Founding Date:

October 15th, 1885

DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana

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James Hamilton Howe, a professor and dean of the school of music at Depauw University, encouraged seven women to form the Alpha Chi Omega organization. These women formed the sixth women's fraternity in a music school and in the country at the time. These founders chose Alpha and Omega, which are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet and having Chi in between, meaning and. Today there are 194 collegiate and 279 alumnae chapters represented across the United States, and the fraternity counts more than 230,000 members initiated through its history.

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