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Contact Us
Caitlin Hogan
2911 Centenary Blvd., Box 378
Shreveport, LA 71104
jhogan@centenary.edu
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Membership in Chi Omega is for a lifetime. Our network of Sisters and the spirit of Chi Omega are a home wherever you are. We invite you to connect!



As a Chi Omega active, you can join Persephone's Circke by giving a yearly $15 gift to the Foundation. Your undergraduate gift is applied to your lifetime giving record... begin planting the seeds for your future invlvement with the Foundation.

As a Chi Omega alumna, you may join one of many lifetime giving societies, the Anniversary Club that celebrates by giving $1 for every year of Chi Omega, or the 1895 society, which helps fund our many programs! Please visit our national website to see how you can get involved.
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Our Story
It all began on April 5, 1895, at the University of Arkansas when four young women, with the help of a local dentist, established the secrets and symbolism that today bind over 260,000 women. This small band of women founded Chi Omega after realizing a need for an organization that would foster both friendship and respect for the potential and inherent value of women. Over the years, Chi Omega has provided its members with unique opportunities in leadership, scholarship, and lifelong friendship - striving to provide each Sister with a commitment to personal integrity, excellence in academic and intellectual pursuits, intergenerational participation, community service, leadership opportunities and social enrichment.


On October 11, 1922, a group of six women met with a threefold purpose, to form an organization to promote loyalty and friendship, to better serve their Alma Mater and eventually petition Chi Omega. Although Centenary was almost a centenarian at that time, it had been co-educational for so few years that the number of women students had not been sufficient to establish fraternities. This group becoming known as Phi Omega, was the first group organized on Centenary's campus for women. On February 4, 1928, Phi Omega's goal of six years was attained when it became the Iota Gamma chapter of the Chi Omega Fraternity.
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Personal Development
Career and Personal Development prepares us for life’s work and makes us marketable regardless of the path we choose.  Sisters serve as mentors and coaches along the way.  Chi Omega promotes personal growth and teaches us to work earnestly at whatever we choose to do.



Individual Accomplishments
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Chapter Accomplishments
The Iota Gamma chapter was happy to welcome a 23 new girls to our chapter in September of 2007. The girls are amazing and we are so happy to have them as a part of our organization. Iota Gamma held our annual silent auction benefitting the Make-A-Wish foundation in November 2007. We raised well over $7,000 and we had a great time!! Thanks to everyone who helped out, came to the auction, and donated to this wonderful cause.
Iota Gamma Chapter 2007 Officers

Iota Gamma officers for 2008 are: President: Caitlin Hogan, Vice President: Danielle Dupree, Secretary: Becca McMahen, Treasurer: Kate Sales, Member Educator: Ally Gann, Personnel Chair: Lizzie Lyles, Recruitment Chair: Hannah Moore, Panhellenic Delegates: ******** and *********. We are so proud of these ladies and know that they will do a wonderful job.
Chi Omega New Member Class 2006

Help us in welcoming our new members who were initiated in January: ********, Noor Azzawe, Katie Baker, Allison Cormier, *******, Beth Geis, *********, Kristy Lopez, Virginia-Kate Mather, Mallory McConnell, Sarah McKinney, Elise McMahen, Sam Ortiz, Nicole Popp, Arielle Schulman, Rachel Stevens, ******, and ******
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Service
Community Service means that we want to make a difference on our campuses and in our communities.  We know that giving back to others unselfishly makes the world a better place and makes us better people.   Serving and giving helps to connect us.



Iota Gamma Philanthropy
The ladies of the Iota Gamma chapter of the Chi Omega Fraternity are involved in many community service events throughout each year. During the 2006-2007 school year, these included baking cookies for local firemen, taking Valentine's cards to residents in a local nursing home, raising money for Make-a-Wish at our annual Silent auction, and volunteering at the Providence House in Shreveport.

The Chi Omega Foundation
Each year the Foundation raises thousands of dollars to help Chi Omegas of all ages. Whether it's through scholarships, leadership programs, or grants to help Chi Omega alumnae during a crisis, the Foundation is in existence to help our members with their educational goals and leadership development!

Women across the nation seek assistance from the Foundation in order to reach their educational and career goals. Chi Omega helps these women fulfill their dreams through national and chapter scholarships. However, the Chi Omega Foundation is more than scholarships. The Foundation provides funding for thechnology such as the National Consultants' laptops. They also provide funding for the National Advisory Training Team who trains our advisory boards across the country and funding for the Panhellenic officers to attend Undergraduate Interfraternity Institute. The Foundation also gives confidential emergency grants to alumnae in a crisis situation.

By supporting the Foundation you are helping provide for the further development of your fellow Chi Omega sisters.

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Symphony
The Chi Omega Symphony has reflected the purposes of Chi Omega members since its composition in 1904 by Ethel Switzer Howard on the eve of her initiation into the Xi Chapter of Chi Omega at Northwestern University.


Chi Omega's Symphony stands the test of time... It too represents a timeless choice. Our Symphony exemplifies goals to which Chi Omegas aspire. Because a Chi Omega is like a symphony - each individual, just like a single instrument, is unique and necessary. It is when the individuals come together, just like an orchestra, that a symphony results. It is important for each member of Chi Omega to be herself. Each Chi Omega has individual talents to contribute to our sisterhood, but our chapter and Fraternity are most successful when the group comes together as a whole.
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Updates (National)
Summer 2009 Governing Council Letter

Dear Sisters, Summertime is here! With the warm weather, I am reminded...

June 14-20 is Alzheimer's Awareness Week

In recognition of Alzheimer’s Awareness Week, Chi Omega encourages you to...

2009-2010 National Consultants Announced

Chi Omega is thrilled to announce our national consultants for 2009-2010....

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Welcome
The ladies of Chi Omega at Centenary College strive to meet the standards of the Fraternity's six purposes. These purposes are scholarship, campus activities, community service, career and personal development, sisterhood/high standards of personnel, and friendship/social.The ladies of Iota Gamma thrive in scholarship with 40 making the Dean's List in Fall '06 and 37 making the Dean's List during Spring '07. Iota Gamma has also held the highest Greek GPA over the past couple years. Iota Gamma's members are also very active through the campus as members and even presidents of many organizations such as SGA, CAB, and Up Til Dawn. Iota Gamma is also very dominant in the Flag Football intramurals where we are the regining champs. When they are not too busy, the ladies of Iota Gamma love to get together and chow down on some snacks or go ice skating.If they are not chowing down then they must be partying down. We have such awesome parties such as Chi-O's of the Caribbean the Spring Crush Party '07 or Gentelmen Prefer Chi-O's the Fall Theme Party '06. Overall the ladies of the Iota Gamma Chapter do it all and with class too.

Here at Centenary students know they can always find a friend or a professor willing to listen and lend a helping hand. As many students already know, the best thing about going to Centenary is the sense of family that you get when you walk on to campus. So while things can change in a blink of an eye, somethings will always be around. Like your Centenary family. -Page 190 of the 2002 Yoncopin