Alpha Chi Omega (ΑΧΩ, also known as A-Chi-O or Alpha Chi) is a women's fraternity founded on October 15, 1885. Currently, there are more than 135 chapters of Alpha Chi Omega at colleges and universities across the United States and more than 200,000 lifetime members. Alpha Chi Omega's official symbol is the three-stringed lyre.
Alpha Chi Omega was formed at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana on October 15, 1885. Notably, Kappa Alpha Theta ...
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Alpha Chi Omega (ΑΧΩ, also known as A-Chi-O or Alpha Chi) is a women's fraternity founded on October 15, 1885. Currently, there are more than 135 chapters of Alpha Chi Omega at colleges and universities across the United States and more than 200,000 lifetime members. Alpha Chi Omega's official symbol is the three-stringed lyre.
Alpha Chi Omega was formed at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana on October 15, 1885. Notably, Kappa Alpha Theta was also founded at DePauw University.
In the fall of 1885, Professor James Hamilton Howe, the first Dean of the Music School, invited seven young women from the school to a meeting with the purpose of forming a fraternity. Those young women were Anna Allen, Olive Burnett, Bertha Deniston, Amy DuBois, Nellie Gamble, Bessie Grooms, and Estelle Leonard. Howe himself was not a member of a Greek fraternity, so he consulted with James G. Campbell, a Beta Theta Pi, on the proper procedures for founding a Greek-letter fraternity. Campbell was thus...
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