“We wanted a society that should continue our companionship through life and extend the like joys to others, usefully, unselfishly, and without pettiness.”Stella George Stern Perry, 1936
Early on, the founders cautioned that Founders’ Day was intended not to honor them, but to stop and measure how closely the fraternity had come in actively performing the task each member had accepted when she was initiated into Alpha Omicron Pi. This display of selfless, gracious and unpretentious character demonstrates the integrity and simple spirit of the four women who founded Alpha Omicron Pi 113 years ago. Their hope was that their own personal devotion to each other could be eternalized and multiplied. They wanted to perpetuate that beautiful something that bound them together. It was their desire that this particular loyalty that motivated them should endure, should bind, and inspire others. This was their expectation for us. So today in 2010 we stop to remember our Founders and to ask ourselves if we’ve been accountable to the tasks asked of us as members. Take time to remember our pledge. Think back to your initiation and those first feelings of loyalty and devotion. Tell others proudly that you are a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, where ever you go. You never know when you will meet a stranger who in an instant is a sister when she finds out you are an AOII and she announces that she is an AOII too. Find a way to give back, financially and with your time. Stella, Jessie, Helen and Bess would expect no less and would be proud to know that their cherished sisterhood is flourishing and blooming. Fraternally with love, The 2009-2011 Executive Board Barb Zipperian Krista Whipple Allison Allgier Gayle Fitzpatrick Karen Galehan Linda Grandolfo Rebecca Herman Kathy Jensen Susan Danko