Ohhhhh hanover! So close!!! Nope, the alums won. Mary Love Collins pitched.

Has Chi Omega ever skipped having a National Convention?

a.) Yes, only once in 1918 during WWI
b.) No, we've had them every other year since the first one in 1900
c.) 3 were skipped: 1918, 1942 & 1944
d.) 4 were skipped: 1918, 1942, 1944 & 1968

I believe we missed three conventions...so C is my answer. :)

Well hello there, Cutie Hootie! Welcome to Greek Chat, the Chi Omega forum & the Trivia thread!!!

Thanks for guessing, but...the answer is A.

TEST YOUR CHI Q !
 

Current S.H., Jean Mrasek formerly held which position?

a.) G.H. of her active chapter, Epsilon Gamma (Univ. of Tulsa)
b.) National Consultant for Chi Omega after college
c.) Personnel Advisor of Epsilon Gamma
d.) Chi Omega's 1st Alternate Delegate for NPC
e.) All of the above

I'll go with E - not only b/c I know Nut loves "all of the above" questions, but because I think I remember reading this in Jean's bio.

You are so, so right on all counts, xokathy!!!

Another ?
 

What is Chi Omega's oldest, continuously open chapter?

a.) Psi, University of Arkansas
b.) Tau, Ole Miss
c.) Sigma, Randolph-Macon
d.) Rho, Tulane Univ.

Okay I'm not a Chi Omega, but can I guess Tau chapter here at Ole Miss...'

ETA: okay I just realized it cannot be Tau because in the 1920s all sororities and fraternities at Ole Miss closed...so just kidding! It's not Tau!

ETA: I just looked in the Baird's I have from the Library and it's not Sigma because they are listed as being closed in 1960...so either Rho or Psi...I would guess Psi since Rho did have to "close" be/c of Hurricane Katrina...even though by close I don't mean like shutting down, just they weren't up and running because the school was closed.

OleMissGlitter -- you are ALWAYS welcome here -- to guess Ole Miss (or any other answer!)

I didn't even think about factoring in Katrina -- I was more or less thinking of chapters that had to give up their charter for one reason or another (i.e., State Legislatures in Arkansas and Mississippi or the college removing all sororities)

"Rho Chapter at Newcomb College/Tulane University is the oldest continuously- open chapter of the Chi Omega National Fraternity."
From the Rho Chapter Website...so without considering Katrina...that is my final answer.

ETA: a good family friend is a Chi Omega sister there and her mother was one as well :)

Ethel Switzer Howard, the author of the Chi Omega Symphony was:

a.) a native of California
b.) crippled by polio as a child but was "discouraged never"
c.) a resident of Pittsburgh until after the death of her husband when she moved to Little Rock
d.) buried in 1966 and the Symphony was read at her memorial service
e.) all of the above

http://www.valdosta.edu/ChiOmega/clipart/symphony.jpg

E! I remember this from actually going to Xi chapter and being told. :-)

Good job, Sister lillady!

S.H. Trivia
 

Which two women, who served as National Presidents of Chi Omega, were special initiates and therefore were never active members of a chapter?

a.) Mary Love Collins & Elizabeth Dyer
b.) Elizabeth Orman and Winnie Bowker
c.) Kirk Bell Cocke and Roselyn Dabbs
d.) none of the above