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06-15-2017, 01:05 PM
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Chi Omega Chapter name ordering questions
From viewing the list of chapters of Chi Omicron, it seems pretty clear that the chapter order is single letters starting with Psi and going to Alpha, and then this inverted Alphabet followed by those letters followed by Alpha, and the followed by Beta, etc.
And I appreciate that a chapter failing to charter may have letters assigned to it, which would cause single combinations to be skipped, like Gamma Gamma or Upsilon Epsilon. However what I *really* don't understand is why the "Epsilon" Alphabet stopped at Pi Epsilon with Roanoke College which was followed by the first of the "Zeta" Alphabet with Psi Zeta and why the "Eta" Alphabet and the "Iota" Alphabets were skipped. Can someone help me understand why?
I'm not a Chi Omega sister, I'm doing this because I'm trying to justify getting rid of those rows in the list of Chi Omega chapters on Wikipedia. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...Omega_chapters)
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06-15-2017, 02:38 PM
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This is a great question and only someone who truly has studied the entire list would see this! I wish there was a good answer. Some chapter designations were skipped and some were re-used. It is/was confusing!
As a rule of thumb, typically I know that the single letter chapters are the oldest. The next decade ended in ____ Alpha, then ____ Beta, etc. We are currently in the _____ Mu designation.
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06-16-2017, 10:13 AM
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This is a great question and only someone who truly has studied the entire list would see this! I wish there was a good answer. Some chapter designations were skipped and some were re-used. It is/was confusing!
As a rule of thumb, typically I know that the single letter chapters are the oldest. The next decade ended in ____ Alpha, then ____ Beta, etc. We are currently in the _____ Mu designation.
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Given the comment below that you are the sorority archivist, I'm not sure where to go from here.
Just curious, what chapter designations were re-used? (Chi and Epsilon?)
Does Chi Omega use the term "decade" to refer to the _____ Letter groupings?
Can you recommend a location to get a complete list of Chi Omega charters, right now the best that I've found is the Chi Omega Eleusis Summer 2015 ( http://digital.watkinsprinting.com/a...7/article.html)
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06-28-2017, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by naraht
Given the comment below that you are the sorority archivist, I'm not sure where to go from here.
Just curious, what chapter designations were re-used? (Chi and Epsilon?)
Does Chi Omega use the term "decade" to refer to the _____ Letter groupings?
Can you recommend a location to get a complete list of Chi Omega charters, right now the best that I've found is the Chi Omega Eleusis Summer 2015 ( http://digital.watkinsprinting.com/a...7/article.html)
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Chi Omega Chapter Names Used More Than Once
Chi Jessamine Institute, Nicholasville, KY 1898-1901
Chi Transylvania Univ, Lexington, KY 1903-present
Phi Hellmuth Woman’s College, London Ontario 1899-1900
Phi Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1940-1996
Upsilon Belmont College, Nashville, TN 1899-1902
Upsilon Union University, Jackson, TN 1903-1911; 1924-present
Epsilon Barnard College, Columbia Univ, New York, NY 1906-1915
Epsilon Univ of Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) Buffalo, NY 1940-1997
Upsilon Beta Hollins College, Hollins, VA 1919-1929
Upsilon Beta Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 1931-present
Iota Beta Hunter College, New York, NY 1922-1940
Iota Beta Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1941-present
Psi Gamma Univ of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 1923-1941
Psi Gamma Mercer Univ, Macon, GA 1943-present
Sigma Gamma Oglethorpe Univ, Atlanta, GA 1924-1945
Sigma Gamma Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, WV 1948-1984
Delta Theta Oglethorpe Univ, Atlanta, GA 1969-present
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06-28-2017, 01:15 PM
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Hollins & Rollins with the same designation - that has got to cause troubles!
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06-29-2017, 05:55 PM
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Sigma Gamma Oglethorpe Univ, Atlanta, GA 1924-1945
Sigma Gamma Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, WV 1948-1984
Delta Theta Oglethorpe Univ, Atlanta, GA 1969-present
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Thanks a *lot*. I wonder why they transfered Sigma Gamma given that Oglethorpe was still an active school? (and Psi Gamma could end up in the same situation!)
I'd *love* to get the complete list that this comes from. (If you paste it into
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...rs&action=edit
and click save, I will make the page at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...Omega_chapters
look beautiful!
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06-16-2017, 02:40 AM
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You may want to message Lyn Harris, our Archivist.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/18237389418/
Hope this helps!
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06-16-2017, 06:43 AM
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That would be the person who has posted above you, 1964Alum!
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06-16-2017, 09:37 AM
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That would be the person who has posted above you, 1964Alum!
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Really? I didn't know that's who NutBrnHair is. Cool.
I'm a 25-year Chi Omega (just got a certificate this year), and if I think too long about the chapter names and order, I get a headache.
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06-16-2017, 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by chi-o_cat
Really? I didn't know that's who NutBrnHair is. Cool.
I'm a 25-year Chi Omega (just got a certificate this year), and if I think too long about the chapter names and order, I get a headache.
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I think the ultimate in headache inducing is Lambda Chi Alpha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...hapters#Naming
Alpha Phi Omega (my GLO) falls into the boring category. Alpha -> Omega, Alpha Alpha -> Alpha Omega, Beta Alpha->....
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06-16-2017, 10:30 AM
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Wow, you're right. I never looked at LXA chapter names before.
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06-16-2017, 04:42 PM
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I had no idea that NutBrnHair was our archivist!!!! Thanks!
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06-29-2017, 07:14 PM
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From the chapter's history that I'm aware of, as a former Oglethorpe Chi O advisor, the school ended Greek life for a while, then resurrected it in the 1960s. The groups that had been on campus prior were the first to be invited back. It was a way for the university to get the land that the chapter houses were built on to expand the campus (in a growing metro Atlanta and expensive neighborhood).
The school built Greek row back in the 1990s and all groups were given a 99-year lease on their house. All houses are built the same so there is not a rush advantage for anyone based on size or architecture. They are all two-story houses but built on a hill. So the entry level is four bedrooms (2 per room) and one bathroom, usually chapter officers. The downstairs is one big open living room, dining room plus a kitchen, another bathroom and storage. The downstairs is used during recruitment and chapter events.
I believe there are a couple of lots on Greek row (although it's a horseshoe) for Greek expansion.
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06-29-2017, 09:49 PM
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From the chapter's history that I'm aware of, as a former Oglethorpe Chi O advisor, the school ended Greek life for a while, then resurrected it in the 1960s. The groups that had been on campus prior were the first to be invited back. It was a way for the university to get the land that the chapter houses were built on to expand the campus (in a growing metro Atlanta and expensive neighborhood).
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Lovely. We need land--let's kill the Greek System. I guess they never expected the system to come back.
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