pyramids to bond with the members of BAHA and strengthen the bond between us!
WE ARE ONE!!!!!....moving Forward with Fortitude, engaging our sisterhood, empowering our communities, and elevating our impact!!!!
tiffany taylor-lee
Chapter President 2023-2025
Bay Area Houston Alumnae Chapter
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
a message from the LEADER OF THE
Welcome to the Spring 2024 Odyssey Experience of the Bay Area Houston Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., affectionately known as BAHA.
Since its inception, BAHA has been making its mark in the Bay Area and we remain one of the BEST chapters in the Southwest region for what the deliv the community at large.
To our Pyramids, we are excited to with you! To our Sorors, thank you highlight issues and provide solutio communities.
Let’s sail away!
ALICIA “JONESY” JONES
LEADER OF THE MINERVA CIRCLE (Spring
Bay Area Houston Alumnae Chapter
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
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homecoming ODYSSEY
a message from the
ODYSSEY
Convener
Welcome to BAHA's Odyssey Experience "Homecoming" ! MerriamWebster defines Odyssey as an intellectual, spiritual wandering or quest. For the next two days you will have an opportunity to bond and reflect as we develop our skills of working together as a team.
Pyramids, embrace this moment in your journey towards Delta ! Use this time to bond with your pyramid and big sisters. You will laugh, cry or be overwhelmed but it's all for the good of building the sisterhood so that we can Elevate our community with scholarship and service.
Sorors please use this time to reflect, impart wisdom and guidance to our little sisters.
A huge thank you to the Odyssey planning committee ! Your hard work and dedication helped turn this vision into reality
SISTERLY,
BIG SISTER Shantel Conquest Williams
convener of the Odyssey Experience (Spring 2024)
Bay Area Houston Alumnae Chapter
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
SPRING 2024
MINERVA Circle members of the
Shirlean McEwen-Law keeper of muses and graces
l cle
yolanda baker technoligy chair
shantel conquest williams convener of odyssey Experience
Tiffany Taylor-Lee president
BRANDYE BATISTE JEWEL COMPASSION
TINA NEWSOME JEWEL FELLOWSHIP
DESHANTRA MOORE-LEWIS JEWEL PURITY
MISHA LESLEY-BURKINS
COURTESY
ALLYSON BROWN JEWEL FIDELITY
VERONICA BOWDRY JEWEL JUSTICE
MONICA FENNER
DEDICATION
WYKESHA HAYES
HONESTY
SONJA BAKER JEWEL TEMPERANCE
members of the MINERVA
JEWEL
JEWEL
JEWEL
Circle
MINERVA Circle members of the
ALICIA CALLIS-BURRELL MINERVA CIRCLE ASSociate
TYQUINCIA WILFORD-BOYD MINERVA CIRCLE ASSociate
KIMBERLY BAKER MINERVA CIRCLE ASSociate
LISLE BULL SMART MINERVA CIRCLE ASSociate
IMANI PHILLIPS-SPEARS MINERVA CIRCLE ASSociate
MANDY HILL MINERVA CIRCLE Associate
"TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER EVER HAD A DREAM, AND THOUGHT YOUR DREAM WASN’T, WOULDN’T, COULDN’T COME TRUE, I AM HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THIS IS WHAT BELIEVING LOOKS LIKE THIS IS WHAT STRIVING LOOKS LIKE AND DON’T YOU EVER, EVER GIVE UP ON YOU!"
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- Shirley Chisholm"IN ORDER FOR THE DESTINY TO MANIFEST I THINK THAT IT REQUIRES COURAGE TO HAVE FAITH, IT REQUIRES PATIENCE AND IT REQUIRES A TRUE SENSE OF YOURSELF."
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"I THINK WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK OF YOURSELF AS HAVING ACHIEVED SOMETHING, THEN THERE'S NOTHING LEFT FOR YOU TO WORK TOWARDS. I WANT TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A MOUNTAIN SO HIGH THAT I WILL SPEND MY ENTIRE LIFE STRIVING TO REACH THE TOP OF IT."
QUOTES INSPIRATIONAL
ODYSSEY PLANNING COMMITTEE
Arrival / Check-in lanita whetstone/melanie johnson
activity #1 alicia callis-burrell
physical activity mandy hill/Anasthasia jones
catering kevene wright
activity #2 melody gerard
talent show maia bean
ecumenical service wykesha hayes
activity #3 anasthasia jones/ tina monique james
warm fuzzy mary sims
special ceremony monica fenner
momento arlene cain
logistics joell tompkins
decorations yolanda steward
Odyssey volunteers
Bernice Coleman
Alicia Jones
Allyson Brown
Carranda Comeaux
Cozette Church
Cathy Nelson
Chrystal Rivers
Danielle Rutherford
Diana B Jones
Donna Atobajeun
Erika Veal
Floresia Berry
Jada Sanders
donna Shaw
Kimberly Scott
Alverna D Austin
LaWanda Fanner
Kat McElroy
Kimberley Baker
Misha Lesley-Burkins
Sabrina Jarmon
Shameitra N. Green
Sonja Baker
Shantel Williams
Traci Jones
Tiffany Taylor-Lee
Wanda Johnson
Tyquincia Boyd subcommittee chairs
ThankYou!