AlphaKappaAlphaSorority,Incorporated® OmicronMuOmegaChapter

Greetings,

It is with great pleasure and excitement that we welcome you to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Omicron Mu Omega Chapter Founders’ Day Celebration. Our theme, “Celebrating the Traditions of Our Founders while Soaring to Greater Heights of Service” and Sisterhood speaks to our commitment to servant-leadership, sisterhood, and education.

As we commemorate 115 years of sisterhood and service we reflect on our founders’ mission, to cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical standards, to promote unity and friendship among college women, to study and help alleviate problems concerning girls and women in order to improve their social stature, to maintain a progressive interest in college life, and to be of “Service to All Mankind". This mission has remained unchanged since the sorority’s inception more than a century ago.

On behalf of the Omicron Mu Omega Chapter, we congratulate our members who are celebrating 50 and 25 years of service to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Thank you for being models of excellence and for your dedicated service.

We are extremely delighted to have our International President & CEO, Danette Anthony Reed as our keynote speaker this year. She is the 31st woman to lead Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®. She comes to the position with more than 46 years of experience and she is a committed Life Member and Silver Star member. Ms. Anthony Reed has held more than 24 leadership positions in the sorority at all levels including International First Vice President and previously International Treasurer. At the Chapter level, Ms. Anthony Reed has been president or vice president of three chapters, held numerous other leadership positions and was a charter member of Omicron Mu Omega Chapter, in Dallas, TX, where she is currently a member.

We extend a sincere thank you for your attendance at our Founders’ Day celebration. We hope to inspire you to renew your efforts and commitment to serving others.

January 28, 2023

My Dear Sisters of the Omicron Mu Omega Chapter:

Greetings and Happy Founders’ Day 2023! As we embark on Alpha Kappa Alpha’s 115th anniversary, let us take this time to reflect on and celebrate our Sorority’s rich history of sisterhood and service. For 115 years, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® has been premiere in promoting academic excellence, fostering leadership, and rendering service to all mankind. Ours is an organization of “firsts.” Not only are we the first intercollegiate Greek-letter sorority for Black women, our members continue to break barriers as “firsts” in science, the arts, education, in space, and in the White House.

Today’s theme, “Celebrating the Traditions of Our Founders while Soaring to Greater Heights of Service and Sisterhood,” embodies the spirit of servant-leadership that was created by our Founders and reinforces our responsibility to continue Soaring to Greater Heights of Service and Sisterhood.

On this day, we reaffirm Alpha Kappa Alpha’s legacy and rededicate ourselves to the “fellowship sincere and rare” that we vowed to protect and perpetuate upon our initiation. We are also forever indebted to the charter members of Omicron Mu Omega, who had the vision to further expand our sisterhood within Dallas, TX and the surrounding communities.

Congratulations and thank you to the Founders’ Day Committee for organizing such a wonderful Founders’ Day celebration. Let us also congratulate those members who have reached the Diamond, Pearl, Golden, and Silver Sister membership milestone this year. And thank you to all the members of Alpha Kappa Alpha who continue to stand together in sisterhood and “service to all mankind” during this season of renewal and recommitment. Again, Happy Founders’ Day!

With sisterly love,

Joya T. Hayes

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®

South Central Regional Director

OFFICE OF:

Danette Anthony Reed International President & CEO

January 28, 2023

Happy Founders’ Day!

Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®

Members of Omicron Mu Omega Chapter, I am delighted to be with you today!

In this 115th year since our founding on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D C , where sixteen women boldly and courageously undertook a journey that would change the world, I am deeply inspired to witness more than 355,000 initiated members and 1,061 chapters spanning 12 countries Soaring to Greater Heights of Service and Sisterhood. As we reflect upon the profound difference Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® makes throughout our local communities and across the globe, our 115th anniversary marks a time for strengthening our sisterhood and reinforcing our commitment “to be of service to all mankind.” This is truly a time for reflection and renewal.

As we remember our beloved founders who created a lasting and enduring sisterhood that stands the test of time, we can only imagine what they must be thinking and feeling now during this historic moment From the halls of the White House to the streets of rural towns from the shores of both great oceans to the sand dunes of the Middle East, Alpha Kappa Alpha’s span is simply remarkable. We must recognize WE are history-makers!

Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha are known to build communities and transform lives within our Sorority and within the communities we serve. No matter where we go, we will make an impact. Further, I truly believe, Alpha Kappa Alpha begins and ends with sisterhood. It is the glue that binds us all together and makes us a unified body. Sisterhood is the foundation upon which Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was established and continues to flourish

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter’s outstanding service by annually awarding more than $30,000 in collegiate scholarships, mentoring hundreds of girls through our CACHET Youth Group, and offering more than 500 hours and 354 acts of service in one day is truly exemplary and laudable!

Congratulations to the 8 members who are celebrating 50 years of service and 13 who are being recognized for 25 years of service. During your 115th Founders’ Day observance, I invite you to Strengthen our Sisterhood! I invite you to intentionally take time to fellowship and form lifelong relationships based on affinity, love, trust, respect, and shared goals and interests, while concurrently building on our foundation to serve others

May we continue Soaring to Greater Heights of Service and Sisterhood in the years ahead!

Sisterly yours,

Danette Anthony Reed International President & CEO

TheFoundersofAlphaKappaAlphaSorority,Incorporated®

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated ® (AKA), an international service organization, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1908. It is the oldest Greek-letter organization established by African American college-educated women. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated® is comprised of more than 325,000 initiated members in graduate and undergraduate chapters located in 12 countries including the United States, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Dubai, Germany, Japan, Liberia, Nigeria, South Korea, South Africa and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Led by International President & CEO Danette Anthony Reed of Dallas, Texas, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, often is hailed as “America’s premier Greek-letter organization for African Americanwomen.”

