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AOII

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Symbol: Sheaf of Wheat and Jacqueminot Rose Secondary Symbol: Infinity Rose Colors: Ruby Red, Pink, and Coral Mascot: Panda (Friend to All) Founded: Barnard College, Columbia University, NY Date Founded: 1897 by Stella George Stern Perry, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Helen St. Clair Mullan, and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman (Please See Below.) Philanthropy: Juvenile Arthritis National Motto: Inspire Ambition Badge: AOII Letters Superimposed with a Combination of Rubies, Pearls, Diamonds, or Inscribed Hand Sign: Heart Made with Two Hands with an Apex A over the Heart Representing Alpha Love (Ties Into Our History and Ritual) The first chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi’s history began in 1897 at Barnard College in New York City. Barnard was the first college in New York, and one of the first in the nation, where women could receive the same rigorous and challenging education that was available to men. Affiliated with Columbia University since 1900, Barnard is one of the oldest women’s colleges in the world. Barnard’s class of 1898 included four particularly amazing women who were destined to leave a great legacy on both their college and on a new fraternity. Stella George Stern Perry, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Helen St. Clair Mullan and Elizabeth Heywood Wyman were four firm friends determined that their friendship should last a lifetime. In their junior year, on December 23, 1896, the four climbed the stairs in a small gallery of the old Columbia College Library which led to an old and seldom used room. Seated on broad window seats and with sunlight streaming gently through the windows and snow lightly drifting outside, the four pledged each other. Several days later, on January 2, 1897, Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII) was formally organized at the home of Helen St. Clair. Soon afterward, the four pledged AOII’s first initiate to AOII’s Alpha Chapter, Ann Richardson Hall.