Kappa Omicron Nu, Omicron Mu chapter records

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Identifier: 23-2-2702

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes membership records and membership book; information about scholarships; minutes of meetings, 1920-1989; secretary's book, 1936-1942; records of events; presidents' annual reports, 1940s-1960s; scrapbook about the founding of the chapter, 1919; photographs; and programs, and the original charter from 1919.

Dates

1919-1999.

Creator

Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society. Mu Chapter (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Mu Chapter of Omicron Nu, a national home economics honor society, was founded at Cornell in 1919. Dr. Georgia L. White of the Michigan Agricultural College acted as the installing officer. The aims of the organization were to promote scholarship and to further home economics education at Cornell. The chapter also provided a scholarship to the freshman woman in Home Economics with the highest scholastic standing. In 1990, Omicron Nu merged with Kappa Omicron Phi to form Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society.

Extent

3.4 cubic feet. (3.4 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Records of the Mu chapter of Kappa Omicron Nu.

SERIES LIST

<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s5.1">Membership Files</ref>: Box 1, folders 12-21, 40-42; Box 2
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s5.2">Henry Ricciuti</ref>: Box 1, folder 61
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s5.3">David Knapp</ref>: Box 1, folder 60
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s5.4">Officers</ref>: Box 1, folders 39, 55-56

Physical Description

Administrative records, annual reports, scrapbooks,photographs, corporate charter

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Date completed:: May 23, 2003
EAD encoding:: J.M. Nicholas, August 2003
Date modified:: Ben Wrubel, October 2018