LAMBDA TAU CHAPTER

Our Herritage

Alpha Omicron Pi is an international women's fraternity founded on January 2, 1897, at Barnard College at Columbia University in New York City  by Stella George Stern Perry, Elizabeth Heywood Wyman, Jessie Wallace Hughan, and Helen St. Clair Mullan.  Barnard College welcomed the new fraternity and it was not long before the first chapter, Alpha, was flourishing. The fraternity became national with the installation of Pi Chapter at Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, New Orleans, on September 8, 1898.   Since 1897, over 141,000 women have found fun and friendship in the sisterhood of AOII.  Our members have a place to call home, a place to find a friend, and a place to be themselves.  We also support our members through programming and leadership development. Our desire is to help our members become the best they can be - personally, professionally and philanthropically. 

Alpha Omicron Pi began as a dream by 4 young college women to continue their friendship throughout life."...We want girls who will not only take a lot of fun and happiness out of college but also put some useful service into it, who will have enough grace to be popular, enough generosity to enjoy life with others and the esteem of others, but enough character to do all this without making the slightest concession of principal or conduct."    Stella George Stern Perry, ΑOII  Founder  (August 27, 1936)