welcome

Welcome to the UAB Alpha Lambda chapter of Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity.

foundation donation

A check for $300 was presented from the Alpha Omega Foundation to Dean Huw Thomas.

(right to left) Kristen Bentley (social ch), Marc Vance (professional ch), Dean Huw Thomas, Nate Lawson (VP), Clay McEntire (community service ch)

president's update august 2008

Recruitment

An informational meeting about Alpha Omega is scheduled for Monday August 18 from noon-1PM in SDB 501. The lunch will catered with Papa Johns and it is open to all students interested in joining Alpha Omega.

Community service

Clay (mcentire@uab.edu) is in charge of the nursing home oral hygiene program. He has met with Ms Graham from the Methodist Home For Aging. He collected common questions from Ms. Graham and had them answered by Dr. Thornton. In the future, we will arrange a 15 minute oral health presentation to assist with their training program.

Social

Kristen (bentley@uab.edu) arranged the AO Karaoke Social 2007. We should aim to have another AO socail event planned for fall semester. Maybe Karaoke, maybe something else.

Michael (babston@uab.edu) pulled off another successful Kegs n Kickball. The event occurred Friday May 23 at Patriot Park. If you have any picture from the event, please email them to: nlawson@uab.edu

Professionalism

Marc (mvance@uab.edu) planned a highly-attended lunch n' learn. Dr. Kevin Alexander came and spoke about the financial aspects of dentistry. This was a catered exclusively AO event.

AO donated $100 for miles for smiles, $180 to AO nationals and 3 t-shirts for the door prizes at the UAB Scholar's Symposium.

National

Some good news: Our chapter won a chapter efficiency award and received a certificate of appreciation for our charitable donation ($180) at the national convention.

Here's a link to our international officers: http://www.students.ao.org/officers.html

The national AO student leadership conference will be held in Atlanta this year. This meeting is scheduled for Sep 26-28. We should have a large UAB attendance.