The Graduate Interest Group contacted other Sorors that would be interested in becoming a part of the Group. Over 30 Sorors were interested and attended meetings of the Interest Group from the ranks of active and inactive Sorors.
In August 1981, Soror Dorothy Johnson, South Central Regional Director and Soror Faye B. Bryant, First Supreme Anti-Basileus were invited to meet with the Group at a luncheon at the Marriott Hotel-Braeswood. The Group presented all necessary materials to the Regional Director at this luncheon meeting. Based upon review by the Regional Director and approval of the Directorate, The First Supreme Anti-Basileus suggested the date of December 6, 1981 for chartering a second graduate chapter in Houston.
On Sunday, December 6, 1981, Xi Alpha Omega Chapter was chartered and twenty-seven (27) Sorors became charter members. The chartering ceremony was held at the Shamrock Hilton Hotel followed by a lovely luncheon highlighted with Dr. Leonard Spearman as speaker at which time a $500 scholarship was presented to Texas Southern University. The first officers of the Chapter having been elected at a prior meeting of the Group, with Soror Evelyn Ware as the first Basileus, were installed on December 6, 1981.
After Xi Alpha Omega was chartered, in a subsequent meeting, the Chapter selected the following members of the Graduate Interest Group as Charter Organizers of the Chapter: Velma Dotson, Maye Frances Hutson, Jewell Phillips, Jurleen Drummer, Betsy Johnson, and Evelyn Ware.
Charter Organizers