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Sheet music for "Sunlight," composed by Founder Estelle Leonard

"Sunlight," composed by Founder Estelle Leonard, was written as a piano solo for her young students.

Child's china tea set belonging to Founder Estelle Leonard

Child's china tea set belonging to Founder Estelle Leonard

Amy DuBois Rieth Emerging Leader Award, 2023, photograph

Amy DuBois Rieth Emerging Leader Award, 2023, photograph

The Amy DuBois Rieth Emerging Leader Award honors a current member who has been initiated no more than 12 months prior to her nomination for this honor, named for one of Alpha Chi Omega's Founders. 

Silver eyeglass case with monogram belonging to Founder Bessie Grooms Keenan

Silver eyeglass case with monogram belonging to Founder Bessie Grooms Keenan

DePauw University Soiree Musicale Program, 1886

DePauw University Soiree Musicale Program, 1886

Alpha Chi Omega was formally celebrated in a Soiree Musicale performance on February 6, 1886 in the DePauw University Music Hall. Dean James Hamilton Howe performed, with the assistance of Founder Amy DuBois (later Rieth), soprano. 

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, 1940s

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, 1940s

Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham compiled 12 scrapbooks that are part of Alpha Chi Omega's archives collection. This scrapbook includes many articles from The Lyre, newspaper clippings, greeting cards and correspondence between Mrs. Cunningham and Alpha Chi sisters. 

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, 1933-35

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, 1933-35

Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham compiled 12 scrapbooks that are part of Alpha Chi Omega's archives collection. This scrapbook includes newspaper clippings about many Alpha Chi sisters as the membership grew, photographs, articles from The Lyre, as well as cards and greetings received by Mrs. Cunningham from Alpha Chi sisters. 

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, 1935 Golden Jubilee

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, 1935 Golden Jubilee

Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham compiled 12 scrapbooks that are part of Alpha Chi Omega's archives collection. She created this scrapbook to capture memories from the 1935 Golden Jubilee Convention commemorating Alpha Chi Omega's 50th anniversary. The scrapbook includes photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, correspendence and handwritten notes by Mrs. Cunningham. 

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, mid-1940s

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, mid-1940s

Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham compiled 12 scrapbooks that are part of Alpha Chi Omega's archives collection. This scrapbook chronicles the Fraternity's growth by featuring news of collegiate and alumnae chapters and members, along with corresondence between Mrs. Cunningham and Alpha Chi sisters and general news of the era. 

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, 1946-47

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, 1946-47

Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham compiled 12 scrapbooks that are part of Alpha Chi Omega's archives collection. This scrapbook includes greeting cards and correspondence between Mrs. Cunningham and her Alpha Chi sisters, including Past National President Gladys Drach Power (Nu, University of Colorado) and director of central office Hannah Keenan (Alpha, DePauw University) - along with clippings detailing the Fraternity's continued growth. 

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, late 1940s

Bertha Deniston Cunningham Scrapbook, late 1940s

Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham compiled 12 scrapbooks that are part of Alpha Chi Omega's archives collection. This scrapbook includes clippings about MacDowell found Marian Nevins MacDowell (Zeta, New England Conservatory of Music), many U.S. national current events, greeting cards received by Mrs. Cunningham from Alpha Chi sisters and National Convention programs. 

Founders' Day celebration photo, Iota Lambda Iota (Lake County, Illinois), 2023, photograph

Founders' Day celebration photo, Iota Lambda Iota (Lake County, Illinois), 2023, photograph

Betsy Clark Swank (Alpha, DePauw University) is shown in the front row holding a photograph of Founder Olive Burnett Clark, who was Betsy's great grandmother.

Jewelry belonging to Founder Bessie Grooms Keenan

Jewelry belonging to Founder Bessie Grooms Keenan

Left: badge belonging to Founder Bessie Grooms Keenan; right: her Daughters of the American Revolution pin

Jewelry belonging to Founder Estelle Leonard

Jewelry belonging to Founder Estelle Leonard

Top: small gold bow-shaped pin with the coat of arms; bottom: silver link bracelet with the coat of arms. Both belonged to Founder Estelle Leonard. 

Jewelry Belonging to Founder Nellie Gamble Childe

Jewelry Belonging to Founder Nellie Gamble Childe

White gold filagree ring with oval-shaped blue stone and raised coat of arms, diamond-shaped gold pendant with black enamel inlay and raised coat of arms 

Mrs. Matthew H. Scott to Scobey Cunningham Telegram, October 4, 1950

Mrs. Matthew H. Scott to Scobey Cunningham Telegram, October 4, 1950

National President Mildred Estabrook Scott (Pi, University of California, Berkeley) writes to Cunningham to express condolences on the death of his wife, Alpha Chi Omega Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham (Alpha, DePauw University).

Bertha Deniston Cunningham to Beta Beta Chapter Letter, September 5, 1946

Bertha Deniston Cunningham to Beta Beta Chapter Letter, September 5, 1946

Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham (Alpha, DePauw University) sends her thoughts to Beta Beta (Indianapolis, Indiana) chapter and reminisces about old times.

Bessie G. Keenan to Miss Siller Letter, May 2, 1910

Bessie G. Keenan to Miss Siller Letter, May 2, 1910

Founder Bessie Grooms Keenan (Alpha, DePauw University) writes to Mabel Siller Nafis (Gamma, Northwestern University), author of the 1916 edition of The History of Alpha Chi Omega, about the founding of Alpha Chi Omega and details of her family.

E. Rose Merideth to Sisters Letter, June 1, 1910

E. Rose Merideth to Sisters Letter, June 1, 1910

Eva Merideth Turley (Alpha, DePauw University), one of the first initiates of Alpha Chi Omega, provides her recollections of the founding.

Estelle Leonard and Bertha Cunningham at Convention Photograph, c. June 1937

Estelle Leonard and Bertha Cunningham at Convention Photograph, c. June 1937

Founders Estelle Leonard (Alpha, DePauw University) and Bertha Deniston Cunningham (Alpha, DePauw University) pose together at the 1937 National Convention in Glacier National Park.