EVENTS

 MLK Day Parade (1/19/08)

Golf Tournament (1/21/08)

Holiday Ball
(12/08)

Yearly Calendar

Local Alpha History – San Diego, California

• Alumni Chapter: Zeta Sigma Lambda, founded 1957
• College Chapter: Eta Sigma, founded 1972, University of California, San Diego, San Diego State University

Martin Luther King Jr. Pageant

The Pageant’s purpose is to showcase the talents of youth from San Diego’s high schools. Candidates are encouraged to participate in a series of educational and cultural seminars throughout the year, and are presented to the community in a formal banquet event. Candidates are then encouraged to help fund the program by selling advertisements to the pageant’s souvenir program. In this way, they learn some of the basics of economics. All monies collected go toward cash awards they receive at the conclusion of the program. Candidates are judged at a gala event where the royal court is selected. They are then feted in the annual MLK Day Parade..

Continued Academic Excellence Program (CAEP)

This program features mentoring services, self-esteem workshops, and provides scholarships to high school juniors and seniors when they matriculate to college. At the culmination of the program, book scholarships are awarded to each student during their first semester of college.

Project Alpha

This program is designed to work with male youth in a seminar format in an effort to reduce teenage pregnancy/fatherhood in our community.

Alpha Head Start

This program works with the Neighborhood House Association’s Head Start program in assisting in the fatherhood and male involvement component.

Veterans Stand Down

Zeta Sigma Lambda sponsors the women’s tent in the local Veterans Stand Down for Homeless Veterans (this event began in San Diego and is now held nationwide).