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"Sunlight," composed by Founder Estelle Leonard, was written as a piano solo for her young students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Left: badge belonging to Founder Bessie Grooms Keenan; right: her Daughters of the American Revolution pin
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.
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
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).
Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham (Alpha, DePauw University) sends her thoughts to Beta Beta (Indianapolis, Indiana) chapter and reminisces about old times.
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.
Eva Merideth Turley (Alpha, DePauw University), one of the first initiates of Alpha Chi Omega, provides her recollections of the founding.
Founders Estelle Leonard (Alpha, DePauw University) and Bertha Deniston Cunningham (Alpha, DePauw University) pose together at the 1937 National Convention in Glacier National Park.