Delta Sigma Theta Sorority completes busy October
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From staff reports
ALBANY — Members of the Albany Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. participated in a variety of community service activities in October.
The sorority’s Social Action Committee chose as one of its initiatives for this year to support, advertise, encourage and attend the municipal election candidates forum on Oct. 5. Candidates for Wards 1 and 4 commission seats as well as mayoral candidates participated.
Several sorority members also registered students to vote at local high schools. Students from Dougherty High, Westover and Fresh Start Academy learned about the political process during the voter registration event.
On Oct. 7, during the regular chapter meeting, breast cancer surviving sorors were celebrated with sisterly love.
Sorority members, along with collegiate chapter Delta Rho, read to classes at Morningside Elementary School on Oct. 9.
The sorority also provided feminine hygiene items for the Calhoun County School System, which is in the service area of the Albany Alumnae Chapter.
On Oct. 14, members of the sorority supported Albany State University by participating in the university’s homecoming parade. Sorority members dressed in red blazers and black slacks walked the parade route in celebration of the event. Sorority members also joined the collegiate chapter in a pre-celebration campus event, “ Remember the Time.”
On Oct. 28, members of the sorority volunteered and participated with Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital’s Nourish to Flourish Women’s Health Fair on the west campus of Albany State University .
On Oct. 31, the sorority participated in Dougherty County Pre-K’s trunk-or-treat by decorating the car and handing out candy and books donated by sorority members. The sorority also participated with the Dougherty County Police Department’s trick-or-treat activities.
Three of the chapter’s sorors received accolades this month: Rubye Hampton received the Gaines-Jones Scholars Teacher Award named in honor of Barbara D. Roehrick; Alma Noble received city of Albany Black-Owned Business Proclamation recognition; and Shalvi Johnson was spotlighted by Albany Together Inc. as marketing research associate for Local Initiative Support Corporation.
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