On Dec. 23, 1896, four young college women pledged themselves to each other in the old Columbia College Library of Barnard College. Later on Jan. 2, 1897, the women formally organized a women's fraternity. This was the beginning of Alpha Omicron Pi.
Now, 120 years later, has over 190 collegiate chapters and Kappa Omega is one of them.
Today, we give thanks to Stella George Stern Perry, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Helen St. Clair Mullan and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman.
The following was Perry's wish for AOII:
“May you have the joy in it all, dear children, that we (founders) 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!”