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"Strangers We Enter, Friends We Become, Sisters We Remain..." Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana

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Tri Sigma's eight Founders, Margaret Batten, Louise Davis, Martha Featherston, Isabella Merrick, Sallie Michie, Lelia Scott, Elizabeth Watkins, and Lucy Wright, formed a special friendship at the Normal School. Lucy Wright and Lelia Scott led the first meetings of the S.S.S. Club in 1897. They announced the founding of Sigma Sigma Sigma on April 20, 1898.

The early Sigmas saw the need for both legal recognition as a social body and a written record of organization. Thus the early Alphas filed documents with the Commonwealth of Virginia and Sigma Sigma Sigma received its Charter of Incorporation on February 12, 1903.Tri Sigma's first constitution was adopted by the Alpha Chapter in April, 1903.

Giant steps were taken in Sigma's first decade with the establishment of additional collegiate chapters and the meetings of the entire membership at Conventions. The national nature of Tri Sigma was established with the Publication of The Triangle, the standardization of a ceremony for new members and the creation of a program to celebrate Founders Day.

 
The circle of friendship that began in the 1890s, with eight women sharing common experiences, now encompasses more than 80,000 women representing the diversity found on the college campuses of today. The growth and change that occurred in the many decades to follow always stayed true to the ideals of friendship espoused by the Founders.

Each initiated member receives the latest edition of Tri Sigma's story, Sigma Sigma Sigma, A Century of Sisterhood, 1898-2001, which chronicles the beginning of each collegiate chapter as well as the evolution of our National Organization. Members also receive a lifetime subscription to our national magazine, The Triangle of Sigma Sigma Sigma, which charts Sigma's progress three times a year.


National Executive Council:

President ~ Laura Sweet

Treasurer ~ Barbara Stone

Alumnae Vice President ~ Liz Hoffert

Collegiate Vice President ~ Reatha Cole Cox

Membership Development Vice President ~ JeanMarie Komyathy

Publications Vice President ~ Bethany A. Deines

National Panhellenic Delegate ~ Linda Manley-Kuitu
Famous Tri Sigma's
Carrie Underwood

 
 
   
Krystle Kitchen-Miss Virginia/National  Miss America 2006



Jennifer Blackburn Dunn- U.S. House of Representatives


Suzie from the Bachelor

Linda Denham- Creator of Care Bears (She even made the Harmony Bear special for all Sigma's) 
 
 
 
  Billie Letts- Writer of Where the Heart Is
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Glays Morelock- The Superintendent of the US Mint

 
And many others including US representatives, reality TV stars, and many more!