"What we want is high minded, like minded, loyal hearted girls who will work together happily and hard according to their talents for worthy achievements in and for their college. Achievements that shall bring pride to AOΠ, spur their personal ambitions and help them toward a goal. We want girls who will not only take a lot of fun and happiness out of college but also put some useful service into it, who will have enough grace to be popular, enough generosity to enjoy life with others and the esteem of others, but enough character to do all this without making the slightest concession of principal or conduct"
~ August 27, 1936, Stella George Stern Perry, Founding member of AOΠ ~