UA Student Receives National Leadership Award

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Louise Crow, a University of Alabama junior from Mobile, is the recipient of Kappa Delta Sorority’s prestigious Corre Anding Stegall Leadership Award.

These awards are the highest individual honor that Kappa Delta gives to undergraduate members and were awarded this year to 10 students from across the country.

Named for a former national president, Corre Anding Stegall, the leadership awards are presented each year to Kappa Delta student leaders who have demonstrated high academic performance and outstanding leadership within their chapters and on their college campuses.

Crow, who is majoring in public relations at UA, currently serves as president of Kappa Delta’s Zeta chapter and previously served the sorority as vice president of operations. She has also served as a national convention delegate, pledge class president and Web site creator/designer. Her campus involvement includes Student Government Association director of communications, Crimson Karma student director, Student Alumni Association, co-director of SGA executive event programming, SGA campaign manager, as well as being an honors student and tutor.

Crow received the award during the sorority’s National Leadership Conference this summer in Boston.

Kappa Delta Sorority was founded in 1897 in Farmville, Va. The sorority has a membership of more than 200,000 women, 133 active collegiate chapters and 492 chartered alumnae associations. Kappa Delta is the creator of National Women’s Friendship Day. Members support these national philanthropies: Prevent Child Abuse America, Kappa Delta Orthopedic Awards, Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Va., and Girl Scouts of the USA through which KDs are providing the Uniquely Me program in partnership with the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.