Alpha Phi Omega's Flower
What is a Forget-Me-Not?
The Motto
What is: Be a Leader. Be a Friend. Be of Service.
Chapter Region
What is Chapter L-3?
Chapter Section
What is Section 80?
National President
Who is:
Dr. Jennifer Headman?
Section Chair
Who is:
Hanna Fuller?
Chapter Charter Date
What is:
January 27, 1953
Chapter Recharter Date
When and Where Women Were Allowed To Join Alpha Phi Omega
What is:
1976 at the National Convention in Atlanta, GA.
Excuses
What is: Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent, used to build monuments of nothingness. Those who excel in them seldom excel in anything else but excuses.
Chapter Advisory Committee
What is:
Advisory Chair: Ruby I. Sims, Community Advisor: Myeisha Selby, Scouting/Youth Service Advisor: Temika Harrison, Faculty Advisor 1: Leslie Spain, Faculty Advisor 2: Joshua Gardner
Chapters In Our Section
What is: Rho Chapter at UNC Chapel Hill, Iota Lambda Chapter at NC State University, Kappa Upsilon Chapter at East Carolina University, Lambda Nu Chapter at Duke University
Greek Alphabet (words)
What is:
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda, Mu, Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi, Omega
Greek Alphabet (Symbols)
Α, Β, Γ, Δ, Ε, Z, H, Θ, I, K, L, M, N, Ξ, O, Π, P, Σ, T, Y, Φ, X, Ψ, Ω
Scout Oath
What is:
On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout Law
What is:
A Scout is: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
Vision
What is:
Be recognized as the premier service-based leadership development organization.
Tree and why
What is:
An Oak Tree
It is stately, sturdy, and sheltering.
Mission
What is:
Prepare campus and community leaders through service.
Past National Presidents (10)
Who are:
Frank Reed Horton, Dr. H. Roe Bartle, William S. Roth, E. Ross Forman, Aubrey B. Hamilton, Col. Luscious E. Young, LTC (Ret), Lorin A.Jarvis, Dr. Stan Carpenter, Maggie Katz, Mark Stratton
Founders (14)
Who are:
Frank Reed Horton, Everett W. Probst, E.M. Detwiler, Thane S. Cooley, Lewis B. Blair, Ellsworth S. Dobson, Gordon M. Looney, Herbert Heinrich, Robert J. Green, Donald L. Terwillinger, Donald H. Fritts, William W. Highberger, William T. Wood, George A. Olsen.
Purpose
What is:
The purpose of Alpha Phi Omega shall be to assemble college students in a national service fraternity in the fellowship of principles derived from the Scout Oath and Law of the Boy Scouts of America; to develop leadership, to promote friendship, and to prove service to humanity; and to further the freedom that is our national, educational, and intellectual heritage.
Symbolism of the Torch
What is:
Higher Education - The single flame rising from the bowl has 3 parts, representing the Fraternity’s unified expression of the 3 cardinal principles of Leadership, Friendship, and Service.
The Toast Song
What is:
Here's to Alpha Phi Omega, loyal brothers we.
True to self and to each other, firm in loyalty.
Daily working, daily striving ever more to be.
True to Alpha Phi Omega, our fraternity.
Brothers clasp the hands of brothers, strong the circle we.
Ever mindful, ever serving all humanity.
Now we raise our grateful voices in our song to thee.
True to Alpha Phi Omega, may be always be.