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Photo of Gamma Delta chapter members posed in front of chapter house. On the top step to the right you can see Dr. Condoleezza Rice, smiling with her chapter sisters.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice joined Alpha Chi Omega at the Gamma Delta chapter at the University of Denver. Until her senior year, she was the only African American member of the chapter. She was 19 years old when she graduated cum laude from the university in 1974. She was named Outstanding Senior Woman and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board. She earned a master's from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies. In 1993, she became Stanford University’s first woman provost and served in that position until 1999. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed her national security advisor. Rice later was named the U.S. Secretary of State, the first black woman to serve in that capacity. A professor, consultant and author, she has won many awards. She is an articulate speaker, accomplished pianist and a football aficionado. She received Alpha Chi Omega's Award of Achievement in 1990.
Angela Costley Harris (Alpha Beta, Purdue University) was elected National President at the 2016 National Convention. Her four-year term will end in 2020. Her long volunteer resume began in 2003 as a chapter advisor, eventually serving as a national vice president in 2008. Her dedication and love of Alpha Chi Omega and its members shows in her constant involvement throughout the years!
Diane Wilson Blackwelder (Omicron, Baker University) has a long-standing history as a volunteer with Alpha Chi Omega. Starting in 1986 with a role on the Foundation Board of Trustees, Diane has also served as NPC delegate and a national vice president, and she has been very involved in the Foundation scholarships program. At the 2012 National Convention, Diane was elected National President and served in that role until 2016.
Past National Presidents came to headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana in August 2016. They pose together in the parlor at headquarters. Top left: Marsha King Grady (Alpha Upsilon, The University of Alabama), Donna Smith Chereck (Alpha Phi, The University of Texas at Austin), Diane Wilson Blackwelder (Omicron, Baker University), Julie Cain Burkhard (Beta Sigma, University of Georgia), Angela Costley Harris (Alpha Beta, Purdue University). Bottom left: Karen Aunan Miley (Alpha Lambda, University of Minnesota), Ellen Little Vanden Brink (Alpha, DePauw University), Judy Evans Anderson (Alpha Lambda, University of Minnesota).
Nancy Nitchman Leonard (Alpha Chi, Butler University) sits at a piano during a national convention. Nancy served as executive director from 1978-99. She continued to attend every convention, only missing one in 2010, until her death in 2012.
Donna Smith Chereck (Alpha Phi, The University of Texas at Austin) was elected National President during the 2004 National Convention. She has had a long-standing career with the NPC, becoming alternate delegate in 1998 and delegate in 2011-18.
Mary Flood Hutton (Psi, The University of Oklahoma), Patricia Mullins (Kappa, University of Wisconsin), Shirley Henry Nielsen (Alpha Psi, University of California, Los Angeles), Hillyer Freeland (Psi, The University of Oklahoma) and Adele Fieve Drew (Alpha Lambda, University of Minnesota) pose with an unidentified man during the 1973 Training Leadership Conference in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
National President D'Alice Coburn Cochran (Alpha Mu, Indiana University) and Chapter President Renee Trabert Heinbokel pose together with the charter for Zeta Phi (Cornell University) chapter at the chapter's installation in 1984.
A set of bells, dedicated to the founders of Alpha Chi Omega, sit on the ground as they wait to be installed in the Founders' Bell Tower in the new performing arts center at DePauw University.
An unidentified Delta Nu (Iowa State University) chapter member dressed as a bunny helps a young child find Easter eggs during a service project with the Easter Seals.
Joan Albert Lawler (Alpha Iota, University of Vermont) holds a poster asking for donations to support cerebral palsy.
Journalist Georgie Anne Geyer (Gamma, Northwestern University) won the Award of Achievement in 1968.
Fraternity Executive Director Hannah Keenan (Alpha, DePauw University, center) receives the Good Neighbor Award from Chuckles Chapman and Founder Olive Burnett Clark (Alpha, DePauw University) at the Alpha Chi (Butler University) chapter house.
Members of the newly established Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Board of Trustees sit together around a conference table. They are (left to right) Karen Aunan Miley (Alpha Lambda, University of Minnesota), Jessie Fanyo Payne (Upsilon, Millikin University), Dorothy Thompson Chambers (Alpha Omega, Birmingham-Southern College), Harriet Thwing Holden (Alpha Lambda, University of Minnesota), Barbara Deady Horton (Gamma, Northwestern University), Marian McKee Smith (Alpha Nu, University of Missouri) and Helen Benson Reckord (Alpha Rho, University of Idaho). This photograph is featured on pages 8 and 9 of the spring 1979 issue of The Lyre.
Alpha Chi Omega officers pose with the table display of gifts received by Delta Tau (Minnesota State University, Mankato) chapter in honor of their installation. They are (from left) District XV Alumnae Chairman Tess Ramsden Sabourin (Alpha Theta, Drake University), National Collegiate Vice President Sue Lindeman (Delta Tau, Minnesota State University, Mankato), National President Rosita Hopps Nordwall (Epsilon, University of Southern California), National Secretary-Treasurer Rosemary Newman Hittle (Alpha Chi, Butler University), National Panhellenic Delegate Jessie Fanyo Payne (Upsilon, Millikin University), National Extension Director Val Harper Burke (Xi, University of Nebraska - Lincoln) and Province XV President Dorothy Filley Schwartzkopf (Xi, University of Nebraska - Lincoln). This photograph was featured on page 4 of the summer 1965 issue of The Lyre.
Chi Chi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) chapter president Alice Stayduhar Glaser (Lambda, Syracuse University) poses with Chi Chi charter member Irene Wood (Delta, Allegheny College) who sits at a piano.
Two unidentified alumnae and a third woman, possibly a nurse or another alumna, pose with a child using cerebral palsy therapy equipment.
Members of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity at the University of Michigan pose with cartons of clothing collected by Theta (University of Michigan) chapter members and the Delta Sigs as part of a joint philanthropy project to send clothing to Korean orphans. The project collected 10,000 pounds of clothing, which was first shipped to San Francisco and then to Korea. This photograph was featured on page 22 of the spring 1968 issue of The Lyre.