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DATE OF BIRTH: April 28, 1866DATE OF DEATH: November 4, 1920CEMETERYOak Grove CemeteryLeRoy, IL 61752Bessie Grooms Keenan (Alpha, DePauw University) shares a headstone with her husband, Luther Courtland Keenan. Her daughter's stone lay next to hers, Hannah Kennan (Alpha, DePauw University).
Myra Vanzandt Bennett (Phi, University of Kansas) invites Alpha Chi Omega members to attend the Alpha Zeta (Washington University in St. Louis) chapter installation on June 8 and provides details about the event.
Former National President Alta Allen Loud (Beta, Albion College) sends greetings and best wishes to the Alpha Chis assembled at the 1924 National Convention.
National President Gladys Olmstead Graff (Zeta, New England Conservatory) sends chapter presidents information about the 1924 National Convention in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
Ethel Mead Van Auken (Lambda, Syracuse University) served as National President from 1928-35.
May Queen Edna Grimm Donohue (Sigma, University of Iowa) and attendants Frances Rock O'Meara (Sigma, University of Iowa) and Margaret White Manuel (Sigma, University of Iowa) ride in Sigma (University of Iowa) chapter's first-prize-winning float in the 1923 Iowa-wa Fete. This photograph was featured on page 244 of the January 1924 issue of The Lyre.
National Inspector Gretchen Gooch Troster (Iota, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, left) and Eastern Province President Helen Wood Barnum (Alpha, DePauw University) pose together in front of the home of Grace Sanderson (Iota, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) in Alliance, Ohio, during the installation weekend of Alpha Eta (University of Mount Union) chapter.
This program includes the banquet program and menu, as well as a list of the initiates.
This program includes the menu and toast program for the banquet, a list of province officers and a general program for the convention.
This program provides a list of the chapter's original charter members and the charter members for the reinstallation, as well as lists of the installing officers and patronesses.
This photograph from the 1948 edition of the history shows the charter members of the Alpha Mu (Indiana University) chapter. Dora Bentley (bottom row, second from right) had graduated in 1921 but was initiated as part of the charter group. She was one of the four original members of the Sigma Beta Upsilon local group that petitioned Alpha Chi Omega to become a chapter, and the charter members personally requested that she be initiated with them. Dora was a teacher and respected community leader, and her daughter, Janet Blades Blocker Fairhead, was initiated into the Alpha Mu chapter in 1951.
Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham compiled 12 scrapbooks that are part of Alpha Chi Omega's archives collection. This scrapbook includes information dating from the 1885 founding to 1927. It includes signatures of Founders and early members, photographs, event programs, newspaper clippings and many of Bertha's personal notes and reminiscences.
Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham compiled 12 scrapbooks that are prat of Alpha Chi Omega's archives collection. This scrapbook includes notes and clippings about many early Alpha Chi Omega leaders, news of the growing Fraternity, reflections on MacDowell and items related to the 1935 Golden Jubilee.
Founder Bertha Deniston Cunningham compiled 12 scrapbooks that are part of Alpha Chi Omega's archives collection. This scrapbook includes many event programs, clippings about the Fraternity and individual members, news of chapter installations and national convention mementos.
Founder Olive Burnett Clark prepared this handwritten recounting of Alpha Chi Omega's founding story for the 1928 National Convention in Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Alpha chapter (DePauw University, 1920. Hannah Keenan, daughter of Founder Bessie Grooms Keenan, is pictured in the fourth row, far right. Hannah went on to become director of central office from 1937-66 as well as archivist. Hannah identifed the chapter members on the back of the photograph.