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International Region

Established: 1957
First Regional Director: Bella C. Parker (appointed first Legislative Regional Director, 1990; previously, the Supreme Basileus served as International Regional Director)
First Regional Conference: Freeport, Bahamas, July 12-13, 1989

Geography at Creation
All chapters outside of the United States

Geography Today
All chapters outside of the United States

First Undergraduate Chapter Chartered
Rho Xi (University of the Virgin Islands; St. Croix, USVI) & Rho Omicron (University of the Virgin Islands; St. Thomas, USVI) May, 1996

First Graduate Chapter Chartered
Eta Beta Omega (Monrovia, Liberia); 1957

Undergraduate & Graduate Chapters Today
Undergraduate – 2:
Graduate – 10
Eta Beta Omega (Monrovia, Liberia); Eta Psi Omega (Nassau, Bahamas); Mu Gamma Omega (St. Croix, USVI); Mu Psi Omega (Germany); Pi Upsilon Omega (Freeport, Grand Bahamas); Rho Nu Omega (Seoul Korea); Sigma Xi Omega (Bermuda); Sigma Theta Omega (St. Thomas/St. John, USVI); Phi Omicron Omega (Okinawa, Japan); Psi Beta Omega (Tokyo, Japan)

 

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Region Highlights

  • Home of:
    • Angie Brooks - first African woman to lead the U.N. General Assembly
    • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf - first woman elected chief of state on the African continent (Liberia)
    • (Dame) Nita Barrow - first woman Ambassador of Barbados to the U.N.; first woman appointed Governor General of Barbados; served as Secretary General for the Nairobi, Kenya U.N. Women’s Conference
    • Diane Abbott - first Black woman elected to the British Parliament
    • Anna E. Cooper – first dean of the College of Liberia
    • Edith Ssempala- Ugandan Ambassador to the U.S.
    • Margaret Busby- author, BBC commentator, founding partner of Alison and Busby Publishers, the UK’s first Black publishing company
    • Barbara Chase Riboud, internationally acclaimed sculptor, poet and author of many books
  • Chartered first Greek lettered organizations on the campuses of the University of the Virgin Islands (Rho Xi; Rho Omicron)

Regional Directors

Bella C. Parker
Phyllis E. Robinson		 Wilma Holmes Tootle
Nadine C. Bonds		 Gloria Harper Dickinson

 


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