New Alumni Chapter Installed

Eta Mu Chapter was installed in Atlanta, Georgia on July 18, 2004, as the thirty-seventh alumni chapter of Delta Omicron. The installation ceremony occurred at the Flipper Temple A.M.E. Church in Atlanta and was followed by an installation musicale and reception. International President Jonny Ramsey conducted the installation ceremony and was assisted by Iota Province President Laura Thuirer.

 

 The new Eta Mu members presented a musicale of vocal solo and ensemble selections including two original Delta Omicron songs. Following the reception, officer training was held for the new chapter. Members of Eta Mu are Dondra Edwards, Calanda Gantt, Henrietta Garner, Keisha Harley, Ebony Marshall, Lawanda Murphy, Valerie Paige, Patrice Reid, Janel Riley, and Valencia Walker-Googer.  Eta Mu grew out of the Atlanta Alumni Club.

Congratulations to Pat Harris of Nebraska for being selected as the 2003-2004 Alumni Chair of the Year!

Patricia Crewdson Harris was appointed Nebraska’s Area Chairman in 1994 and has enjoyed the new DO friendships she has made from some of the past area newsletters.  She is a 1961 graduate of the University of Nebraska at Kearney, then called Kearney State College, with a Bachelor of Music Education and has completed some graduate courses in Elementary Music at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln where she resides.  She was initiated into Delta Chi Chapter at Kearney in the spring of 1958.  Pat has served Zeta Mu Alumni Chapter in most officer positions and is presently the Publicity Chairman.  She received the Star of DO from Zeta Mu.

Pat taught music in some small schools in Nebraska and substitute taught music in the Lincoln Public Schools for 10 years.  She then left teaching and worked for Sears for 20 years before taking early retirement.  She was the Children’s Choir Director at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church for many years and sings in the church choir and Voices of Joy, a small group of mature ladies at church.  She also played in the Bell Choir.

 

Since her husband Roger’s retirement, Pat’s highest priorities are going to grandchildren’s soccer games, camping, traveling, and spending winter months in Phoenix, Arizona.  Of course, she also enjoys spending lots of quality time with her nine grandchildren.

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