Nationally, we have won the highest award which a chapter can possibly receive, the Golden Lion. We won this award two consecutive years at Conference. Also, some of our individual members have received the highest individual award, the Dorothy Shaw Memorial Award. At Miami, we were honored with the Andrew Herman Memorial Chapter Excellence Award, the highest honor an individual chapter can receive. Our chapter began the Pride system.
Prides are one of the special ways chapters develop close personal ties between sisters.
The name prides was chosen because our mascot, the lion, lives in small units called prides. In chapters, Prides are small groups of sisters from different classes, major fields of study, and hometowns. Efforts are made to include differing ages, personalities, and points of view. In 1979, The Ronald McDonald Houses was adopted as the new national philanthropy. The members of our chapter volunteer their time to work at the house in Cincinnati each semester.