Participation in Activities develops us into well-rounded people.  We engage with others to develop outside interests and expose us to new and differing points of view.   By contributing in the larger world, we demonstrate that Chi Omega makes a difference in the lives of women.



Chi Omega is home to many of the University of Tulsa's movers & shakers - we love being part of an organization where not a handful, but a houseful of women are leaders! Congratulations to Hillary Dees, Meagan Young, and Taylor Torregrossa who were all appointed as associates to Student Association. Chi Omega is happy to have no less than twenty-six sisters serving as University Ambassadors! Congrats to the most recent Baby 'Bassador, Jordan Moyer joining UA! Prospective students can look forward to some fun tours with Chi-O's leading the way!

Congratulations to Mary Graham for entering her second term as President of Future Alumni Council (FAC). Laurie Waters was also elected as the FAC Secretary for 2009. One more Chi-O has joined the ranks as well, congrats to Jayme Turner! Best wishes for a successful year, girls!  

Meggie Neels and Amanda Shank are members of TU's Cappella Chamber Singers. Sing your hearts out, sisters!

Congratulations to Jaclyn Martin for her ConocoPhillips SPIRIT Scholarship. Jaclyn has been a dedicated student and leader in the new Energy Management department at TU, and we're so excited to see where her ambitions take her!

Congratulations Graduated Members! Congratulations to all of our Winter 2009 graduates we wish you luck and look forward to hearing about all that you accomplish. Congrats to Alicia White and Katie Maddox
Congratulations, Epsilon Gamma! Epsilon Gamma received the Circle of Excellence Award this year. This award is given to the sorority or fraternity that showed overall satisfaction in categories such as philanthropy, sisterhood events, social events, on and off campus involvement, and overall performance in academics.

Additionally, Amanda Shank was awarded the Outstanding President award for her 2007-2008 term. And no senior was more deserving than Katie Bubalo of the Outstanding Panhellenic Senior award - best of luck teaching with Teach America in New Orleans next year!! The award for Outstanding Panhellenic Sophomore was awarded to Caitlyn Rex.

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Epsilon Gamma Chapter
3100 East 5th Place
Tulsa, OK 74104

Jaclyn Martin
President
jaclyn-martin@utulsa.edu

Caitlyn Rex
Recruitment Chair
caitlyn-rex@utulsa.edu

Friendship is what binds us to each other and to our Fraternity.  The friendships we develop in Chi Omega give us a home across geography and generations and give us lasting support throughout our lives.No matter what's on the calendar, friendship is at the heart of every Chi Omega activity. Having such amazing women in your corner offers much comfort and a whole lot of fun!

Our Director of Sisterhood & Friendship, Sarah Haney, plans a number of events to cultivate camaraderie throughout the year - past favorites include pumpkin-painting in October with our mothers on Chi Omega Mom's Day, cheering on the Tulsa Drillers baseball team with our fathers on Dad's Day, celebrating our graduating sisters with Senior Week events, and laser tag showdowns during our annual Sisterhood Retreat. Just as important are the moments that arise spontaneously and turn into some of our favorite nights: the best stories often start with 3 A.M. Taco Bell runs, popcorn and pajamas on Grey's Anatomy nights in the Chi O house, or marathon mattress-sliding down the stairs. And whether it's a random road trip or a semester abroad, Chi Omegas are always up for a good adventure!

Our lives are made better with the endless support that Chi Omega offers and the knowledge that everything is better with a sister beside you!

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Sisterhood and High Standards means that we are women of integrity and good character.  We have high expectations for ourselves and for our Sisters.  We strive daily to be role models to others.


A new award for Fraternities and Sororities was created this year and was awarded to the Fraternity or Sorority who displayed the highest level of involvement, scholarship, and service. Chi Omega received the Circle of Excellence award this year and with it came a generous donation to the philanthropic organization Make a Wish Foundation which is our National Philanthropy.

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!

Amanda Shank	amanda-shank@utulsa.edu	President (G.H.)
Jaclyn Martin	jaclyn-martin@utulsa.edu	Vice President (G.T.B.)
Kelsey Kremer	kelsey-kremer@utulsa.edu	Secretary
Jessie McLagan	jessica-mclagan@utulsa.edu	Treasurer
Laura Beth Bevill	laura-bevill@utulsa.edu	Member Educator
Katie Bubalo	katie-bubalo@utulsa.edu	Personnel Chair
Mary Graham	mary-graham@utulsa.edu	Recruitment Chair
Emily Quick	emily-quick@utulsa.edu	Panhellenic Delegate	Francine Caputa	francine-caputa@utulsa.edu	House Corporation Liason

Our alma mater, The University of Tulsa!

TU's Go Greek! website - includes resources on recruitment and links to all chapters.

We love football games & tailgates - check out the schedule!

Utica Square is one of our favorite places in Tulsa, with the best restaurants and shopping in town!

