On Monday, October 17th, the Beta Lambda Beta chapter joined the collegiate women to celebrate Founder's Day. At the dinner many of us sat with the collegiate women, talked about classes and remembered the college years. Some of us were privledged to sit with our 50-60
honorees. Marilyn Holmes, a 50 year honoree, shared with her table a story about leaving college in the 60's to work for IBM where she gave the first trainings on word processing! Beverly Thomas, during the ceremony, shared stoires of starting her collegiate years right after WWII at UT when the campus was full of men again!
honorees. Marilyn Holmes, a 50 year honoree, shared with her table a story about leaving college in the 60's to work for IBM where she gave the first trainings on word processing! Beverly Thomas, during the ceremony, shared stoires of starting her collegiate years right after WWII at UT when the campus was full of men again!
Other BLB members, from every generation, shared what Alpha Chi Omega meant to them to a very interested room of women of all ages. What a beautiful evening!
Join us for our Hall of Commitment Ceremony on November 20th... details on the calendar page.
Alpha Chi Omega celebrates Founder's Day on October 15th. On that day the sisterhood celebrates the founding of the sorority at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. There, in 1885, seven women founding what they called the "first" (Alpha) and "last" (Omega) sorority to be founded in the school of music. The first constitution read "The object of this fraternity is as follows: To attain the highest musical culture and to cultivate those principles that embody true womanhood." 126 years later, the sorority no longer has musical ties but has 132 collegiate chapters across the nation and over 200,000 alumnae. That is something to celebrate!
