A Guide to FrAternity And Sorority LiFe - Virginia Tech

PHC
CW
Nickname: chi o
National Founding Date:
april 5, 1895
National Website:
www.chiomega.com
National Chapters: 174
Chapter Name:
sigma lambda
Virginia Tech
Chartering Date:
october 24, 1987
Local Website:
www.vtchiomega.org
Motto:
“real women,
real sisterhood,
real fun”
Active Members: 134
Chapter House: yes
On/Off Campus: on
Housing Requirements: yes
Philanthropy:
flag football
capture the flag tournament
Famous Members:
Harper lee
lucy liu
sela ward
86 Portico 2009-2010
ChI OMEgA
exPenses:
New Member, First Semester dues:
$450 + $145 for house corporation
Fall Semester dues: $265 + $145 for
house corporation
Spring Semester dues: $265 + $145
for house corporation
acaDeMics:
GPA New Member Initiation
Requirement: 2.5
GPA Active Membership
Requirement: 2.5
On the evening of April 5, 1985, five founders (Jean Vincenheller, Ina Mae Bowles, Jobelle
Holcombe, Alice Simonds, and Charles Richardson) met in secret to plan for a new organization
at the University of Arkansas. Chi Omega has since grown more than 17 chapters
nationwide with eight chapters in Virginia and more than 300,000 initiates. Its members
are proud to be a part of the nation’s largest women’s fraternity and the realization of their
founders’ dreams. Since its beginning, Chi Omega has nurtured its members by providing
them with unique opportunities in leadership, scholarship, and lifelong friendship.
The Sigma Lambda chapter was founded at Virginia Tech in 1987. Chi Omegas pride
themselves on having a wide range of involvement and a diverse group of sisters. Sisters
are involved with class offices, the corps of cadets, campus ministries, university employment,
sports teams, Panhellenic Council, and judicial board.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is the beloved philanthropy of Chi Omega. Its sisters host
a capture-the-flag tournament in the spring, and a flag football tournament in the fall to
raise money. For the first time, Chi Omega participated in the walk for wishes, raising the
most money and helping to grant two wishes. They continue to set higher goals and strive
for new things each year.
Chi Omegas take pride in and live by a creed called the Chi Omega Symphony that has
inspired not only the sisters, but the people around them: “To live constantly above snobbery
of word or deed; to place scholarship before social obligation and character before
appearances; to be, in the best sense, democratic rather than ‘exclusive’ and loveable
rather than ’popular’; to work earnestly, to speak kindly, to act sincerely, to choose thoughtfully
that course which occasion and conscience demand; to be womanly always; to be
discouraged never…”