Call for Nominations
The Mu Mu Board of Directors is seeking nominations for the 2024-2025 Alpha Chi Omega of the Year. Please nominate your Alpha Chi Omega sister that meets the following criteria by October 1, 2024:
- Dues paying member
- Support of Alpha Chi Omega –past and present
- Active in the community
Please include the following information with your nomination/recommendation:
- Name, Address, Phone Number, Chapter, and School
- How she meets the above criteria
- Please also include your name and phone number
All nominations should be sent to Bev Nichols at kc5cents@aol.com or Bev Nichols, 15019 Rhodes Circle Lenexa, KS 66215.
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Alpha Chi Omega of the Year, Janice DePalma Simpson!
Our 2024-2025 Mu Mu Woman of the Year is Janice DePalma Simpson. Janice won the 2021 Alpha Chi Omega Alumna Appreciation award. The nominator then wrote since serving as the Omicron chapter president over 50 years ago, she has remained an active supporter of her collegiate chapter and engaged with her local Mu Mu chapter. She has served on the Omicron chapter advisory board as a chapter advisor and risk management advisor. She has served on several Mu Mu alumnae committees.
Her nominator for the Mu Mu Woman of the Year noted that she has just completed 14 years as President of the Omicron Chapter LHC. The Directors of the HC are all Mu Mu members who she recruited many years ago. As a team, the HC has been outstanding in preserving, maintaining, and improving the chapter facility (which will turn 70 years old this year.) This
responsibility was fully embraced, and the status of the facility today is primarily due to the effort, focus, pride, and oversight of Janice’s commitment to care for “the house.”
Her leadership, passion, and devotion to AXO cannot be questioned. She is a businesswoman, a designer, a hard worker, a historian, and a dear sister to many. She proudly wears her lyre badge, remains a lifelong learner, and certainly a role model for other HCs. in providing the necessary elements of successful organizational leadership. Please join us in congratulating Janice and thanking her for all her support and dedication.
Past Mu Mu Women of the Year
2023-24 Jamie Eaton & Jenny Duld
2022-23 Bev Nichols
2021-22 Whitney Schmale
2020-21 Stephanie Lower
2019-20 Janice Ryan
2018-19 Diane Blackwelder
2017-18 Amy Bartak
2016-17 Deb Taylor & Patti Yaktine
2015-16 Ashley Malone
2014-15 Mary Whitaker
2013-14 Laura Kaiser
2012-13 Ruth Britton
2011-12 Marty Hoffman
2010-11 Susan Ainsworth
2009-10 Nancy Ericson
2008-09 Kaci Brutto
2007-08 Fran Denton
2006-07 Nancy Neal
2005-06 Carolyn Young
2004-05 Bev Nichols
2003-04 Lisa Littrell
2002-03 Alice Hawk
2001-02 Beth Peer Koch
2000-01 Rosemary Schaumberg
1999-00 Jane Lohse
1998-99 Vonne Braun
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