Anyone know of any other current Kappa Sigma expansionary activity?

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Kappa Sigma Announces Historic Return to the University of Tennessee

by Matthew Bott
Jan 10, 2008
Source: Charlottesville, VA

The Kappa Sigma Fraternity is preparing for its historic return to the University of Tennessee this January with the re-colonization of the Lambda Chapter, one of the campuses’ oldest and most historic fraternities. The Fraternity will be meeting and interviewing hundreds of students on the Knoxville campus in January and plans to establish a 70 man-plus pledge class of students who are committed to the Fraternity’s values of fellowship, leadership, scholarship and service.


“Kappa Sigma’s goal is to make the chapter again the leading, most respected and most active fraternity chapter at the University of Tennessee” said Mitchell B. Wilson, Kappa Sigma’s Executive Director. “I believe that this will be Kappa Sigma’s most successful re-colonization in history…we are that committed to seeing excellence in Knoxville.”


“I am personally very excited to welcome our historic Lambda Chapter back to the Fraternity” said Kappa Sigma’s Worthy Grand Master (National President) H. Phillip Bell, IV “Kappa Sigma has an extraordinary legacy at SEC institutions and I know that the men at the University of Tennessee will rush to this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a founding father.”


Over 30 men have already been identified for membership prior to the spring semester, when the fraternity plans an aggressive marketing and recruitment plan to identify current or emerging student leaders looking for the opportunity to take a leadership position in the chapter. Kappa Sigma will have at least two Headquarters staff members, Matt Rippetoe and Matt Bemister, on campus in January and February meeting with potential new members.


The original Lambda Chapter was founded in 1880 and is one of Kappa Sigma’s first chapters, and one of the first at the University of Tennessee. The chapter was closed in 2006 after the Fraternity decided that the then-members were not living up to the Fraternity’s high ideals of fellowship, leadership, scholarship and service. The Chapter has initiated notable members including William B. Stokely III, the namesake of the Stokely Athletic Center and Stokely Management Center; John T. Ward, 31-year “Voice of the Vols” and many others.