Members at Convention, 2016

Four unidentified members pose together at the 2016 National Convention.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: 2016

National Convention Assembly Photograph, 1960

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: 1960

1985 National Convention Play Day, IMS Museum

The 1985 National Convention marked Alpha Chi Omega's 100-year anniversary. The five-day convention packed in a ton of events, trips and meals, and saw more than 1,700 attendees. Play Day was added in the middle of the convention to sight-see in Indianapolis and offer some bonding time with sisters. This particular excursion was to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, home of the Indy 500 race, which was held the month before.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Jun 23rd, 1985

Third Convention Musicale Program, February 28-March 3, 1894

This program is for a musicale held at the home of Ella Young (Gamma, Northwestern University) during the 1894 National Convention in Evanston, Illinois.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Feb 28th, 1894 - Mar 3rd, 1894

1970 Convention in Portland, Oregon Photograph

Attendees at a 1970 National Convention event in Portland, Oregon

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: 1970

Olive Clark Telling Founding Story at Convention Photograph, June 1953

Founder Olive Burnett Clark (Alpha, DePauw University) poses by a chair as she tells the story of the founding of Alpha Chi Omega at the 1953 National Convention in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Jun 1953

Attendees arriving to 1972 National Convention

A group of well-dressed attendees arriving at the Marriott Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, for the 1972 National Convention

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Jun 21st, 1972

Then and Now: National Convention Group Photographs

Only 36 Alpha Chis are pictured in the 1898 National Convention group photograph, while hundreds posed together in 2022.

Collection: Then and Now Feature
Date: Dec 1st, 1898 - Dec 3rd, 1898

11th National Convention Program, November 2-4, 1904

Technically this was the 9th Convention, but at this point in our history Alpha Chi Omega had not yet established a naming convention for events, therefore the labels differ. This program includes a chapter roll, a list of the Grand Council, a full program of events, banquet menu, banquet toast list, musicale program and the lyrics to several Alpha Chi songs.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Nov 2nd, 1904 - Nov 4th, 1904

Storbeck, Lamb, Conrad and Blumer Lounging at Convention Photograph, 1955

Alumnae (left to right) Mary Storbeck (Mu, Simpson College), Imogene Holster Lamb (Xi, University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Phyllis Carter Conrad (Iota, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Phyllis Harris Blumer (Xi, University of Nebraska - Lincoln) pose together at the 1955 National Convention at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: 1955

Olive Burnett Clark Telegram, 1955 National Convention

This overnight telegram was sent from Founder Oliver Burnett Clark expressing her well wishes since she was not able to attend the 1955 National Convention in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: Jul 7th, 1955

Mary Davids, Faythe Vorderstrasse, Angela Harris and Karen Miley at Natiional Convention, 2018

Mary Gratton Davids (Chi, Oregon State University), Former Foundation President Faythe Luther Vorderstrasse (Alpha Rho, University of Idaho and Chi, Oregon State University), National President Angela Costley Harris (Alpha Beta, Purdue University) and Past National President Karen Aunan Miley (Alpha Lambda, University of Minnesota) at the 2018 National Convention in Austin, Texas

Collection: Archives Collection
Date: 2018