*FUN FACTS*

FOUNDED: April 5, 1895 at the University of Arkansas

COLORS: Cardinal  & Straw

FLOWER: White Carnation

MASCOT: The Owl

SYMBOL: Skull & Crossbones

MOTTO: "Hellenic Culture & Christian Ideals”

♦Chi Omega is the 3rd largest women's organization and the largest women's fraternal organization in the world.  We have over 290,000 initiates and 172 collegiate chapters.  At any given time Chi Omega has over 16,000 undergraduate members.

♦The Longmire building at FSU is named after a Chi Omega 

*Outstanding Chi Omegas*

♦Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Congresswoman representing Tennessee's 7th District

♦Christine Brennan, sports columnist and author

♦Louise Bryant, journalist and feminist

♦Susan Helms, NASA astronaut and the first woman to live in the International Space Station

♦Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird

♦Blanche Lincoln, U.S. Senator representing Arkansas, youngest woman elected to U.S. Senate

♦Lucy Liu, actress

♦Paulette Maehara, President and CEO of the Association of Fundraising Professionals

♦Alice Marriott, co-founder, Marriott Corporation

♦Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

♦Pat Summitt, University of Tennessee women's basketball head coach, and the NCAA's most winning coach

♦Sela Ward, Emmy award-winning actress

♦Trisha Wilson, founder and CEO of Wilson & Associates, Inc.