Chi Omega (ΧΩ) Fraternity is the big women's fraternal organization in the world sustaining 300,000 initiates & 170 collegial chapters. Of these inside each 4 sorority women occurs as Chi Omega. These are a 2nd big women's organization in the United States, second simply to the Girl Scouts of the USA. A fraternity's headquarters is located in Memphis, Tennessee.

History
Chi Omega was founded April 5, 1895 at the University of Arkansas by Allie Simonds, Jean Vincenheller, Jobelle Holcombe, Dr. Charles Richardson (an initiate of Kappa Sigma Fraternity), and Ina Mae Boles. Around 1915, Chi Omega established its Executive headquarters within Lexington, Kentucky - pioneering the utilize of professional space among completely national women's fraternities. A Fraternity's colors come cardinal & straw, a flower is a whiten carnation, & the mascot is the bird of night. Chi OmegThe manufactured a Produce-A-Wish Foundation its official philanthropic gift inside 2000.

Chi Omega Symphony
the Chi Omega Symphony was written by Ethel Switzer Howard, a pledge at Xi Chapter at Northwestern University, in 1904 on the eve of her initiation. It has since been adopted nationally as a symbol of a fraternity, exemplifying the goals to which each Chi Omega aspires.

''To survive constantly above snobbishness of word or even deed; to place scholarship prior to social obligations & character prior to appereances; to become, in the better feel, popular like than 'exclusive', & loveable like than 'popular'; to function around earnest, to speak kindly, to work sincerely, to select thoughtfully that course which occasion & conscience require; to become feminine universally; to exist as discouraged never; in the word, to become firm under any & completely circumstances to the Fraternity & her greatest teachings & to own her welfare ever in spite of appearance that she can be the symphony of high purpose & helpfulness where no dissonant note.

Famous Alumnae
Business Alice Sheets Marriott - Hotel executive

Entertainment Joyce Dewitt - Actress, Three's Company Sylvia Hitchcock - Previous "Miss Universe" Lauren Hutton - Model Lucy Liu - Actress, Ally McBeal, Charlie's Angels Taylor Miller - Actress, All My Children Mary Ann Mobley - Previous "Miss America" & Television Actress Cybill Shepherd - Actress Heather Locklear - Actress Sela Ward - Actress, Sisters, The Fugitive, Another time & Once again, Contaminated Dancing Havana Nights Joanne Woodward - Academy Award Actress Philadelphia, The 3 Faces of Eve''

Government Martha Layne Collins - Former Govenor of Kentucky Susan Helms - NASA Astronaut; 1st woman to survive on the International Space Station, Shirley M. Hufstedler - Previous Secretary, United States Department of Education Patricia Scott Schroeder - Member of the House of Representatives,

Literature Harper Lee - Author, To Kill A Mockingbird