Florida Senate - 2011                            (NP)    SR 1298
       
       
       
       By Senator Hill
       
       
       
       
       1-00222C-11                                           20111298__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing March 17, 2011, as “Chi
    3         Chapter Day” in recognition of the organization’s
    4         steadfast commitment to community service.
    5  
    6         WHEREAS, the Chi Chapter was chartered on January 10, 1921,
    7  on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut,
    8  under the direction of Grand Basileus J. Alston Atkins, and
    9         WHEREAS, in 1960, the Theta Phi chapter petitioned for the
   10  establishment of a Chi Chapter on the campus of Edward Waters
   11  College, which was granted on March 20, 1961, and
   12         WHEREAS, from 1961 to the present, the Chi Chapter has
   13  flourished, growing from its 10 charter members and initiating a
   14  number of outstanding Floridians, including the late Brother Roy
   15  Mitchell, the first African-American administrator at the
   16  University of Florida, Brother Nathaniel Glover, the former
   17  sheriff of Jacksonville who was recently selected as the 29th
   18  president of Edward Waters College, and Brother Edgar Mathis,
   19  Sr., a former Seventh District representative of Omega Psi Phi,
   20  and
   21         WHEREAS, the past and present members of the soulful Chi
   22  Chapter are committed to community service and to improving the
   23  quality of life of all Floridians, NOW, THEREFORE,
   24  
   25  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   26  
   27         That March 17, 2011, is recognized as “Chi Chapter Day” in
   28  recognition of the organization’s steadfast commitment to
   29  community service.