Danette Anthony Reed

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® International President & CEO

Danette Anthony Reed is the International President & CEO of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated®, and she is the 31st woman to lead the nation’s first Black sorority for collegeeducated women in 115 years. She comes to the position with more than 46 years of experience to lead the international organization. During her administration, she will focus on “Soaring to Greater Heights of Service and Sisterhood.”

Ms. Reed ascended to Alpha Kappa Alpha’s highest office in July 2022. As International President & CEO, Ms. Anthony Reed sets policy and programs and leads a board of directors including international officers and 10 regional directors who oversee the management of the sorority’s more than 1,061 chapters and more than 325,000 members throughout the United States and 11 other countries. Prior to her installation, she held more than 24 leadership positions in the sorority at all levels including International First Vice President and previously as International Treasurer.

A retired PepsiCo corporate executive, Ms. Reed brings decades of corporate leadership, community engagement, service, and progressive sorority governance to the role. Ms. Anthony Reed rose through the operations ranks at Frito Lay, retiring after 34 years of service. A trailblazer within the PepsiCo, Frito Lay Division, she became the first African- American woman plant director for Frito Lay to lead the startup of an $80 million bakery facility in Dallas. After this accomplishment, she moved to Frito Lay’s corporate office and led a cross-functional team in the commercialization of $300 million in innovative products

The daughter of two educators, Ms. Reed holds a master’s degree in Business Administration, specializing in finance, from Southern Methodist University and a bachelor’s degree of science, in industrial engineering, from Northwestern University. She is the first Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated International President who is an engineer.

Ms. Reed is a member of the national board of directors of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Omicron Mu Omega Chapter in Dallas, TX; a charter member of the Greater Denton County (TX) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated; a member of Top Ladies of Distinction of Dallas, TX; a member of the Carrousels of Dallas, TX; a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians; and a former Girl Scouts leader. Currently, she serves as Treasurer of Krugerville, Texas Community Development Corporation. She has received a number of awards for her outstanding and distinguished professional and community service including the Dallas African American Museum Heritage Award, National Action Network’s Action and Authority Award, Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals, Women’s Inclusion Network Lifetime Achievement Award, PepsiCo’s Global Harvey Russell Diversity and Inclusion Award, and National Council of Negro Women Outstanding Service Award.

1/6/2023

Program

AlphaKappaAlphaSorority,Incorporated®

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter AKAlades

IntroductionofDaisMembers&SpecialGuests

Stephanie Phillips, Protocol Committee Co-Chairman

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter

MistressofCeremony

Patricia Tatum, Founders’ Day Committee Chairman

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter

Greetings

LaDácher N. Jackson EdD, President

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter

Joya T. Hayes

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® South Central Regional Director

Shirley R. Fisher

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® 21st South Central Regional Director

ATributetotheFoundersof

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®

Mya Adams, First Vice President

Sigma Kappa Chapter

AMusicalPrelude-“ASalutetoAKA”

Written & Directed by Evelyn R. Foster Hamilton

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®

International Music/Entertainment Committee Chairman

James Etta Wilson, Accompanist

2023ServiceProject

Stacey McIntee, Founders' Day Committee Co-Chairman

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter

Felicia Frazier, Founder & Executive Director, The MINT Foundation

BlessingoftheMeal

Thomasine Beck, Chaplain

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter

Lunch

IntroductionofKeynoteSpeaker

Erynn Reed

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®

International Generation Next Committee Chairman

KeynoteAddress

Danette Anthony Reed

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®

International President & CEO

AKAladesEnsemble

Alicia Bell, Ardina Colby, Talanja Goss, Donnis Thomas

CeremonialTributeto50&25YearHonorees

LaDácher N. Jackson EdD, Omicron Mu Omega Chapter President

Danette Anthony Reed, International President & CEO

Joya T. Hayes, South Central Regional Director

Shirley R. Fisher, 21st South Central Regional Director

Introductionof50YearHonorees

Beverly Long, Omicron Mu Omega Chapter 50YearHonorees

Antonia Abner, Patricia Alaman, Thelma Clardy, Rachel George, Sharyn Smith Holley, Sharon Kyles Ross, Virginia Lockwood Terry, Brenda Thomas

Introductionof25YearHonorees

Wendy Jackson, Omicron Mu Omega Chapter 25YearHonorees

Stacy Bowers, Lakeiah Cheatham, Kyla Duncan, Crystal Hamilton, Kimberly Harris, Sonya Jackson Landrum, Patrece Hasty-Perry, Quisha Carmouche-Roberts, Karen Stills, Bobbie Sullivan, Tanisha Toaston, Chantay Hawkins Warren, Courtney Williams

MusicalTribute

Omicron Mu Omega AKAlades

“Golden Sorors” and “We are Stars (Sorors)”

Written by Evelyn R. Foster Hamilton

International Music/Entertainment Committee Chairman

Directed by Cassandra Christopher and Beverly Russell, Omicron Mu Omega Chapter

GreekMedley

Evelyn R. Foster Hamilton, Pianist

International Music/Entertainment Committee Chairman

Tonya E. Savage, Esq., First Vice President

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter

Acknowledgements

Patricia Tatum, Founders’ Day Committee Chairman

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter

ClosingPrayer

Thomasine Beck, Chaplain

Omicron Mu Omega Chapter