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"Alpha Chi Omega was founded on October 15, 1885, at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Professor James Hamilton Howe, Dean of the Music School, invited seven young women from the school to attend a meeting for the purpose of forming a society. The first appearance of the seven founders – Anna Allen, Olive Burnett, Bertha Deniston, Amy DuBois, Nellie Gamble, Bessie Grooms and Estelle Leonard was in Meharry Hall, wearing scarlet and olive ribbon streamers attached to their dresses."
Hehehe, I'm lazy too! I copied that from our National Website. And though the name of the man escapes me I know a member of Beta helped with our founding. Do any of my AX sisters know what his name was? Or even any Beta's? Also our name was chosen because we were the first music sorority (Alpha) and expected to be the last (Omega) and then connected the words with the greek word for and, "kai", which we later changed to Chi so that it was a greek letter.
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