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Chi Omega Quick Facts
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Chi Omega is the third most financially stable corporation in
the United
Chi Omega was the first greek organization to publish
significant literature and to do broad research on women's
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The Chi Omega Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt foundation whose
purpose is to promote and support education, educational pursuits and
educational institutions.
History of Chi Omega
In 1895, four young women at the University of Arkansas realized the need for the potential and inherent value of women. Ina Mae Boles, Jobelle Holcombe, Jean Vincenheller, and Alice Simonds approached Dr. Charles Richardson, a regent of the University and a national officer of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, to assist in organizing a women’s group similar to the men’s fraternities, which were being established on campus. Working together, Dr. Richardson and the four undergraduates developed the structure of a Women’s fraternity that would be national scope.
On April 5, 1895, the founders signed the first constitution and ritual. There were fourteen original members, including the Founders. They promised loyalty to goal, which have proven timeless in content and application. Throughout its history, Chi Omega has focused on the personal growth of its members academically, socially, and emotionally. The intrinsic worth of the Fraternity, resulting in the successful growth and development of Chi Omega.
Chi Omega Symphony
The Chi Omega Symphony was written in 1909 by Ethel Switzer Howard, a pledge of Xi Chapter at Northwestern University. She write the poem in preparation for her initiation and felt that the words exemplified goals to which Chi Omegas aspired. The friendships of Chi Omega are compared to a symphony while one musical instrument playing alone is pleasant, when all instruments are blended together, they make beautiful harmony. So it is with Chi Omega... Ethel Switzer Howard's Symphony has since become every Chi Omega's creed.
To live constantly above snobbery of word or
deed: to place scholarship before social
obligations and character before appearances:
to be, in the best sense, democratic rather
than exclusive, and lovable rater than
'popular': to work, earnestly, to speak kindly,
to act sincerely, to choose thoughtfully that
course which occasion and conscience demand:
to be womanly always: to be discouraged
never: in a word, to be loyal under any and
all circumstances to my Fraternity and her
highest teachings and to have her welfare
ever at heart that she may be a symphony
of high purpose and helpfulness in which
there is no discordant note.
Ethel Switzer Howard, Xi 1909
Famous Chi-O's
Lucy Lui - Actress
Sela Ward - Emmy Award Actress
54, Sisters, Once & Again
Harper Lee - Author
" To Kill a Mockingbird"
Shelly Long - Actress
Cheers, The Brady Bunch Movie
Heather Locklear - Actress
Spin City
Cybill Shepard- Actress
Moonlighting, Cybill
Natalie Allen - News Anchcor
CNN
Liza Huber - TV Actress
Passions
Susan Helms- NASA Astronaut
1st Woman to live on the Int'l Space Station
Lauren Hutton - Supermodel/Actress
Revlon, 54, My Father the Hero
Sylvia Hitchcock - Beauty Queen
Former Miss Universe
Alice Sheets Marriott - Hotel Executive
Marriott Hotel Co-Founder
Patricia Schroeder -
Gov't
Member House of Representatives
Mabel Walker Willebrandt - Gov't
1st Woman to hold high postion in Federal Government
Mary Ann Mobley - Beauty Queen
Former Miss America
Lee Meriweather - Beauty Queen
Former Miss America
Joyce DeWitt - Actress
Three's Company
Alana Davis - News Anchor
The Today Show
Joanne Woodward - Actress
TV & Movies