Alpha Chi Omega Chi Chapter Minutes, 1918

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Alpha Chi Omega. Chi Chapter (Oregon Agricultural College)
Title
Alpha Chi Omega Chi Chapter Minutes
Dates
1918 (inclusive)
Quantity
0.01 cubic foot, (1 box)
Collection Number
MSS AlphaChiOmega
Summary
The Alpha Chi Omega Chi Chapter Minutes document weekly chapter meetings during the winter and spring of 1918. The Chi Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega was established as a women's sorority at Oregon Agricultural College in 1915.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Chi Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega was chartered at Oregon Agricultural College in 1915. It was the first chapter of a national sorority established at Oregon State. It continues to be an active chapter.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Alpha Chi Omega Chi Chapter Minutes document weekly chapter meetings during February through May of 1918. The minutes address chapter business including roll calls, invitations to the sorority house for dinner, treasurer reports, discussion of new pledges, ordering badges, scheduling initiation ceremonies, organizing social events, and practice for the annual stunt show.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Alpha Chi Omega Chi Chapter Minutes (MSS Alpha Chi Omega), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

The minutes were transferred to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center by the Crop and Soil Science Department in 2013. The department may have received the materials from Katherine Strome, an Alpha Chi Omega member at the time these minutes were created, or her family member.

Related Materials

The Ruth H. Kennedy Scrapbook (MSS Kennedy) was assembled by an Alpha Chi Omega sorority member to document her student years at Oregon Agricultural College in 1915-1920. The Delta Zeta Sorority Chi Chapter Scrapbook (MSS DeltaZeta), Gamma Phi Beta Sorority Photographs (P 277), and the Panhellenic Council (RG 056) and Greek Life Office (RG 223) Records also document sororities at Oregon State University.

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • College students--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Greek letter societies--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Student activities--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Women--Oregon--Corvallis--Societies and clubs.

Corporate Names

  • Oregon Agricultural College--Students.