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Fun Chi Omega Facts and Trivia:

Largest Greek women’s fraternity in the world with 300,000 total initiates and 170 active collegiate chapters.

Harper Lee author of To Kill A Mockingbird is a Chi O!

Chi Omega was the first strictly national Greek-letter society for women.

Chi Omega is the second largest women's organization in the country

Chi Omega is the third most financially stable corporation in the United States .

In the century since the founding of our Fraternity, more than 250,000 women have been chosen to be part of our sisterhood.

There are over 400 Alumnae Chapters (both affiliated and non-affiliated) throughout the nation.

Chi Omega was the first Greek organization to publish significant literature and to do broad research on women's achievements.

One in every four sorority women is a Chi Omega.

The Chi Omega Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt foundation whose purpose
is to promote and support education, educational pursuits, and educational
institutions.  Eight trustees oversee the operation of the Foundation.

 

Famous Sisters of Chi Omega


Natalie Allen - CNN Anchor

Martha Layne Collins - Former Governor of Kentucky

Kathryn Grant Crosby - Actress

Joyce Dewitt - Actress (Three's Company)

Susan Helms - NASA Astronaut, First woman to live on the Int'l Space Station

Sylvia Hitchcock - Miss Universe 1967 (USA)

Shirley M. Hufstedler - Former Secretary, United States Department of Education

|Lauren Hutton - Model

Harper Lee - Author

Heather Locklear - Actress

Shelly Long - Actress

Lucy Lui - Actress

Mary Ann Mobley - Miss America & actress

Patricia Scott Schroeder - Member of the House of Representatives

Pat Head Summit - Coach of the 1984 United States Olympic Basketball Team & Tennessee Lady Volts

Sela Ward - Actress

Joanne Woodward - Actress

Dr. Cynthia Hamlet Cole - Head of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Institute


 
 Alice Sheets Marriott - Marriott Hotel Executive
   

 

 

Greek Glossary:

Active-
A fully initiated member of a fraternity or sorority with full chapter privileges and responsibilities.

Bid Day-
The day each sorority welcomes new members.

Big Sister-
An active member who serves as a friend and confidante to a new member. She is paired with a new member known as her Little Sister. This person may or may not be one of the Little Sister's Owl Pals.

Eleusinian-
A celebration each year in honor of our Founders.

Panhellenic Council-
The governing body of women's fraternities on the college/university campus. Panhellenic is committed to Greek unity and cooperation.

Interfraternity Council (IFC)-
The governing body of male fraternities on a college/university campus.

Initiation-
A ceremony new members experience upon completion of the New Member Program where the secrets of Chi Omega are revealed. Afterwards, new members are considered active members.