Chi Omega - University of North Carolina

The Perch 2 Six Months Until Our Centennial GET READY TO CELEBRATE! W elcome to the spring 2023 edition of your Epsilon Beta newsletter, The Perch. The excitement of our Centennial Celebration is building with the tremendous efforts of our exceptional planning committee. This will be a weekend to connect, laugh, reminisce, and make plans for future engagement with your sisters! A few months ago, a package arrived at 313 E. Franklin Street. Inside was an original antique Chi Omega Symphony beautifully framed in gold. Attached was a letter that began, "Dear Sisters in Epsilon Beta…" The letter's author shared that this framed Symphony hung in her home for decades, "where I could see it every day. A cherished treasure." It was signed, "Special love in Chi Omega, Dana Borden Lacy, Epsilon Beta, Class of 1961." Our Chapter has been deeply moved by the thoughtfulness of a sister's kind gift. We were also overwhelmed by a beautiful note written to Dana Borden Lacy '61 decades before, which was taped to the back of the frame. This note is especially meaningful in a year when our Epsilon Beta Chapter celebrates 100 years of kind, faithful sisterhood. The writer emphasizes the importance of the character goals we strive to obtain through our membership in Chi Omega. "Dear Dana, This Chi Omega Symphony hung in mother's home for years. Her life, as a Chi Omega, reflected this very code. Upon reading it again, it is apparent that you, too, live by this code that bespeaks loyalty and kindness. Never have I known anyone who practices such diligence in relationships as do you with all your friends and family." The rich words of our Chi Omega symphony are as meaningful this year as they were 100 years ago, when Epsilon Beta's founders established a Chi Omega Chapter at UNC. In 2023, Epsilon Beta sisters share the same gifts of character, education, love, and loyalty that were expressed by Ethel Switzer Howard in 1905, when the Symphony was first published in the February issue of The Eleusis. "…to work earnestly, to speak kindly, to act sincerely, to choose thoughtfully that course which occasion and conscience demand… "…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…" Our Epsilon Beta Chapter has a great legacy at UNC to celebrate! Your sisters look forward to your arrival in Chapel Hill on November 3, 2023. Together, we will celebrate the legacy of Chi Omega that has been our foundation through a century on UNC's campus. Blast from the past: Chi Omega sisters celebrate at Epsilon Beta's 2012 reunion.

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