District 2 was highly decorated at the 2008 Alpha Sigma Alpha National Convention and Leadership Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The following chapters and individuals were recognized in front of the convention body at the formal awards banquet Saturday night.

Aspire chapters are chapters that have shown a commitment to each other, their chapter, and the national organization by upholding the high ideals of the sorority.

• Zeta Nu (Moravian College)

Seek chapters are chapters that have built on that commitment and have embraced the responsibility of membership to ensure that the sorority remains strong.

• Delta Iota (University of Delaware)

Attain chapters are chapters that have vowed fully to uphold their role, responsibility, and commitment to being an energizing influence in the future of their chapter and Alpha Sigma Alpha.

• Nu Nu (Drexel University)

The Four-Star Chapter Award was established to recognize annually Alpha Sigma Alpha collegiate chapters that uphold the high ideals of the sorority in the areas of membership, academic excellence, finance, membership education, chapter operations, philanthropy, national meetings, ritual, organization image, national bylaws, policies and procedures, advisory board, and alumnae involvement.

• Epsilon Kappa (Millersville University)

The Rose Marie Fellin Financial Excellence Award is given to a collegiate chapter practicing the principles of sound financial management through recordkeeping, accurate and timely reporting, communication with national headquarters, and staying current with all fees and dues along with striving toward healthy financial stability.

• Epsilon Tau (University of Maryland - Baltimore Campus [UMBC])

The Philanthropic Award is given to the chapter that best exhibits the Alpha Sigma Alpha value of generosity. The amount of time taken to work with others, as well as raising money for the national philanthropies, is the basis of this award.

• Nu Nu (Drexel University)
• Epsilon Kappa (Millersville University)

• Epsilon Kappa (Millersville University)
• Epsilon Tau (UMBC)

• Epsilon Kappa (Millersville University)

Chapters that met their total target for the year were entered in a drawing to win one of two free convention registrations. Both winners were in District 2: Nu Nu (Drexel) and Delta Iota (University of Delaware).

• Nu Nu (Drexel University)
• Delta Iota (University of Delaware)
• Zeta Iota (Stonybrook University)

• Nu Nu (Drexel University)
• Delta Iota (University of Delaware)
• Zeta Iota (Stonybrook University)
• Zeta Nu (Moravian College)

• Nu Nu (Drexel University)
• Delta Iota (University of Delaware)
• Epsilon Kappa (Millersville University)
• Zeta Iota (Stonybrook University)

Chapters that took the advice of leadership consultants, advisors and district volunteers and fully implemented changes to formal rush and ongoing recruitment. These chapters demonstrated their success by increasing greatly the number of new members recruited this year.

• Epsilon Kappa (Millersville University)
• Epsilon Tau (UMBC)

• Blue Mountain, PA
• Boston
• Greater Valley Forge
• Philadelphia Metro
• Washington, DC
• Wilmington, DE

• Greater Valley Forge

Alumnae chapters that have done an outstanding job in writing, editing, and submitting items for The Phoenix magazine.

• Philadelphia Metro

• Sarah Bernier Brenneman, Gamma Xi

The Agape Award recognizes volunteers who display a love for Alpha Sigma Alpha and its members. Recipients seek at all times to advance the interests of others and to spread the positive influence of Alpha Sigma Alpha. There were three recipients this year, one of whom was Sarah Bernier Brenneman, Gamma Xi (Slippery Rock University).

Strengths that may be used to describe Sarah Brenneman are:

• Focused. She strives to succeed; one can depend on Sarah to get the job done.
• Determined. She is relentless in her pursuit to involve sisters as volunteers.
• Passionate. Her love for our sorority is contagious.

Sarah holds dual membership in Epsilon Psi and Gamma Xi Chapters. She currently serves as a member of the Volunteer Recruitment and Placement Team and has specialized in recruiting volunteers for Districts 2 and 3, where she has produced some incredible results and been able to reconnect sisters and promote volunteerism.

Sarah loves life and lives each day to its ultimate good.

• Dorcas Bates Reilly, Nu Nu

The Recognition of Eminence Award honors alumnae members whose professional or community achievements received recognition outside the realm of Alpha Sigma Alpha. Dorcas Bates Reilly, Nu Nu (Drexel University), is one of only nine members in Alpha Sigma Alpha history to win this award.

Regarded as the 'mother of comfort food,' Dorcas Reilly led the team that created the Green Bean Casserole in 1955, while working as a staff member in the home economics department of the Campbell Soup Company.

In 2002, Mrs. Reilly appeared at the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, OH, to donate the original copy of the recipe to the museum. The now-yellowed 8x11 recipe card takes its place alongside Enrico Fermi's invention of the first controlled nuclear reactor and Thomas Alva Edison's two greatest hits: the light bulb and the phonograph.