6/23/2023 0 Comments Alpha omicron piEvery three months or so, we hope to draw you back to the site by adding the next set of 25 milestones and more extras to the timeline. To celebrate our 125th anniversary on January 2, 2022, we will be adding information to this timeline in five stages, every few months, through June 2022 to salute 125 of the most significant milestones in our Fraternity’s history. In 2021 AOII began a digital history project with HistoryIT, a company dedicated to preserving the history of organizations through digital archives. For our purpose cannot fail.” Digital Archives Let us follow our ensign devotedly, utterly and bravely. Founder Stella Perry once wrote, “ that which makes our bond is promise certain of success. Despite several wars, the Great Depression, the women’s suffrage movement and the social unrest of the 1960’s, AOII has remained true to its values. Over the next 120+ years, targeted and impressive growth of collegiate and alumnae chapters continued. Nu Chapter at New York University and Omicron Chapter at the University of Tennessee quickly followed. The beginning of national expansion for the young Fraternity occurred quickly with the installation of Pi Chapter on Septemat Sophie Newcomb Memorial College (now Tulane University). Soon afterward, the four pledged AOII’s first initiate to AOII’s Alpha Chapter, Ann Richardson Hall. Several days later, on January 2, 1897, Alpha Omicron Pi was formally organized at the home of Helen St. Seated on broad window seats and with sunlight streaming gently through the windows and snow lightly drifting outside, the four pledged each other. In their junior year, on December 23, 1896, the four climbed the stairs in a small gallery of the old Columbia College Library which led to an old and seldom used room. Clair Mullan and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman were four firm friends determined that their friendship should last a lifetime. Stella George Stern Perry, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Helen St. Affiliated with Columbia University since 1900, Barnard is one of the oldest women’s colleges in the world.īarnard’s class of 1898 included four particularly amazing women who were destined to leave a great legacy on both their college and on a new fraternity. Barnard was the first college in New York, and one of the first in the nation, where women could receive the same rigorous and challenging education that was available to men. The first chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi’s history began in 1897 at Barnard College in New York City.
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