Alpha Chi Omega is a national women's organization that enriches the lives of members through lifetime opportunities for friendship, leadership, learning and service. Seven visionary women founded Alpha Chi Omega on October 15, 1885 at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Those young women were Anna Allen, Olive Burnett, Bertha Deniston, Amy DuBois, Nellie Gamble, Bessie Grooms, and Estelle Leonard. Today Alpha Chi is one of the strongest organizations in the United States, with more than 200,000 initiated members, 133 collegiate chapters, and 200 alumnae chapters.
Nationally, Alpha Chi Omega believes in Seeking The Heights and striving to be a better citizen, a better sister, and a better woman. Members of Alpha Chi Omega strive to seek the heights by maintaining its five standards: academic interest, character, financial responsibility, leadership ability, and personal development.
The Symphony of Alpha Chi Omega
To see beauty even in the common things of life,
To shed the light of love and friendship round me,
To keep my life in tune with the world that I shall
make no discords in the harmony of life,
To strike on the lyre of the universe only the notes
of happiness, of joy, of peace,
To appreciate every little service rendered,
To see and appreciate all that is noble in another
be her badge what it may,
and to let my lyre send forth the chords
of love, unselfishness, sincerity.
This is to be my symphony.
- Celia McClure
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