Chi Omega's updated New Member Program includes a fabulous website! Read about our history & traditions and learn why we love our fraternity.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation is Chi Omega Fraternity's National Philanthropy. Since the start of our alliance, Chi Omegas have made a difference in many children's lives through volunteering time, talents, and dollars. The Make-A-Wish Foundation has honored Chi Omega for the incredible volunteer efforts of our members.

Each autumn, Epsilon Gamma hosts Hootiefest, our week-long celebration of the Make-A-Wish Foundation's accomplishments and fundraiser for its efforts. Monday kicks off with a campus-wide cookout, with not only burgers & hot dogs off the grill, but just about everything you could imagine as local restaurants donate everything from Mexican to Chinese to chili! With raffles and games throughout the night, the cookout allows us to combine two of our favorite things - raising money for Make-A-Wish and having a lot of fun! The week continues with the annual Chi O Sing competition, a singing competition that allows some of TU's most talented (...or just enthusiastic!) to show off their pipes for a good cause. Last year's Hootiefest raised over $12,000, enough to fully fund the wish of two worthy children!

This year we will be our first time to host a spring Make a Wish event!  We will be holding Make A Wish Olympics on April 24th.  We are so excited to be extending our philanthropic efforts.  Much congratulations should go to Meggie Neels, our Director of Community Service for 2009, for finding us another opportunity to help out.  If you have any more ideas or questions you can contact her at meghan-neels@utulsa.edu. Get excited for more info on the event soon!

It's an honor for Chi Omega to team up with such a wonderful organization - we consider our relationship with Make-A-Wish one of our most important focuses. We're lucky that this partnership extends beyond philanthropy; we also participate directly in Make-A-Wish functions. We love hosting send-off parties at the Chi Omega house, inviting Wish kids about to embark on their adventure to come play games, enjoy cake & ice cream, and celebrate their story with their families.

One of our most treasured traditions is hosting annual Make-A-Wish art parties at the Chi Omega house. Chi O's and Wish Kids team up to glue, glitter, and fingerpaint their ways to masterpieces, which are later auctioned to donors at Make-A-Wish fundraisers. The opportunity to interact with such extraordinary children and their families is a wonderful gift, and we love each of them!

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.

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.

Chi Omega is FUN! Every year, over 5,000 young women across America join the largest women’s fraternity in the world for sisterhood and lifelong friendships.

Sincere Learning and Creditable Scholarship means that we care about our intellectual development.  We embrace the spirit and excitement of learning throughout our lives and encourage others to better themselves.

Chi Omegas recognize that scholarship is the heart of our experience at the University of Tulsa. Our sisters excel academically, both individually and as a house; from Petroleum Engineering to English, the LSAT to the MCAT, tough classes on campus or mastering study abroad... Chi Omegas have done it! We're lucky to have generous alumni who support our academic endeavors - thanks to our House Corporation Board for our new study lounge! With comfy chairs & lots of table-space, it's the perfect place to crack open those books and study with sisters.

Additionally, a favorite Epsilon Gamma tradition is the Faculty Appreciation Dinner. Each semester, every sister invites a professor of her choice to join us for dinner at the Chi Omega house. This event also acknowledges women who have excelled academically by offering Silver & Golden Owl Society awards. The opportunity to express our gratitude to our professors is a welcome one... and faculty members as well as Chi Omegas look forward to this event each semester!

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.

Chi Omega’s symbols are a visual representation of our purposes and ideals.

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.

Every Chi Omega holds the Symphony close to her heart; at Epsilon Gamma, we pride ourselves on putting its words into action. Our guide to fraternity life, the Symphony expresses the ideals we share; despite our differing hometowns, interests, and opinions, each woman strives to uphold the ideals expressed in the Symphony we share.

"To live constantly above snobbery of word or deed; to place scholarship before social obligation and character before appearances; to be, in the best sense, democratic rather than exclusive, and lovable rather than popular; to work earnestly, to speak kindly, to act sincerely, to choose thoughtfully that course which occasion and conscience demand; to be womanly always, to be discouraged never;

In a word, to be loyal under any and all circumstances to my fraternity and her highest teachings and to have her welfare ever at heart that she may be a symphony of high purpose and helpfulness in which there is no discordant note."

Welcome, prospective new members!

Let us be the first to tell you: you're in for a wonderful four years! Congratulations on making an excellent decision - we're convinced that there's not a better place to attend college than TU, and we are so excited to welcome you!

We love Tulsa, the Golden Hurricane, and our Chi O home on sorority row. As members of Epsilon Gamma chapter, we pride ourselves on our commitment to philanthropy, our high standards of personnel, our emphasis on academic excellence, and the strength of our bonds of sisterhood. Our goals are many, but our focus is simple: helping each other be the best we can be!

We hope you'll participate in Formal Recruitment in the fall! With no pressure and lots of fun, it's an excellent way to get to know of some the movers and shakers on campus, to make new friends in your class, and to discover if Greek life is right for you. We can't wait to show you what Chi Omega has to offer! Should you have any questions, feel free to contact Lindy Cranfill, our recruitment chair, at lindy-cranfill@utulsa.edu
Enjoy the rest of your semester - from our family to yours, welcome to TU!