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Olive Burnett Clark (Alpha, DePauw University) called “Ollie” by her friends, studied piano, violin, cello and double bass. She taught at DePauw for two years while carrying on her studies. In her junior year, she left school to take teaching positions in Anderson and Franklin, Indiana. “I have found no greater happiness in my life than in Alpha Chi Omega,” she said later in life. “All I have ventured to give toward the up-building and uplifting of our fraternity has been from the depths of my heart, and has been repaid in thousandfold by my girls.”
A group of Beta (Albion College) chapter alumnae pose together on the steps of their chapter lodge during a reunion.
A group of unidentified Alpha Chis pose together in an observation car at the 1915 National Convention in Long Beach, California. Only one of the women, Nan Worster Ward (Sigma, University of Iowa) is identified and is marked with an X.
Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham (Alpha, DePauw University) poses in her living room with 16 war books and five Alpha Chi Omega scrapbooks. The Alpha Chi Omega scrapbooks (including all of the pages) can be found on this site.
Founders Olive Burnett Clark (Alpha, DePauw University, seated left) and Estelle Leonard (Alpha, DePauw University, seated right) play piano while Patricia Lyons Pointer (standing left) and Beverly Brantner Price, both pledges of the Alpha Chi (Butler University) chapter, sing from a book of Alpha Chi Omega songs. The event was the Beta Beta (Indianapolis, Indiana) alumnae chapter's Founders' Day celebration. The photo was taken by George Tilford for the "Indianapolis News."
Fourteen members of the 1959-60 Beta Rho (American University) chapter new member class pose together.
Gamma (Northwestern University) chapter members pose for a formal group photograph outside of their chapter house.
A group of Alpha Delta (University of Cincinnati) chapter members pose together during a costume party at the 1935 50th Anniversary National Convention in West Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
Alpha (DePauw University) chapter members pose together for a formal portrait. Altah Devore Evans (Alpha, DePauw University) is identified as the woman second from the left in the back row.
A group of six pose together at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new Alpha (DePauw University) chapter house. They include Hannah Keenan (Alpha, DePauw University, left), Ardath Yates Burkhart (Alpha Beta, Purdue University, third from left), Olive Burnett Clark (Alpha, DePauw University, third from right) and Harriette Dresser Crabill (Alpha Beta, Purdue University, right).
Three alumnae, (left to right) Betty Dawson Imlay (Gamma Nu, San Diego State University), former Province President Katherine Fredendall Franklin (Alpha Psi, UCLA) and Lori Herrera, pose together at the celebration for Gamma Nu (San Diego State University) chapter's 25th anniversary.
Alta Allen Loud (Beta, Albion College) served as National President from 1907-10 and from 1912-19.
Anna Ryan (Wells) (Alpha, DePauw University, left) poses with Alpha Chi Omega Founders Olive Burnett (Clark) (Alpha, DePauw University, center) and Bertha Deniston (Cunningham) (Alpha, DePauw University, right).
Mary Emma Griffith Marshall (Lambda, Syracuse University) served as National Secretary from 1915-25.
This portrait of Estelle Leonard (Alpha, DePauw University) would have been taken during her music teaching years at Union City Public Schools. The back of the photo is inscribed with "For Frances Koch, May 31, 1910. Estella Leonard Music (Piano) Teacher"