Alpha Phi Omega does not restrict its members from being members of any other organization. However, a chapter may maintain rooms for meetings at the discretion of its members. The purpose of the fraternity is "to assemble college students in a National Service Fraternity in the fellowship of principles derived from the Scout Oath and Scout Law of the Boy Scouts of America to develop Leadership, to promote Friendship, and to provide Service to humanity and to further the freedom that is our national, educational, and intellectual heritage." Alpha Phi Omega's primary focus is to provide volunteer service within four areas: service to the community, service to the campus, service to the fraternity, and service to the nation and world.īeing primarily a service organization, Alpha Phi Omega does not operate nor maintain a fraternity house as lodging quarters for members nor for any other persons. The 500,000th member was initiated in the Rho Pi chapter of Alpha Phi Omega at the University of California, San Diego.Īlpha Phi Omega is a national co-ed service fraternity organized to provide community service, leadership development, and social opportunities for college students. There are also 250 chapters in the Philippines, one in Australia and one in Canada. It is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of over 25,000 students, and over 500,000 alumni members.
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The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage Īlpha Phi Omega ( ΑΦΩ), commonly known as APO, but also A-Phi-O and A-Phi-Q, is a coeducational service fraternity. To be recognized as the premier service-based leadership, development organization To prepare campus and community leaders through service They weeded profusely, prepared the beds for planting, and then planted them up! We also went around the garden learning about herbs, asparagus, passionfruit, and methods for growing tomatoes.For the related fraternity founded in the Philippines, see Alpha Phi Omega (Philippines). The seniors did a wonderful job in two previously tilled up beds. Erin Hughey-Commers also came to the garden and brought her little sister Alyriah. She contacted our local Tandem Friends School, a Quaker school like Guilford, and recruited Tandem seniors to join her helping in the garden growing food to feed the hungry. Juliet was coordinating this event at part of Guilford College’s Day of Service happening at sites up and down the east coast. Arriving, I was pretty surprised to see a group of about a dozen people working in the community garden! It turned out that Juliet hadn’t gotten my message, the rain let up, and she decided to just go ahead with the workday even though no representative of the garden showed up. When I called off the volunteers I stayed longer at the awesome festival, then took a bus back to PVCC where the transportation was being staged. Saturday was also the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello. For others it can still be wonderful but those people are rare. Making those calls isn’t fun, but no coordinator ever wants volunteers to have a bad experience, and for many people working in a garden in the rain is less than fun.
What an exciting day we had Saturday! For starters, it rained heavily overnight and was looking off and on rainy throughout the day, so with heavy heart I contacted Juliet Trail and left a phone message calling off the volunteer team that she’d assembled to visit the garden in the afternoon.
Madison House volunteers will be coming to the garden on Fridays at 3:00 and Sundays at noon. They’ve also got a bunch of new volunteers working alongside them that we’re looking forward to working with this semester and just possibly, for many years to come. These guys are awesome! We don’t need to give them much guidance anymore. Led again this year by Varun Kavuru, we also have the stalwarts Chris Porter, Henry Wykowski, Owen Robinson, and Malcolm Maloney. This is the fifth season that volunteers from Madison House have chosen to come to PVCC garden and I have to take a moment to thank those who have returned for two, three, and even four years.
On top of a week where I got to meet garden volunteer Alan, who’s journal entries and volunteer work in the garden I’ve been so much enjoying, and further on top of Wunderkind volunteer Ella, who has moved into the garden and seemingly lives there, this week saw the resumption of UVA’s Madison House coming to the garden to volunteer. Sunday was such a wonderful day that I’m going to have to break my posting into two parts.
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