Golden Sorors
Mary Allen
Viola Cash
Delois Broady
Elizabeth Gillis
Janice Hale
Maxine Hunt
Laurie Peery
Betty Waldron
Imogene Trapp

Silver Star Sorors:
Cynthia Coles
Beulah Dabney
Mollie DeBerry
Deidre Dowe
Benecia Hale-Hilton
Lucy Harmon
Marylen Harmon
Helen Harris
Dana Lee
Caralene Lewis
Brenda Powell
Joyce D. Sherman

Life Member Sorors:
Delois Broady
Viola Cash
Beulah Dabney
Elizabeth Gillis
Lucy Harmon
Marylen Harmon
Laurie Peery
Brenda Powell
Imogene Trapp
Betty Waldron

Prospective Members
For those seeking membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., graduate membership is by invitation only. Please visit our International Website, www.aka1908.com, for more information.

Reactivation and Reclamation
If you wish to visit, transfer and/or reactivate please contact us, for more information.

Beta Chi Omega
P.O. Box 13891
Roanoke, VA 24038

Beta Chi Omega Chapter Programs

The Heart of ESP: An E xtraordinary S ervice P rogram

Alpha Kappa Alpha responds to the contemporary needs of the Black community with comprehensive non-traditional programs. The ESP vision embraces a five-pronged program designed to excite, galvanize and ignite the passions of more than 200,000 members worldwide. Through these platforms Alpha Kappa Alpha continues its mission of “service to all mankind”.

PLATFORM #1
Non-Traditional Entrepreneur
Women are seizing the reins of entrepreneurship because they realize that it is the key to economic survival. As they become more of the business landscape and their enterprises grow, women are coming face to face with the challenges of managing and expanding new ventures. To build a strong foundation for women in business, Alpha Kappa Alpha will create economic expertise, success in business and power networking opportunities for the non-traditional entrepreneur.

Programs sponsored by Beta Chi Omega include:

The Holiday Bazaar

Each year Beta Chi Omega invites minority and female vendors to come and sell their wares. The Holiday Bazaar presents nontraditional entrepreneurs to the public and allows them the opportunity to establish themselves as viable businesses. This bazaar is generally held in December at the Roanoke Higher Education Center.

Owning Your Own Business
Beta Chi Omega conducts a seminar in which local female entrepreneurs are invited to come and share how they started their businesses. Also on hand is a Bank officer who shares ways for budding entrepreneurs to finance their business ventures.

PLATFORM #2
Economic Keys to Success
Economic development is expanding its reach to a new global frontier. The Sorority must be poised to compete in these world markets. Simultaneously, living standards within the Black community must be improved. To achieve these goals, Alpha Kappa Alpha will, through education, synergy and partnerships, develop and disseminate the economic keys to success.

Beta Chi Omega sponsors several programs to address this platform. These include

The Ivy Reading AKAdemy

Beta Chi Omega has taken the reigns and partnered with Forest Park Elementary School to provide tutoring to students struggling with reading. The focus of the program is to:

• Provide one-on-one instruction
• Supplement daily classroom instruction
• Provide children the opportunity to socially interact with goal-driven adult role models.

On Track
"On Track" is a mentoring program the chapter operates for young ladies attending Addison Aerospace Magnet Middle School . This program seeks to provide learning experiences that will promote communication skills, improve study habits, and build character. Workshops and field trips address the following topics:

• Leadership Skills
• Appropriate Dress & Behavior
• Physical & Mental Health
• Youth Financial Literacy

Economic Empowerment Workshops
Each year the chapter offers economic empowerment workshops to educate it members as well as the community to be financially savvy. Topics of these workshops include personal finance, credit counseling, home ownership and grant writing.

PLATFORM #3
Economic Growth of the Black Family
The strength of the Black community hinges on the viability of the family. If the family foundation is weak, so too will be the broader societal structure that gives life and nourishes the family unit. Alpha Kappa Alpha is sensitive to the fact that within the core structure, the Black male, in particular, faces potentially daunting challenges. Recognizing this, a powerful remedy lies in devising strategies for assisting young males in overcoming the formidable challenges to their educational development and well-being. Through activities that enable, support and provide access, Alpha Kappa Alpha will work to achieve the economic growth of the Black family.

Programs sponsored by Beta Chi Omega to address this platform:

Soup for Seniors
Soup for Seniors is a program sponsored by the LOA. Beta Chi Omega takes pride in assisting the LOA in its endeavor to provide a nutritious meal in the way of soup and crackers to elderly citizens during the winter months.

Henry Street Children's Booth

Beta Chi Omega is pleased to sponsor a children’s booth each year at the Henry St. Festival.

Adopt a Teen/Family
Each year the chapter reaches out in the community to a family or teen in need. The chapter seeks to provide for the basic needs of that individual or family by donating food, clothing and furniture. The chapter also works with the individual or family to locate needed counseling services and educational or job training opportunities available in the community.

PLATFORM #4
Undergraduate Signature Program:
Economic Educational Advancement Through Technology
Technology must be mastered if there is any hope of economic educational advancement. To address this powerful reality, Alpha Kappa Alpha resolves to work with higher educational institutions and other organizations that reach students to develop an exemplary model technology access and training program that serves the community and becomes part of the central activities of the institution. Driven by this platform, the Sorority will initiate an undergraduate signature program: Economic Educational Advancement through Technology.

Beta Chi Omega supports the undergraduate chapter it sponsors, Theta Chi - Radford University , in its implementation of the Economic Educational Advancement Through Technology platform.

PLATFORM #5
Health Resource Management and Economics
To reach that stratosphere of satisfaction where one is physically and mentally fit and poised to embrace all of life's rewards and challenges requires a balance of emotional intelligence, optimal psychology and spirituality. Studies prove that when all of these elements are in divine order, physical health, relationships and life satisfaction will be the result. Through health resource management and economics, Alpha Kappa Alpha will address the many health issues and crises that face the Black community in the United States and globally. The mandate in this platform is to gain emotional empowerment, develop social support networks and raise public awareness.

Beta Chi Omega programs, directed to this target, include:

Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness workshops are conducted monthly for the chapter membership.

Health Fair
The Health Awareness Fair, open to the public, offers workshops in areas such as nutrition, exercise, cancer awareness screening, HIV awareness and prevention, diabetes and mental health issues. Also available are basic screenings for blood pressure and blood sugar.

Beta Chi Omega Signature Programs

Scholarships
Awarding scholarships to graduating High School students is one of Beta Chi Omega's major contributions to the community. Each year the chapter is privileged to give thousands of dollars to worthy young people.

Living Legends ~ First In Service
Each Year Beta Chi Omega recognizes African American men and women who were the first to hold positions in their fields in the Roanoke Valley . These individuals were pioneers who laid the foundation for future generations.

2009 Executive Officers

President
Soror Carla James

Vice President
Soror Treasure Staples

Secretary
Soror LaVerne Tiggle

Treasurer
Soror Cynthia Coles

Assistant Treasurer
Soror Dana Lee

Financial Secretary
Soror Pamela Edwards

Assistant Financial Secretary
Soror Rachel Ivory

Correspondence Secretary
Soror Sarah Lee

Parliamentarian
Barbara Holland

Ivy Leaf Reporter
Soror Mia Webb Fitz

Sgt. At-Arms
Soror Wanda Peery-Alston

Hostess
Kia Sherman

Historian
Soror Pat Baker

Graduate Advisor
Soror Tammy Futrell
(Theta Phi)

Soror Samantha Shepherd (Theta Chi)

Immediate Past President
Benecia Hale-Hilton

Executive Board Members-At-Large
Betty Jones
Valerie Hale