They Stood Alone - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.

Message from theInternationalSecond GrandAnti-BasileusSororTiana TrimbleGreeting Sorors,Welcome back to another year charged with excitement and the abilityto use and think with our HEARTS! Through Honor, Education, Action,Representation and Training, we can ensure we focus our mindsetto not only contribute positively to our own chapters, but to also topositively promote the cause of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.In order for us to successfully incorporate the HEART concept, weneed to keep two key words in the forefront of our minds and efforts:consistency and organization. If we incorporate the characteristicsof these two words in our chapter and national activities, we cannotfail in moving our sorority in a positive direction. For years, oursorority has been well-known and well-regarded for our nationalprograms and initiatives. Therefore, to maintain that level of respectand for the ongoing accountability of Sigma Gamma Rho, it is ourduty to consistently carry out those programs and initiatives in anorganized manner. One of the easiest ways to do this is to pass alongour knowledge and lessons learned to those who will come after us.Instead of starting over every year with the activities and initiativeswe plan to incorporate into our upcoming events, we should look towhat we have done successfully in the past and add to that. We shouldeven look at what did not work so well and find a way to make it better.Instead of “reinventing the wheel,” we can build upon the things we dowell and change the things we do not do so well. In the end, throughgreater consistency and organization, we will be successful in movingthe name of Sigma Gamma Rho forward.Through the characteristics of H.E.A.R.T, here are some tasks that Ipresent to you.Honor: With the goals of “Greater Service, Greater Progress,” let’shonor our founders’ vision and take the challenge of change withinour sorority and make it great!Education: “Take time to think, it is the source of power.” Our numberone goal as collegiate Sorors is to graduate! Make sure you take thetime to keep up with your studies and go higher than expected.Action: As undergraduate leaders, let’s go further then what istraditionally expected from us. Let’s make a positive voice within ourorganization, campuses and community. Let’s encourage each otherto go for the higher positions in our Sorority. “How can you make adifference?”Representation: Let’s put our name out in the community; find atleast one new organization that your chapter can network with. Ifyou haven’t done so already, become involved in the programs andactivities on your campus. Remember the saying – “out of sight, outof mind?” The more we network amongst our peers, the greaterchance we have of increasing our membership and growing as anorganization.Training: Lets do what is RIGHT! Our sorority is on fragile groundright now, and it is our mission to put us back in a “safe zone.” This isnot only amongst our membership intake program, but as workingwomen of Sigma. As sisters, it is our duty to prepare our incomingSorors as members and officers. If we do not work together in ourmotives to change, then we will some day fall apart.“We are our Sister’s Keeper!”In Sigma,With all of my HEART!Winster/Spring 2008 • The Aurora 55