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Due to missing or protected yearbooks, we still need to confirm chartering dates for Beta chapter and Epsilon chapter.
Baird's Manual (20th) had a very limited amount of information on this dormant fraternity. However, yearbooks and a Google search slowly provided information to fill out the list of chapters from the 8 of 18 Baird's had provided, to what I think is a complete list, of 18. I found it surprising when the referenced and detailed history on the Beta chapter said: "..by 1941, 26 chapters of Sigma Phi Sigma were founded (!), including chapters at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Maryland, California, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, Missouri, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nebraska, and Washington; Cornell, Ohio State and Brown, at then Oregon and Washington State Colleges; and Auburn." If we add to this list the chapter at Penn State, that totals 18, which is the high water number given by Baird's. So I favor that more conservative chapter count of 18, discounting the idea that there was 26, and was able to fill in the missing schools from Baird's list accordingly.
I wrote to the alumni of the group that became the Beta chapter, at Penn State, (now Sigma Triton of TDX) because the date they claim for their chartering as a unit of Sigma Phi Sigma seemed off by a decade - should be older. I await a response and will edit the list with what I find. I told them I inferred that one of the following was true:
My best guess is that #2 is what happened. But I await word from the ΤΔΧ chapter, or online access to the Penn State yearbooks. Jax MN ( talk) 04:40, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
A separate local fraternity with the name Sigma Phi Sigma was founded at the University of Kansas in 1912. It immediately attempted to woo a group of fraternity-minded men at Washburn College to join as a second chapter. They declined. The Washburn group, known as Alpha Delta (Washburn) continues today as "the oldest local fraternity West of the Mississippi." [1]
The University of Kansas chapter chose the colors purple, green and gold. Its flower was the American Beauty Rose, and it published a magazine called The Calumet. In the WWI-era 1918 Jayhawker yearbook, 26 men were noted as serving in the active military ranks. In 1923 Sigma Phi Sigma at Kansas dissolved when it accepted a charter to join Delta Chi national fraternity, still active as of 2022. [2]
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Due to missing or protected yearbooks, we still need to confirm chartering dates for Beta chapter and Epsilon chapter.
Baird's Manual (20th) had a very limited amount of information on this dormant fraternity. However, yearbooks and a Google search slowly provided information to fill out the list of chapters from the 8 of 18 Baird's had provided, to what I think is a complete list, of 18. I found it surprising when the referenced and detailed history on the Beta chapter said: "..by 1941, 26 chapters of Sigma Phi Sigma were founded (!), including chapters at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Maryland, California, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, Missouri, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nebraska, and Washington; Cornell, Ohio State and Brown, at then Oregon and Washington State Colleges; and Auburn." If we add to this list the chapter at Penn State, that totals 18, which is the high water number given by Baird's. So I favor that more conservative chapter count of 18, discounting the idea that there was 26, and was able to fill in the missing schools from Baird's list accordingly.
I wrote to the alumni of the group that became the Beta chapter, at Penn State, (now Sigma Triton of TDX) because the date they claim for their chartering as a unit of Sigma Phi Sigma seemed off by a decade - should be older. I await a response and will edit the list with what I find. I told them I inferred that one of the following was true:
My best guess is that #2 is what happened. But I await word from the ΤΔΧ chapter, or online access to the Penn State yearbooks. Jax MN ( talk) 04:40, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
A separate local fraternity with the name Sigma Phi Sigma was founded at the University of Kansas in 1912. It immediately attempted to woo a group of fraternity-minded men at Washburn College to join as a second chapter. They declined. The Washburn group, known as Alpha Delta (Washburn) continues today as "the oldest local fraternity West of the Mississippi." [1]
The University of Kansas chapter chose the colors purple, green and gold. Its flower was the American Beauty Rose, and it published a magazine called The Calumet. In the WWI-era 1918 Jayhawker yearbook, 26 men were noted as serving in the active military ranks. In 1923 Sigma Phi Sigma at Kansas dissolved when it accepted a charter to join Delta Chi national fraternity, still active as of 2022. [2]
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