“May you have the joy in it all, dear children, that we have had all the way!
May you love one another as happily always as we four have done in a life-long fellowship without a break!
And may your descendants in Alpha Omicron Pi bring to you the glory that you yourselves are to us today!”
- Stella George Stern Perry

GAMMA CHI CHAPTER

Originally a local sorority named Gamma Omicron Pi, we became the Gamma Chi Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi when chartered by International President Barbara Daugs Hunt on November 21st, 1992. Our chapter name was derived from the "Gamma" in the local sorority name, and "Chi" for our university, Carleton. Although Carleton does not recognize greek organizations, Gamma Chi helped establish a Panhellenic interest group and continues to make great strides towards promoting the importance of community and Panhellenic involvement. Gamma Chi runs an annual fundraising drive called "Warm Week" that gathers clothes, canned food, and for various charities. We also hold other fundraisers, including the popular Lick It for Arthritis (candy sales), for our fraternity's official philanthropy, the Arthritis Foundation. All members of the Gamma Chi Chapter are actively involved in almost every aspect of the Carleton and Ottawa communities, from the photo club and dance classes to choir, and we represent a large majority in CUSA's annual Orientation Week as facilitators.

ALPHA OMICRON PI FRATERNITY

Alpha Omicron Pi was founded January 2nd, 1897 at Barnard College in New York City. AOII began as a dream by four young college women to continue their friendships throughout their entire lives. Stella George Stern Perry, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Helen St. Clair Mullen and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman "wanted a fraternity that should carry on the delightful fellowships and cooperations of college days into the workaday years ahead and to do so magnanimously. Above all, we wanted a high and active special purpose to justify existence and a simple devotion to some worthy end", as Stella George Stern Perry said in 1936. To this day, the ritual that our four founders established in 1897 remains unchanged.

Symbols of AOII
"One motto, one badge, one bond and singleness of heart"

	The badge of Alpha Omicron Pi is composed of the 3 initial letters of our Fraternity. Badges may be worn by initiated members only.
The binding together of wheat into a sheaf in the new member pin represents individuals bound by the common bond of Alpha Omicron Pi.
	The 19th Century French rose, Jacqueminot, a deep red rose, was chosen as the flower of AOII because its color is the symbol of the central and essential virtue of the Fraternity.
While not an official symbol, the Fraternity and our chapters consider the Panda to be its mascot. The panda does not have any known enemies.
	To Dragma is AOII's official magazine. It translates as "the sheaf", selected because it is a reminder of the common interests that unite AOIIs.
The ruby is the only official jewel of the Fraternity. It is our Fraternity's colour, cardinal red.