The national office's theme for 2007 is "Meeting our Members." Consequently, we instituted a practice of having staff members attend local Society of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma functions. The latest in our local jaunts was the Sigma Pi Sigma induction ceremony at Howard University on April 26, 2007, attended by five staff members.

Howard inducted two students, both women: Fana Gibson and Nyasha George. Gary White, Sigma Pi Sigma Director, delivered the induction talk. Students and faculty alike enjoyed the ice cream sundaes we brought to help celebrate the occasion. Howard University installed its Sigma Pi Sigma chapter in 1949 and was the first historically black institution to support a chapter of the physics honor society.